Pay the (interestingly high) 2 year subsidy, or put some money down, and do monthly installments? I think I know where I'm going to head, but I'd like to hear your thoughts, and why.
Did you have the option to two year if you wanted?
Nope. T-Mobile does finance / buy outright only.
Would you 2 year if you had the choice?
Hmm.. It wouldn't bother me. If a company is giving me what I want for a discount for 2 years I would do it. I don't get the "locked in" feeling since you can always leave by paying an ETF (which goes down each month you're in contract).
I did the same with comcast. They gave me everything I wanted plus more.. For the price I wanted. I just had to agree to 2 years. Fine by me .Exactly
I personally prefer the monthly payment option. Clearly separates device payment and carrier plan payments. Never liked the idea of everything together and hiding the total device cost. Still laugh at some of my friends who think iPhones cost $200 lolWould you 2 year if you had the choice?
I personally prefer the monthly payment option. Clearly separates device payment and carrier plan payments. Never liked the idea of everything together and hiding the total device cost. Still laugh at some of my friends who think iPhones cost $200 lol
This way once your device payment is over, your bill reduces. Where as in standard 2 year contracts your bill never reduces, if you don't upgrade after 2 years you are basically still paying the same cost as you were paying earlier even though your contract is over.
I do the 2 year contract with Sprint. I'm on a legacy plan with a fixed monthly rate, so the phone will cost me either $350 upfront or $850 over 24 months. Since I have no plan to change companies, and the the early termination fee is less than $400, that's an easy choice.
Sprint's installment deal I got via text seems reasonable. I was going to wait a BOGO deal surfaced, but I might have to jump on this now.
I personally prefer the monthly payment option. Clearly separates device payment and carrier plan payments. Never liked the idea of everything together and hiding the total device cost. Still laugh at some of my friends who think iPhones cost $200 lol
This way once your device payment is over, your bill reduces. Where as in standard 2 year contracts your bill never reduces, if you don't upgrade after 2 years you are basically still paying the same cost as you were paying earlier even though your contract is over.
Yes, but if your on a plan that allows contracts with Verizon probably good chance you have unlimited data, so with that in the picture, contract is better for me.I'm still on this old VZW edge plan so this phone will be $12/month which brings it to $288. Better then the $350 if I went towards this.