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Being sold at Costco

I work for the wireless kiosk in Costco and we are already selling them. I would buy one today but my manager is off. they are 79.99 to upgrade or 49.99 new contract.

Seriously? Hmm ima have to check If there's one here ...oh don't u gotta have a membership to shops there? F that
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can i change my service plan with costco?
other places i must keep the same plan for 180 days.

Do you guys know if it would be possible to pay the $200 early upgrade fee at costco?

Awesome! Thanks for posting. I might have to swing by Costco

we can change plans when ever. we just call AT&T for you and then it's changed.
since were not a corpatre store we don't sell the phones out right and you can't pay the early upgrade/termination fee here.
and yeah you need a Costco card. you can borrow someones and just pay cash but hey if you come to me I'd let you use mine so I get commission off your sale haha

I just called Costco and was told that they don't have the phones yet
maybe tomorrow

I am buying mine tomorrow

what is costco's policy on dead pixels and dust?

you have 90 days with Costco. you can bring the phone back/exchange for any reason within those 90 days. there's no restocking fee either.
also you get free car chargers with any phone you purchase. I suggest go to Costco. save 20 bucks (phone is 79.99) so you can go buy a case with the money you saved.

iPrevailed YDG said:
you have 90 days with Costco. you can bring the phone back/exchange for any reason within those 90 days. there's no restocking fee either.
also you get free car chargers with any phone you purchase. I suggest go to Costco. save 20 bucks (phone is 79.99) so you can go buy a case with the money you saved.
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really? 90 days returns on cellphone? nice!

I called my local Costco kiosk, and they just got 5 of them this morning. One is set aside for me, and I will drop by after work.

Damnit. Now I regret pre-ordering at Radio Shack.

Anyone know if you can just pay full price?

Confirmed...I just picked mine up. You a car charger, Leather case, and headphones in the package. The 90 return policy is for the phone..you only get 30 days to return the phone in case you dont like it. The same AT&T policy.

i called 2 costco around 1:30pm in my area, both said they dont have it. maybe i should call another costco and ask.
update: just called another costco, they said they have 4 left! haha
i going now to take a look!

I'm from modesto ca got mine at the Costco in turlock. The kiosk in modeso said they were getting it today just waiting on ups
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costco
jsut came home with my new Insipre 4G from costco, they got 5 in two hours ago

milleirish said:
Confirmed...I just picked mine up. You a car charger, Leather case, and headphones in the package. The 90 return policy is for the phone..you only get 30 days to return the phone in case you dont like it. The same AT&T policy.
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run this by me again? 90 day return policy for the phone but you only get 30 days to return the phone?

iPrevailed YDG said:
you have 90 days with Costco. you can bring the phone back/exchange for any reason within those 90 days. there's no restocking fee either.
also you get free car chargers with any phone you purchase. I suggest go to Costco. save 20 bucks (phone is 79.99) so you can go buy a case with the money you saved.
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wish i had a costco card..

New phone from wirefly.com??

Are they a good place to buy from? I'm planning on getting a g2x in the next couple of days, and their price is very tempting. Just don't know anything about the site...

I ordered my Motorola Atrix from them, and it was so much cheaper than going from the actual AT&T site. I would recommend using wirefly.

