User: Desolationblade
These are the most recent forum messages posted by Desolationblade:
Re: Not so fast...
Get your facts straight. Sprint has been gaining since Q3 of 09 not alot but a few 100k customers. They only have 53 mil so losing 15mil a Q aint even close. Sprints network is by far the most stable for smart phones. At&t has the most towers by far. 1.39:1 at&t:verizon. Sprint has 85% the coverage that vzw has. Vzw also has the worst customer service followed by tmo at&t takes second and sprint is first.
note ...
Re: New World Order
No one wanted the burden of apple. At&t and apply teaming up works well but the truth of the matter it is a total nightmare. Apple bangs at&t severely for every data and txt package that after network upgrades at&t is losing money on EVERY IPHONE.
Apple is not a good business partner, and altho their products no doubt are good they dont think logically. See the Iphone wouldnt sync to Windows PC's for 6 months after ...
Re: It's not the phone
im getting the droid sunday and i think its a great phone but it has an 85% return becasue ppl buy thinking irs as great as the iphone when its not.
Re: It's not the phone
I used to cell sprint/att/tmo and now selling verizon but I must set you straight. As of march 31, 2010 the smart phone industry is as follows
Black Berry 42%
Iphone 28%
Palm 8%
Andriod 6%
Windows Mobile 5%
11% other(off brand operating systems)
THIS IS THE WORST IDEA EVER!
well for me. Curently i've had sprint since the new CEO took over and have been at radio shack for 2 years. We are a 100+ phone a month store with 69% Sprint 28% At&t and 3% Tmobile. I am however starting with VZW(private franchise) on saturday and in the next year or 2 it will be difficult to sell against sprint.
Right now in my area its 90% VZW and we still sell 100 phones a ...
Re: It's amazing how uneducated consumers are...
sadly im moving from radio shack to verizon wireless, but my 2 years working for and having sprint service has been great. every time i call they are from america, they always solve my issues with 0 problems, personal and business so i think this person works for at&t tbh
Re: I wouldn't sell either...
Where I live the only carrier that accepts ur own phone w.o contract on month-to-month is tmobile. If u have been with sprint, att, verizon for 2 years already u can add a phone or switch to ur own w.o a contract.
Re: Goodbye "The Shack"
This is true. Granted the staff that works with me are experience sales people who are very good at what we do. However that being said i can and will be making more with at&t/verizon. Base pay of a store manager is 28 a year. Thats also 54+ hours a week. Full time verizon sales people especially in my area if your good can bring in 60-70k a year.
Re: THIS WOULD BE A DARK DAY FOR THE MOBILE INDUSTRY
The core stores around the pittsburgh area are full of prics. at my store we rly hook ppl up with great deals cuz we dont get paid differently on phones and stuff. that being said we dont pressure ppl into top end androids rather then free blackberrys and stuff. i did hear that alot of radio shacks do suck tho but not ours.
Re: THIS WOULD BE A DARK DAY FOR THE MOBILE INDUSTRY
Ya sorry bud its definately the other way around. every customer around here in pittsburgh complains about the lack of customer service from all of the core retail store. we are always calling into at&t and sprint to fix all of your issues that you guys cause. We atleast show the customers how to use the phones and attempt to blue tooth over pictures and/or contacts but we do not have a celebrite machine.
If it ...
Re: THIS WOULD BE A DARK DAY FOR THE MOBILE INDUSTRY
The only reason why my store sends our customers to spring is beccause a.) we do not have a celebrite machine or b.) their phone is broke and we cannot fix it. We never mess with ppl's bills like ur stores do beccause u guys get comission.
Re: Good because our wireless lineup would start to look like...
ouch
Re: Goodbye "The Shack"
I am sorry that this has happened to you. My store that I run puts out about 200 post-paid units a month. We are very good at what we do, good at trouble shooting, fixing problems and selling. Then again my entire staff are 5 year+ car sales veterans so that can help. Worry not all radio shacks are not like that. Although our knowledge of LED's and resistors vary from associate to associate, ...
Re: Lying phone providers
While I agree Boost sucks, it is not going away. Shame there is 0 customer service for boost but the same goes for cricket. Noncontract prepaid=buy the phone and the minutes F U later. When u have a cricket phone issue they sell u a piece of crap 150 dollar phone and thats it. Its almost as bad as boost IMO. Cricket if ur late on ur prepaid account, $20 reactivation fee+$15 late fee... ...
