Consumer Advocates Lodge Complaint Against T-Mobile
it' for dumb people
it called no contract, but if you leave early, you must pay the reminding balance for the phone. isnt this the same as 2 years contract, if you leave early, you pay ETF ?
Dude what you are paying only is the phone itself when you cancel the account. Actually, with the EIP(Equipment Installment Plan), it gives you the option to pay the phone in installments, say the phone price is $500 / 24 months = $20.83 monthly insta...
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" T-Mobile links month-to-month service with two-year equipment financing plans, which are, in effec
what carrier doesnt do this?
>>what carrier doesnt do this?
None of them.
What carrier did it first?
T-Mobile.
What carrier claims this isn't a service contract?
T-Mobile.
None of them.
What carrier did it first?
T-Mobile.
What carrier claims this isn't a service contract?
T-Mobile.
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Too Bad Ignorance Isn't Painful
Most carriers in most cases pay the manufacturer full MSRP for these wonderful devices that we enjoy. Despite the overwhelming notion that the "actual" cost is only $100 or so and the rest is an "inflated" markup. These devices are very expensive and most carriers device subsidy program (deeply discounted device in exchange for a term commitment of service) nearly bankrupt some carriers.
I don't have T Mobile, but what they did made sense.
Paraphrased - "We will charge you a reasonable rate for service (not padded to offset your device subsidy).
No contract and you can either bring your own device that you already own, buy of ours outright, or buy a new device and we will bill you for the device autonomous of your service plan. -
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I don't have T Mobile, but what they did made sense.
Paraphrased - "We will charge you a reasonable rate for service (not padded to offset your device subsidy).
No contract and you can either bring your own device that you already own, buy of ours outright, or buy a new device and we will bill you for the device autonomous of your service plan. -
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Yours is painful to read.
>>You go to Best Buy and purchase a television on credit to be paid back on the terms of your cardholders agreement.
Then you call up Comcast to establish programming services for this device you bought autonomous of Com...
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>>You go to Best Buy and purchase a television on credit to be paid back on the terms of your cardholders agreement.
Then you call up Comcast to establish programming services for this device you bought autonomous of Com...
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Sweet, screw it up for everybody Deep Thinkers...
So wait?!? If I buy or lease a phone from someone, I have to pay for that phone to be able to use that phone? You mean they have some magical method of preventing me from using that smartphone on their cellular network?!?! Astounding...
Wait, I mean its a scam, the man is taking advantage of me, trying to make me pay for that thing I signed that legally binding piece of paper saying I would pay for. And now you won't let me use that phone I technically stole from you? I should file a class action.
I hope this lawsuit gets body slammed and then elbow dropped in court, of course customer direct financing makes the carrier more profit in the end and of course it passes the financial liability for the cost of the handset to the custom...
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Wait, I mean its a scam, the man is taking advantage of me, trying to make me pay for that thing I signed that legally binding piece of paper saying I would pay for. And now you won't let me use that phone I technically stole from you? I should file a class action.
I hope this lawsuit gets body slammed and then elbow dropped in court, of course customer direct financing makes the carrier more profit in the end and of course it passes the financial liability for the cost of the handset to the custom...
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Ha! You Actually Get It!
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Lol!
>>>The groups say T-Mobile links month-to-month service with two-year equipment financing plans, which are, in effect, contracts that result in financial penalties if broken.
-Any major carrier have device plans. As for T-Mobile, the customer is actually given an option to get the phone he/she likes through installments without paying any large amount upfront. If he/she cancels his/her account, she will only have to pay the total remaining installments on the phone's price. Nothing much, nothing more. That is not a financial penalty.
>>>>>Moreover, the groups say T-Mobile engages in an abusive pattern of debt-collection practices by providing customers with little or no warning before sending debt to collection agencies, and by provid...
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-Any major carrier have device plans. As for T-Mobile, the customer is actually given an option to get the phone he/she likes through installments without paying any large amount upfront. If he/she cancels his/her account, she will only have to pay the total remaining installments on the phone's price. Nothing much, nothing more. That is not a financial penalty.
>>>>>Moreover, the groups say T-Mobile engages in an abusive pattern of debt-collection practices by providing customers with little or no warning before sending debt to collection agencies, and by provid...
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Garbage
The EIP (Equipment Installment plan) agreements simply say that if you cancel your service, you owe the remaining amount due on the phone, which makes obvious sense. Also, by virtue of somebody having an EIP, they agreed through email by giving their electronic signature to the agreement. Whenever I agree to a contract or anything like that, I always read all the fine print. All of it. Maybe if these dumb consumers had done that, they wouldn't put themselves into this predicament.
Oh, and also the Jump on Demand leasing program is only 18 months, not 24 (2 years).
Oh, and also the Jump on Demand leasing program is only 18 months, not 24 (2 years).
All true. There are no fees other than what you owe on the phone you promised to pay for. It's a loan, not a service agreement. Ignorant fools wasting time going after a company who is changing the industry for the better every day. Oh and when y...
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Don't know about the collections practices cause I pay my bills on-time.
legal wise their marketing is technically correct because they advertise no "service agreement", but it is kind of deceptive because the Jump On Demand is a lease contract t...
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legal wise their marketing is technically correct because they advertise no "service agreement", but it is kind of deceptive because the Jump On Demand is a lease contract t...
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>>Whenever I agree to a contract or anything like that, I always read all the fine print.
You hit the nail on the head. It's a contract... which wouldn't be a problem if they didn't advertise, "No Contract." This is exactly the sort of thing false...
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You hit the nail on the head. It's a contract... which wouldn't be a problem if they didn't advertise, "No Contract." This is exactly the sort of thing false...
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