EVO $99 at Radioshack

[westeman]

what do i need to say to sprint to get them to move my upgrade up from 1/01/11 to immediately?

 

[tndank]

what do i need to say to sprint to get them to move my upgrade up from 1/01/11 to immediately?

Tell them your current phone is having problems and dropping calls. You just want to upgrade and stay with Sprint.

We have luck doing this in the stores. They will generally move the upgrade within 2 weeks if your current phone is no longer working.

 

[dany8907]

When I saw this deal I had to take advantage of this. I went to best buy and they actually priced matched the online price of 99 even though mine was an upgrade

I am very happy with my Evo. I came from a blackberry, so its going to take me a while to get use to it, but i love it!!

 

[Csquared]

So why are they selling them for $99 bucks. EVO2 on the way after CES?

 

[westeman]

Tell them your current phone is having problems and dropping calls. You just want to upgrade and stay with Sprint.

We have luck doing this in the stores. They will generally move the upgrade within 2 weeks if your current phone is no longer working.

I ended up chatting with 2 different reps on the website and neither of them were helpful and wasted about 35mins of my time. So I then called sprint and less than 10 minutes later the lady submitted for an early upgrade and said it shouldn't be a problem because I am less than 2 weeks away from my upgrade. I just received a call a couple minutes ago stating that it had been processed and it now shows that I am available for upgrade.

When I saw this deal I had to take advantage of this. I went to best buy and they actually priced matched the online price of 99 even though mine was an upgrade

I am very happy with my Evo. I came from a blackberry, so its going to take me a while to get use to it, but i love it!!

I have the blackberry tour right now and I'm going to go in to best buy tonight and see if they will price match the $99. Hopefully they can.

So why are they selling them for $99 bucks. EVO2 on the way after CES?

Even if they do, you could purchase now and see what is unveiled at CES and decide if you want to keep the Evo or return it and wait for something else. That is what I'm going to do. Weeeeeeee!

 

[bberrynewbie84]

Im thinking about getting it,even though I have the droid x,can't have enough android phones,lol! Do you guys think its worht getting since I have the droid x?

Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk

 

[anon(27512)]

From what I understand It's pretty rare that they do, I think they give some sort of "spending limit" on the accounts with funky credit. (i assume that's why you ask...)

Yea I don't really have credit, still a college student. However, I did have a account with tmobile for two years when I was 18 and I always paid on time, so don't they report to credit agencies?

 

[westeman]

I was in and out of Radio Shack pretty fast. As soon as they finished with the customer in front of me it took just enough time to fill out the paperwork. Very helpful.

All i had was a pre to trade off because i wanted to keep my bb tour in case of emergency and the guy that helped me said some crap phone came in as recycle and they would use it as the phone to qualify for the $100 off and then they used my pre for store credit to purchase some accessories. I was more than happy to receive $47 for my pre!

So I picked up the Livestrong case and then went back to Best Buy (since I have a pt gig there) and got a Zagg Invisishield. I was pretty upset when they said i had to wait till tomorrow to put my case on it to keep the edges from fraying up.

But yeah, $199-$100 for crap phone - $47 for pre + $10.99 for that bluetooth headset + $25 for case = me happy.

I'll be up all night playing with this.
Merry Christmas!

 

[milominderbinde]

So why are they selling them for $99 bucks. EVO2 on the way after CES?

Buy the EVO now. If something better ships at CES, buy that. But bear in mind, CES is where products are annouced not delivered. Deliveries will hit from March to June.

Don't buy futures. Buy what you want now. In a year use your premier upgrade and do it again if you like something else by then.

 

[anon(27512)]

So how long is the online deal good for?

 

[lanje78]

Got one for my husband, the store still had it for 149, ordered it online Sunday and it arrived today. My local store only had about 5, glad I got it online...

 

[westeman]

So how long is the online deal good for?

i believe thru the 24th

 

[Rudiepoo1]

Wow, trying to see what I can do to take advantage of this deal. I just upgraded and landed the Optimus online for free a few weeks ago and still within the 30-day exchange window but the problem is this deal is supposed to end on Friday and Sprint is telling my that I need to return the phone to them to regain upgrade eligibility I wish there was someting RS could do to work with them so I could just exchange the phone and get the Evo.

 

[NuMom2J]

Is that a limited promotion or do they have that deal running all the time? Unfortunately I'm not eligible for an upgrade until the 1st and I would like to see what drops at CES as well.

*edit* I just saw the deal on their website it ends the 24th

i'm in the same boat unfortunately...not eligible for upgrade until the 1st. i hope they'll remember the after-christmas shopping crowd.

 

[Rudiepoo1]

Just left my local shack and the manager said their extending the offer another week. I called this morning to talk about exchanging my Optimus to take advantage of the offer and he said no problem but when I got their tonight they have no more Evo's left, have to wait till next week now.

 

[Stroven Taulrok]

Got mine last night and have been messing with it ever since. Coming from a Pre I am loving this phone.

 

[NuMom2J]

Just left my local shack and the manager said their extending the offer another week. I called this morning to talk about exchanging my Optimus to take advantage of the offer and he said no problem but when I got their tonight they have no more Evo's left, have to wait till next week now.

Hmm, where is this Rudie? It would be great if this was for all Radio Shacks and not just a locally based decision left up to the individual stores...Did the manager say whether this was the case?

 

[gregandtink#AC]

Got one with a old Instinct trade in. They wouldn't give me the FourSquare discount on the phone though.

They are getting harder to find around the North Dallas area. Two other guys were in there getting them for their wives like I was.

She is going from the Pixi to the Evo. She wanted it after seeing all the things I was doing with mine.

Still loved my Pre, but glad I made the switch.

 

[tndank]

i'm in the same boat unfortunately...not eligible for upgrade until the 1st. i hope they'll remember the after-christmas shopping crowd.

Call customer service. Tell them your phone is broken. Screen is going out or something like that. It's very common to get the upgrade up to 2 weeks early. They should be able to fix your account so you can visit a store to buy an upgrade.

We do this a lot in the store for customers. I'm not sure if Radioshack has access to Sprint's National Sales Support phone reps or not.

 

[NuMom2J]

Call customer service. Tell them your phone is broken. Screen is going out or something like that. It's very common to get the upgrade up to 2 weeks early. They should be able to fix your account so you can visit a store to buy an upgrade.

We do this a lot in the store for customers. I'm not sure if Radioshack has access to Sprint's National Sales Support phone reps or not.

How about I tried that...and the rep was all ready to move up my upgrade date, had her supervisor on the phone as well to approve it....and then dropped this bomb: we'll go ahead and move up that upgrade date but you'll HAVE to purchase your new phone through sprint telesales or in store or our sprint website. otherwise we can't do that.

ugh!!!!!