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Comp USA is selling the V3i for $49.99 w/o rebates. Bad news for COR stores.
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Posted by: xbox360gamer

yup, its true. I was browsing my local Comp USA today and I noticed that they're selling the V3i for $49.99 w/o any rebates for new activations only. this is an insane price considering the Cingular COR stores are attempting (again, key word being ATTEMPTING) to screw their customers for something like $269 for the same damn thing.

no wonder the COR stores are losing out to indirects like Comp USA and so on. but then again, its their own damn fault for trying to be so greedy.

Posted by: Ced91071

I actually got mine for free from CompUSA. I also go my SLVR L7 with ITunes for free!!!!
Oh yeah, my 3125 was 49.99 from there also!

Posted by: CellularDiva

Sounds like a good deal, if your a new custumer.

Posted by: xxCingularxx

Cingular stores just plain suck. So do corporate stores. Why do you think so many people go to places like Bestbuy and etc..its way cheaper.

Posted by: allen7

LOL, V3i is so yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why bother.

Posted by: I have a phone

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Originally Posted by allen7

LOL, V3i is so yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why bother.

from the guy listing a 557 in his sig?

Posted by: macizcool

I'm curious to know if Cingular makes any profit when a reseller sells a phone. These places practically give the phones away, and then Cingular has to pay commission on top of that.

Anyone want to comment?

Posted by: Boy_Pinoy

For existing customers, Comp USA price for the V3i is $125, no rebate required. Heck, for this price it also beat the pricing on my premier web site.

Posted by: kilowatt

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Originally Posted by macizcool

I'm curious to know if Cingular makes any profit when a reseller sells a phone. These places practically give the phones away, and then Cingular has to pay commission on top of that.

Anyone want to comment?

agents purchase their phones from cingular. this means the agent is able to give away the phone free if they'd like because they're making back the money they spent on the equipment when they get commission for selling service plans. cingular already made money on the phone on the front end when they sold it to the agent, they could care less how much agents charge for equipment.

Posted by: CellularDiva

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Originally Posted by Boy_Pinoy

For existing customers, Comp USA price for the V3i is $125, no rebate required. Heck, for this price it also beat the pricing on my premier web site.

I think this beats corp. rates as well.

Posted by: mulletwireless

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Originally Posted by xbox360gamer

yup, its true. I was browsing my local Comp USA today and I noticed that they're selling the V3i for $49.99 w/o any rebates for new activations only. this is an insane price considering the Cingular COR stores are attempting (again, key word being ATTEMPTING) to screw their customers for something like $269 for the same damn thing.

no wonder the COR stores are losing out to indirects like Comp USA and so on. but then again, its their own damn fault for trying to be so greedy.

they also sell it unlocked too, but if you want a higher resale value but the unlocked one use it, and then resell it on ebay or what not.

Posted by: .7

I would be curious to know how many v3i's Cingular actually moving.

I'd be willing to bet its hardly a blip on the radar.

Posted by: dm919

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Cingular stores just plain suck. So do corporate stores. Why do you think so many people go to places like Bestbuy and etc..its way cheaper.

I NEVER lose a sale to a local retailer. Our COR store and most in our area are able to do price matches. We've been matching prices for over 6 months! The only deals we can't match are Wirefly and Let's Talk, but anything local is fair game

And good luck getting Worst Buy/CrapUSA to do an upgrade around here-they wouldn't do one for me several times when I secret shopped them (gave them my brother's # which was out of contract.) CompUSA said "our systems don't support upgrades, you'll have to go to the corporate store unless you want us to add a line." Best Buy said "we don't get paid commission on upgrades so you'll have to go to to the corporate store..."

Posted by: xbox360gamer

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Originally Posted by .7

I would be curious to know how many v3i's Cingular actually moving.

I'd be willing to bet its hardly a blip on the radar.

I'd be willing to bet that you're right. Cingular's price is so ridiculous on the V3i that its beyond funny.

oh well, the joke's on them because like I said earlier, they are and will continue to lose out on potential sales as long as big guns like Comp USA and Best Buy continue to offer the great deals like they do.

Posted by: ivwshane

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Originally Posted by xbox360gamer

How is that a loss for cingular? Cingular makes money off of the service not the phones, cingular could care less where you get the phone from as long as you get service with them.

Posted by: phone4fun

I found a website where almost all the cingular phones are free, I just got a Black V3 free w/o rebates and a W810 free after rebates from www.midusafreemobile.com. A friend told me about them.

Posted by: fqcomm

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Originally Posted by phone4fun

I found a website where almost all the cingular phones are free, I just got a Black V3 free w/o rebates and a W810 free after rebates from www.midusafreemobile.com. A friend told me about them.

Great deal! I logged onto the site you can get any phone from any carrier anywhere in the US, most of the ones I saw were free.

Posted by: jure7

can i get these free phones if im in canada?

Posted by: CellularDiva

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Originally Posted by jure7

can i get these free phones if im in canada?

You should be able to. Check their web site out and call the 1-800 number that they have listed and ask where they would ship to.

Posted by: Seltzer

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Originally Posted by allen7

LOL, V3i is so yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

why bother.

It's so 1st quarter of 2006...

Sales have been sluggish to say the least...

Posted by: jure7

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Originally Posted by CellularDiva

You should be able to. Check their web site out and call the 1-800 number that they have listed and ask where they would ship to.

the link i clicked send me to a french page got anything in english?

Posted by: jure7

for get that last entry i found it

Posted by: jure7

the v3i on compusa is with an agreement right? and they dont have fido so i guess im out of luck

Posted by: vietalogy

my friend got 4 single lines and then few mins later he called cingy and add them to a family plan. so he got 4 v3i for $200.

Posted by: phone4fun

has anyone else tried this site? what do you think?

Posted by: xxCingularxx

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Originally Posted by phone4fun

has anyone else tried this site? what do you think?

looks fishy to me.

Posted by: CellularDiva

I would not buy from them.

Posted by: Mazzel

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Originally Posted by CellularDiva

I would not buy from them.

agreed...looks like the kind of place where you order a phone and they send you a cingular box with a rock in it...

Posted by: Michael95GT

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I would be curious to know how many v3i's Cingular actually moving.

I'd be willing to bet its hardly a blip on the radar.

I have yet to see anybody with one on the street.

Posted by: phone4fun

just wanted to tell you, I ordered some phones for my family via midusafreemobile.com, the phones arrived in 2 days via FedEx and are everything as advertized, great deal

Posted by: bobolito

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Originally Posted by phone4fun

I found a website where almost all the cingular phones are free, I just got a Black V3 free w/o rebates and a W810 free after rebates from www.midusafreemobile.com. A friend told me about them.

That's just one more of inphonic.com partners. Wirefly/Inphonic its all the same thing.