Please recommend me a phone!

[Cellplanman]

Originally Posted by charlyee

You know this could be yet another difference between Canada and US. I don't believe 3 year contracts can be done normally and although there is always enough room of bargaining, this may not work.

In my experience, what you can sometimes get from the provider is upgrade eligibility moved up and from an independent dealers some price negotiation.

Im pretty confident that this rule should work in the states too.

If you go to a 3rd party (T-booth,Wireless Wave.. even future Shop and Bestbuy) has special in-store promos.

In Canada @ least.. T-booth and wireless wave you can "sweet talk the lady rep into giving you a discount" or some free accessories

FutureShop/Bestbuy/The Source have in-store promos all the time

eg:
The Source By Circuit City : Search Results
when this was released, on the rogers website it was 299... and some The Source stores were selling it free on a three yr term

when
Future Shop: Cellular Phones: Rogers: Rogers Nokia N95R 8GB Quad-Band Cellular Phone - 3 Years Agreement - In-Store Only
came out (last week it was 99$.. only yesterday it went up)
and
Best Buy Canada Web Store: Phones: Cell Phones: Rogers Nokia N95 Quad-Band Cellular Phone - 3 Years Agreement - In-Store Only
came out, Rogers dropped their price to 199 on a 3yr term

https://www.rogers.com/web/Rogers.po...l=WRLS_BuyFlow

Im going to the states tomorrow for 4 days (HTC touch w/ bell gives me 2GB of internet for 10$ roaming :P).. Ill see if I can confirm this. Im not much of a shopper (malls) but im going to be in enough of them, and Ill see what the US equivalent is.. if there is one