Are you trying to buy the phone through bestbuy.com or tmobile.com or are you trying to get it through google.com/nexus/ ? I am only curious because there might be a difference through how they are processing your credit.
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 6:50 PM, Edmund Cramp <e...@motion-labs.com> wrote: > > Has anyone managed by buy a Nexus S phone yet? > > Best Buy are advertising the Nexus S at $529.99 or $199.99 with a new 2 > year contract. I've been with Nextel/Sprint for about 12 years and it's > time for a change - and I really like the new version of Android so I > figured I'd buy a couple of new Nexus S phones... > > The Nexus S is ONLY available through Best Buy and you can only buy it at > the $199.99 price on the Internet. I've been trying to order through Best > Buy for the last few days (signing up as a new T-Mobile customer) and they > keep saying that "there is a problem with the order" - talking to Best Buy > it is seems that T-Mobile will only approve me for a pre-paid plan > (flexpay). Oddly enough, Verizon approved me for a $80 phone plan last week > for my daughter and didn't even blink using the same information. > > But you only get the $199.99 price on the Nexus S phone if you sign up for > a two year contract ... but T-Mobile say that my credit is not approved for > a contract phone. They'll only offer me a pre-paid plan if I want a Nexus S. > They say that they have lots of phones that are "better" than the Nexus S > and they're happy to sell me one of those with a plan, but not a Nexus S. I > pointed out that all of the phones they offer have appear to have old > versions of Android and T-Mobile appear to have no plans to update their > phones to the current version of Android. > > So basically they refuse to sell me a Nexus S (at 199.99) with a 2 year > contract but they are happy to give me a G2 phone for free with a 2 year > contract - so my credit problems seem to be specific to an attempt to > purchase a Nexus S phone. > > I've been on hold a lot the last few days. > > It looks like I have to buy the Nexus S at full price and then use the > pay-as-you-go plans - which seem to cost more than a plan where they give me > a free phone. > > [RANT]I can see why the iPhone is selling so well - Steve Jobs understands > that people buy phones, not cell phone plans ... and the cell phone > companies are all about selling plans and see a phone only as bait to lure > the customer.[/RANT] > > Even the sigmonster is pissed. > -- > "It is explained that all relationships require a little give and take. > This is untrue. Any partnership demands that we give and give and give and > at the last, as we flop into our graves exhausted, we are told that we > didn't give enough." - Quentin Crisp > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
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