May
31
Why Go To The Company Directly?
By
Scott Bianchi asked:
I was recently in the market for a new cell phone, thanks to my 2 year old daughter ripping my phone in two pieces. It used to be a flip phone. Now it is a non-working flip phone. My wife and I went to the local Verizon store to research new phones. I also looked at a website I previously came across on the internet, http://www.tmiwireless.com/?aid=5361.
Fortunately I had viewed the site prior to going to the Verizon store or I would have Verizon charges a lot more than the website, which I found surprising at first. It isn’t just Verizon either, any of the large wireless companies do the same thing, probably because they just assume people will buy from them rather than shop around.
I will do a comparison to show the differences. I will not compare the rate plans because they are the same between the actual carriers and the commissioned websites.
Verizon:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller
TMI Wireless:
http://www.tmiwireless.com/verizon/
They don’t both carry the same exact choice of phones but the ones that are the same are cheaper through TMI.
• The Motorola E815 costs $79.99 through Verizon. Through TMI, at the time I am writing this article, you can get it for free and they currently include a FREE Bluetooth headset. That same headset at Verizon is $80.
• Through TMI Wireless the Motorola Razor phone is free with a free Bluetooth headset, as is the LG VX8100 with the Bluetooth headset, and the Motorola V325 is free, they don’t include a headset as it is not Bluetooth compatible. Those same phones through Verizon are $129.99 for the Razor, $69.99 for the LG VX8100, and $79.99 for the V325. None of these phones include the free headsets.
That is clearly a significant savings regardless of which phone you get. I have Bluetooth with my new phone and I would pay for it, so to get it free is a no-brainer. Those people who don’t like ordering from the internet because they do not like paying for shipping you don’t need to worry about it, TMI does free Fed-Ex 2 day shipping. I do my comparison between the national carriers and TMI Wireless because that is the site I found the good deals on. I am confident you could find the same deals, if not better, on a similar website to TMI.
NEXTEL:
http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/DisplayPhones?audience=INDIVIDUAL
I was recently in the market for a new cell phone, thanks to my 2 year old daughter ripping my phone in two pieces. It used to be a flip phone. Now it is a non-working flip phone. My wife and I went to the local Verizon store to research new phones. I also looked at a website I previously came across on the internet, http://www.tmiwireless.com/?aid=5361.
Fortunately I had viewed the site prior to going to the Verizon store or I would have Verizon charges a lot more than the website, which I found surprising at first. It isn’t just Verizon either, any of the large wireless companies do the same thing, probably because they just assume people will buy from them rather than shop around.
I will do a comparison to show the differences. I will not compare the rate plans because they are the same between the actual carriers and the commissioned websites.
Verizon:
http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/store/controller
TMI Wireless:
http://www.tmiwireless.com/verizon/
They don’t both carry the same exact choice of phones but the ones that are the same are cheaper through TMI.
• The Motorola E815 costs $79.99 through Verizon. Through TMI, at the time I am writing this article, you can get it for free and they currently include a FREE Bluetooth headset. That same headset at Verizon is $80.
• Through TMI Wireless the Motorola Razor phone is free with a free Bluetooth headset, as is the LG VX8100 with the Bluetooth headset, and the Motorola V325 is free, they don’t include a headset as it is not Bluetooth compatible. Those same phones through Verizon are $129.99 for the Razor, $69.99 for the LG VX8100, and $79.99 for the V325. None of these phones include the free headsets.
That is clearly a significant savings regardless of which phone you get. I have Bluetooth with my new phone and I would pay for it, so to get it free is a no-brainer. Those people who don’t like ordering from the internet because they do not like paying for shipping you don’t need to worry about it, TMI does free Fed-Ex 2 day shipping. I do my comparison between the national carriers and TMI Wireless because that is the site I found the good deals on. I am confident you could find the same deals, if not better, on a similar website to TMI.
NEXTEL:
http://nextelonline.nextel.com/NASApp/onlinestore/en/Action/DisplayPhones?audience=INDIVIDUAL
