Trying to get out of contract

Recently I have moved 8 miles away from my old home and now I do not get service at our house. I have called Nextel about this and they sent out a tech to check the area and he confirmed that there is no service in the area and will not be in the near future. I have tried to get Nextel to let me out of my contract without the $200 termination fee ( 2 phones- $400) Anyone have any ideas about how to get around this. The customer service rep I talked to was a real A Hole also. Thanks

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yeah you are pretty much screwed unless you can get a little pity from the no service but I doubt it. How long until your plan is up? Might check and see if its cheaper to keep the plan until it runs out or change it to a cheaper one until time expires. Either way your going to be wasting $.

yeah I've got a year left. I can't believe the crappy service I got from them. He was not about to listen to me he was just quoting the contract and telling me it's my fault that we moved. He told me to try to find someone to take over our contract and I wouldn't wish Nextel on my worst enemy. I sked him if he wanted me to leave Nextel as a happy customer or an unhapy one and he said I need to do what I need to do. That's great customer service!!!

Look online. You can find listings for people that might want to take over your contract. Otherwise, as someone else said. Pay the $400 or downgrade the plan to the lowest possible payment. Make sure that wouldn't cause a contract extention!

Have you looked into a service like Celltrade or Resellular?

or the hybrid will be out soon. I am still hearing October release.

I've been told that Nextel will allow you to switch to Sprint without an early termination fee, but you'd have to pay for new phones, so it depends on whether or not the expenses equal out or not. I didn't think about that when I posted earlier, mighty sc jogged my memory with mention of the hybrid.

Originally Posted by Brad729

I've been told that Nextel will allow you to switch to Sprint without an early termination fee, but you'd have to pay for new phones, so it depends on whtehr or not the expenses equal out or not. I didn't think about that when I posted earlier, mighty sc jogged my memory with mention of the hybrid.

That information is correct. Sprint (together with Nextel) does allows customer to convert from Nextel to sprint. The best solution would be to walk into a sprint store (makes sure you go to a store thats been owned and operated by sprint, not a authorized dealer) ask them if you have to buy a phone at a retail price or can they offer any discount. Also, ask them if it has to be a sprint phone provided by them. Cause, otherwise, you can buy two used sprint phones from ebay etc and they should be able to transfer you from nextel to sprint.
Confirm it with them before you go buying the phones.

thats true you can switch but you would have to find a used phone for it to be cost effective. Check the forum here they did have a sell and trade section. sell your nextel and pick up a cdma. Add mobile to mobile and talk to nextel people for free.

If you get a ready link phone "Q-talk" should be out 4th quarter also. That is the 2-way bridge between Sprint CDMA and Nextel Iden customers. They say it will have a slight delay verses iden to iden.

If go to PhoneScoop.com, on the front page, they have a teaser for the new IC502 IDEN/CDMA phone that's suppose to work on both the Sprint and Nextel network.

Originally Posted by Bourn Identity

If go to PhoneScoop.com, on the front page, they have a teaser for the new IC502 IDEN/CDMA phone that's suppose to work on both the Sprint and Nextel network.

Here's a link to the article: First Dual Mode iDEN / CDMA Phone Revealed (Phone Scoop)

Yes, the will let you switch between sprint and nextel, but have someone with sprint come out to your house and check the service before you do anything lol. Best bet is to buy a sprint phone on ebay and sell your nextel on ebay and try to make it even.

Well after reading your posts I got all my new neighbors together last night with a variety of different cell service carriers. All of them had Verizon because that is the only Co. that provided service to the area. I rounded up some other friends with Sprint, T-mobile, Cingular and found that Cingular worked outside the house at the top of the driveway only. I thank all who responded to my post and I will be looking to find anyone who wants our phones and if not suck it up and pay the $.
Thanks again
Scott

Don't be a stranger, Scott! There's a lot more to the forums that just Q&A. I hope we'll see more of you around here, and be sure to let us know how your new service turns out!