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I just upgraded my sons line to a Rezound on the COSTCO deal, I had to jump through some hoops to do it. (I was going to re-gift mine to him, but WTF, for $50 how can you go wrong? - I'll return mine, probably tonight)

1. They can only upgrade your line if you are at the 22 month(+) from your last upgrade, contract start. They can not do early upgrades.

2. You need to use the last four of a primary acct holders SS# for the PIN

3. You need to use your VZW pin for the password.

Stupid, right?


Puchkey said:
I tried to take advanage of costcos great deal on the Rezound, but because my phone is part of the business account they told me they can't process my request. What kind of bs is that. I called verizon customer support but the business office is closed. The kind csr on the family plan side tried to help me with an upgrade or a discount on an upgrade but told me I would have to try back on monday morning when the verizon business office is open again. The csr told me that she would put notes in the account describing what it was I was trying to do and told me that they would probably be able to help me on monday morning. But I'm not holding out hope.

Has anybody ran into this and if so does anybody have anything that can help me?

I really do want the nexus but if I can get the Rezound for only 50 bucks that deal trumps anything else
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Crashumbc said:
Or we're at work and trying not to go "postal"

15 minutes! I'm out so fast they won't know I left till 4pm :P
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At least if I was at work I would have stuff to do and not be checking this quite so often. And wouldn't keep looking at my phone hoping for a text or gtalk to occupy me. Lol.
 
IndecisiveElle said:
For CURRENT VZW subscribers, you CAN go into your account and change your data on the primary account to the double data deal. Just did it for my line :) Don't think I should tell the BF he's missing out on it haha.


Also does anyone know how long it takes before a phone which was ordered online (Amazon) to show up in the VZW system? I've never bought a phone online before so I don't know what the process is really like.
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I believe it is immediately upon activation. When I activated my Dinc2 over the phone, it was on the account an hour later when I checked.
 
Crashumbc said:
it was 75.00 less then 2 months ago :/

oh well, I'm probably going to keep it anyway as a back-up...
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Yeah, that's definitely my plan too. Actually, it's pretty cool as a Wi-Fi only Android device too!

Kind of like those new Samsung Galaxy Players (that are supposed to compete with the IPOD Touch).

Which brings me to my next question...why did it take so long for an Android manufacturer to do that? And why is it only Samsung? It's like they have it out for Apple...it's personal or something.
 
HanSolo said:
I believe it is immediately upon activation. When I activated my Dinc2 over the phone, it was on the account an hour later when I checked.
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I figure I don't need to have it fully activiated until Christmas Eve, but I figure it's good to know anyway. I hope that I didn't mess any of my contract info up when I submitted to Amazon though! :eek: Just have to wait on that - and hope it goes through before the penny pincher deal is up!!

Edit: Wahoo! In changing minutes we get the 10 friends and family numbers thingy.
 
Puchkey said:
I tried to take advanage of costcos great deal on the Rezound, but because my phone is part of the business account they told me they can't process my request. What kind of bs is that. I called verizon customer support but the business office is closed. The kind csr on the family plan side tried to help me with an upgrade or a discount on an upgrade but told me I would have to try back on monday morning when the verizon business office is open again. The csr told me that she would put notes in the account describing what it was I was trying to do and told me that they would probably be able to help me on monday morning. But I'm not holding out hope.

Has anybody ran into this and if so does anybody have anything that can help me?

I really do want the nexus but if I can get the Rezound for only 50 bucks that deal trumps anything else
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If you are under any kind of special arrangement with your Verizon plan like (WISCA or Amerinet) then you have to go through your sales rep to get pricing like that. Every once in a while I can convince my sales rep she needs to match retail pricing...but not always. She says something about our plans are cheaper, so we don't get the same benefits with the phones. I agree, it's B.S.
 
jbdan said:
That's really not bad imo. After hundreds of flashes, several drops, it has served us well. You could always donate it to a family member or someone who would like to try out the Android flavor. It is still a worthy phone :)
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Keep it as a backup. If your current breaks, gets destroyed, or is stolen, a call to Verizon will activate your last one in minutes and you keep communications open until you solve the current phone problem.
Thats worth more than selling it used or giving it away believe me, I have done it and lost zero communications.

I keep my last phone at my home charging station and hit it a couple times a month to maintain the battery.
 
gapi said:
Keep it as a backup. If your current breaks, gets destroyed, or is stolen, a call to Verizon will activate your last one in minutes and you keep communications open until you solve the current phone problem.
Thats worth more than selling it used or giving it away believe me, I have done it and lost zero communications.

I keep my last phone at my home charging station and hit it a couple times a month to maintain the battery.
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That's what I'm probably going to do.
 
So I just got off the phone with Verizon and told them about the Costco deal, wondering how long I'd have before I lose my upgrade. She said that she can't speak for them (obviously), but that it's generally 14 days from the order, not upon receipt or upon activation.

So that scuttles any lingering idea I had. (I know Costco might be different, but it's a big risk, IMO.)

Also, she told me that the extended holiday return period is good even if you activate the phone from day 1 (if there was any more doubt).

And I asked, of course, about the SGN. She said, "You know, we've been getting a lot of people calling in about that, really excited, but we don't have any information on that." She was actually very nice and dug around in her system. She said, "If it says 'Coming Soon', that means tomorrow or in 2 days. Let me take a look."

Of course, it wasn't in the system at all.

Oh well.
 
Mr. Link said:
Let's just stop talking about Costco. End of story. Hans, they are going to formally announce the release date on Tuesday. I'm sure of this.
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And if they don't... Hans, you will wait patiently until they do announce. And then you will lay out your money for some nexus goodness just like the rest of us... :D
 
Mr. Link said:
Yeah, that's definitely my plan too. Actually, it's pretty cool as a Wi-Fi only Android device too!

Kind of like those new Samsung Galaxy Players (that are supposed to compete with the IPOD Touch).

Which brings me to my next question...why did it take so long for an Android manufacturer to do that? And why is it only Samsung? It's like they have it out for Apple...it's personal or something.
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While an Android PMP makes sense to us, to execs that saw other execs have their heads handed to them over the PMP / iPod wars lost earlier in the decade, it's not too surprising.

I think it's more like Samsung has the manufacturing bandwidth that others didn't (Samsung makes just about everything including trucks and a share in cars). If they think they can make a buck on something, they've got the horsepower to gear up production and go for it.

Love it or hate it, the iPod makes some sense as a PMP, and it's a line of fairly cohesive devices. As they continue to remove usable features with iTunes, they continue to create demand that Android may yet fill.


On competing against iProducts:

Android phones -> winning
Android tablets -> may gain the right ground next year
Android PMPs -> later on

That's how it looks to me, fwiw.

PS - I use my old Evo as my HTPC remote thanks to RemoteDroid, free in the Market, and it's great for IMDB lookups and such, all from wi-couch-fi. I suppose I could even load that new Android DirecTV remote but I'm too lazy for that. :)

Anyway, a good working Android makes a great wifi appliance and in the event I drop my 3vo and break it or something, I've got a phone I can re-activate until a replacement arrives.
 
gapi said:
So........ you just waltz in and put a gag order on the Costco thing eh? Funny. Not gonna happen.:D
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Well I may not be a Premium member or even a frequent poster...but yeah...I'm putting my foot down on the Costco talk...for Hans. Do it for Hans. :D
 
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