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Offline Matthew

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Old man yelling at the clouds
« on: Yesterday at 11:16:07 PM »
Ok, I'm the old man yelling at the clouds.

I went to Best Buy just to see if they had any really cheap Android phones. I sorted "low to high" price, expecting the cheapest phones to be at the top.

And then I found this:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/searchpage.jsp?id=pcat17071&qp=currentprice_facet%3DPrice%7ELess+than+%2425&sp=Price-Low-To-High&st=android+phone

Everything is priced in "$ per month over 36 months". I selected "under $25". Who mortgages a $25 phone for 3 years?
What in the name of Klaus Schwab "You vill eat ze bugs" is going on?
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Offline FarmerWife

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Re: Old man yelling at the clouds
« Reply #1 on: Yesterday at 11:42:11 PM »
They want people to play the debt game. You'll be happy and own nothing, 2030.
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Re: Old man yelling at the clouds
« Reply #2 on: Today at 02:02:34 AM »
Don’t buy a phone on time. The thing I ever bought on time were some university textbooks. I paid them over two years for a two-year course of study. As I no longer needed them, I sold them used in very good condition. That was because the prices went up every semester, and it gave me a cash-flow problem. I worked my through school so it was cheaper in the long run to buy the whole lot of them. I kept only one of them, a guide to writing.  
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Offline Yeti

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« Reply #3 on: Today at 10:19:25 AM »
Interesting observation. I think the "under $25" that you typed in got interpreted by the website as "under $25 per month on the payment plan." I looked at the cheapest phone in the results you give, and you can buy it outright for $200. So it shouldn't have showed up as an "under $25 phone", but I do see what happened.

I don't know, I guess they just assume people are not going to pay the full price for the phone?

The amount does actually come out to the same thing, though. The advertised price is $5.55 per month for 36 months. That comes out to a total of $199.80 over three years, whereas the one-time price is $199.99. So, it's actually a better deal to pay over three years, if you figure in inflation and the greater value of money now than money later.
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