Does this mean anything in the 9630 outlook
- I just noticed that Sprint has dropped the price on the 8830 to $99 with a new 2 year plan. It had been running $2xx or so.
Does this mean they want to clear inventory? or are they thinking folks with the current phone will need to replace it and the 9630 is still too far away?04-21-09 10:39 AMLike 0 - this is my first post. tho i have been looking at the forums religiously lol
well IMO i think one of two things; they are clearing inventory bcuz they have too many backed up or it's just a promotion..
bcuz unless some real hardcore info comes out in the next few days, then 9630 isnt coming for a few more months. as much as i hate to say that, it's most likely the truth.04-21-09 11:47 AMLike 0 - I just noticed that Sprint has dropped the price on the 8830 to $99 with a new 2 year plan. It had been running $2xx or so.
Does this mean they want to clear inventory? or are they thinking folks with the current phone will need to replace it and the 9630 is still too far away?
This isn't like your local discount retailer looking to clear out stock that they won't be replenishing. If a cell phone carrier wants to discontinue a product, they will simply stop offering it. They'll cancel any replenishment orders they might have going, and simply keep their standing inventory for warranty replacement. Once some magic number of users have gone on to some other device, they will probably offload the rest on ebay or something like that. Some company that buys up off-lease equipment and then flogs it on sites like ebay and craigslist. There's also a good possibility that they will simply send leftover units back to RIM, who will then crush them and dispose of them.
But the LAST thing they're going to do, is lower the price to try and get MORE people buying these things. That is a subscriber drive tactic by carriers. They're trying to entice people onto their service, or to renew their contract and maybe move up to a more expensive service contract. Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, whomever... They want to keep those revenue streams flowing CONSTANTLY. They want to lock someone into a contract as soon as possible, and don't want people sitting around waiting for some phone to come out in a couple of months.04-21-09 12:48 PMLike 0 - big man...maybe you answered this in another thread where i posed the same question. why would they keep new phones in stock propotional to the number of sold phones when warranty replaces them with refurbs? that makes no sense to me.04-21-09 02:20 PMLike 0
- 1,000,000,000% AGREED.... they will not keep brand new phones on hand in order to replace existing users phone (warranty phones) Refurbished phones are a lot cheaper for the company therefor they will use these. I worked for VZW for 2 years and can tell you, yes...they lower the price to clear out existing inventory right before a newer model comes out... it only makes sense... i label your post my friend #FAIL04-22-09 03:30 PMLike 0
- I didn't say they would all be new phones, I just said they would keep a number of devices on hand proportional to the number of them they have out there. The exact mix of used and new is something that the carrier will work out using some formula that probably accounts for the relative age of the product, the popularity, cost, etc.04-22-09 05:46 PMLike 0
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