AT&T Now Offers SIM Card Sans Phone - Greed?

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:38:05 -0800, SMS <[email protected]>
wrote:

[snip]

>Two years is ridiculously long if you're not getting a phone subsidy,
>and even one year is pushing it.

[snip]

Two years is ridiculously long period -- particularly when the phones
comes with a one-year warranty and many phones (e.g., Blackbery)
aren't insurable thru AT&T.

If your Blackberry breaks between year one and two on a two-year
contract then you are hosed. I liked getting one-year contracts --
realizing that while I paid $50-$100 more than if I did a 2-yar
contract (and sometimes not getting a rebate) I had the peace of mind
knowing my phone was always under warranty and being able to upgrade
to the newest model Blackberry yearly.

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On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:29:42 -0800, Anon E. Muss <[email protected]>
wrote in <[email protected]>:

>Two years is ridiculously long period -- particularly when the phones
>comes with a one-year warranty and many phones (e.g., Blackbery)
>aren't insurable thru AT&T.
>
>If your Blackberry breaks between year one and two on a two-year
>contract then you are hosed. ...

Not if you insure it someplace else.

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Anon E. Muss wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:09:23 GMT, Dennis Ferguson
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 2008-01-22, Anon E Muss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>> List price is $10.00, with 2-year contract it is $5.00 after rebate.
>>> If you want the 2-year contract, pay the $5.00; if you want no
>>> contract, pay the $10.00.
>> Try to buy it like that. After you select the SIM you'll next be asked
>> to choose a plan for the SIM. All the plans have 2 year contract terms.
>
> Nope.
>
> See < http://tinyurl.com/24g5cc>.

Well that's good news! Was this a response to the outcry, or was it just
a mistake on their web site?

On 2008-01-22, Anon E Muss <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008 16:09:23 GMT, Dennis Ferguson
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>On 2008-01-22, Anon E Muss <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>>> List price is $10.00, with 2-year contract it is $5.00 after rebate.
>>> If you want the 2-year contract, pay the $5.00; if you want no
>>> contract, pay the $10.00.
>>
>>Try to buy it like that. After you select the SIM you'll next be asked
>>to choose a plan for the SIM. All the plans have 2 year contract terms.
>
> Nope.
>
> See < http://tinyurl.com/24g5cc>.

Got it. I see they fixed their web site by removing the SIM-only option
from the list (or at least it isn't where it was last time I tried).

Maybe they'll also get around to fixing their stores, or at least the
one I pass on the way home. I dropped in today and asked about getting
a new postpaid line of service, SIM-only without the phone, and they
said there was still a minimum 1 year contract. That's different than
it used to be, but still not what they're saying above.

They were quite pleasant in the store, though, much nicer than I remember
them being 3 years ago when I was last there, and very sorry they couldn't
help.

Dennis Ferguson