Comments on: Amazon deal not for Cingular customers http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/04/amazon-deal-not-for-cingular-customers/ The voice of the BlackBerry community. Sat, 18 May 2013 20:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: hassan http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/04/amazon-deal-not-for-cingular-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-69141 hassan Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:51:19 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/04/003127/#comment-69141 Mobile Phones,Plasma Tv’s,Ipods for sale at cheap prices,nthread@hotmail.com

]]> By: hassan http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/04/amazon-deal-not-for-cingular-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-484512 hassan Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:51:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/04/003127/#comment-484512 Mobile Phones,Plasma Tv’s,Ipods for sale at cheap prices,nthread@hotmail.com

]]> By: SF http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/04/amazon-deal-not-for-cingular-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-68602 SF Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:36:24 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/04/003127/#comment-68602 I don’t know what this guy is talking about. I have a Pearl in my pocket right now that I bought on Amazon when the $25 deal appeared and I used to replace a Treo that I’ve been using on Cingular for just over a year. There was some confusion with them about Amazon selling a service plan that wasn’t in their system yet but otherwise they had no problem letting me upgrade my phone via Amazon.

]]> By: SF http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/04/amazon-deal-not-for-cingular-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-484511 SF Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:36:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/04/003127/#comment-484511 I don’t know what this guy is talking about. I have a Pearl in my pocket right now that I bought on Amazon when the $25 deal appeared and I used to replace a Treo that I’ve been using on Cingular for just over a year. There was some confusion with them about Amazon selling a service plan that wasn’t in their system yet but otherwise they had no problem letting me upgrade my phone via Amazon.

]]> By: JEF http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/04/amazon-deal-not-for-cingular-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-68593 JEF Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:53:53 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/04/003127/#comment-68593 This type of policy has always bugged me. The indirect dealers are paid a higher commission for a new customer signup than for a renewal. Part of that commission goes into subsidizing the cost of the phone. The net result is that new customers get better deals than existing customers.

Verizon doesn’t do this and their churn is half of Cingular’s….I wonder why :-)

]]> By: JEF http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/04/amazon-deal-not-for-cingular-customers/comment-page-1/#comment-484510 JEF Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:53:00 +0000 http://www.blackberrycool.com/2007/01/04/003127/#comment-484510 This type of policy has always bugged me. The indirect dealers are paid a higher commission for a new customer signup than for a renewal. Part of that commission goes into subsidizing the cost of the phone. The net result is that new customers get better deals than existing customers.

Verizon doesn’t do this and their churn is half of Cingular’s….I wonder why :-)

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