Dennis Meier

I have been a SPCS customer in San Antonio for 4 years. I am
currently in a 2 year agreement which ends on 2/18/04, according to
the website. I have 2 phones: LG5350 and Samsung 8500. My current
plan is:

500 Anytime Shared Minutes
Unlimited Nights and Weekends 9pm-7am
Unlimited PCS to PCS on both phones
Equipment replacement on both phones
Roadside rescue
No Vision at this time
Approx. $100/month

My wife and I are wanting to both upgrade to the Sanyo VM4500/5500 RL
phones so that we can use the RL, Camera, and Video. Is there any way
that I can get a deal from Sprint so that I do not have to pay full
price on both of these phones? I have contemplated contacting
retention with the threat of switching to Verizon, but I am not sure
if that will work. I want to stay with SPCS if possible, as I have
been very happy with their service. I will pay full price for them if
I have to, but with accessories and such, it will cost me nearly $900.
Can any of you please advise me as to what I should do?

Thanks for all your help.

 

Willa Jabir

I can only tell you what worked for me. I went to the local SPCS
Store. Asked about the phone. He said no. Pay full price. The price
was for new activations. I said OK. Please activate the phone as a new
line for me and I'll cancel the other. He looked at me for a moment, I
guess to see if I was serious, then said it was simpler to give me the
phone at the cheaper price. But, I was NOT threatening to change #'s
to get the new phone. Me account shows I have done this twice before
and so I guess this made him a believer rather than one of those
people who just threaten to do something.

Larry

On 10 Dec 2003 14:14:58 -0800, dennismeier@excite.com (Dennis Meier)
wrote:

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>been very happy with their service. I will pay full price for them if
>I have to, but with accessories and such, it will cost me nearly $900.
>Can any of you please advise me as to what I should do?
>

Isaiah Beard

Dennis Meier wrote:


> My wife and I are wanting to both upgrade to the Sanyo VM4500/5500 RL
> phones so that we can use the RL, Camera, and Video. Is there any way
> that I can get a deal from Sprint so that I do not have to pay full
> price on both of these phones? I have contemplated contacting
> retention with the threat of switching to Verizon, but I am not sure
> if that will work. I want to stay with SPCS if possible, as I have
> been very happy with their service. I will pay full price for them if
> I have to, but with accessories and such, it will cost me nearly $900.
> Can any of you please advise me as to what I should do?

If you have had your current phones for 18 months, then you can get the
new phones at the promotional price through the handset upgrade program.
You mentioned a Samsung 8500. Seeing as it's been ages since I've
seen of those, I bet it'll qualify.

You will have to extend your contract though.



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Fellow Traveler

The 18 month upgrade is about all you would have. Retentions used to give
out phones, but now they are few & far between. Usually the most you will
get out of them is a plan, or maybe a months worth of service.


"Isaiah Beard" <sacredpoet@sacredpoet.com> wrote in message
news:3fd88936@rutgers.edu...
> Dennis Meier wrote:
>
>
> > My wife and I are wanting to both upgrade to the Sanyo VM4500/5500 RL
> > phones so that we can use the RL, Camera, and Video. Is there any way
> > that I can get a deal from Sprint so that I do not have to pay full
> > price on both of these phones? I have contemplated contacting
> > retention with the threat of switching to Verizon, but I am not sure
> > if that will work. I want to stay with SPCS if possible, as I have
> > been very happy with their service. I will pay full price for them if
> > I have to, but with accessories and such, it will cost me nearly $900.
> > Can any of you please advise me as to what I should do?
>
> If you have had your current phones for 18 months, then you can get the
> new phones at the promotional price through the handset upgrade program.
> You mentioned a Samsung 8500. Seeing as it's been ages since I've
> seen of those, I bet it'll qualify.
>
> You will have to extend your contract though.
>
>
>
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> E-mail fudged to thwart spammers.
> Transpose the c's and a's in my e-mail address to reply.
>

David

In article <rsidnTuCzMIds0Si4p2dnA@comcast.com>,
"Fellow Traveler" <Noemail@nowhere.com> wrote:

> The 18 month upgrade is about all you would have. Retentions used to give
> out phones, but now they are few & far between. Usually the most you will
> get out of them is a plan, or maybe a months worth of service.


The store managers still have some leeway in negoctiating contract
extensions. Try visiting a SprintPCS store, and speak to the manager.