EVO $99 at Radioshack

I was able to get Best Buy to price match this deal. I tried Radio Shack first, but they couldn't access my Sprint Referral plan. Best buy could and matched the price of the phone, but wouldn't throw in the free bluetooth headset, which was fine with me as I already have one that I don't use much anyway.

I'm also coming from a Palm Pre that finally got to be too unreliable (power/battery issues) and I'm enjoying the EVO and Android very much. At this price, I couldn't wait for a better deal.

Wow, I was explicitly told by my manager(s) at Best Buy that corporate couldn't price match this. Arrggh! But I got an Evo for $100 from Radioshack, so I'm happy :)
 
all my radioshacks close to me were out of the evos on the 24th....i waited at bestbuy for 15min for someone to help me to see if they would pricematch...no one would even talk to me....so i ordered it online thru radioshack and got a car charger with next day shipping for $130. should be here tomorrow! so today is my last full day as a crackberry user :) cant wait!
 
I took advantage of this deal last Tuesday and scored me my Evo. I love it. BUT - it wasn't easy.

I took a couple of my older phones to the Shack nearest my work. I have two phones from 2004/5 that work just fine. I read on the RS twitter page, and on their own web page (early last week) that they would accept ANY phone. When I got there, I was told that wasnt the case - and of course the two phones I had were NOT on their list of acceptable phones. The manager was there and hooked me up anyway - they had a couple of old phones that other employees had brought in. So, he used one of those for me. When I mentioned I would like to get one for my wife as well - he said NO PROBLEM! And as long as the phone is on the list - it doesn't even have to work! Right on!

But, since I was off the rest of the week - I decided to get her phone at a RS closer to my house. There are 5 locations within 5 miles of my home.

Anyway - that is when I heard a number of different stipulations that were not in the original announcement for this promotion. I called or visited 6 RS locations and heard one or more of the following:
1) Phone must be working. 2) Must be a Sprint phone. 3) Phone must be on approved list. 4) Must be the phone currently on contract. 5) Only one deal per household. No two stores gave me the same story. Each one was different. One store offered to give me the phone anyway - but they were out of stock. Grrr. I have nothing against Radio Shack - but it is no shocker that they are struggling to remain relevant in this day and time. I am happy they are trying to remain competitive, and promote a great deal on a wonderful phone - but I wish they could get their story straight!

So - after all that, I just decided to order it from the RS website. No muss and fuss with a trade in. Just $99 bucks (plus tax) and 10 bucks shipping. Got the free BT headset as well and delivered right to my door (or soon to be).
 
I took advantage of this deal last Tuesday and scored me my Evo. I love it. BUT - it wasn't easy.

I took a couple of my older phones to the Shack nearest my work. I have two phones from 2004/5 that work just fine. I read on the RS twitter page, and on their own web page (early last week) that they would accept ANY phone. When I got there, I was told that wasnt the case - and of course the two phones I had were NOT on their list of acceptable phones. The manager was there and hooked me up anyway - they had a couple of old phones that other employees had brought in. So, he used one of those for me. When I mentioned I would like to get one for my wife as well - he said NO PROBLEM! And as long as the phone is on the list - it doesn't even have to work! Right on!

But, since I was off the rest of the week - I decided to get her phone at a RS closer to my house. There are 5 locations within 5 miles of my home.

Anyway - that is when I heard a number of different stipulations that were not in the original announcement for this promotion. I called or visited 6 RS locations and heard one or more of the following:
1) Phone must be working. 2) Must be a Sprint phone. 3) Phone must be on approved list. 4) Must be the phone currently on contract. 5) Only one deal per household. No two stores gave me the same story. Each one was different. One store offered to give me the phone anyway - but they were out of stock. Grrr. I have nothing against Radio Shack - but it is no shocker that they are struggling to remain relevant in this day and time. I am happy they are trying to remain competitive, and promote a great deal on a wonderful phone - but I wish they could get their story straight!

