You must not pass your basic arithmetic class. In common cases: You pay USD200 to get your phone from the big telcos. You sign a two year contract. Let's just say every month you pay a minimum of USD75 for the very basic voice/data plan [actually the USD40 was used to pay up your phone and the remainder is for actual call/data rate you pay permonth to the telco, about USD35]. You can now use your basic arithmetic skill, or if you have none, I will do it for you:
USD 200 + (24 * 40) = USD1160
To top of this stupidity, you can resell your mint condition Iphone4 for USD140 at Apple, or sell at USD200 to other folks at Glyde et. al., or you can sell via craigslist or other buy/sell forum and get an additional USD100. Depending on how you start, your barely two year old Iphone 4 is terrible at keeping its value as a consumer electronic. If you get your Iphone 4 via the big telco's two year contract, your Iphone is losing at the very least a whopping 74% of its value [best case scenario buy at USD1160 sell at USD300]. The only parties benefiting from this absurdity are, surprise...surprise..., Apple and your big telco.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
That sounds wrong, just like everything trolls say, so I looked it up.
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You must not pass your basic arithmetic class. In common cases: You pay USD200 to get your phone from the big telcos. You sign a two year contract. Let's just say every month you pay a minimum of USD75 for the very basic voice/data plan [actually the USD40 was used to pay up your phone and the remainder is for actual call/data rate you pay permonth to the telco, about USD35]. You can now use your basic arithmetic skill, or if you have none, I will do it for you:
USD 200 + (24 * 40) = USD1160
To top of this stupidity, you can resell your mint condition Iphone4 for USD140 at Apple, or sell at USD200 to other folks at Glyde et. al., or you can sell via craigslist or other buy/sell forum and get an additional USD100. Depending on how you start, your barely two year old Iphone 4 is terrible at keeping its value as a consumer electronic. If you get your Iphone 4 via the big telco's two year contract, your Iphone is losing at the very least a whopping 74% of its value [best case scenario buy at USD1160 sell at USD300]. The only parties benefiting from this absurdity are, surprise...surprise..., Apple and your big telco.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
That sounds wrong, just like everything trolls say, so I looked it up.
Yep. It's a lie.
Originally Posted by mcrs
USD 200 + (24 * 40) = USD1160
No, you can't include the price of the phone plan. Please try again with something that actually makes sense.