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Thread: LOL, Tracfone is getting crafty with words!

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    LOL, Tracfone is getting crafty with words!

    Got an email today from Tracfone with the subject line saying I could get the A03s for less than $50, so clicked on it excitedly.
    Sure enough, it was less than $50 - by a penny!

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    Cannot say that TracFone lied.

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    A lot of businesses do the same thing, "less than" or "up to" in order to get customers' attention.

    I bought an A03s from HSN several months ago. It was $49.99 with 1 yr and 1500 min/txt/MB. They had $20 off for first time customers so it was $29.99 +tax. This was mentioned somewhere in another thread so I jumped at it. It's a basic smart phone & it works for me.

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    That's a great price for the plan, even if you give the phone away

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    What, you were expecting "less than $50" to mean $19.99?

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    Quote Originally Posted by vwnut13 View Post
    What, you were expecting "less than $50" to mean $19.99?
    LOL, no, I didn't expect $19.99.
    The A03s has been $49.99 for a long time now, so I got excited thinking they were reducing it substantially for Black Friday! Should've known better, because 49.99 is less than 50 anyway!

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    Quote Originally Posted by sillyette View Post
    LOL, no, I didn't expect $19.99.
    Did you actually check this out? Maybe it actually is $19.99. As we should all know by now, what's on the page MAY NOT actually be what you see at checkout or get charged to your credit card.

    Then, after getting confirmation, there' no guarantee they won't cancel the order or recall the order after shipping.

    Website is full of bugs and there's not telling where the bugs lie until it's in your hands.

    That's the only truth here

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    AlexTrac sent me not one, but two, PMs asking me to contact TF about this! One PM yesterday, one today!

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    I got a PM from him yesterday.

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    sent me a PM as well. Guess BOTS can't tell when someone is being facetious

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    Speaking of "bot", on Reddit Mint Mobile there's a bot called "MintMobileAlex". Do you think AlexTrac is moonlighting for TF's competitor?
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    This discussion is not much different than a gas station advertising gas @ $2.999/gallon instead of $3.00/gallon. The average consumer only sees the slightly lower price, albeit almost insignificant.
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