Our CEO said a month or two ago that when this happens the subsidy will be huge

Who do you work for?

Spring

Nice, me too.

Nice, Sigma does too if you didnt already know. I think it sucks we can't do any advertising of our own though about us finally carrying it...

I hope its true. I know we have trying really hard for this. my location was a COR store until we bought it. I miss out on atleast 5 iphone sales a day. No joke, I keep a log. What region are you guys out of?

I work in SLC. I wouldn't get your hopes up to high. I'll believe it when I see and open PO.

Yea I agree. I started in Denver then moved to the Idaho Market.

You work at sun valley then?

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Yea I agree. I started in Denver then moved to the Idaho Market.

OMG, I f*cking love Denver!! I am moving there next spring once my lease is up! I

I'm in SLC

We wouldnt need Apple Care, we have our own insurance that already covers the iPhone

Ummm....PC doesn't cover it anymore as of oct 1st. So we would definitely be selling apple care.

Seriously? I wasnt aware of that. Any reason why?

supposedly cost and apple was giving them crap or something. I'm 99.99999% sure this is correct.

Thanks for the info. I will pass it around

yes you are correct. They also restructured there prices. Now its "standard" "touch" and "smart' phones.

is this really true? This has been a rumor for three years.

Expect your subsidy to be $200+. I doubt many agents will undercut corporate pricing for the sheer fact that they won't make money otherwise.

Tex is right. Pricing is set in agreement with Apple.

You cannot make money selling this phone.
even at MSRP, a 3x or 4x feature payment and hitting VAB, you are still upside down.

Also, how many could you actually stock?
even with a $100,000 open to buy, thats 200 iphones and you have nothing left. no other phones and no credit.

this is not good for business.

well - it is true.. select dealers to start.

Who stocks 200 iPhones? I was thinking 30 tops, maybe ten of each, and still keeping everything else. Some agents will stock the iPhone and probably ten other phones total and that will make them fail. Just because we have the iPhone doesn't mean we can dumb the Blackberry. There a store in my area that I would be willing to bet that's what they will do.

well my company has about 90 locations. I am sure we will have more than 200.

I would hope between 90 locations you have more than $100,000 line of credit. At that rate each store could have four phones right now.

Your right, but we also let $500 bolds sit on the shelf for months without selling them. We are also losing residual activations by not being able to sell the iphone. Even if there is a little profit to be made it will be worth it. Especially when the customer wants to add three non-iphone lines to their account for their family. It will also increase future revenue since we have been telling customers to go to other stores for two years to get what they want. I don't know about your stores but our traffic has fallin greatly since the iphone was released. I know its not solely from the iphone, but constantly telling customers to go somewhere else is bad for business.

I agree with this, we turn AT LEAST 4 people away a day, if not more.

I would totally take $25-$50 GP on an iPhone act all day, telling people to go to s cor store is bad business for us. If this finally happens the fact that we can't advertise is ridiculous. I'm sure we will get the word out though.

I've seen the cost to bring it in. It's not pretty. The 16GB 3G version is just a hair pricier than the Fuze. It only goes up from there. I figure the data plan is required, and chances are with an iPhone your going to text, and with a couple accessories hopefully it comes out in our favor. They haven't released the commissions to us yet.

WOW, that means its atlease over $460. CRAP!

I'm not taking sides here but I have to say that i purchased two iphones at the same time and did not find out til I got my first bill that the rep at a corporate store failed to put the iphone data package on one of my iphones. This was brought to my attention when my first bill was roughly $1500 initially from pay as u go data on that iphone. Needless to say i called customer service and it was all straightened out and to compensate for the mistake, all of my activation fees were refunded(4 lines) and was also given the data package on that iphone for free for a couple months. So in the end, yes it was a corporate employee who made the mistake, but it was also a corporate employee that made it right and compensated me quite well for the...
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well then i appreciate your help, but around here, authorized agents are the reason i spend half of my day with customer service issues, and not being able to sell, maybe in your area the corporate stores aren't up to the task, but in our market, the customers don't leave COR stores without being completely satisfied, and if there is a mistake, we take full responsibility. im not judging you as an authorized agent employee, but the guys around here give all authorized agents a bad name...

