Upgrading equipment -- best options?

Hello!

Been surfing around here and feel like I could learn a lot here. I hope someone can give me some direction on a question.

Three of the four phones in my house are due to be upgraded next month. I have gone to my local verizon places, as well as visited online. Basically, I feel like they are really going to rip me good to get a newer phone. So, I started shopping around. We want to stay with Verizon.

I found two places online with nice deals on phones: wirefly and letstalk. Both have very sweet deals. Here are my questions:

1. Are these sites good sites? That is, are they reputable?

2. Are they selling new phones or refurbished phones?

3. It looks like I can simply buy the phone I want -- and get them to put my number on it -- is that correct?

4. Is there a better way to get a cool phone with verizon that isn't going to cost me $200?

I'm a bit pissed that an established customer can't get in on the cool phones and package deals. I even emailed verizon and asked them to haggle with me on a couple of new phones in exchange for me staying with them as my carrier. I carefully slipped in the name of the other carrieer I was considering -- verizon said no haggle, no adjustments to the prices.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions.

Jim

I haven't heard anything bad from either company. I believe they're both resellers of inphonic.

Thanks for the reply.

I wasn't sure anyone was going to say anything!

Jim

Are you serious?

Inphonic are the biggest phone scammers on the internet.

Rip Off Report:LetsTalk.com rebate scam ripoff Grand Prairie Texas

Wirefly/Inphonics Rebate Scam

Well, if customers would read the fine print of the agreements in the contracts they sign. They simply offered warranties that many people didn't understand.

They offer REBATES that are not understood, and people have reported even when they filled it out EXACTLY like requested, it was still rejected and then it was too late. I haven't heard ONE good success story, even in replies to the bad ones. Have you used them before?