Amazon Launches Web Site for Wireless Phones
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Well check this out, if consumers start going through amazon for all there phone needs, a lot of people are going to lose their jobs real soon, especially the men and women working in authorized retailers. Also, Best Buy is also coming with their own wireless stores that they will be opening in many malls, the more competition, the less business, the more layoffs. I think either best buy or amazon should lay off.
One bad thing about buying on amazon is if you buy the phone, its shipped, you have to wait, and it might get damaged along the way. If there is a problem with the phone, you have to send it back, wait about a week, then get another phone back, if you past the 30 day return policy and something goes wrong, some stores can't help ...
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One bad thing about buying on amazon is if you buy the phone, its shipped, you have to wait, and it might get damaged along the way. If there is a problem with the phone, you have to send it back, wait about a week, then get another phone back, if you past the 30 day return policy and something goes wrong, some stores can't help ...
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All I can say about your comment about shipping, I've done a whole lot of business with Amzn over the yrs, including 2 Nokia N95-3's. They're good at securely packaging they're orders.
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Well homeboy, I have dealt with Amazon...I shop computer parts and games and unlocked phones from them, I am talking about if they start selling wireless phones with AT&T plans. It's going to be hard for retailers to make sales.
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Homeboy...really living up to your name. Amazon has been selling wireless phones for some time now with contracts (and if you read the terms/conditions, some serious requirements are attached to them as well), and all they're doing now is centralizing it. This will hurt sales in retailers, but not by much more than it use to. Best Buy and RadioShack usually provide similar pricing (BB Tour right now is $100, same as Amazon, from Best Buy) with the convenience of getting everything setup and walking out same day.
Amazon is one of the best places where it comes to returns/exchanges. They always ship out the replacement product first before requiring you to send the old one back, and are very flexible when it comes to the overall process.
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Amazon is one of the best places where it comes to returns/exchanges. They always ship out the replacement product first before requiring you to send the old one back, and are very flexible when it comes to the overall process.
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First of all, Amazon has been selling phones for years.
Second, I'm sure a lot of people were saying the same thing when the old AT&T stopped leasing and servicing home phones. That's right, at least until the late 70's/early 80's most people didn't own the phone in their home. The ending of that practice created a lot more choice in style and price of home phones. It became far less expensive to buy a new phone than to have someone come in and fix/replace the existing one.
Second, I'm sure a lot of people were saying the same thing when the old AT&T stopped leasing and servicing home phones. That's right, at least until the late 70's/early 80's most people didn't own the phone in their home. The ending of that practice created a lot more choice in style and price of home phones. It became far less expensive to buy a new phone than to have someone come in and fix/replace the existing one.
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A-JoinT said:
Well check this out, if consumers start going through amazon for all there phone needs, a lot of people are going to lose their jobs real soon, especially the men and women working in authorized retailers. Also, Best Buy is also coming with their own wireless stores that they will be opening in many malls, the more competition, the less business, the more layoffs. I think either best buy or amazon should lay off.
That's a very socialistic way of looking at it comarade..
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When a product is defective, Amazon sends me a replacement immediately and I don't have to return the old one until I get a good one. Free 2 day delivery, not a week, and I don't have to wait on line in some store at the mall.
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Yeah well, after how long can you get a defective one replaced? Hmmmm... I wonder? If it's an AT&T contract phone, and you bought it from Amazon, you would want another phone right away, you take it to a AT&T store and they say, oops, you got to take it back to where you bought it from.
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