Carrier "Deals" Are A Scam. Here's Why!

David and David are

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to tell you why you should stop buying phones from your wireless

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, except in rare circumstances the

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offered by wireless

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s really aren't that good and you can actually save a lot of money by getting a prepaid plan and then. buy a phone directly from the phone manufacturer or ebay or amazon or craigslist maybe

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's why yes sleight of hand beware of

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yeah let's just take a look let's see one on the deal let's see one Verizon deal let's do the math let's see if you're really getting a good deal let's start with the timing it's right before mother's day so these companies are obviously doing our moms a huge favor by giving them free stuff makes sense free stuff free, well let's go to one that caught my attention, which is this samsung galaxy a12 for a dollar a month, it requires a 30 month agreement and you must activate or maintain unlimited postpaid wireless service for a minimum 75 a month so the first thing I thought when I saw this planned is this is a great phone sorry it's a great phone it's a dollar a month but the full retail price is 179 so it's not like if you were really getting a great phone.

I deal here and the real trick is that you have to have an unlimited plan for 75 a month so let's do the math. 75 dollars a month multiplied by 30 months is 2250 plus taxes plus the 30 you are paying a dollar a month for more than 30. months it costs 2295 for 30 months of cell phone service or you can buy the phone in bh, let's say for 170, which is where I saw it and you can buy the three years of at t's eight gigabyte prepaid plan, a great unlimited plan too, just a lower price. high speed data cap many people who have unlimited plans don't really need the full limited plan because people have wifi, eight gigabytes is a lot anyway, yeah well the average user, you know, three to six gigabytes per month, eight is more. more than enough, so that's three hundred dollars a year, three more years the phone costs one thousand eighty dollars and you're saving more than a thousand dollars.

There you have this option, exactly a thousand dollars cheaper, just buy the phone and you get six. more months would you rather have more cell phone service, the same phone and all the data you need and a thousand dollars in your pocket or this deal, yeah, let's make a deal with Wayne Brady and I'll keep all the money. true, maybe t is the only operator that may not lead with the best deals for mom. That's wrong, let's go to Verizon and see what they offer Apple iPhone 12. David had an idea, yeah, so you know, the new purple iPhone 12.

Manzana? Break out a purple iPhone 12 right before Mother's Day because purple is the second favorite color among women according to studies. Hmm, maybe conspiracy, conspiracy or just good marketing, or none or none, let's just say, I mean, obviously, yeah, sure, oh, it could be. a spring color, I don't know, that's what they said, oh, it sure captures the essence of spring, yeah, before mother's day, okay, then purple, and buy one, get one for up to a thousand dollars off this phone, let's look at Today is the 64 gigabyte Apple iPhone 12, the total retail price of this phone is 800, so you will get one for free according to Verizon.

We're going to set this up real quick and we're going to move quickly through this part and you're going to see what you're really going to pay for this phone and then we're going to do the math to get there. Yeah, did you see what happened there? When we chose a plan, all the unlimited plans except the cheapest had a little thing at the top that said get up to 800 off your second device, which would imply that you wouldn't get that with the cheapest plan we chose by the way, We are not accumulating this. video in our favor to make a point here, we are choosing the cheapest options we can and still comparing prices here, so Verizon is iffy, yes this is our breakdown, although the monthly payment of 173.32 must pay 112 dollars up front , but you can get 20. off in a month starting with the second month, so we'll call it 153.32.

We should also add that we did not select 17 per month device protection which would increase this cost even more and let's talk about that to get the iPhone 12 from Verizon buy one get one deal you need to get an unlimited plan with two lines and then you will get two phones, one of them is free in the form of bill credits, the retail price of iPhone 12 is $800 like us. He said that 120 dollars a month for the cheapest two-line unlimited plan is 2.80 in two years, the cost of a phone is eight hundred dollars, so now we have a total of three thousand six hundred and eighty dollars in two years for the two of us. phones and the two plans, then you also have to pay 112 in advance, so we are at a total of three thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars, that is a lot.

Here you have the alternative. You can get Verizon's five gigabyte prepaid plan. We both have this plan. like an unlimited plan for that mobile hotspot with five gigabyte high-speed data limit. It's a really good plan. It has a slightly confusing pricing structure due to the loyalty discount. Over time you save money on this plan, but the bottom line with this plan is that it costs 13.50 plus the 1600ish for the two new iphones you just bought directly from Apple, bringing you to a total of 2947.92, that's about a savings of 800 on the deal, buy one get one free, the phone is free, but you can save 800 if you buy it yourself, so let's talk about device protection because many people choose to get Verizon line 17 carrier insurance per month and we should also mention where you should buy the phones, if not the carriers, as we said at the beginning, go to Apple. .com can get the same monthly deal and could pay less per month.

In short, with Verizon carrier insurance, your bill increases to $187 per month, which in 24 months is equivalent to $4,600 to have insurance. free phone and the most basic unlimited plan that doesn't even have many cool things, not that it's not a good plan, I mean you have to buy it from the most expensive place to get some cool things with it or if you want to get the insurance Apple, Applecare plus, which is amazing, and the ability to upgrade to a new phone every year. You'll save 1350 over two years, that's 56 a month cheaper with a prepaid plan through Verizon.

It is the same service that exists. no different towers it's crazy same service saves thirteen hundred dollars in two years fifty six dollars a month cheaper yeah then its big mother's day buy one get one deal yeah maybe even if five gigabytes is not enough for you if you do the math and the 15 gigabyte plan is also cheaper in the long run yes you are saving 870 in two years yes with that plan yes so don't buy your phone to your supplier, yes, and especially if they are trying to give you a deal. Take it as a limited time offer, especially don't buy it from your provider because you know they are making that money back on the plan they don't go to.

There's a reason they say you can't get this deal if you get this one. plan because then it would be a good deal, yes, but you can get this deal with that plan, you just have to buy the phone through Apple, eBay, Amazon or for someone else and then just get on the carrier's plan, yes, and that is. why you shouldn't buy phones directly from your carrier thanks for watching please subscribe to get about seven percent of the people who watch these videos subscribe let's get that number up to nine percent high and lofty goals please and leave a comment Below with your opinion on buying phones from wireless providers or anything else