So - after all that, I just decided to order it from the RS website. No muss and fuss with a trade in. Just $99 bucks (plus tax) and 10 bucks shipping. Got the free BT headset as well and delivered right to my door (or soon to be).

wow that's a bit crazy. but though it's a national deal across the board at radio shack, maybe the rules were left open to each individual store on HOW to do this deal, ya know? makes no sense to me, but that could be the issue. and then again, there's always that old standby: one hand never knows what the other is doing. smh. that's usually how customer service for any company goes, right? :D
 
Just got my evo on xmas eve! i am coming from the pre which i loved but towards the end it was driving me straight crazy! it was the 100$ and the free bluetooth! what a deal! i couldnt believe it! anew i have had much time to play around with it but from what i have done with it it seems really awesome and stable! i look forward to being a member of this community and im not gonna lie but i will also be checking in at precentral what comes out of that site as well! look forward to learning alot from this community!
thx!
 
got my evo today...im surprised its actually a hardware version 003..baseband 2.15.00.09.01...software 3.30.651.3

so should be fairly easy to root correct? i had it on charger from 830am to 12....then from playing with it nonstop it was down to 20% at 3pm LOL....but i love the phone so far....getting used to fat fingering the touchscreen(coming from blackberry its a rough transition lol)

love it tho!
 
Got mine on the 23rd, they still had two in stock. Handed in my old non-working not-on-a-plan original pre with huge crack in screen, power button not working and no battery. he did look in the back and type the serial # into his computer aparantly to see if it qualified. Got the $99 price and headset

Our BB would have matched except for the fact that RS required the hand in. That requirement messed up the deal. Had it not been for hand-in requirement they would have matched. Also a local store had to have one in stock and didnt match web offers just in store deals. The impression I got from the BB manager is that they thought it was a little trick that RS did to stop pricematching by BB, especially since that was not a requirment of the web deal.
 
Hello everyone,

Didn't know about this RS deal, but Tuesday the 28th I went to RS to buy a micro SD memory stick and I pulled my Trusted Hero to make a call while at the store, the sales dude asked me if I wanted an EVO for $99, I ended up going home bringing an old Sanyo flip phone (didn't want to give them the Hero) and bought the EVO for $99, so the deal is still going on at the stores at least.

Great deal, I got the last white one that store had, they didn't have any headsets though, still very happy, what a great phone at an excellent price.
 
It's supposed to be good, until January 1st.

I haven't even opened the headset, yet.
 
Verwon, what kind of headset did you get?

Thx

update, just talked to the radioschak store intown, they said the headset is an old promotion (pre-christmas) deal, they don't give the headsets anymore.
 
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I am on SERO Premium so Radio Shack won't help me. I called my local Best Buy and they said they can price match so I am going over there. :D
 
Verwon, what kind of headset did you get?

Thx

update, just talked to the radioschak store intown, they said the headset is an old promotion (pre-christmas) deal, they don't give the headsets anymore.

Yeah, I actually got it with the online deal, but they don't list it anymore, either. It's a Plantronics Explorer 240 and I rarely talk on the phone, so haven't even opened it, yet! LOL
 
so wait a second. You guys are still able to get best buy to match this price of $99.00 for the EVO? even though it's expired?
 
so wait a second. You guys are still able to get best buy to match this price of $99.00 for the EVO? even though it's expired?

The deal is supposed to be good until the 1st. The problem around me is no radioshacks even have them, their distrubution centers are out and have been supposedly waiting on Sprint for their shipments. I haven't tried Best Buy but typically they'll call RS and see if they even have them in stock to even get the price match. I did however take some old phones to the shack today and got a $40 RS card to help towards a Evo whenever they do get back in stock again.
 
I want to know also, yesterday the ad on raioshacks website said the instore deal lasted until the first, but now it says it ended the 24th.
Here's a link to the ad:Cell Phones from RadioShack
 
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It ended the 24th, but due to demand, they extended it to the 1st.

Whether that means midnight tonight or that you can actually still get it on the first, I don't know.
 
I was able to get one yesterday for my brother (validated it as a late christmas gift).. Luckily he was due for an upgrade and the stars lined up..

THE only thing they asked me to do was trade in any working phone (no matter the age or condition) for me to get the EVO for $99.00... So I gave them a beat up old BB Tour.

If they are still offering this today on the 1st, the Radio Shacks around south bay have quite a few of them in stock. good luck!
 
thanks nice to know, gonna pick one up later, may end up taking it back for the shift 4g though
 

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