Tech iPhone 6
- Thread starter Swanky
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Did they change this? Cause they used to not let you do that. You have to wait until your contract is up before they'll give you a discounted phone price. If that's the case, I'll just keep renewing, getting discounted phones, then sell them on ebay for 3 times what it cost me!!
Chessmont...go sign in to your account at wireless.att.com and you can tell right there if you're eligible for a discounted upgrade.
Maybe they've done something similar to what Sprint offers, where you can renew your contract w/o penalty, and pay for the phone over time (full price, not discounted). The other option is to do what I've been doing and pay full price for an unlocked phone and switch out your phone w/o affecting your contract at all. The only way you can get a phone at a discounted price is to wait for your contract to be up.
(Chessmont said she's less than a year into her contract so she's probably not eligible for a discounted phone
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Nope, I'm with Swanky on this one. Also have AT&T and all you have to do to get cheaper price is start back from zero with a new contract regardless of where you are in your upgrade cycle. I've done it two times.
Unfortunately, they did change it. I am in the same boat since I did the 2 year upgrade last year. Last year was the last year you could really get away with that early upgrade for 2 year thing. So your only options are that scammy NEXT thing where you effectively finance the new phone and end up paying way more for it than you otherwise would while "leasing it", or to swap an upgrade from another eligible line that has a 2-year contract eligible upgrade, or buy it in full upfront. I am buying it upfront in full and selling my 5S unless my DH takes it which right now is unlikely.
Sorry, but this is impossible. AT&T would be out of business. I had 2 lines on my account for this very reason. I always wanted the newest phone, but I couldn't upgrade for 2 years, so I'd use each account's upgrade cycle to get a new phone every year, then pass the older one down to my son. One of my accounts would be ending its 2 year contract, so I'd use that to upgrade. The second account would be ending its contract the next year, so I'd used that one to upgrade when the time came. I did that for 5 years.
That's the whole point of the new T-mobile model and AT&T NEXT. Instead of getting a discounted price and waiting for a new phone every two years, you pay full price for a phone and split up the payments over12-18 months. Whenever you want a new phone, you either pay the balance and keep the current one, or you turn the current one in for a credit towards the full price of a new phone.
If did what you guys are saying, what's to stop me from buying a discounted phone today for $200...keeping it for a month, renewing my contract again, getting another discounted phone for $200, then selling the previous one for $500 or $600 on ebay, so on and so forth doing the same thing every month?? I'd be making $2-300/month just selling my discounted phones and renewing my contract every month. I promise..that can't be the case. Now, sometimes, if you're a "Valued" customer, they'd give you an early upgrade, but that was only a few months early. Maybe 4 months prior to your two year contract ending.
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Thanks, I did and of course I am not eligible because I have had my phone for less than a year...
Typically there's a discount to phone - partial upgrade, IIRC. In fact, often they'll allow you take full upgrade rate a couple of months early when you renew.
If you are still in the 2 year contract term, you will have to sign up for their NEXT program to get a new phone for AT&T subscribers. But if there is a line under your plan that already have upgrade eligibility, you can transfer it to a different line. For example, line B have the upgrade eligibility while line A is only 9 months into 2 year contract, line B can transfer the upgrade eligibility to line A. Line B will also take over line A's timeline, and be considered 9 months into contract instead of reset the 2 year clock.