jnralp00 said:
Are they a good place to buy from? I'm planning on getting a g2x in the next couple of days, and their price is very tempting. Just don't know anything about the site...
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I bought my Samsung Epic 4g from them in November. Overall the experience was OK. The price for the phone was $70.00 less than it was being sold by Sprint. The phone was shipped within the time frame that they stated and it was brand new like it was supposed to be. I had trouble getting the phone to start off because they claimed that I was not eligible for the upgrade price on the phone, even though I was. I had to call them and they said that Sprint told them that I wasn't eligible for the upgrade. I called Sprint and the Sprint rep told me that their system keeps a record of whenever an outside vendor makes an inquiry on a record, and that there was no record of anyone checking to see if my account was eligible for an upgrade, and that I was eligible for an upgrade. I called Wirefly back and I was placed on hold and again they said that I was not eligible and that they had checked twice. I told them what Sprint said and had to pressure the Wirefly rep to effort to find the problem, since it was their problem. It took about 30 minutes to get the rep to get the right information and allow me to purchase the phone.
Normally, I would have just bought my phone elsewhere after dealing with the issue I did with Wirefly, but I pressed it because of the $70.00 savings. I figure it took about an hour of my life on the phone to get it squared away, so it was like making $70.00 an hour. If the price difference was much smaller, I would have given up on Wirefly and bought my phone from someone else. So, like I said to start off, they were OK. If you are saving money, it will be worth it...if it is the same price as you can get it elsewhere, I would suggest you get it elsewhere. Good Luck!

budderocks said:
I bought my Samsung Epic 4g from them in November. Overall the experience was OK. The price for the phone was $70.00 less than it was being sold by Sprint. The phone was shipped within the time frame that they stated and it was brand new like it was supposed to be. I had trouble getting the phone to start off because they claimed that I was not eligible for the upgrade price on the phone, even though I was. I had to call them and they said that Sprint told them that I wasn't eligible for the upgrade. I called Sprint and the Sprint rep told me that their system keeps a record of whenever an outside vendor makes an inquiry on a record, and that there was no record of anyone checking to see if my account was eligible for an upgrade, and that I was eligible for an upgrade. I called Wirefly back and I was placed on hold and again they said that I was not eligible and that they had checked twice. I told them what Sprint said and had to pressure the Wirefly rep to effort to find the problem, since it was their problem. It took about 30 minutes to get the rep to get the right information and allow me to purchase the phone.
Normally, I would have just bought my phone elsewhere after dealing with the issue I did with Wirefly, but I pressed it because of the $70.00 savings. I figure it took about an hour of my life on the phone to get it squared away, so it was like making $70.00 an hour. If the price difference was much smaller, I would have given up on Wirefly and bought my phone from someone else. So, like I said to start off, they were OK. If you are saving money, it will be worth it...if it is the same price as you can get it elsewhere, I would suggest you get it elsewhere. Good Luck!
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thanks, the phone is $250 with $50 mail in rebate from tmobile, wirefly is $150 for preorder.

Cellhub anyone?

Has anyone in here ever deal with cellhub when buying ur G2X?
They have the phone on sale for $69.99 and I'm looking at a possible buy here if they r legit.
Ur input will b great appreciated.
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They are scum of the earth!
Basically I went through 2 G2X's with them. It wouldn't have been so bad where it not the fact that it took about a week to ship the phone to them and get it back and by the second one, I was worried that I may not want to keep the T-Mobile service so I just gave up and decided to buy locally. The problem was that Cellhub wanted a restocking fee for the SECOND defective phone of $25, then they charged me $10 for the pleasure of having to send the brick of a phone back, AND I had to pay for shipping($15). So dealing with that much hassle with Cellhub on a phone that is known to be defective (Come on, we all know this, the issues this phone has given me led me here) is just not worth the "savings" you'd get. I wasted $50 on literally nothing thanks to cellhub. A week later I went to a local T-Mobile store and it looked like Cellhub somehow screwed me over with Tmobile and I wasn't allowed to get the phone for the upgrade price. So if I wanted it at the store it would have cost me full price! Basically Cellhub was trying to blacklist me with T-Mobile. T-Mobile was great and we cleared it up (seriously, best Customer service for cell phones, I really hope At&t is denied to purchase them), but it soured me from ever buying from cellhub or even hinting at someone to buy it from there. If I could prevent one person from going through the hell I went through, I will be more then happy to write my story down.

