The official tablet (and other useless electronics) thread!

[WRXtranceformed]

^^ Yeah that's exactly how the guy on the phone was trying to sell it to me: "we'll give you a $20 / month credit" but for us it still worked out to be more money for a comparable plan. And then like you said, you can upgrade early any time you want but you are stuck paying the balance of whatever you owe on the phone that they just roll back into your payments again. It's like a version of a car lease where you're taking negative equity hits each time you trade the car in. Unless of course you keep your phone long enough to "pay it off", and then at that point I am sure they figure out a way to make their money back through higher line fees, etc..

I had to cut the guy off on the phone because he was getting pretty aggressive about the plan change, but my company pays for my half of our cell phone bill but will not pay for hardware upgrades (like a new phone). So no matter how he tried to cut it, "I" would be paying more every month vs. just buying the phone now and not getting roped into a worse service plan. 2 year service agreement is fine for me to compromise on, I have been really, really happy with Verizon ever since I switched from the abomination known as Sprint.