Hello, if that is your argument then why can't you buy your own phone at FULL price and then NOT add the data? I asked them if I could do this and they said no way.

You might wonder why not just take the discount and get data. Well some people buy phones on ebay and such or get old hand me down phones. From now on if you even activate one of these devices you have this data charge that you HAVE to have. Your argument doesn't hold water.