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[Ganoncrotch]

KLXVER said:

Ganoncrotch said:

They aren't 12 month contract, they're often 2-3 years and there is a massive thing with them though, unless you sign up for insurance on the phone (which costs more) if you drop or damage the phone you need to shell out a massive amount to have it replaced or else you are left paying your bill every month and have no phone to show for it.

Phone contracts are an amazing money spinning device which are very heavily pushed by phone stores here, find it strange you havent' encountered them too much.

I know of them, but even if its a 3 year contract and you get every Iphone for like 10 years, then the phone stores have to pay more than what you pay them. Just seems weird. I guess they get the phones way cheaper.

Oh yeah they would do, but also you have to think of the fact that it is tying you into using that company for the next 4 years, as in they are willing to take a little loss to make sure they have you as their customer, if you want to break those contracts they normally come with a huge fee to do so and the phone still belongs to the company so it has to be given back to the store if you do breach the contract.

 

Also a lot of places are now pushing things like "free calls to our own network" so again they make it so while 1 member of a family is tied into the network for a few years say if it was the parent, the parent is then encouraged to buy their kids the same network "pay as you go phone" so they have free calls to the kids, even though the other phones aren't directly tied into the contract there is a reason to make sure you are all using the one provider once you have one person in a family tied into a contract.