A couple of tidbits from my recent phone-buying experience.
Buying a $200-phone with a $100 instant rebate and $50 mail-in rebate from a physical T-Mobile store results in sales tax calculated from the $200 price. However, buying the phone through T-Mobile’s customer service results in sales tax calculated from the final $50 price. That’s a $15 savings right there. I doubt I’ll ever buy a phone from the store ever again, though I think it’s essential to actually hold the phone before deciding to buy.
I’m locked to T-Mobile for two years again, so I’m hoping Apple’s exclusivity deal with AT&T comes to an end and Apple brings the iPhone to T-Mobile. A T-Mobile iPhone with UMA support would be even hotter.
Of course, instead of signing a new contract, I could have switched to AT&T. Customer service should count for something though. I have heard a lot of negatives and zero positives regarding AT&T’s customer service. I don’t think even the iPhone is worth it if you have to sit through customer service hell whenever anything goes wrong.
(Was that a cheap way to catch up on posts? I backdated this by 70 hours.)