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I currently have a Family plan with Cingular and and got a 2 year contract.
We are past the 2 years, and are now able to upgrade. I went to the Cingular
store, and was told that I can get the best prices they offer on phones,
under the condition that I renew the contract for 2 years. I then saw that
the phone I want (Razr) was on sale at Best Buy for $100. I went in to Best
Buy and talked to someone who didn't exactly seem to know what was going on.
They seemed to be under the impression that I was just buying a phone without
a contract and wanted to charge me around $250, even though I told them that
this was not the case.

Now what I am wondering is if I can go to Best Buy, get the phone for $100,
keep my existing plan, but agree to the 2 year contract extention. Can I do
this, or must I go directly through Cingular in order to complete an upgrade?

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Any help would be really appreciated...Its a pretty long drive back to
BestBuy if I am going to get similar answers, but if I find out that I am
right here it would deffinatly be worth going back.

Andrew H wrote:
>I currently have a Family plan with Cingular and and got a 2 year contract.
>We are past the 2 years, and are now able to upgrade. I went to the Cingular
>store, and was told that I can get the best prices they offer on phones,
>under the condition that I renew the contract for 2 years. I then saw that
>the phone I want (Razr) was on sale at Best Buy for $100. I went in to Best
>Buy and talked to someone who didn't exactly seem to know what was going on.
>They seemed to be under the impression that I was just buying a phone without
>a contract and wanted to charge me around $250, even though I told them that
>this was not the case.
>
>Now what I am wondering is if I can go to Best Buy, get the phone for $100,
>keep my existing plan, but agree to the 2 year contract extention. Can I do
>this, or must I go directly through Cingular in order to complete an upgrade?


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Can somebody please help me out here? Somebody has to have some info.
Thanks

Andrew H wrote:
>Any help would be really appreciated...Its a pretty long drive back to
>BestBuy if I am going to get similar answers, but if I find out that I am
>right here it would deffinatly be worth going back.
>
>>I currently have a Family plan with Cingular and and got a 2 year contract.
>>We are past the 2 years, and are now able to upgrade. I went to the Cingular
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>>keep my existing plan, but agree to the 2 year contract extention. Can I do
>>this, or must I go directly through Cingular in order to complete an upgrade?


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From what I understand the $100 price is on a new two year contract.
I think they can do an UPGRADE but the phone price will be higher.
Compare Cingular Stores, retail locations (Best Buy) and authorized
cingular resellers. Sometimes retail and resellers give a better
equipment price because they eat the cost to get you as their
customer.

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 21:04:36 GMT, "Andrew H via CellPhoneKB.com"
<forum@CellPhoneKB.com> wrote:

>I currently have a Family plan with Cingular and and got a 2 year contract.
>We are past the 2 years, and are now able to upgrade. I went to the Cingular
>store, and was told that I can get the best prices they offer on phones,
>under the condition that I renew the contract for 2 years. I then saw that
>the phone I want (Razr) was on sale at Best Buy for $100. I went in to Best
>Buy and talked to someone who didn't exactly seem to know what was going on.
>They seemed to be under the impression that I was just buying a phone without
>a contract and wanted to charge me around $250, even though I told them that
>this was not the case.
>
>Now what I am wondering is if I can go to Best Buy, get the phone for $100,
>keep my existing plan, but agree to the 2 year contract extention. Can I do
>this, or must I go directly through Cingular in order to complete an upgrade?

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I purchased a phone from them about 6 weeks ago the upgrade price was the
same as a new activation.

Fred

"prc2u" <prc2u@wi.rr.com> wrote in message
news:1kr7d1hmcihq02ukbhjv79cjri5jan9ui4@4ax.com...
> From what I understand the $100 price is on a new two year contract.
> I think they can do an UPGRADE but the phone price will be higher.
> Compare Cingular Stores, retail locations (Best Buy) and authorized
> cingular resellers. Sometimes retail and resellers give a better
> equipment price because they eat the cost to get you as their
> customer.
>
> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005 21:04:36 GMT, "Andrew H via CellPhoneKB.com"
> <forum@CellPhoneKB.com> wrote:
>
>>I currently have a Family plan with Cingular and and got a 2 year
>>contract.
>>We are past the 2 years, and are now able to upgrade. I went to the
>>Cingular
>>store, and was told that I can get the best prices they offer on phones,
>>under the condition that I renew the contract for 2 years. I then saw
>>that
>>the phone I want (Razr) was on sale at Best Buy for $100. I went in to
>>Best
>>Buy and talked to someone who didn't exactly seem to know what was going
>>on.
>>They seemed to be under the impression that I was just buying a phone
>>without
>>a contract and wanted to charge me around $250, even though I told them
>>that
>>this was not the case.
>>
>>Now what I am wondering is if I can go to Best Buy, get the phone for
>>$100,
>>keep my existing plan, but agree to the 2 year contract extention. Can I
>>do
>>this, or must I go directly through Cingular in order to complete an
>>upgrade?
>