"Simon Templar" <usenet@vk3xem.net> wrote in message
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> Snapper wrote:
>> Horry wrote...
>>
>>> But surely any deal "brokered" by your T-Shop employee for the N95 would
>>> also have involved "a hundred bucks a month plan"???
>>
>> I wasn't looking at an N95. I have said elsewhere that I expect to get
>> one
>> online or whatever, not from a retailer.
>>
>> I was looking at getting a Motorola V3xx (NextG) on a $30/mth plan
>
> Why even bother signing up for another 24 month contract with a shit phone
> that you will replace with a phone you purchase on eBay?

Because the length of the contract is really irrelevant, many people buy
phones without intended to keep them for contract length

> These 24 month contracts are CRAP. There is something seriously wrong
> with the telecommunications market where they think they have to lock
> victims into such a long contract, where they should be providing a
> service that people want to stay with them.

Its what customers want, otherwise they would stop buying them on contracts