Hey emoandy just wanted to let you know your a jack ass!! 😁 Why you would come on this forum and try to take away from our joy is beyond me, makes me think your a little scared of the idea of us selling the iphone and not because you think we are going to make mistakes on customers accounts but because now we can sell the iphone at any price we want which possibly means you loosing sales and commission. I have to agree with the previous posters COR agents make more mistakes that I care to elaborate on its ridiculous how AT&T can hire so many morons!

oh man, thanks so much for that colorful amazing commentary, i feel so lucky to be blessed with access to this wealth of knowledge, especially since you're on here. i could care less about more people carrying iphones, as i said in my previous post, im glad that customers have more places to get iphones, but just like my other post, which you must have missed, the auth agents around here give all of you guys a bad name. they constantly screw up and i spend half of my day fixing the problems they create. nice try to rip on me though, sorry, just being honest, im the moron that is always in the top five in my market and always gets 100/100's... right

Gentlemen, gentlemen... we're all on the same side here! Let's put aside our differences and concentrate on the task at hand: defeating the evil Verizon!

MUAHA HA HA HAAAA 🤣

Ash,

You would have to agree to poke fun at the things your customers say that were told to them by an agent location. Amamzing, for a communications company, the flow of information is not communicated properly or in a timely manner!

I am amused to at the amount of misinformation given by my neighboring dealer locations. Sometimes I have to laugh for the most part, but sometimes get frustrated.

Dont get too much feedback from COR stores as the closest one to any of my stores is 35 miles away. Well, someone mentions the long wait times for an accessory purchase, etc. Fortunatly, I have an incredible amount of repeat business and large customer base that doesnt stray....often.

Will

shut up, you ignorant douche

Hey your welcome! But as I said in my previous post, which you must have missed, I did not call you a moron. I said that I was amazed at how many morons AT&T hires, I sir called you a jackass. Now if you want to call yourself a moron I wont object but like I said I didn't call you a moron. By the way I am very proud of you for being in the top 5 sales reps out of your market all the time that's really nice, let me ask you a question, how do you do it? Do you just blow your customers away with all your charm, or are you a jack ass to them too? If you haven't learned anything on this forum there is no point to post something you just cant prove, or else I guess I'd start going around telling everybody I am the top sales rep in my market!...
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the logic is undeniable! OMGZ lol 🙄

We will. I don't know where he would get off of this. This is why in my original statement I said some now, some later. Those four get it now. The rest get it in January. No agent will be discluded unless they opt out of it.

Yea ythats what I meant. I just made my statement wrong. The four in the WESTERN US will get it in November. i dont know about other areas/

All I know is we can get it as soon as next week or no later than Black Friday

Sounds like AT&T. I expect ours sometime between New Years Day and Super Bowl 44.

Totally sounds like AT&T 🤣 🤣 🤣

Thats true, my company has about 90 stores.

Prime has 170-180ish. That's still a good chunk of stores for only 20 companies. I don't blame them for doing it like this. It gives me another three months to figure out my pricing after everyone else releases theirs.

Prime is not an Exclusive dealer though are they?

My company is getting it and we have around 45 stores.

This actually changed my Thanksgivings plans. I was gonna go visit family in California and stay out there through Thanksgiving weekend but there is no way I'm missing black friday with the iPhone finally in our possession.

Phoneman,

What about us other 6 Premier dealers in Dallas? PS, One Source is One Solution.

Will

I have not heard anything about any of the other Premier Dealers in Dallas. I apologize for misnaming One Solution as One Source. Senior moment I guess. But the email that we got from corporate only named these 2 agents. They said not to make any promises to customers, because it may be the middle of the month or so before we receive inventory.

Are you at 121-Custer store?

-Sigma

Our Facilities manager (dont want to name people on here) Emailed me yesterday asking if we still had out iPhone display from when this store was a COR store. I think they are making all those orders now.