Cell Phones companies, who to trust and who not to

Well I had been taking a friend of mine around to check out the cell phone stores at the local Manchester Center/Mall, and I had told him that when it came to these places you don't want to deal with them because they happen to be a subsidiary store, meaning that they weren't the main store. So we went through and discovered that what I had told him was true, of course the one thing that I honestly believe these days is that even if I tell him what I know from experience, that he needs to experience it on his own, which is what he did.

 

What he had discovered was that when it came to the stores at Manchester, they were providing service but at higher then needed prices, and even some of them had all sorts of double talk, and one even tried to tell us where to take the phone once we got everything set up with them, which only told us that both stores were working together when it came to the phones. Sorry but we didn't like that in the least.

 

So we know once thing, though this is mostly for those that happen to have the following stores in your area (you might want to check on-line to see where they happen to be at), which is Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T, and Cricket. Now with the exception of the last one, all the rest are contract stores, but the same thing applies to all of them either way, and believe me several people that I've talked to had never known this stuff before. Now when dealing with any of the above locations, the one and only place that you want to go to is the main corporate store in your area. The reason for this because of a two fold thing, one you'll get better deals and discounts right from the corporate store, and two, they don't add the commission into the over all cost of the price that you pay in the end. Now I don't know if you knew that or not but it's true. Of course the difference between Cricket here and the rest is that they not only don't have contracts, but they also don't have the fees any more (those they got rid of back in June or July last year (that is back in '10). All the contract ones have is the normal credit check and one to two year contract that would be expected. I personally go with Cricket because my credit happens to be shoty to begin with and they won't care about that in the least, plus they're running off their own network which continues to grow every day.

 

Now there is one that I would recommend people away from, not only because the service is bad, but because when they tried to break away on their own, everything just went down hill for them, and I'm talking about Boost Mobile. Ever since they had broken away from Sprint (which is where they started and have since gone back to) they said that their $50 a month plan was far better then Cricket's $35 a month plan or anything that Cricket had. Only problem with that was that Cricket kept proving themselves and disproving everything that Boost kept claiming, so in the end Boost couldn't hold anything that they said.

 

So either way, it's somehting to think about if you're thinking of just going over to like say Walmart or Best Buy to get a cell phone when you can just head over to the main stores and not pay as much as you would've at the other stores.