Replacement Phone, and will it change my plan?

In article <[email protected]>,
"Elmo P. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote:

> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Bryan" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I currently have a LG 5250, little over 2 yrs old. I don't use it much, but
> > lately it's been acting up a bit, the volume drops to almost nothing, ringer
> > & earpiece, it locks up where the only way to get it back is remove the
> > battery. So I went by a Sprint Store today to see what they suggest,
> > download new software, whatever. Guy disappeared for a few seconds and came
> > back and said it's out of warranty, you can buy a new one, you qualify for
> > the up to $150.00 with 2yr contract.
> >
> > I guess the Samsung is a camera phone, if I get one of these new phones,
> > that are vision and/or picture, will I have to change my current $30/300 min
> > basic plan?
>
> He's trying to get you a cheap/free phone by signing you up for a new
> plan.
>
> Notice those two important words: "new plan".


What about "New for you"? Or is the rep just trying to get a commmission?

Or buying a refurb, or an eBay phone???

OR EVEN CONTACTING RETENTION ????
>
> You can't renew your plan for 2 more years

Absolutely he can ! ! !



> you can only contract for
> something that they offer today. So, you'd be looking at whatever plans
> they sell right now. That may or may not include the plan you're on.
> Or the plan terms might have changed. Read everything. But whatever
> you read, make sure you understand that it's the plan they're offering
> currently.
>
> They cannot sell you a new contract based on your old plan, if your old
> plan is no longer a product they sell.
>
> You can buy a phone outright, if you like. It's no big deal.
>
> Look: the only reason they're trying to get you into a contract is
> because they think you don't want to spend serious money on a phone just
> to service your existing plan. The store employees are brainwashed into
> assuming, without asking, that you want a cheap/free phone--so they come
> out of the gate with "we can get you this one cheap/free, just sign
> here" and next thing you know you've signed up for a new contract for
> whatever is the latest product they're offering.

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In article <[email protected]>,
"Bryan" <[email protected]> wrote:

> I still haven't taken the time to actually call Sprint, but from reading
> online to do practally anything but talk reqires a vision
> plan(option/upgrade). Ringers, games, etc apparently cost per download on
> top of the price paid to have vision, is that right? And only good for 3
> months? I hope that's wrong. And I guess if I were to get a camera phone,
> you have to pay something extra to get the pictures off the phone, weather
> in a $15 vision plan, or a $5 piucture plan. No option of USB, etc?


The rule now is that if you want the $150 rebate on a new Vision phone,
you must take Vision, 2 year contract and a plan of $35 or over. If you
have a $30 plan and $15 Vision, then you must keep the Vision for the
rebate to be valid.

To get around that.

- Buy a non Vision phone - only Nokia 3588i and Motorola V60v currently
offered. OR

- Buy a used phone on eBay (maybe a Sanyo RL2000 or RL2500 ) OR

- Call up Retention and let them talk you into staying a SprintPCS
customer. http://www.sprintpcsinfo.com has the phone #.

>
>
>
> I guess I have an option of doing a phone swap right? I guess called ESN
> change or something like that.

Luckily SprintPCS has stopped charging for that.

> So I could find a cheap ebay (other place)
> phone and swap it for my failing 5250? Any sugestions? I got the 5250 to
> replace a samsung 8500, that I thought was freaking out, but I think it was
> just a bad ciggarette lighter connection.