The price is advertised. There have been several pre-orders at the advertised price. It will not change.

How much we betting?

Whatever you like.....make it easy on yourself.....

I just left a corporate store and it was $249.99 with a $50. rebate so where was the price different?

i think what corporate was saying is that some people will milk them for more money, like 'oh we only have 3 so they are 350 each, if u dont like it go somewhere else' i think.

I don't know how it works with corporate, but I work for a premium retailer, and if we sold the phone for anything other than the price set by out company, the commission we get on the sale goes to crap (if we sell it higher or lower, doesn't matter).

We make next to no money on the phone itself, but instead we make it on the plan, acc, and of course the features they add. Overpricing the phone costs us money, it doesn't make it.

really? i work for premier retailer and we make our own prices, though 95% they are dead on with vzw.

Same with our Premium Retailer.
Some of our phones are a bit cheaper than the corporate store and the rest are the same price.
We do have a policy that we can only offer a $50 (not $100) New Every Two credit on the Storm. That ended up being a problem yesterday for a customer so he didn't bite although I'm pretty sure I had the last one in town. Someone else ended up getting it on their upgrade instead.

Our corporate office makes the prices, so yes we do "Make up our own." But once those prices are set by our company, we are not supposed to deviate from them unless we get prior approval.

We have over 160 stores, so they want at least some consistency among them.

were you the one who supposedly hacked in and changed the price to $99.00 ? The price is still 250 then 50 mail in rebate