Add 2 lines at Best Buy
I have 3 lines active on a family share plan
I was at a Best Buy store the other day and they said they could do the add 2 more lines for me
I saw they had the V3r's for free and the V3xx's for $69
I went by a genuine ATT store and they tell me the v3r are discontinued and their V3xx's are $99 after a rebate
How can best buy sell them for cheap(er) or does best buy make you buy some other stuff with their phones to get them for that lessor price???
Anybody tried Best Buy for this other than a real ATT store???
I was at a Best Buy store the other day and they said they could do the add 2 more lines for me
I saw they had the V3r's for free and the V3xx's for $69
I went by a genuine ATT store and they tell me the v3r are discontinued and their V3xx's are $99 after a rebate
How can best buy sell them for cheap(er) or does best buy make you buy some other stuff with their phones to get them for that lessor price???
Anybody tried Best Buy for this other than a real ATT store???
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Authorized dealers can do what they want to. Some prices will be higher, some will be lower.
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Best Buy's a National Retailer, not an Authorized Dealer. National Retailers aren't given the same prices on equipment as Authorized Dealers, and often forfeit residual compensation for a lower upfront cost.
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Can Best Buy do migrations? How about on foundation accounts - can they migrate my 4 lines to the new ATT?
Laura
Laura
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Yes but they have different prices for upgrades and that's what you would probably get.
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Yeah, that's why I was wondering. They tend to have even better prices that I get at retail with the new ATT. I just get what a new customer would get on upgrades. I used to get discounts with the old ATT - not now though. Long story
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Just called Best Buy - should have done that 1st. They don't give the same equipment discount on out-of-contract migrations as the stores! So, I'll stick to the ATT store. The one near me just closed, so I'll just go to a new one!
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Can anyone tell me a really good reason not to buy at best buy??
My big question is I remember a few years back when I was working for att best buy had a separate contract and should you make certain changes, ie rate plan changes within 180 days they charged you. That as well as what if I decide to pick up an iphone for the holidays, will best buy hit me back if the contract they set up gets superseded by a corp store contract?
Thoughts?
My big question is I remember a few years back when I was working for att best buy had a separate contract and should you make certain changes, ie rate plan changes within 180 days they charged you. That as well as what if I decide to pick up an iphone for the holidays, will best buy hit me back if the contract they set up gets superseded by a corp store contract?
Thoughts?
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Well, lets think this through. You are signing up on a CONTRACT for 2 YEARS with someone paid barely above minimum wage, gets little or no credit for activating your phone (ie: does he really care if its messed up?) I have been working for Cingular/At&t for several years, and I cannot count the number of times Best Buy has messed things up on customers accounts, wrong rate plan, put 2 lines on a fam talk and the other 2 lines on individual plans, etc. Not to mention if you don't buy their extended warranty, they will basically tell you to go shove it. After I had a problem with a dvd player that I bought there, and they basically told me I was sol without the extended warranty, I have never shopped their again. (dvd player was used onc...
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Cleary your opinion of best buy extends beyond your work related experience.
You didn't answer my question though. I asked if there were TWO separate contracts. Not whom I am signing up with or what the pay scale is.
I'm well aware of what is available and what changes I might need to make.
So I pose my question again, is there two different contracts, 1 for best buy and 1 for Cingular?
You didn't answer my question though. I asked if there were TWO separate contracts. Not whom I am signing up with or what the pay scale is.
I'm well aware of what is available and what changes I might need to make.
So I pose my question again, is there two different contracts, 1 for best buy and 1 for Cingular?
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I work for an indirect dealer (not best buy). Most indirect dealers will have you sign what is called a secondary agreement. Basically what it means is you have 30 days to cancel service and return the phone. If you dont return the phone after you cancel service you will be charged back the retail cost of the phone. This usually extends out to about 180 days as well and then after that you have nothing to worry about.
It basically prevents people from signing up with service to get a discounted price on the phone and then cancel.
I hope that answers your question 🙂
It basically prevents people from signing up with service to get a discounted price on the phone and then cancel.
I hope that answers your question 🙂
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Indirects get a commission for signing up a new customer. Sometimes they use this commission to offset the cost of the phone.
While I can't say anything specific about Best Buy, I've often found it to be the case that indirect dealers in general tend to put a lot of catches on the rebates involved to make a free phone free.
See, if you cancel within a certain time period (180 days, I think), you might jeopardize their commission. Therefore a common scenario that I have seen with indirects is that you pay so much up front for the phone. Then you have one or more mail in rebates (often multiples). You'd get any rebates from AT&T in about ten weeks. But often a rebate that's specific to an indirect won't pay you back for about six months....
