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Google Reduces Its Nexus One Termination Fee

Posted by kdawson on from the get-out-for-less dept.

CWmike writes "The only smartphone Linus Torvalds doesn't hate is that much less unlikable now that Google has quietly chopped $200 off its early termination fee on the Nexus One. Customers who cancel the service had been on the hook for $550, including a $350 Google cancellation charge. Google has reduced their fee to $150 — but users are still liable for a $200 ETF from T-Mobile. Users have a 14-day grace period during which they do not have to pay either charge, although they may be hit with a restocking fee. The $350 total fee matches one of the highest in the industry, charged by Verizon. Google did not announce the change but simply altered its online terms-of-service document." The price cut could add momentum to a phone that, by one reckoning, costs only $49 unlocked.

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  1. Slashvertisement at its best by Korbeau · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Linking to an article mentioning Linus and an older advertisement, with a tiny bit of new information (a 200$ cut because of an about-to-be ruling by the FCC), that overall shows Google in a positive light. With clumsy maths at the end.

    Slashdot at its best!

    1. Re:Slashvertisement at its best by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Slashdot at its best!

      I've been reading that for at least a decade. At least you can't fault them on editorial style inconsistencies...

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  2. Get Real by honkycat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The price cut could add momentum to a phone that, by one reckoning, costs only $49 unlocked.

    And, by another reckoning, it actually saves you $5,000 and rescues your cat from a tree. Incidentally, both reckonings are fallacious.

  3. Stop saying it costs $49. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    That (1) makes you look stupid, and (2) repeats advertising.

    Of course, this is pretty much the default with kdawson.

  4. Will you please stop the dishonest shilling? by VShael · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's one thing to have a story/advertisement, it's another to blatantly lie in it.

    The bullshit statistic of the $49 dollar unlocked version was ably debunked in the comments of the last story where this was claimed.

    Please stop doing it. When you're caught in a blatant lie, you don't repeat it unless you are also an idiot.

  5. Re:Unbelievable by lattyware · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How else do you expect it to work? If you want subsidised phones, early termination fees are a necessary evil. If you could just cancel your contract one month in with no penalty, then everyone would just sign up, get the phone, and cancel.

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