Verizon Wireless to Eliminate One-Year Contracts
Unfortunate, but necessary
First of all.....let's get real here....until August 24 of last year when I finally quit I sold phones and service for at&t.....and not ONCE during my tenure there did I EVER sell a one year contract....and only once did a customer ever even ASK about 1 year contracts.....and he declined to sign one after I explained the phone he wanted would be more expensive than under a 2 year contract.
Now Verizon is a different company of course, but I rather doubt that they sell any more 1 year contracts than does at&t.
The actual number of people that this affects is microscopic.
But let's get serious here.....as phones get more advanced, with more and more features, they also get more expensive, and as they get more expensive, the risk of ...
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Now Verizon is a different company of course, but I rather doubt that they sell any more 1 year contracts than does at&t.
The actual number of people that this affects is microscopic.
But let's get serious here.....as phones get more advanced, with more and more features, they also get more expensive, and as they get more expensive, the risk of ...
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In 2004 I was a rep in a Verizon store. We sold the Audiovox (Toshiba) 9500 for $499.99 and the Motorola T730 for $449.99 Full retail. Discounted customers were walking out the door paying $250 or $300 for those phones. The price of phones has actually decreased which is why they started cutting the NE2 discount down and eventually eliminated it all together. You can't have it both ways. Verizon does not need an excuse to eliminate one year contracts. They can do it because they can. Period. I don't like it. Most of the people here don't like it. We are going to complain and there is nothing you can do to stop it. At the end of the day, most of us will still be with Verizon and they could care less about the one or two who jump sh...
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Your I-wanna-be-a-moderator comments are unbecoming...
If any of the carriers here do as they do in Canada and go down the 3 year contract road, then you will probably see a lot of people in an uproar.
I see the value in a 1 year contract, but like you said, we'll all be tied to a carrier... oh well.
If any of the carriers here do as they do in Canada and go down the 3 year contract road, then you will probably see a lot of people in an uproar.
I see the value in a 1 year contract, but like you said, we'll all be tied to a carrier... oh well.
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". I am would pretty sure ATT and T-Mobile will let you do the same thing under those conditions as well."
For the record, acting like a rude jackass doesn't actually strengthen your argument.
For the record, acting like a rude jackass doesn't actually strengthen your argument.
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This is what I responding to
"But please don't talk out of your *Bleep*. It is both unnecessary and unbecoming."
Acting like a rude jackass does not actually strengthen your point.
And you haven't really done anything to rebut my point, which is that one year contracts are not cost effective for carriers. And no one ever bought them anyway, so who cares?
"But please don't talk out of your *Bleep*. It is both unnecessary and unbecoming."
Acting like a rude jackass does not actually strengthen your point.
And you haven't really done anything to rebut my point, which is that one year contracts are not cost effective for carriers. And no one ever bought them anyway, so who cares?
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You're missing the point T-Bone. All of us in the sales aspect of this understand that nobody came in store and walked out with a 1 yr contract. The small percentage of Verizon customers that are going to be affected by this are either tech geeks who what the latest and greatest without paying a premium or just Verizon detractors like Azeron.
Let him go tbone. Verizon could announce that they're changing their name to Jehngles and he would find some way to turn around and call the company the devil.
Let him go tbone. Verizon could announce that they're changing their name to Jehngles and he would find some way to turn around and call the company the devil.
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