Nexus deal I saw at Costco today

[jedimstr397]

Walked into a local Costco in Toronto today to play with a demo unit Galaxy Nexus. I snapped this photo of the offer they have available.

Basically $159.99 on a 3-year with Bell and Costco throws in a $75 cash card to spend there. Not a bad deal considering if you're a regular Costco shopper. Getting the phone for pretty much $85 plus taxes ain't too shabby.

Of course the person working the desk had no clue what she was talking about... She said Rogers will be releasing theirs in JULY??? And it will be LTE... We'll see.

For what it's worth, the kiosk was affiliated with "Wireless etc.". Not sure if it's the same in the US.

 

[kharrigan]

Three years??? That's like 45years in mobile life cycles! That's forever!

 

[MYNAMESALEX]

Everything in canada is three year contracts. With hardware upgrades after 2 years (on a new 3 year term). 2 year contracts are available, to new customers only, but they only knock off like $100 from the phones retail price, making it a completely stupid alternative to buying outright.


Bell's loyalty dept. called me yesterday to ask why I gave them a poor review in my customer satisfaction survey.

I told the lady "I was trolling you cause your prices suck and your contracts are too long"

She asked me how much I would like to be paying and I said "much less".

Albeit I get a pretty good plan now, a good $55 old plan with 1gb, unlimited text, my 10, etc. But I'm mostly pissed off that bell charges an extra $7 for call id or $15 for call id and voicemail. Especially that Rogers has free share your data with your tablet plans that don't charge you extra, but bell is charging me $10 to share data with my iPad, and not even giving me more data with that $10. And if I change my plan I lose 1gb and go to 500mb, then I lose tablet share cause it requires min 1gb to share. Then I have to pay $30 or $25 to add 500mb separate to iPad. I use approx 300mb in a month with both devices combined!!

Bell is just... Alex angry!!!

Sorry... /endrant


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[jedimstr397]

Three years??? That's like 45years in mobile life cycles! That's forever!

It's a self perpetuated cycle where, the general mobile phone user would rather sign up 3 years, usually to a carrier they're already with, than fork over an extra $500 to just have the phone. They just figure they can save the cash NOW, and justify it by thinking to themselves that they're still gonna need mobile service 3 years from now.

We get raped with our voice/data plans in Canada, so they will take a hit on hardware as long as they lock you in. They're making ridiculous amounts of cash not on hardware, but monthly plans.

 

[jwood55812]

They just figure they can save the cash NOW, and justify it by thinking to themselves that they're still gonna need mobile service 3 years from now.

See, now here's what I don't get. If you're buying a high end smart phone, you're absolutely going to have service for the next 3 years, so we have a couple choices (Looking at this from am American perspective sorry). We can either...

1) Buy a phone subsidized from a carrier (in my case ATT), and use the service for 2 years, no complaints

2) Buy the phone unlocked, and choose which carrier to use it on, use it on one carrier for 2 years paying the same price for service as you would have with a non-unlocked phone (This would cost you the difference between the subsidized price and off contract price)

3) Buy the phone unlocked, and at some point in your service transfer to another service provider (Still going to have to pay for Voice/Data/Text on the new provider, and it MIGHT be $10 cheaper/month. I don't care if TMO has a better deal with everything for 69.99 per line, with 2 lines, that's still more than what I pay currently, and guess what? I don't pay overages as is now, so that would cost me additional money.

Also, if you're on ATT, you can move to TMO, and depending on the phone, you may not get 3g service. You can't move to Verizon without buying a new phone, same with Sprint. Sorry, I just keep seeing these posts "Oh quit getting screwed by the carrier and buy unlocked!1!11" but IMO, the ones buying unlocked are the ones that are getting screwed unless you spend insane amounts of time overseas, or a new GSM alternative opens up in the states.