Dealers prices V Direct service provider prices

Why is it that a phone on a dealers web site can be free yet direct with the
service provider the same phone on the same price plan for the same contract
time can cost £89

Example N73 on T mobile flext 25 with web and walk costs £89 direct with T
mobile, yet with mobile shop.com it is free!

I thought it would be the other way around as the dealer would get
commision!

Lee

redskins@XXXntlworld.com declared for all the world to hear...
> Why is it that a phone on a dealers web site can be free yet direct with the
> service provider the same phone on the same price plan for the same contract
> time can cost £89
>
> Example N73 on T mobile flext 25 with web and walk costs £89 direct with T
> mobile, yet with mobile shop.com it is free!
>
> I thought it would be the other way around as the dealer would get
> commision!

If it was always the other way around do you think dealers would exist
in the first place?
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Regards
Jon