Why doesn't Shop BlackBerry ever sell CDMA phones?
It's getting time to upgrade my Z30 and have been looking into buying a Priv. I am a customer of Verizon and they are finally offering the phone for sale now. I'm out of contract and would rather just buy the phone right out then go back in contract with them. However they are asking like $720 for the phone while on Shop BlackBerry the price for a GSM phone is $650. The CDMA version of the phone does not seem to be available yet on Amazon.
Whenever I look on Shop BlackBerry's site, they only offer GSM phones and never CDMA. Can someone explain to me why this is? I chatted online with BlackBerry this morning but they couldn't really tell me why. They are the ones that manufacture the phone so why wouldn't they sell it right on their website like the GSM phones? There are advantages to buying straight from BlackBerry it seems. The OS updates come straight from them then instead of going through a carrier and getting hung up for months on end while they add all their dumb bloatware.
BlackBerry tried to tell me this morning that it maybe has to do with their contract with Verizon but even that was a maybe. Besides that, Verizon isn't the only company to run the CDMA network. And they manufacture the phone so can't they control how they sell it? Rounding of here, why don't they sell it direct to customers and why wouldn't they to increase the amount of people they could sell their phones to by offering it in their online store??