"Snapper" <snapper1@y7mail.com> wrote in message
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> Michael wrote...
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>> > 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.
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>> Its what customers want, otherwise they would stop buying them on
>> contracts
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> Presumably this is because of the initial high cost of phones if they had
> to purchase them outright from the start. Much like why Harvey Norman and
> other retailers heavily push those interest free credit terms that
> invariably never get paid out on time and people end up paying 30 percent
> interest on their plasmas and other consumer goods.

Exactly. Customers are stupid.
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