Saturday, August 31, 2013
Cell Phone Trade In Catch
Apple has released that they will be accepting trade ins for credit to get the new iPhone. There is a catch though. Isn't it always the case that there is a catch? Here is what the program said, "To get a credit, customers have to show that their trade-in iPhone works
by powering it on. Customers also have to be in wireless carrier
contracts when they leave the store." The thing that you have to understand is that the mobile or cellphone
business is a mass, even a mess, of various subsidies from one group to
another. Apple demands, and gets, a subsidy from the phone service providers.
They agree to sell the handset to the consumer for less than they are
paying Apple for it: they make this up from the monthly charges over the
life of the contract. I guess the bottom line is almost always coming down to commission and money.
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Trade your cell phone in for cash. sounds to good to be true, but could use it on phone service bills.
ReplyDeleteFigures the catch is to get into a 2 year phone service agreement with them to get the incentive.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like there are newer versions of the phones coming out before the contracts are up. The phone service providers are making a lot off of this.
ReplyDeleteI think the trade in for the cell phone would be beneficial for some people and getting them phone service use.
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