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Verizon Offering $650 To Switch To Their Network (pcmag.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Verizon is offering up to $650 to customers who switch to their network. PC Mag reports: "To get the discount, you'll need to port your number to Verizon, trade in your current device, and buy a new 4G LTE smartphone. Verizon will give you up to $650 on a prepaid card to cover the installment plan balance, minus the device trade-in value, or up to a $350 via a prepaid card to cover your old carrier's early termination fees (minus the device trade-in value). Your existing phone needs to be in 'good working condition,' and you have to keep your new Verizon line active for at least six months."
More like Anonymous Verizon Employee; am I right?
Well, Slashdot, your slashvertisements have hit a new low. Going to have to add the entire root domain to ABP now.
Verizon is by far the most awful provider in San Francisco. Enormous data dead zones between Fell and California, frequently switching to 3G and even (yikes!) 1x (which I assume is like even slower than EDGE). I switched to Big Red because my company made me, and I so so miss AT&Ts coverage in the bay area. And then they have the nerve to buy out the entire Montgomery Muni station and advertise how great they are. **** them.
Those deals that seem too good to be true...often are. There are so many restrictions in the fine print, and you have to wait six months, by the time you realize you aren't getting the $650 because of some technicality, it's too late.
This site has been becoming less and less relevant as time goes on. But this makes it very clear. Slashdot is not news for nerds. It is revenue for Dice Holdings. And they're not even trying to hide it. It's been real...
Nothing is more scary than when someone wants to pay you to switch to their service.
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Looks like the big 2 (VZ, ATT) are realizing that "being the best" or "being the biggest" aren't good enough for most folks when they can get service much much cheaper (and with switcher discounts to boot). And in some cases the service being offered by Sprint and T-Mobile are even better than the big 2.
3 years ago me and a dozen of my closest colleagues were on AT&T and Verizon. Now, I'd say about half are on T-Mobile (including me) and one is on sprint. Sure, this is an anecdote, but I also personally have 10 people on my plan (including friends) and the billing has been pretty much no-nonsense (simply no overages) and rock solid.
I've touted the benefits of T-Mobile before, but even it T-Mobile became twice as shitty I'd never go back to AT&T with their regular data overages and Verizon with it's crazy share plans that would make a family/friends plan a nightmare.
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Why would anyone switch to the disgusting company that forced the supercookie on its users without even telling them, not to mention massive NSA creepy collusion shit?
I pay $50/month for MetroPCS with unlimited calling and 4GB of data. I simply cannot understand why anyone would be stupid enough to ever give money to a company like Verizon.
Things that both make this an ad and not a good deal:
- You have to switch to Verizon, which if you aren't familiar with them is a terrible proposition
- You have to trade your old phone in for one of their carrier-locked spyware-ridden pieces of garbage
- "Up to" $650 minus the trade-in value for the 'good condition' phone they just made you give them just translates to "we'll buy out your current contract and/or phone payment plan", so you're not actually gaining anything here.
- You have to stay switched to Verizon for six months.
My wife and I both switched from Verizon to Google's Project Fi. Even with the ETFs, even with paying the 24-month amortized payments on the Nexus 5X, we're at break-even in four months, and it's gravy from there on out. The cost savings was huge. Once we did the numbers, it was a no-brainer to break our Verizon contracts early. Fi's coverage so far has been excellent.
They'll give you $650 for a brand new iPhone you bought yesterday. Everything else nets you $200 or less. What you really need to watch out for are those lovely "Regulatory Compliance" fees they pretend are taxes. They don't disclose them when you ask them the monthly service fee, and it's usually $5-$10 bucks per line. The best part is people look at them and get made at the gov't for charging a tax when it's the company pocketing the money. Then those folks turn around and demand taxes get cut and their fee goes up while Verizons taxes go down.
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