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Andrew H - 10 Jul 2005 22:04 GMT

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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Andrew H - 11 Jul 2005 05:54 GMT

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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Andrew H - 12 Jul 2005 00:29 GMT

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

>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
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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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prc2u - 12 Jul 2005 17:23 GMT

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.

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Fred - 14 Jul 2005 03:31 GMT

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

Fred

> 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.
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>>this, or must I go directly through Cingular in order to complete an
>>upgrade?

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