Sprint One Up program......breaking news (response to Jump/Edge/Next)

[utiz4321]

This is yet another reason to not do one up. For the next week, Best Buy will take your old smartphone and give you 100 bucks to use for the new iphone. According to the fine print, they will take any working smartphone. If I had an iphone, no way, but all I have to do is dust off the Palm Pre and HTC Evo (Wimax Version) and get two 5s's for 200 bucks. Then I can sell the 4s's we have. Maybe I'm crazy, but i feel like it's a better deal.

 

Look if you want to wait around for best buy to run some special deal where they take phones that have been setting and collecting dust for the past couple of years and you enjoy haggling with people, meeting them at a sprint store to make sure the esn is clean then do that. Jo one has ever claimed that one is the best posible deal in the world, but then niether is buying a phone from a sprint store. One up allows for people to get a new phone every year with out this hassle of waiting for some special on trade in phones or having to sell your old ones for 144 dollars a year (for a high end smart phone), you may be able to beat that waiting for deals and selling your phone but what you value your time at is your business.

 

 

http://appadvice.com/appnn/2013/10/best-buy-preparing-100-trade-in-promotion-for-iphone-5s-iphone-5c

[Moropo]

But if you pay off your phone early, I understand you lose your $15/month discount and return to paying essentially a built in subsidized price for a paid for phone.

 

^ this is true, and it's also very illogical...

[Rocket87]

My thing is if you want to change phones every year why pay it off. I'd try and pay as little as possible.

 

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[Moropo]

My thing is if you want to change phones every year why pay it off. I'd try and pay as little as possible.

 

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Of course, that much is obvious. 

 

We were just pointing out a flaw in Sprint's implementation.

 

The way it should be is: if you didnt buy your phone with a subsidy, either by using One Up or by bringing your own device (such as buying an unsubsidized nexus from google) then the $15 discount should apply to your line until (if ever) you use a subsidy again. 

[Johnner1999]

So the nexus 5 is rumored to launch tomorrow... Think they will have a sprint version?

 

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[Rocket87]

Of course, that much is obvious.

 

We were just pointing out a flaw in Sprint's implementation.

 

The way it should be is: if you didnt buy your phone with a subsidy, either by using One Up or by bringing your own device (such as buying an unsubsidized nexus from google) then the $15 discount should apply to your line until (if ever) you use a subsidy again.

 

But why reward people for not getting new phones and financing and getting locked in with sprint, that is probably the logic behind it.

 

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[utiz4321]

Of course, that much is obvious.

 

We were just pointing out a flaw in Sprint's implementation.

 

The way it should be is: if you didnt buy your phone with a subsidy, either by using One Up or by bringing your own device (such as buying an unsubsidized nexus from google) then the $15 discount should apply to your line until (if ever) you use a subsidy again.

You misunderstand what the subsidy is for. It is not to give you the customer A discount on a phone or service, it's to make you the customer more "sticky" to the carrier. The discount is a secondary effect, you the customer choose this option because you are willing to be more "sticky" to the carrier for a cheaper phone. It's a trade that both carrier and customer are willing to make. That is why the market functions this way and not another.

[Ffryguy29]

My thing is if you want to change phones every year why pay it off. I'd try and pay as little as possible.

 

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Under this scenario, you should never pay it off until you have to, which if you upgrade every year will be never. . Especially since once you do, you go to a higher rate. This plan would make a marginal amount if sense, but the discount that goes away makes no sense at all from any perspective other than Sprint's. Which is why I am so reluctant to sign up for it.

[utiz4321]

Under this scenario, you should never pay it off until you have to, which if you upgrade every year will be never. . Especially since once you do, you go to a higher rate. This plan would make a marginal amount if sense, but the discount that goes away makes no sense at all from any perspective other than Sprint's. Which is why I am so reluctant to sign up for it.

It's not really any deferent than an early term fee. If you pay off the phone over the two years you pay 88 more for the phone over the two years. Or 3.5 a month more the down side isn't that great. The cost of cancellation is higher that's all.

[The Dave]

It no longer says that Florida and parts of Oklahoma are excluded..

 

[tybo31316]

It no longer says that Florida and parts of Oklahoma are excluded..

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Uh oh has Sprint opened the flood gates in FL?

 

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