Re: Hopefully now that STOOOPID rumor of a Sprint/Tmo merger will be put to rest!
This is a huge rumor however i would like to clearify something. T-mobile towers can easily be switched from GSM to a CDMA single. They have a software update that would take 3 days total in the US to make their towers do CDMA BTW
Re: iPhone Killer!!!
if your late depositing money into the prepaid account there's a $15 dollar late charge and a 20 dollar reactivation fee to turn it back on. Add that to 45 a month you get 80. For the phones they charge 150-200 dollars for crappy flip phones was my point
Re: iPhone Killer!!!
You CAN never have service where you need it
You CAN get charged 80 a month if your late
You CAN spend 400 dollars on phone that sucks
You CAN have horrible customer service
You CAN run this phone over when your mad
Everything opposite of the Iphone, the Stunt definately is!
Re: vzn needs more competition!
I gotta correct you on something. Verizon will not be getting the Iphone come 2011. Yes the exclusive contract ends but here are 3 reasons.
1.) Data plan costs 30 dollars a month right? Apple gets half of that. Apples proposal to verizon last month was that they want 30 a month for each phone via data. That would raise Verizon's data plan for it to atleast 45 a month, making at&t more desirable.
2.) Every ...
Re: Last to respond, as usual.
Actually your phone. Sprint released an unlimited mobile out of network(any cell phones just not landlines) calling plan with text and data(smart phone data or regular data) for 69.99 back in september. Their simply everything plan has been out since I've sold sell phones for all 4 carriers. Which is 99.99 unlimited calling to landlines+cell phones+text+smart phone data.
Re: the full retail price forces contracts
I love being on employee plans. 20 a month no contract any phone you want that's gsm or cdma compatible... After expenses not just the network but salary operation costs plant bills I thinl 35% profit is about right
Re: the full retail price forces contracts
Sorry I was being generous to Verizon and at&t.
there is no nocontract deals
We had a sales meeting with all 4 reps. apparently u must go under contract with a new carrier for 12 months before you can activate any unlocked handset. u cannot just get a phone and go to at&t if ur not a customer. But after the 12 months u can add/subtract lines and phones w/o contracts. Unless ur me and can find ways to cancel tmobiler after 3 months w/o fees
Re: Stupid Greedy Ass Customers
This is obviously a problem but occurs much less then you think, maybe 5% of the time. I personally pay the NONcontract price which Ill tell you is the price the CARRIER pays PLUS the ETF. Black Berry Bold 9700 is almost 300 dollars is the cost to radio shack. Add in the 175 ETF, yet I pay 500 which is 25 over ETF+retail price. But I still do it not because i hop carriers ...
the full retail price forces contracts
contracts need to go period. I personally haven't been under contract for years. I go to a retailer pay full price on 18 months no interest and set it up on a plan w.o a contract. Just like my bb bold 9700. My problem is if you take the cost of the handset that costs verizon or at&t and add the 175 fee for a bb curve it's still less then I pay. BB bold 9700 costs me 500. ...
Re: Ight verizon fanboy...
Something interesting I learned today. Sprint did in the postpaid department come out ahead(not by much) like 45,000 customers. Verizon Lost nearly 9 million customers and gained 13 million or so in 2009. Its due to 2 things. Customer service and billing fraud caused alot of customers to leave.
However their great advertising and goodwill(name) generated much more then they loss. I gotta give them credit on this one. They are amazing at advertising ...
Re: The AT&T Mirror Dance
To answer this childish question, no. I am a store manager of a local cell phone retailer that sells; Sprint, Verizon, At&t, and T-mobile. We also sell boost mobile, virgin mobile, net 10, tracfone, at&t go phones, and t-mobile prepaid.
Being a retailer that sells all but Cricket, I have a good understanding how all of the companies are doing, their customer support, pricing, future investments, expansions etc, Sorry that you do not know this.
I am also sick ...
Re: The AT&T Mirror Dance
okay you verizon reps and fanboys need to leave phone scoop before I make it happen. All you do is trash anyone/thing that's not verizon. Verizon is having data issues in heavy concentrated data areas....
second of all verizon ripped off may favs from tmo who took it from alltell. The way the unlimited plans are set up are taken from tmo not sprint/nextel. And at&t was smart to wait for verizon because there's no point in losing money if ...
