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Upgrade 4 days before contract ?????
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| My wifes phone just bit the dust and our billing date is the 4th. What
would be the draw back of ordering a new phone today? I have read
several post on this subject but wonder what four days will matter??
Please reply ,fired up to buy a new phone..
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| Quick 2005-08-31, 11:48 pm |
| jst wrote:
> My wifes phone just bit the dust and our billing date is
> the 4th. What would be the draw back of ordering a new
> phone today? I have read several post on this subject but
> wonder what four days will matter?? Please reply ,fired
> up to buy a new phone..
Ummm, it's 11 months into a 1 year contract and 22 months
into a 2 year contract. If the upcoming 4th is the date of
one of the two above then it matters. If not, then it doesn't
matter. If the upcoming 4th is 6 months into you contract
then it makes no difference.
-Quick
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| The 24th month will be Dec. 4. They are letting me do an early upgrade
possibly due to multiple lines and I am a long time customer.
So how does this figure in ??
TIA
Quick wrote:
> jst wrote:
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> Ummm, it's 11 months into a 1 year contract and 22 months
> into a 2 year contract. If the upcoming 4th is the date of
> one of the two above then it matters. If not, then it doesn't
> matter. If the upcoming 4th is 6 months into you contract
> then it makes no difference.
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> -Quick
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| Quick 2005-08-31, 11:48 pm |
| Sounds like a gift. So the fact that your billing date
is on the 4th has no bearing on anything.
-Quick
jst wrote:[color=darkred
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> The 24th month will be Dec. 4. They are letting me do an
> early upgrade possibly due to multiple lines and I am a
> long time customer.
> So how does this figure in ??
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> TIA
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> Quick wrote:
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| Savvy 1 2005-08-31, 11:48 pm |
| "jst" <jstlln@x.net> wrote in message
news:1apRe.16819$Sj1.14230@okepread04...
> My wifes phone just bit the dust and our billing date is the 4th. What
> would be the draw back of ordering a new phone today? I have read several
> post on this subject but wonder what four days will matter??
> Please reply ,fired up to buy a new phone..
>
When you sign a new contract--- except on the last day of your monthly
billing date--- they prorate minutes used/minutes remaining, and usually
neither logically nor in your favor with respect to how many minutes you've
actually already used vs. will have under the new contract for the rest of
that particular month.
But if they nail you for over-allowance usage under the first partial month
of the new contract, call customer service when you get your bill. Pitch an
increasingly big fit until the CSR agrees to take the over charges off. If
she won't do it, ask for her supervisor-- and keep escalating it until you
get to someone who remembers who the customer is...
S1
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| Quick 2005-08-31, 11:48 pm |
| Savvy 1 wrote:
> "jst" <jstlln@x.net> wrote in message
> news:1apRe.16819$Sj1.14230@okepread04...
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> When you sign a new contract--- except on the last day of
> your monthly billing date--- they prorate minutes
> used/minutes remaining, and usually neither logically nor
> in your favor with respect to how many minutes you've
> actually already used vs. will have under the new
> contract for the rest of that particular month.
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> But if they nail you for over-allowance usage under the
> first partial month of the new contract, call customer
> service when you get your bill. Pitch an increasingly big
> fit until the CSR agrees to take the over charges off. If
> she won't do it, ask for her supervisor-- and keep
> escalating it until you get to someone who remembers who
> the customer is...
He won't be signing a new contract. He will be extending
his current contract. There won't be any proration?
The proration formula is pretty simple. My 5th grader
can do the math. There is nothing subjective about it.
Do they even do proration any more? I thought I heard
they were starting to make plan changes retroactive to
the billing date.
-Quick
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