Has anyone managed by buy a Nexus S phone yet? Best Buy are advertising the Nexus S at $529.99 or $199.99 with a new 2 year contract. I've been with Nextel/Sprint for about 12 years and it's time for a change - and I really like the new version of Android so I figured I'd buy a couple of new Nexus S phones...
The Nexus S is ONLY available through Best Buy and you can only buy it at the $199.99 price on the Internet. I've been trying to order through Best Buy for the last few days (signing up as a new T-Mobile customer) and they keep saying that "there is a problem with the order" - talking to Best Buy it is seems that T-Mobile will only approve me for a pre-paid plan (flexpay). Oddly enough, Verizon approved me for a $80 phone plan last week for my daughter and didn't even blink using the same information. But you only get the $199.99 price on the Nexus S phone if you sign up for a two year contract ... but T-Mobile say that my credit is not approved for a contract phone. They'll only offer me a pre-paid plan if I want a Nexus S. They say that they have lots of phones that are "better" than the Nexus S and they're happy to sell me one of those with a plan, but not a Nexus S. I pointed out that all of the phones they offer have appear to have old versions of Android and T-Mobile appear to have no plans to update their phones to the current version of Android. So basically they refuse to sell me a Nexus S (at 199.99) with a 2 year contract but they are happy to give me a G2 phone for free with a 2 year contract - so my credit problems seem to be specific to an attempt to purchase a Nexus S phone. I've been on hold a lot the last few days. It looks like I have to buy the Nexus S at full price and then use the pay-as-you-go plans - which seem to cost more than a plan where they give me a free phone. [RANT]I can see why the iPhone is selling so well - Steve Jobs understands that people buy phones, not cell phone plans ... and the cell phone companies are all about selling plans and see a phone only as bait to lure the customer.[/RANT] Even the sigmonster is pissed. -- "It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we didn't give enough." - Quentin Crisp _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
