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Sprint Offering Up to $175 to Customers Who Switch Carriers

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STOP GIVING**** AWAY!

T Bone

May 12, 2011, 7:24 PM
Crimony, does this company EVER want to make a profit?

Seriously, if you have to PAY PEOPLE to get them to use your service, YOU SUCK!
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gldnhrtrblfst

May 12, 2011, 7:48 PM
🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄
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T Bone

May 12, 2011, 7:58 PM
Name one company that has ever achieved success by giving away everything and paying people to use their service....
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gldnhrtrblfst

May 12, 2011, 8:15 PM
Cause sprint totally "gives away everything" and "pays you to use their service"

As I said before: 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄 🙄
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andy2373

May 12, 2011, 9:14 PM
They recently said Sprint made money in part due to their new $10/month premium data add on. So they add more subscribers, charge em' an extra $10/month for crappy data (oops, did I say that?) well at least in my area. And they'll continue to rack it in.
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crammy1

May 16, 2011, 6:41 PM
verizon did the 30 day free about a year ago..sprint was late on that... i dont know which but i believe either verizon or att(or both) pays for your etf when transfering...im sure thats not the only contributing factor to their success(its mostly because they bought their competitors out lol), but that definetly helped.
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BMDroid

May 12, 2011, 9:02 PM
As long as you don't have to talk to Shaniqua and you're ok with random bogus charges on your bill Sprints awesome. Great coverage.
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Cellular Phone

May 12, 2011, 9:34 PM
Shaniqua?! That is too funny!
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atandtrep

May 14, 2011, 12:44 PM
she don't live here no mo...
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floex831

May 13, 2011, 8:04 AM
Shaniqua? really?! SOUNDs A LITTLE RACIST. TONE IT DOWN!
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ggfunk

May 13, 2011, 9:32 AM
You're the one making generalizations about names and race.
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callcenterrep69

May 15, 2011, 10:20 AM
+1 🤣
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pickles

May 14, 2011, 10:56 PM
lol, +1

that is troof
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Android Ace

May 13, 2011, 10:07 AM
It seems as though a majority of the employees at Sprint's call centers are black women with dumb names.
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Versed

May 13, 2011, 1:40 PM
I could care less what their names are, its nice they are hiring Americans to do call centers, no matter what race, sex are how their names sound.
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Cory and Trevor Lahey

May 14, 2011, 6:32 PM
'MERICA F*#@ YEAH!!!
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Red_Minx

May 13, 2011, 11:04 AM
Why do you care so much? Did you buy stock with them or something? lol

This could be hard to grasp but keep up lol These days most people are in contracts. It's not easy to slide in and get someone's attention before they end up signing a new contract. The idea is to give the port-in credit to offset any etf's the customer might incur from leaving the current provider and all of the companies offer these at different times. Verizon was offering it on their website just a month or so ago. This is a good business move for them as well as their very well priced plans.
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Slammer

May 13, 2011, 12:49 PM
Would you rather deal with a carrier that doesn't care about you, or one that is willing to cut some loss because they want your business? I like feeling important as a subscriber; not a profit margin.

Also: Considering Sprint "Sucks", doesn't it seem strange that out of all the carriers with better reputations, Sprint is still holding its own while the others are gone?

John B.
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WiWavelength

May 13, 2011, 1:12 PM
Many here seem to view this move from an unduly simplistic point of view.

Yes, for a $175 service credit, the opportunity cost to Sprint is $175. Sprint could have been $175 richer if not for the service credit. (Of course, such assumes that Sprint would have acquired the new subscriber without the enticement of the service credit.)

But the marginal cost for Sprint to provide $175 in service to an additional sub has to be close to zero. And if that additional sub remains for the length of a two year contract (or longer), then Sprint garners revenue well in excess of the $175 initial opportunity cost.

As the saying goes, to make money, you have to spend money. In this case, Sprint offers some free service. To a new sub, that ser...
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Menno

May 14, 2011, 10:39 AM
A $125 loss for thousands of dollars of revenue isn't a bad trade, and if Sprint's lucky enough to get them to renew, then the loss is even better.

This is actually a really smart move. You wouldn't believe the number of customers who expect a new carrier to help them pay their old carrier's ETF.

Granted, this has the chance of backfiring (Sprint getting only entitlement customers) but it could net them a lot of decent customers too.

There are a LOT of people pissed off with the Tmobile Merger and Verizon's upgrade policy changes.
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UareAnobody

May 14, 2011, 8:50 PM
Give more **** away, pls do. I'm a consumer and if your company wants to give me incentives for doing nothing, then I'm all for it. All these other people complaining about free stuff must be millionaires hanging out on phone scoop 😎
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