Sony Ericsson S710a

Jesus i'm so sick of hearing people bitch about not having gotten their *prize* phone yet!

think about it. Would sony and Cingular rather sell their BRAND NEW PHONE or give it away. Sony and cingular will only give you the phone as soon as the demand cools down for it. It only makes sense man. I paid 449 for this phone and i should have it before the winners. sry

Gee wouldnt it make sense for the people who sold the crappy product to have it in their hands to tell the customers how it works...instead of having to wait 2 or 3 months....thats OK I am actually going to start advising anyone who can to use the phones that come in instead of selling them until we get ours...hey only fair right???

First of all (gih311), this product is not crappy, second of all, if u think it is crappy, don't "wait" for it, and third of all, isn't a comapny supposed to have "the customers come first", that's what i thought....so the most ya'll guys can do is be thankfull ya'll got it for free, and know that you will recieve the equipment in due time,...and not have to pay the 450+ to get it, ok guys 🙄

I didnt emphasize that the S710A was crap...the T237 and the Z500...yes...absolutely...and it is unacceptable that we as front line sales reps....who deal with all the BS that general customers throw at us...dont get comp'd in due time....anyways...guess I will just use the S710A that comes in my store instead of selling it.....noi big in the end I guess

i completly understand exactly where your coming from (gih311), imagine the bs that i put up with.... im in cust care, 😲 , so i know exactly what you mean....and oh yeah, you luck dog, i can't believe ya'll guys get it for free, your so lucky....i got mine for 400, i only got the 30% off of the 549.99, but im ok 😉

For every activation I do, I get between 10-35 bucks towards a Super Certificate on GiftCertificates.Com. Decembers Sales are give to us on the 1st of Feb. Still haven't gotten mine. Had over 2K worth.... Thats some nice clothes and a ski trip for me .... wonder if there will still be snow on the mountians when I actually get the payout...lol

cingular doesnt care abbout selling these instead of giving them away, because cingular has nothing to do with it. i know what i am talking about, its in my name, you however, do not. this contest is straight from sony, and so comes the product

be quitet before we turn off your phone 😈

pyrofenix said:
Jesus i'm so sick of hearing people bitch about not having gotten their *prize* phone yet!

Let's leave Jesus out of the equation, unless he's going to help us get our phones 😉

I know this mexican guy who'd be thrilled to help you out i'm sure....his name is jesus.

Ha ha... 🤣

pyrofenix said:
Jesus i'm so sick of hearing people bitch about not having gotten their *prize* phone yet!

I really don't mind waiting, pyro - I just want an appx. date of when they're planning on shipping. If I have to wait a couple weeks, a month, so be it. Its just like the way we're all waiting for the release of the phone, not having a date to look forward to. Then, like now, waiting is easier when you have a date to look forward to. Not knowing, combined with the attitude that we get from "program headquarters" just for asking - these are the things that make many of us irritated. I do understand gih311's frustration, though I'm not nearly as rabid about it as he is.

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I agree that not having a date makes it more difficult and SE really should just tell you guys that it will take x number of days.

The difference between joking about storming SE/cingular and threatening to not do your job seems pretty obvious to me. Don't get me wrong, i've worked in tech retail before (never again!) and I understand how it works. I've just heard so many complaints about not getting something free fast enough that it's tiring.

Everyone knows that nothing in life is free and often times you have to be patient for those bonuses like that.

pyrofenix said:
The difference between joking about storming SE/cingular and threatening to not do your job seems pretty obvious to me.

I guess what I meant to say is that I didn't take him seriously about not doing his job.... I figured that he's just saying that crap in his frustration.

I had my say about it (most of my complaining was meant in a lighthearted sense anyway).... no more whining from me - at least as long as we get it in a reasonable timeframe. If we still don't have the thing 3 months from now, then that's unacceptable & I think we have a bit of a right to be upset. Everybody seriously getting their panties in a wad about it the day after its been released is ridiculous.

I agree - it would be unacceptable to have to wait more than a month. So if you guys still dont have them by the end of March - let me know and I'll start calling them asking when too! 🙂

Shipping the phones too us are gonna be 1.2 million loss of profit. 2700 phones at 450 a pop... Cingular and Sony Ericsson are going to take their time shipping to us. I don't think any company will wanna miss out on 1.2 million in possible profit. But I would still love some sort of expectation date... but I guess I will just forget about it, and be excited to see it come... 😳

GoDucks1078 said:
Shipping the phones too us are gonna be 1.2 million loss of profit. 2700 phones at 450 a pop...

Ah, but remember how much each winner had to sell for SE in order to get an award phone? This more than offsets the $450 loss per unit, don't you think? Not to mention the fact that we're all still selling SE products. I'm sitting on about 2800 points to date right now. Would be more, except that we've been out of z500's for over a week.

They can afford it 😉

Ok, how many phones do nokia and motorola give away to reps? And SE wonders why we sell more of those phones... easy to understand... the reps have them in their hand to use and are more comfortable selling a phone they use. You could look at it like a 1.2 million dollar give away, or 1.2million dollars of product training and motivation, and enthusiasm for s.e. products. The last SE phone I used was the t68i.

NO I AM GOING TO STOP SELLING SONY S**T UNTIL MY PHONE COMES......ALSO I AM REPEAT AM GOING TO USE ONE OF THE PHONES AS MY OWN WHEN WE GET THEM IN OUR STORE INSTEAD OF SELLING IT!!!!

joef3 said:
No, it said the sony style dollars would be at the end of the contest, and the s710's would be shipped based on market availabilty

Define "market availability"

I wish I knew!

Better to post repeat information than just nonesense to try and keep this at the top, don't you think?