Re: Bye Bye Verizon!
All of this is true. Verizon is still in trouble for not updating to a progressive coverage map. none, good, better, best kinda thing, its all red. Sprint atleast every call into them I have made has been great.
Since i've been employeed for just over a year in the wireless industry, 99% of my calls have been handled well, answered, and helpful. I personally carrying all 4 carryings(20-30/month employee plans). They all have their ...
Re: Results by Quarter... Your turn to show Sprint
I was checking around offical sprint sites, according to the info I read, although it is not offical, sprint will not post its results til feb 10 2010, I cannot link this due to the Black berry but meh. Looks like their growth will be less then what those sites you linked proclaimed about Verizon, but like I said it doesnt look legit. Currently Sprint+nextel outgrowthed verizon+alltel, but Verizon beat out Sprint by about 1.3 million ASSUMING ...
Re: Results by Quarter... Your turn to show Sprint
Oncew i get home sure, posting from my BB, and those sits dont look that legit, post an offical government sensus(spelling) of it plz and ill do the same.
Re: Ight verizon fanboy...
Check the 2009 statements not the 2005 buddy...
Re: Ight verizon fanboy...
Well, I hate to say it but ur counting the loss not the gain. Verizon lost nearly 3 million customers last year and gained about 1.8, for a netloss of 1.2 million. Sprint lost about 1.6 million total and gained 3.2 million, get ur facts str8 and lets see some proof...
Re: Ight verizon fanboy...
Then how come I sell a crapton of nonbogo phones where I work? Maybe its just my area but people buy what is good, not what is cheap. Sprint to my knowledge is not doing bogo(Although our BB curve 8330 are 20 new 50 upgrade) no rebate, sprint is our biggest sell by far?
So if the "lesser" network charges for phones and sells them, why can't the "greater" network do the same, since people proclaim verizon is ...
Re: Bye Bye Verizon!
Sprint developes the technology and then people realize o wow, this stuff is good, and trys to use it and gets sued. There is nothing sprint needs now from verizon since the unlimited roaming agreement. Since they started that back in 05/06 they grew from around 19-21 mil sprint customers to around 50 million in 4 years?
Now they are improving their own coverage, their speed is amazing fast, outranks all carriers in speed and reliability(atleast the ...
Re: FCC don't forget verizon and their FORCED $10 data requirements!!!
Prepaid is still not the way to go. Monthly plans minus the contract is the way to go. Reason being is prepaid has ZERO customer service and support. Once u prepay the month and the phone they got ur money who cares if they leave. They roam off other networks so they dont pay for that either.
I sell tracfone, net10, virgin mobile, boost mobile, at&t go phone, everything except cricket, Also at&t VW, TMO and ...
Re: Ight verizon fanboy...
I guess the price needs updated where I work. The problem is verizon claims that they lose money if someone cancels on month 23, which is false. They do not want people canceling is the problem, seeing about 700,000 people lost this year alone.
Verizon used to be dominant especially in my area. Now there are other providers around with good deals, good coverage and good phones as well. Verizon's increase is to make customers stay, ...
Re: Ight verizon fanboy...
no contract price is way above retail price usually 50-100% more infact. The point was the no contract price of the bb curve 8330 is 619.99 for verizon. It costs my retailer 322 for the phone. Verizon's store with the bogo loses about 200 on the contract handset price. But that is easily made up in 4-6 months. So after 6 months verizon makes up the cost of the handset. Term fee is useless
droid is 179.99 I believe after ...
Re: Ight verizon fanboy...
I need to proof read but its late, Okay Verizon fanboy is what i ment, and its at&t...
Ight verizon fanboy...
Account verizon fanboy let me put this straight. I sell the following at my retailer, At@t, Verizon, Tmo, and Sprint. The Black berry curve that is free right now, no rebate no buy one get one free, is 619.99 noncontract. I got news for you, Our cost is $322.48.
That is what my retailer pays for that phone. For an upgrade alone, we get a 345 dollar ring credit. So we are profitable on it. ...
Re: Bye Bye Verizon!
I hate people that work for companies feeling the need to fudge information about others. Its nice that where I work, I sell everything but cricket so I have no real bias against any carrier compared to most.
3g technology was developed by sprint and sold it for roaming rights. When they finish 4g, and convert to LTE, what will they sell those patents for? Idk...
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