Gregory's Server@RickiTarr people know that jewelry and purses can be super cheap from Target or Walmart while looking functionally identical to expensive pieces, so now it’s cellphones and manicures.
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 I wish we could live without them but we can’t. I’ve never paid full price for any of my phones. If they were flagship models I got them for free. I usually get older models at lower prices. I upgraded and gave my husband my two-year-old phone because the charges for in-room telephone service at the skilled nursing facility are very expensive. I need to be able to reach him and he needs to be able to reach me as long as he can still use a phone.  @Pagan_Animist @amaditalks I had a landline until it was more expensive to keep that than to have a cellphone, but yeah I buy a used refurbished phone too @Pagan_Animist @RickiTarr @amaditalks @PensiveTM @Pagan_Animist @RickiTarr @amaditalks THIS! My MIL has the longest streak for keeping a phone. She used her old phone until it needed to be plugged in for any battery life beyond 15 minutes. 🤣 My old iPhone XS Max screen went black a year ago. Luckily, I had an Apple Watch to make calls/texts before I got to the store to get a 13 Pro Max (even though they were pushing the 14). I’m going to run this for as long as I can. @jnlbrk @PensiveTM @Pagan_Animist @RickiTarr @amaditalks Up until a few months ago my daughter was stull using my old samsung note 3, until it finally gave up the ghost! @amaditalks @RickiTarr tell me who gives an iPhone for free with a plan these days? Haven’t seen discounts on handsets in years here in aus. They’re so expensive I keep for 4yrs to justify cost and I earn plenty. @ivalaine @amaditalks @RickiTarr the handset is never free. Its cost is either serviced by a separate loan or included in the airtime of the provider. This option fell out of favour because it became an abusive permanent loan rather than a fixed term. @ivalaine @amaditalks Verizon does, and I'm pretty sure AT&T too, if you sign up for several years and/or have a phone trade in, but they are gonna get more than their monies worth back on that deal. @amaditalks @RickiTarr fascinating. We used to get a discount on handset repayments if plans were on bigger end. Now the plans have just got bigger and bigger (and they keep adding new plans and scrapping smallest) on top of large phone repayments. @amaditalks @RickiTarr everything has unlimited call and text but honestly everyone i call or text is via data anyway. And I don’t use that much data. Annoys me there is no basic plan anymore. Considering prepaid on the next one as save cost of the whole next phone with annual top ups! |
@amaditalks Well even if you have a newer iPhone a lot of times they are free with an extended plan or are being paid off in installments, most of the people I know don't just buy a $1400 phone. People like me just buy a Samsung that's 3 years old lol