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 ·Verizon FiOS
| yes if we paid full price for the idem so yes,like for directv for say they make u pay 200+ just to upgrade their boxes and you still don't own the box and you still have to return it. but anyway we should be able to unlock cable modems cellphones voip.. |
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| said by whoyourdaddy:if we paid full price for the idem so yes,like for directv for say they make u pay 200+ just to upgrade their boxes and you still don't own the box and you still have to return it. but anyway we should be able to unlock cable modems cellphones voip..
That's correct. $200 for an iPhone is not full price.
The upside with DirecTV though is that since it's leased equipment, if it breaks you don't have to pay for a new one. |
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| if it is leased equipment why pay hundred's of bucks for the upgrade when its free to new customers |
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| said by whoyourdaddy:if it is leased equipment why pay hundred's of bucks for the upgrade when its free to new customers
Lease doesn't mean free or monthly cost only. When you lease a car you pay up front too.
Not everything is free to new customers either.
Also they don't really want you to send back the receiver if you cancel after your 2 year contract.
You can also purchase the receiver outright for $500. Doesn't matter if you are a new customer or existing. |
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 ·AT&T DSL Service
| reply to fifty nine
said by fifty nine: $200 for an iPhone is not full price.
The upside with DirecTV though is that since it's leased equipment, if it breaks you don't have to pay for a new one.
That's really not true at all.
For one thing the cellphone carriers keep the prices of the devices sky high to make their contracts seem attractive.
But you can buy an Iphone clone made in a factory in red china, just like the real Iphone and with most of the same parts in it for $65. Could a real Iphone be worth $20 more? Maybe but surely not more than that. Look them up on Dealextreme.
As far as Directv is concerned they want to have it both ways. They want to lease you the equipment then they want to sell you a "service contract" to protect you from the cost of failures of *their equipment*. If you don't pay for the service contract and your TV is not working they try to charge you for the repair, of *their equipment*.
I have been there. They tried to charge me for a service call. I explained to them that I consider the cost of providing a usable picture on my TV screen to be entirely their responsibility. They backed off completely. |
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| reply to fifty nine
DO YOU REALLY THINK THAT DIRECTV EQUIPMENT IS WORTH $200?
It's worth at most $200 TO BUY! They got you by the gonads when they can both say you bought it as well as leased it. |
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| reply to steevo22
Let's see you run ios on that clone lol |
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Billings, MT | If it can run on the Darwin (aka. FreeBSD) kernel, it wouldn't be too hard.. if they utilized the same parts. |
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·AT&T DSL Service
| reply to tdumaine
said by tdumaine:Let's see you run ios on that clone lol
Har. The Chinese iphone clones, the ones from a couple years ago had apple logos on the phone, the box was identical, and they did have IOS on them.
They got caught at customs so the Chinese had to take that off. But clearly that was the design goal, that the phones all run IOS. So they sure did. |
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