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ah, i LOVE it... VZW guys think they got somethin... hate to bring you guys down, but 1 phone at a good price, hardly makes up for your rate plans and previously gimped devices... its cool though... just shows how frustrated you really are with your carrier, that you need to try to shove something down our face as VZW FINALLY did something right for you guys..

sprints phone prices r high because they have better rate plans over all... i saw the pic above with the VZW plan.. sprint has that same thing now, with 450minutes even at same price.. Everything data, and now you get that anymobile/anytime so who needs pick 5 when any cell phone on any carrier is free... Sprint still WINS!! lol

as far as price matching goes... i can admit i called today, just a bit ago actually... they are trying to refuse anything.. i got one for 199, but now id like another, since now the TP1 feels like a tiny,cheap toy compared to TP2...i have an upgrade on another line, so i figured id see whats up...

no go for str8 price match... got offered a free month of service-which i took, thats 99bucks.. they tried to offer me the pick 3/5 things which they said was 10bucks a month.. i explained with Google Voice something like that wasnt neccessary.. but i pointed out that since they were offering me something that had a $$$/month for free, why not transfer that into a one time credit on my account, instead of me getting 60 a yr, every yr credit ($5/month+12months=60).. i pointed out ive been a customer for 9yrs and if i stayed 9more, thatd be 540 bucks they gave me...

it was no problem to get another 100dollars applied to my account after that.... so while theres no technically discount on the device, i had to pay the 450+tax etc for this one, minus MIR eventually... and i got a free month service(again LOL, i get these all the time), so thats 100 bucks... and then the 100 credit applied...

so i got 200bucks, i did better than the 150 they wouldve price matched..... gotta love when they give u more than what u wanted LOL...

but yeah, they wont actually discount the handset price for you-you may get them too from a promo or discount for other reason-but not for the sake of "price matching".. they seem to be handing out other deals to offset complaints though...

take that VZW guys LMFAO