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If you have more than 4 months left on your contract, it will be cheaper to cancel it now.
by cwe 15y ago
If you have more than 4 months left on your contract, it will be cheaper to cancel it now.
- rdl 15y agoYou can often get them to not charge the early termination fee either by either being really deserving-seeming, or being a belligerent asshole (but you have to be consistent). At least with t-mo and sprint, never tried with ATT or VZ.
- leif 15y agoI've also heard of people getting other carriers to buy them out of their existing contract. No idea how to approach this though.
- gibybo 15y agoIf you have free roaming, one strategy might be to connect to another carrier's tower and make long/consistent calls on it, forcing your provider to pay them more than the $100/mo that you are paying your provider. If you don't have free roaming, a similar strategy might work with unlimited minutes on their own network if you just use enough of them that their costs are too high to support you. If you don't have unlimited minutes, you can probably upgrade your plan, use a ton, then if they try to force you to switch or pay overages, you will likely also have the option to walk away from the contract without a fee.
- LokiSnake 15y agoI don't think in-network calls cost them much of anything. It's the connection charges to a different network that may actually cost them money.
- w1ntermute 15y agoAlso, check SlickDeals - there's a notice there whenever these carriers change the contract terms. In such a case, you're legally permitted to cancel the contract without paying the ETF.
- beedogs 15y agocan't you just change the credit card associated with the account, so they can't extract their monthly pound of flesh? what's the worst they can do, send it to a collections agency?
- dangrossman 15y agoHaving collections hound you daily and damaging your credit rating for the next 7 years doesn't sound bad to you?
- beedogs 15y agoNot really. Depends how badly you need credit, I guess. It'd actually be amusing to see how long they'd pursue a couple hundred dollars.
- dangrossman 15y agoThere are three possible explanations for your comments: 1) You're a multimillionaire without aspiration, and shouldn't be giving financial advice to the rest of us non-millionaires. 2) You're a troll, or are acting like one to get yourself hellbanned for some reason. 3) Your recent spat of negative karma comments are the result of some kind of new mental health issue, and you need to see a doctor.
- beedogs 15y agoSo, in the strange little world you inhabit, only fabulously wealthy people eschew credit cards and don't spend their life worrying about their credit score? What a terrible place that must be. And what kind of crap-ass site would ban someone for the three (out of five) comments I've made today which have been downvoted? Pretty sure I can spot the actual troll here.
- rictic 15y agoFalse equivalency, eschewing credit cards is different than not paying them. If you make enough comments that are bad enough then your account is likely to be banned. If that's your goal then at some point along the way you'll be only three comments in. (I am not remarking on the quality of your other comments; I have not read them.)