Google Lowers Nexus One ETF to $150
They Blinked
My does anyone have any stones out there? Either the fee was warranted or it was not. To eat $200 because some pencil neck bureaucrat called it into question is not a good sign. Well, Verizon are you going to lower your ETF for advanced devices back to $175?
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The problem was you're buying the phone discounted from two parties. If you take it back rather than paying the full discounted amount to each party (50 to Google 50 to T-Mo or 75 to Google 25 to TMo etc so your net sum is 100% of the discount), you were paying the full ETF amount to T-Mobile *AND* the FULL Subsidy amount to Google.
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If Google is the company subsidizing the phone, then there fee would be the legitimate one and one would wonder why the hell T-Mobile is charging an ETF. In fact, I did wonder about that in another forum. Google should have just stopped subsidizing the phone at all.
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