RadioShack's Deal On the Evo and Info

[jblake1030]

Sams Club

I was in Sam's Club saturday picking up a few things and they had a Sprint stand that was taking pre-orders so I decided to do it there since he only had 5 pre-orders thus far compared to waiting for all the 100s of people that pre-ordered at radioshack and bestbuy already. I originally was going to just go to the sprint store since there were already so many people going to radioshack and bestbuy, because I knew I could go in purchase walk out activate the phone at home. CANT WAIT!!!

 

[estebancam]

I was in Sam's Club saturday picking up a few things and they had a Sprint stand that was taking pre-orders so I decided to do it there since he only had 5 pre-orders thus far compared to waiting for all the 100s of people that pre-ordered at radioshack and bestbuy already. I originally was going to just go to the sprint store since there were already so many people going to radioshack and bestbuy, because I knew I could go in purchase walk out activate the phone at home. CANT WAIT!!!

FYI

RadioShack owns the wireless booths inside Sams Club

 

[rockdawg]

Nobody seems to know what the non-contract price of the phone will be through RS. I called 3 different stores and was given 3 different answers. One didn't know, one said $499 and one said $600. I wish I could find out. If it's $449, I'll pre-order, otherwise I'll wait and get it through Sprint for $449.

 

[Reason]

many people seem to be making the smart choice of pre-ordering at RadioShack!

 

[ashykat]

Why would anyone pre-order from BestBuy when you get the 20$ credit from RadioShack...?

I prefer best buy to radioshack because my local shack people are idiots. I asked BB about the RadioShack deal and he said no problem, they'd match it. He then jotted it down on my receipt and signed it. So I get the best of both worlds.

 

[Packk01]

tax and price

The current radioshack ad regarding the EVO states that the unactivated price is $499.00, so the full price at RS is $499.00--($50 more expensive then Sprint and $100 less than BB). Also, in California at least, you must pay tax on the full retail price. So the tax you pay is on the $499 price not the $199 subsidized price. I paid the tax on the full price of the Sprint Hero at best buy when I bought it and was told by the RS employee that the tax is on the full price ($499) and not on the subsidized price when I pre ordered the EVO the other day.

Here is the RadioShack ad....look at the small print for the price:

http://radioshackwireless.com/templ...shack&pageid=7831&refcode1=RSK_0516_002_HPEVO

 

[estebancam]

The current radioshack ad regarding the EVO states that the unactivated price is $499.00, so the full price at RS is $499.00--($50 more expensive then Sprint and $100 less than BB). Also, in California at least, you must pay tax on the full retail price. So the tax you pay is on the $499 price not the $199 subsidized price. I paid the tax on the full price of the Sprint Hero at best buy when I bought it and was told by the RS employee that the tax is on the full price ($499) and not on the subsidized price when I pre ordered the EVO the other day.

Here is the RadioShack ad....look at the small print for the price:

Cell Phones from RadioShack

Not a rant against you, but a rant against that system:

Well California, as we all know, is a very crooked and practically dumb state. If you are correct, how do they justify charging you sales tax for money you did not spend? If you buy something on sale, do they charge you sales tax on the full price of items when you shop at Wal-Mart or do they charge you the tax on the sale price?

You should never have to pay sales tax for an amount you did not spend. That's absolutely ridiculous. The whole point of a sales tax is to tax items based on what you spend out of pocket, not to tax some figure that you never paid. If California truly does do this, that adds to the huge list of unbelievable crap that California forces on its citizens.

When I buy/sell a free phone at my radioshack, they don't pay ANY sales tax. Why? Because they didn't spend anything on the product in the first place. If what you said happened to be true in my state, I would have to pay around 31 dollars in tax for a device I paid nothing for, which doesn't make any sense.

I just looked it up and it seems California does do that. As well as neighboring state Nevada. I would buy in another state. That's ridiculous.

 

[Packk01]

re: Sales Tax

I understand your distrust of my post and am glad you were able to confirm what I had written. When I bought the Hero at Best Buy I was as surprised as you were regarding the policy to tax on the subsidized price rather than the price paid. I guess it is a sunshine tax. Anyway, it is what it is and one of the costs of living in this beautiful but almost bankrupt State.

 

[lembowski]

I understand your distrust of my post and am glad you were able to confirm what I had written. When I bought the Hero at Best Buy I was as surprised as you were regarding the policy to tax on the subsidized price rather than the price paid. I guess it is a sunshine tax. Anyway, it is what it is and one of the costs of living in this beautiful but almost bankrupt State.

I live in San Diego, and will be in Phoenix on the 5th/6th. If I knew that I could guarantee a phone for me their I would buy one there instead of the spending the extra $40+ in Cali. I'm a transplant from the midwest and I'm disgusted by the way CA handles the budget.

 

[estebancam]

I live in San Diego, and will be in Phoenix on the 5th/6th. If I knew that I could guarantee a phone for me their I would buy one there instead of the spending the extra $40+ in Cali. I'm a transplant from the midwest and I'm disgusted by the way CA handles the budget.

Isn't it absolutely disgusting? It also surprises me that the officials in that State want the rest of the country to follow California's footsteps. They can't even keep, much less hire, teachers!

 

[lembowski]

Isn't it absolutely disgusting? It also surprises me that the officials in that State want the rest of the country to follow California's footsteps. They can't even keep, much less hire, teachers!

Yeah, and you have situations where we just had a child molester here that killed two girls getting 2 consecutive life sentences......california is a bunch for puss's. It costs on average $47,000 to house each inmate for a year. If this molester lives 50 more years he would be draining the state and its taxpayers $2,350,000 over the course of his incarnation. Why not kill him?

Damn hippies!