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So how soon before someone sues?

fahrende

Aug 19, 2010, 1:56 PM
Since you know we're all entitled buy whatever we want, however we want.
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Jayshmay

Aug 19, 2010, 2:44 PM
Iphone is the *0NLY* phone in the U.S. that the option doesn't exist to pay full retail and be contract-free.
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texaswireless

Aug 19, 2010, 2:46 PM
It says you can do it in store. Many companies do not offer all purchase choices online.
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Jayshmay

Aug 19, 2010, 2:49 PM
Oh, online is cheaper anyway, I paid $20 for my Motorola Droid, whereas consumers paid $200 + tax in stores.
I'm not rich enough to be ripped off.
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Azeron

Aug 19, 2010, 7:05 PM
Seriously people. Enough ihate already. The damned thing CAN be purchase full retail from AT&T...just not from Apple.
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fahrende

Aug 19, 2010, 3:06 PM
Isn't Apple/ATT entitled to sell the phone however they want? If the customer doesn't like the terms, then they can just walk away.
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Jayshmay

Aug 19, 2010, 3:16 PM
Are you some sort of clone/zombie person of a CEO or something?

I swear we need more people on Phone Scoop who are actual consumers rather than clonies of wireless companies terms & condition and anti-consumer policies.
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fahrende

Aug 19, 2010, 3:44 PM
No, I'm also a consumer. I don't like something, I don't buy. Many people seem to have a difficult time grasping this, but yes ladies and gentlemen, it really is that easy.

I however think a company has the right to sell something on whatever terms they please.

Assuming that it was legal to sell your body parts, let's say Apple/ATT's terms of purchasing the iPhone was your right leg, would you still purchase it? Just because YOU consider the terms outrageous, has there been any crime committed?

If you're outraged, don't buy the phone. Also organize other people to not buy the phone. ATT will think twice about the policy then.
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Jayshmay

Aug 19, 2010, 3:49 PM
Do you work in the wireless industry?
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fahrende

Aug 19, 2010, 3:53 PM
I'm not going to answer that question. Come to whatever conclusions about me you wish.

I feel this way about any product(assuming there's no fraud involved).
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SPCSVZWJeff

Aug 22, 2010, 8:06 PM
Jay we are all consumers. We who are in the industry see both sides of the argument. Not everyone who works in the industry is a mindless slave with the corporation's logo tatoo'd to their tushies.

There are things in the industry we all wish were different. But before people call something anti-consumer remember that the carriers and their manufacturing partners risk a ton of their cash so that you can have a service that works and a product to work on the service.
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flip mode

Aug 19, 2010, 3:17 PM
no they're not entitled to sell it anyway they want. it's gotten to the point where they keep dangling that antenna problem plagued device in people's faces and pulling it away to get a few laughs. i'm tired of it and others are too. hence why we have alternative options such as android/webOS/windows mobile
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130

Aug 19, 2010, 3:34 PM
flip mode said:
no they're not entitled to sell it anyway they want.


Why is that? If you were selling something, do you think anyone has the right to tell you how to sell it?


flip mode said:
it's gotten to the point where they keep dangling that antenna problem plagued device in people's faces and pulling it away to get a few laughs. i'm tired of it and others are too. hence why we have alternative options such as android/webOS/windows mobile


You just answered your own question. if you dont like it, then dont buy it. I dont like the iPhone, so guess what???!?!

Holy crap, I didnt buy it!
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fahrende

Aug 19, 2010, 3:51 PM
People seem to have a very difficult time comprehending this these days.

Consumers have this thing called money. Producers want your money. Producers have figured out that they have to make consumers happy in order to get the consumers' money. Consumers generally have figured out that they don't have to give their money to people who don't make them happy.

Consumers have seemed to have forgotten this simple rule.
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130

Aug 19, 2010, 3:56 PM
Okay. but no one is forcing you to go to a certain 'producer'. There are many alternatives to an iphone. Follow your own rule and go to the one that is going to make you happy. If it's not AT&T and their non-option of buying an iPhone then go to Sprint, TMobile, Verizon whatever. The choice is yours to make.
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fahrende

Aug 19, 2010, 3:59 PM
Yes I know, I'm agreeing with you. I was just pointing out the absurdity in logic that some of these people who complain at every undesirable decision a company makes. They forget what kind of power they really have.
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mycool

Aug 20, 2010, 8:00 AM
Just because it isn't illegal doesn't mean you can't sue. Sometimes people sue because the law needs to be changed, interpreted differently, etc.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0810/40663.html »
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fahrende

Aug 20, 2010, 11:50 AM
Yes I know, but with iPhone(and Apple issues in general), they just get really funny.
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