Apple

I saw a story on the news here in LA that Best Buy will have the iPhone in Sept. they are the only retailer other the AT&T or Apple stores that will have it.

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hey guys im wondering if i am under contract with at&t and tried to buy the iphone 3g would i get it for the 200 or would i have to pay the 400 since i am still under contract. I am a premier customer of at&t's. any help would be greatly appreciated.

You can buy another 8gb iphone for 200 but you have to sign that new phone to a line of service. I have bought several additional phones for the $200 but had to get lines of service. You can terminate that line of service right away and you just have to pay the $36 activation fee and $175 early termination fee.

So we private customers who have been with ATT or one of its predecessors since the early '90's are still left out.

After witing on line and talking my way in to getting a 3G for my son at an Apple store (I'm not techinically the account owner but only authorized to make changes even though it is the in name only that Im not the owner) I decided since he loved his 3G so much to get my own. Well not wanting to wait in line and possibly not get as understanding of an Apple rep, I went to ATT and ordered a white 16Gb 3G. Its been a week tomorrow. In the mean time Im having fun learning all the new methods with the 2.0.1 firmware on my 2G. Still, would have been nice to be able to order online or even by phone.

why pay 200 for the phone w/ contract then over 200 more for early term. fees, why not just buy it for 400 w/o contract...just a thought

i have a premier account when i opened my account with the company i worked for so i could get the discount...so when i switched my phone to an iphone I got an email that my discount did not extend to iphone...although i stayed as a premier customer i could no longer get the discounts...so they took that away..but if u have a 2g phone and upgrade their isn't much of a discount.

the reason i know this is cause to get the upgrade you either have to do it on line or over the phone with a rep and the rep himself said that i would actually be saving more money with what i got right now then upgrading..that i would have actually have to pay at least 15-20 bucks more cause of the increase of the data plan

Originally Posted by cardfelon

You can buy another 8gb iphone for 200 but you have to sign that new phone to a line of service. I have bought several additional phones for the $200 but had to get lines of service. You can terminate that line of service right away and you just have to pay the $36 activation fee and $175 early termination fee.

I was wondering if you had actually done this yourself? I have asked the question numerous times on the forum about what ATT could do if you were to do this, but all I ever get is a bunch of wise a** remarks about how I should just use ATT service. Thank you.

my phone arrived in 2 days when i went to ATT store... ordered on wednesday and got a call on friday. i was impressed.

Hmmmm this is interesting....so "premier customers" have preference to be able to buy online?? I had to wait in scorching heat for 5 hours! lol =-p

Originally Posted by marys25

i have a premier account when i opened my account with the company i worked for so i could get the discount...so when i switched my phone to an iphone I got an email that my discount did not extend to iphone...although i stayed as a premier customer i could no longer get the discounts...so they took that away..but if u have a 2g phone and upgrade their isn't much of a discount.

Mine was taken away as well, even though the att store guy said it would still apply to the minutes plan, just not the data plan. Oh well.