I just placed my order.Let's c what kind of dirt they give me.If phone don't get shipped out today I'm cancelling my order.
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My experience has been fine. They have done everything they've said for me.
They sent me my first return w/no problems. The 2nd return, they deferred to T mobile. But he was nice about it, explaining that that is the process. He made sure I had no questions. Also made it a point to tell me to get back to them if I had any problems with the 2nd return. The credit for the free activation won't show for three months or so.
I did have to pay for next day both ways, but that was my idea and my decision. They were gonna send it 2 day. I had a loaner from T mobile that was crap and did not want to wait a week.
I'm not sorry I went through them myself. I would do it again. They are selling this phone for a good price. I always get a real person quickly, which I love. It isn't their fault I've had problems. My daughters G2X is problem free.
It must suck to be an authorized G2X DEALER right now. There sure are a lot of returns.......never mind the standard BS that is sorta inevitable. But I can personally recommend cellhub. Of course I try to be uber friendly and respectful. You definately get what you give.

ickster said:
My experience has been fine. They have done everything they've said for me.
They sent me my first return w/no problems. The 2nd return, they deferred to T mobile. But he was nice about it, explaining that that is the process. He made sure I had no questions. Also made it a point to tell me to get back to them if I had any problems with the 2nd return. The credit for the free activation won't show for three months or so.
I did have to pay for next day both ways, but that was my idea and my decision. They were gonna send it 2 day. I had a loaner from T mobile that was crap and did not want to wait a week.
I'm not sorry I went through them myself. I would do it again. They are selling this phone for a good price. I always get a real person quickly, which I love. It isn't their fault I've had problems. My daughters G2X is problem free.
It must suck to be an authorized G2X DEALER right now. There sure are a lot of returns.......never mind the standard BS that is sorta inevitable. But I can personally recommend cellhub. Of course I try to be uber friendly and respectful. You definately get what you give.
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So far so good.We'll when the phone arrives.

If you get a working phone CellHub would appear to be great. But a TRUE measure of a company is how they handle returns. I had a defective Core i7 980x (a $1,000 processor mind you) and Newegg did a cross ship without charging me on the new one sent in, all I had to do was send in the defective CPU. The whole process took 2 days and I recieved a return shipping label for the defective product. THATS how you handle returns. Cellhub is a joke by comparison. A true measure of an online store is how they handle returns, not sales. Cellhub is not there for you after the sale, so I would avoid them.

Cellhub vs Newegg is not a good comparison, because Newegg offered ****ty customer service when it first started too, only until a few years ago they got a lot better in order to compete with amazon's customer service.
I bought my G2x from cellhub they are okay. I was very lucky to be one of the few to receive a non-defective unit. So hopefully you will get a non-defective device. But since G2x has so many quality control problems I would not have bought it from cellhub because if anything is wrong with it you would have a headache with the return (any online retailer that is). I would have suggested you to get it a local tmobile store because you can drive to the store and ***** at them versus an online retailer you cant really do that much.

I ordered 2 cell phones from Cellhub about 6 years ago. First issue was that I was switching carriers and porting my number. I was assured that my old phone would work until I got the phone and had it switched myself. Not so, the numbers were switched immediately before the phones shipped and my wife and I had no phone service until our phones came in over a week later. One phone was fine for 2 years until we quit using it. The other was an obvious refurb that they honored with the 1 year warranty, but I had to send it in for repair through whatever service they used. I had to send it in twice times for different issues. First was it stopped installing anything I had bought and downloaded, which I dealt with until the bluetooth stopped working. After that the screen died. Then 3 days after my warranty expired the keys quit working and I was out of luck. They wouldn't do anything about it even though it was obvious there were issues with the phone before and I had sent it in twice before for a couple weeks each time. Not that I expected that they would do anything even though it was three days, but it did guarantee I will never go back.
Hope your experience is better and that they have improved since then.

