Success!!!! Keeping SERO $49 plan!!!!!! - Page 3

**TheBundo** · #21 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 03:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vertigo

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; Sprint APA9292KT Build/ERE27) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17)

Once you upgrade even if you don't activate the phone when you get it, you will get hit with a 2 yr contrac...

So then in that case, she stays on SERO on her Mogul for 2 more years, and can sell the Evo for $400 or so, right? She'd be okay with that.

**TheBundo** · #22 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 03:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sidwin

what happens if you try to activate online? my brother has sero and got the samsung google phone. our friend owns a sprint store and said he could hook it up... needless to say when the phone came, he wasn't able to hook it up and he owns the sprint store

all he could do was give my brother a $10 off. a month and change the plan.

And that will work, as long as we match the $59 price ($49 + $10 Evo data fee). It doesn't have to be called Sero, and in 2 years, the world may well be a place we barely recognize anyway.

sikclown · #23 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 03:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TheBundo

You're missing the point. We try to activate it, Sprint refuses. Best Buy sold it to us for $199 with a new contract, and Sprint won't fulfill the deal. We are certainly not signing a new 2 year contract on the Mogul, when we can just stay on month-to-month.

Oh I get your point. And yes when they won't activate it keep and sell the phone for sure. But the screw ups here are all the sites selling the EVO online. When I bought mine on Sprint.com I actually used one of my other business lines upgrade (it is a 30 bucks a month plan) and it let me go through the motions and then a pop up that says "In order to activate this you will need to change your current plan to one of the following or compatible" (not verbatim) and it lists all the plans. Sprint has thrown it out there that you need to have certain plans plenty of times. So I think you would have a case against Best Buy because they were not forth coming in what you would need to use your purchase. It isn't really a loop hole... It is them assuming that people know what they need to have to purchase the phone ( stupid assumption). I only know The word Sero because I am on all the forums but I have no idea what the plans are... Does she have unlimited data?

sikclown · #24 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 03:34 AM

Also worth pointing out that Sprint.com let me complete my purchase without changing the plan

**TheBundo** · #25 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 03:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gTen

Ok..sprint will say best buy is a reseller so deal with them (best case give you 25$ for your inconvenience)

Best Buy will find some terms of service on their site that allows them to cancel any order where there is a mistake in the system.

Plus I think contract only starts when you activate your phone >.>

As long as we try to activate, and are reasonable in accepting a plan that matches the price, though not a SERO account, we are going above and beyond what was agreed to. We would even agree to pay $69, and they turn on the HotSpot for the extra $10, which she would only use if the cable wireless was out, and at a point where she wanted to watch NetFlix through the Roku box, which works GREAT on the Evo in 3G. But that would be a rare happening.

And if Best Buy cancels the order, not much we can do. This is all based on once it ships, and we recieve it.

**TheBundo** · #26 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 03:41 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Quiksmage

While I do see what you're saying im about 99% sure you wont be able to get it activated on that plan. If you can, congrats youre the effin man. Typing this on muh evo and this is the first time the keyboard has felt semi laggy. i should probably kill some of the many apps I have open.

I tend to agree, we'll probably have to call the plan by another name, and have off-setting credits. But once it's shipped, she will be activated somehow for $59 a month ($49 + $10), or perhaps a little more if they through in the HotSpot. I'm not going to be unreasonable, but we also don't have "got-to-have-it-itis". Especially my wife. She loves the Evo, but could be happy with a flip phone. The amount technology contributes to her happiness in life is less than 1/10th of 1%. I usually can't even reach her by cell, she silences it for some reason and forgets it for days.

RidleyJ329 · #27 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 03:45 AM

so let me get this straight... if sprint doesnt let you keep the sero with the evo youll "settle" for a new plan of comparable price and value? wouldnt that kind of defeat the purpose of them making some of us change plans? at that rate they may as well let you keep your sero. then again this IS all hypothetical until you get the phone.

**TheBundo** · #28 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 03:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sikclown

Oh I get your point. And yes when they won't activate it keep and sell the phone for sure. But the screw ups here are all the sites selling the EVO online. When I bought mine on Sprint.com I actually used one of my other business lines upgrade (it is a 30 bucks a month plan) and it let me go through the motions and then a pop up that says "In order to activate this you will need to change your current plan to one of the following or compatible" (not verbatim) and it lists all the plans. Sprint has thrown it out there that you need to have certain plans plenty of times. So I think you would have a case against Best Buy because they were not forth coming in what you would need to use your purchase. It isn't really a loop hole... It is them assuming that people know what they need to have to purchase the phone ( stupid assumption). I only know The word Sero because I am on all the forums but I have no idea what the plans are... Does she have unlimited data?

Yes, unlimited data, texts, etc. The 3 plans differ only in minutes of talk time, excluding nights and weekends, etc., like any other plan. The $30 plan has 450 minutes, the $49 plan has 1250 minutes, and the $99 plan has 2500 minutes, which is not even a good deal anymore compared to the regular $99 Everything Plan.

I think the only case I would have against Best Buy would be in the following scenarios: Upon Sprint refusing to activate, Best Buy tried, or succeeded in charging us full price. Or they did a collection/lawsuit kind of thing. If they just wanted the phone back, and we refused, and they went away, I don't really see the issue, UNLESS the phone was "marked" so that it couldn't be activated, including if we sold it. THEN they would be up the creek, as I see it.

**TheBundo** · #29 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 03:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sikclown

Also worth pointing out that Sprint.com let me complete my purchase without changing the plan

On SERO? And/or without the $10 fee (which we accepted, so the claim they don't know, and "trust" we know the plan system is bogus)?

**TheBundo** · #30 (**permalink**) 06-05-2010, 04:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ridleyj329

so let me get this straight... if sprint doesnt let you keep the sero with the evo youll "settle" for a new plan of comparable price and value? wouldnt that kind of defeat the purpose of them making some of us change plans? at that rate they may as well let you keep your sero. then again this IS all hypothetical until you get the phone.

Not really, because it puts an end to the SERO account, and the matching of the price, 2 years from now at the latest. If we "camp on our SERO", and keep using qualified phones (even if she keeps finding old Moguls or other qualified phones for 20 years, or keeps using TEP to replace failed/broken/lost phones), I think they are stuck with leaving her plan alone indefinitely. That is how SERO works. That is why they want to get people off of it so bad. It's like Rent Control lol