htc touch pro (rafael) price?

[badutahboy]

Originally Posted by rangness

how much do the ebay sellers buy them for before selling on ebay?

No clue.... wholesale.. whatever that is.. I'd assume they probably pay about what sprint charges with a contract (isn't it a b*tch that your "subsidized" phone is probably still being sold at or above wholesale?)... then they make a 3-500 commission for selling it... Since it's a top end phone requiring a SE plan, they probably make close to $500... so, they buy it for $350, sell it for $50, but make $500 in commissions.. they net $200 on the deal.. multiply that by 50-100 times a week for several months, and it's a good business plan.

My numbers may or may not be totally accurate, but you can see the concept...

[EtherealRemnant]

Sprint has retracted their SE plan requirement for these phones - they actually make more having customers pay ala carte for the individual parts of the plan than forcing them into an SE plan -- the exception, SERO, is still being decided on.

[rdcrds]

Originally Posted by badutahboy

No clue.... wholesale.. whatever that is.. I'd assume they probably pay about what sprint charges with a contract (isn't it a b*tch that your "subsidized" phone is probably still being sold at or above wholesale?)... then they make a 3-500 commission for selling it... Since it's a top end phone requiring a SE plan, they probably make close to $500... so, they buy it for $350, sell it for $50, but make $500 in commissions.. they net $200 on the deal.. multiply that by 50-100 times a week for several months, and it's a good business plan.

My numbers may or may not be totally accurate, but you can see the concept...

1,000,000,001 time SE plan is ONLY for the Instinct not these phones

[Lecithin]

for now... lets keep in mind sero is no longer an offering to new subscribers, I would not be shocked to find out that I needed to switch to a SE plan to get one of these new phones activated. The tag line they used as to why you needed a SE plan with the instink was that it was needed to make use of the 1- Internet Capabilities, 2- GPS navigation, and 3- Sprint TV. Which one of those three things do you think will be missing from the Raphael (please spare any mogul release comments...)

I truly hope that this is not going to be the case, but until I have the new phone in my hand activated on my SERO line of service, I won't believe that there isn't a strong probability of it happening. If it does though I will be saying SE ya later to sprint...

[ls3mach]

It will most likely debut at $399 with a 2-year contract. The same as my PPC-6800, PPC-6700, Treo 650 and Treo 600. Jebus guys, this isn't a difficult trend to follow. Ebay sellers don't buy the phones. They typically have no stock and just sign you up. 3rd party sellers have very little stock and I doubt they actually paid for any of it, think consignment. They basically take a hit on their commission to make more sales. The catch is you MUST stay with a certain plan or better for a certain time frame. Sometimes this applies to upgrades sometimes it doesn't. I know what I will be paying for mine.