They haven't...
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Well, I knew what the return terms were when I bought them. I made sure to check the return policy. So the return shipping, while I see your point, wasn't really an issue for me.
I'm more concerned with how much of a fight it is to make the return. They exchanged the first one quickly and with no hassles.
I knew that going mail order was a bit risky. But as I said, I've been pleased with cellhub. From my experiences with them, they've been very helpful and professional.

rauelius said:
They are scum of the earth!
Basically I went through 2 G2X's with them. It wouldn't have been so bad where it not the fact that it took about a week to ship the phone to them and get it back and by the second one, I was worried that I may not want to keep the T-Mobile service so I just gave up and decided to buy locally. The problem was that Cellhub wanted a restocking fee for the SECOND defective phone of $25, then they charged me $10 for the pleasure of having to send the brick of a phone back, AND I had to pay for shipping($15). So dealing with that much hassle with Cellhub on a phone that is known to be defective (Come on, we all know this, the issues this phone has given me led me here) is just not worth the "savings" you'd get. I wasted $50 on literally nothing thanks to cellhub. A week later I went to a local T-Mobile store and it looked like Cellhub somehow screwed me over with Tmobile and I wasn't allowed to get the phone for the upgrade price. So if I wanted it at the store it would have cost me full price! Basically Cellhub was trying to blacklist me with T-Mobile. T-Mobile was great and we cleared it up (seriously, best Customer service for cell phones, I really hope At&t is denied to purchase them), but it soured me from ever buying from cellhub or even hinting at someone to buy it from there. If I could prevent one person from going through the hell I went through, I will be more then happy to write my story down.
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So you wanted to exchange a defective phone and Cellhub wanted to charge you $25. restocking, fee, $15.00 shipping, AND $10.00 (for what?) for a total of $50.00 for an exchange.....for a defective phone....that was still under warranty?? Boy, I'd be pissed off.

Hence my hatered of cellhub, I spent $50 on nothing. I filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau in long island against them. Cellhub is pure scum.Avoid!!!!
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Insurance? Squaretrade?

I have the option to purchase squaretrade insurance/warranty for $99 since I bought from letstalk (instead of $124 by going directly to squaretrade).
I still don't understand how this works. Do you just pay the $99, then you can get a new phone even if you get something as simple as a small scratch on your current phone? Do you have to send the old phone back or can you just sell it for parts (assuming it's damaged).
I've never had phone insurance before, but I'm highly considering it because of the dust issue on the HTC sensations.
If you guys know of any other insurance, please let me know too. I've only had the phone 6 days so I have plenty of time to purchase insurance from anywhere.

brian85 said:
I have the option to purchase squaretrade insurance/warranty for $99 since I bought from letstalk (instead of $124 by going directly to squaretrade).
I still don't understand how this works. Do you just pay the $99, then you can get a new phone even if you get something as simple as a small scratch on your current phone? Do you have to send the old phone back or can you just sell it for parts (assuming it's damaged).
I've never had phone insurance before, but I'm highly considering it because of the dust issue on the HTC sensations.
If you guys know of any other insurance, please let me know too. I've only had the phone 6 days so I have plenty of time to purchase insurance from anywhere.
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Read my thread about TMO's premium handset protection. It also covers malfunctions(warranty replacements)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1135836

brian85 said:
I have the option to purchase squaretrade insurance/warranty for $99 since I bought from letstalk (instead of $124 by going directly to squaretrade).
I still don't understand how this works. Do you just pay the $99, then you can get a new phone even if you get something as simple as a small scratch on your current phone? Do you have to send the old phone back or can you just sell it for parts (assuming it's damaged).
I've never had phone insurance before, but I'm highly considering it because of the dust issue on the HTC sensations.
If you guys know of any other insurance, please let me know too. I've only had the phone 6 days so I have plenty of time to purchase insurance from anywhere.
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Squaretrade does nothing if your phone gets lost or stolen. They cover just about everything else with a $50 deductible and roughly a 5 day turnaround.
The insurance t-mobile uses is Asurion and I have used them in the past. If you have a claim, you will need to go through Asurion for the claim and it takes 1 business day (T-mobile is not involved). Personally, I did receive my replacement on a Saturday after I filed a claim at 9PM on a Friday night. The big problem with Asurion is you only get 2 claims per 12 months and the Sensation has a deductible around $150 (it's still not listed on Asurion's site) plus a $5 fee.
The nice thing about Asurion is you get a replacement phone no matter what. Not to mention all they want back is the phone. You get to keep the accessories and battery from your old phone. They also will let you keep your old phone, but they charge another $250+ and it may be considered insurance fraud.
You can see the details on T-Mobile's site: http://support.t-mobile.com/doc/tm23694.xml