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While I can't say anything specific about Best Buy, I've often found it to be the case that indirect dealers in general tend to put a lot of catches on the rebates involved to make a free phone free.
See, if you cancel within a certain time period (180 days, I think), you might jeopardize their commission. Therefore a common scenario that I have seen with indirects is that you pay so much up front for the phone. Then you have one or more mail in rebates (often multiples). You'd get any rebates from AT&T in about ten weeks. But often a rebate that's specific to an indirect won't pay you back for about six months....
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Wait. Check that. I'm wrong. BestBuy has some kind of national special retailer arrangement. Someone else said it better:
https://www.phonescoop.com/carriers/forum.php?fm=m&f ... »
https://www.phonescoop.com/carriers/forum.php?fm=m&f ... »
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also alot of times the reason the price is lower is you get a best buy rebate on top of the at&t rebate. or you get a best buy gift card for that other 30 bucks or so on and so forth. i would just inquire into the exact details of the price. any way you slice it your probably gonna pay 150 and the rest is rebates ya know.
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It s also called buying power. Which as you know best buy buys more then just phones from the same companies that make the phones therefor getting it for cheaper. IE: Sony, Samsung, Moto ect ect!
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The V3r is discontinued, the att guy was correct. Besybuy just bought a lot of them and have a lot to sell, that's why they are free. The V3r never went over too well from what I understand. We only sold about three at my store.
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Actually,
Some national retailers (Radio Shack, SAMS, BB) do not actually buy their equipment from AT&T like exclusive dealers do. I know, it is packaged AT&T and looks identical but they are purchased from national buying groups in bulk.
In most cases AT&T also offers a 'buy down' on promotional handsets. That, combined with commission subsidies, is what allows Radio Shack and Best Buy to offer handsets at lower prices.
Now would be a great time to activate service with one of these national retailers. AT&T is giving away up to $300 in retailer gift cards with new activations through Sept 1.
This is an AT&T funded promotion so jump on it!
Some national retailers (Radio Shack, SAMS, BB) do not actually buy their equipment from AT&T like exclusive dealers do. I know, it is packaged AT&T and looks identical but they are purchased from national buying groups in bulk.
In most cases AT&T also offers a 'buy down' on promotional handsets. That, combined with commission subsidies, is what allows Radio Shack and Best Buy to offer handsets at lower prices.
Now would be a great time to activate service with one of these national retailers. AT&T is giving away up to $300 in retailer gift cards with new activations through Sept 1.
This is an AT&T funded promotion so jump on it!
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Let me get this right, att has to pay customers to sign with them. hmmmm.
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I used to work for Best Buy, and the commission structure is different for them. When I worked there, they got 250 per line, regardless of the rate plan. They are willing to give out almost all of their commission in subsidy.
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$250.00 for an add a line or Tier 3 activation? That is rediculous.
Of course when you think of how many $59.99+ they do , it offsets the commission.
But when you figure that half of what you turn on is add a lines, that is a crazy comp!
Will
Of course when you think of how many $59.99+ they do , it offsets the commission.
But when you figure that half of what you turn on is add a lines, that is a crazy comp!
Will
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Sprint was even more money per line. $350 per line, no matter what. $400 for a data card activation. Since I was the supervisor, I made my bonus off of revenue and margin, so I sold a ton of Sprint. I felt dirty doing it, but the money kept me warm at night.
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If so, then they changed it in the last year since I left the company. While I was a supervisor there, the comp was a flat rate on Sprint and Cingular. Verizon was the only one with a changing comp structure.
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So was BB comped on feature bolt-ons, too?
I would be happy to give me handsets away for near nothing for a comp structure like that.
AT&T pays almost that well for Data card acts.
Will
I would be happy to give me handsets away for near nothing for a comp structure like that.
AT&T pays almost that well for Data card acts.
Will
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Sams club gets paid based on rate plan and on bolt ons. Starts at 10bucks for new and goes up to 12.50 (that is individual commision) store revenue is obvisouly higher. we also get paid for bolt ons starting at a buck and goes up to 12.00!! and then we have revenue multipliers based on performance. so they pay us well to get customers on a higher rate plan with more bolt ons. Averager 2 line family plan with any carrier with text mess and power vision on both lines pays about 22 bucks spiff and approx 650-700 bucks store revenue. But we also have an upcharge for lines 2-5 for att we dont for sprint or tmob but our revenue dollars are slightly less for att than tmob or sprint
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