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Then why don't they just raise the price of the discounted phone by $30?

Do they think we're stupid?

Oh, yeah. They know we're stupid.

Why else would we pay enormous fees for services most of us really don't need and then pay fees on top of the fees?

It's fun to have lots of features on a phone like internet access, but when do we reach the point of diminishing returns?

PT Barnum knew the answer to that.

Me thinks that after this debacle I will be leaving their service and never turning back. They have grown more and more ridiculous and their service has gotten worse and worse over the last few years. Not worth the headache anymore.

All of the carrier's are going to need to think long and hard about charging fee's in addition to Long-Term Commitments (LTC's). The LTC is suppose to ensure that the carrier doesn't take a loss on the handset subsidy. If they now up their change fee's they are going to have to prove additional administrative costs or invalidate the LTC if challenged in court. The law is pretty clear on the fact that you can't charge consumers twice for the same thing.

NicoleManning, on 11 April 2012 - 06:15 PM, said:

Totally agree with NicoleMannings sentiment.

Question: Would this allow me out of the Verizon contract? I realize that may be a bit of a stretch since it only applies when upgrading to a new phone, but I don't want to finish out my contract.

This is total BS! They say you can bypass it with a phone trade in, but that requires to pay the retail price of the phone to trade in and they refuse to give you anything above probably 30 bucks for your phone no matter how up to date it is.

The rate of spending is steeply raising and the government refuses to raise the wages that people get. No wonder this country is in [censored].

This so called "war" didn't help either. get in a war with the country you get your oil from. we let them set the price of it, so what happened? They jacked it through the roof cuz of our stupidity and ego. If we never got into a war with those countries, i bet gas would be around 2 or creeping to 3 dollars still. We [censored]ed up and now we're paying for it by losing this country's greatness. We won the battle, but we're going to lose the war and our country if we don't stop. more fees will be put in place and we'll just turn into a third world country. Way to go America.

Upgrade fees on top of activation charges????