mycomputerisjunk said:
Squaretrade does nothing if your phone gets lost or stolen. They cover just about everything else with a $50 deductible and roughly a 5 day turnaround.
The insurance t-mobile uses is Asurion and I have used them in the past. If you have a claim, you will need to go through Asurion for the claim and it takes 1 business day (T-mobile is not involved). Personally, I did receive my replacement on a Saturday after I filed a claim at 9PM on a Friday night. The big problem with Asurion is you only get 2 claims per 12 months and the Sensation has a deductible around $150 (it's still not listed on Asurion's site) plus a $5 fee.
The nice thing about Asurion is you get a replacement phone no matter what. Not to mention all they want back is the phone. You get to keep the accessories and battery from your old phone. They also will let you keep your old phone, but they charge another $250+ and it may be considered insurance fraud.
You can see the details on T-Mobile's site: http://support.t-mobile.com/doc/tm23694.xml
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It's $130.00 deductible for the Sensation.

thunderbolt independence day sale........

Anyone heard of or expecting big red to put the thunderbolt on sale for 4'th of July? I recall verizon having a sale on memorial day sale & also remember Amazon having the thunderbolt for $129.00 with free shipping.
If I can get into a thunderbolt this weekend for $150.00 or less, I'll jump on it.

If so, do you think they'll honor the discount for new customers who are still within the 14 day cancellation period? I just got my TB and VZ service on monday.

I got my Thunderbolt from Amazon Wireless last week for $129 (I was on Tmobile without a contract).
Aaargh, right now it is $99 for new subs!

RunNgun42 said:
If so, do you think they'll honor the discount for new customers who are still within the 14 day cancellation period? I just got my TB and VZ service on monday.
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If so, then yes. If the first rep you speak to says no, then ask for a manager (not a "supervisor') and they'll most likely give you even more of a discount for yor troubles.

^Same question as this guy, I got mine yesterday

FWIW, since I noticed that Amazon Wireless went down to $99 for the Tbolt, I called them and politely asked for the difference, since i just got the phone and "am still within my return period."
I had a very helpful and cute sounding CSR, and she actually refunded the $30 difference! w00t! Thanks, Amazon!
This definitely improves the old customer satisfaction rating.

Sub-Standard said:
Anyone heard of or expecting big red to put the thunderbolt on sale for 4'th of July? I recall verizon having a sale on memorial day sale & also remember Amazon having the thunderbolt for $129.00 with free shipping.
If I can get into a thunderbolt this weekend for $150.00 or less, I'll jump on it.
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I actually was about to order my TBolt from Amazon last week (New Customer Switching Over From At&t) until I decided to drive around to a couple of stores and see if I could get the same pricing as Amazon so I wouldn't have to wait for shipping (Patience Is Not My Virtue....). After going to a couple of stores and being told that they would not budge from the $250.00 price I gave up and went to the Mall with the wife. I came across a Best Buy Mobile store and decided to give it one last try....
I told the guy that Amazon was offering me the phone for $130.00 with free shipping and after he spoke to his manager he came back and told me he couldn't do the $130.00 price but that he could give me the phone for $150.00 with one month of black tie protection, the buy back program and a car charger or case (me and my wife both picked the case). We immediately said yes and had our TBoltz rigth there and then.
FYI:
After closely looking at the receipt I noticed that what they did was give me the phone for $100.00 bucks and then sell me the buy back program and the one month of black tie protection. The case was a complete freebie seeing that it cost 30 bucks (Platinum Best Buy Case). Total cost in the end for the phone was like $140.00 bucks....