sprint tp2 price

[TnA-2xXtReM]

After we waited for so long, now we crashed and burned due to the pricing

[banzaiwolfe]

Originally Posted by Damionix

Yeah, but still, with businesses experiencing the pinch as well I doubt they will gladly pick these up at the rate they would have before the recession.
This is just ridiculous. I mean the specs are the same as the TP and the Operating System is STALE compared to any new OS out there ( In as much as I love WM), this is not a win for the consumer.
It's just a BAD way for sprint to shoot themselves in the foot, and they are Bleeding customers. To think I was waiting so much for this

I agree. Not only have they been pushing away regular customers, it seems a lot of their committed users are starting to get restless with them. Maybe they do want to gear it towards business class, but it's stupid to try and price it out of the range of most consumers.

[NIKKG]

Originally Posted by isdnmatt

Your SERO plan won't last much longer and YOU, along with others, are the reason why the insurance deductible went from $50 to $100 for smartphones.... (read: insurance fraud)

Sero Plan does exist, I bought it from some guy through ebay in March when I switched to Sprint. Also, my deductible is still $50 bucks, I've only used insurance once when my TP broke and had it replaced for the same one a few months ago. The deductible didn't rise because people were doing fraud, they went up because they wanted higher profits. All these companies work together to defraud people. Just look at ATT/Verizon, they charge you 20 bucks for text messaging and $30 dollars for internet, and their voice plans are almost identical in price. If thats not fraud and collision to screw the customer, than I don't know what else is.

One more thing, the Iphone, TP, TP2, etc, they only cost about $10-20 bucks to produce from some sweatshop in China. Don't believe all that hype about any of these phones costing them hundreds to produce, its all BS. Remember, these companies buy the material at cost price.

[brownhornet]

They can go shoot themselves as far as im concerned for that price. I have the TP1 and ill stick with it. As far as moving towards business customers... they're not going to sway any businesses away from blackberries with that price.

[HIXX]

Honestly for that price there is no reason to extend the contact and have to upgrade to the SE plan. 599 retail minus the 200 you can get for the TP on CL = 399. I guess I will stay on my sero plan, buy the phone retail or ebay and in three months I will have broken even with thier "subsidized" price. And I won't have to wait months for a mail in rebate that will come in an envelope that I think is junk mail and throw away anyway

[just_maurice]

before i complain. how much does this phone cost in other countries with an equivalent two year contract? i know the Canadian price but europe, asia etc

[Noir]

even more expensive because of front face vga camera

[TnA-2xXtReM]

Originally Posted by NIKKG

Also, my deductible is still $50 bucks, I've only used insurance once when my TP broke and had it replaced for the same one a few months ago. The deductible didn't rise because people were doing fraud, they went up because they wanted higher profits. All these companies work together to defraud people.

In reality, we pay insurance to help other insured if they experience a loss. In the best possible situation, the fee we pay each month would cover the loss of of some insured and a little leftover for the insurer for administration/cost to run their business.

For an example, we all pay $7 a month for insurance. If there is only 100 people in that pool, that is $700 in fees collected per month. In that month, insured #66 experienced a loss with their TP. They paid the deductible of $100 and got a brand new TP which has the cost of $580. Assuming that no other loss are report that month, the revenue collected by the insurance company is $800, purchasing cost is $580 and total profit before other admin/payroll/etc is $220. Not all months will be like this as for it varies ever so often. One month, they could experience 10 claims or none at all. This is a just a small example but you expand this to thousand and million to see a different result.

Basically, insurance is just a tool for us to use in order to cover our butt. Yes, I understand you can buy TP out there for $200 or so and not the $580 price tag, but have you consider without insurance, the price would be a lot higher; as for the cheapest way to get TP at subsidize price is through new customer pricing. Insurance claims (legit or not) bring a whole new pool of supplies of TP and any other items to the market. As for deductible increase, they only raise it due to fraudulent claims. Just too many people are abusing the insurance company for claims when it was $50, so raising it to $100 will make those abusers to reconsider their options. If really understand how insurance works, you would really appreciate it. My 2 cents..

[itouch24]

so many people are buying the phone right now through telesales for that price... crazy

[jrog27]

Its 50 dollars more than the tp1... thats not much of a difference.