Best Buy will offer a $50 discount on all iPhone models purchased with a contract from AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon next week, reports CNET.
From Sunday, February 16, through Saturday, February 22, Best Buy will slash $50 off the price of all iPhones bought via the usual two-year contract with AT&T, Sprint, or Verizon Wireless. As just a few examples, the 16GB iPhone 5 will be free, the 16GB 5C will sell for $50, and the 16GB 5S can be had for $150.
Best Buy is also offering customers who reserve a new phone purchase with Best Buy by tomorrow a $50 gift card. That card can be applied to the price of any phone you purchase before the year's end.
Finally, the company is also discounting the iPad Mini 2 by $50 until tomorrow.
With all due respect to the stingy people of the world, please do the math. Assume the cheapest plan you can get with data and voice is $55 (seems reasonable). $55 times 2 years = $1320, plus $50 initial purchase = $1370. $50 is then a mere 3.6% of your total investment in an iPhone, or, if you were to divvy that , $2.08 off your statement each month. If I was offered a $2.08 price reduction on my statement each month as incentive to buy, I'd have a few choice words to deliver to my carrier, none of which should be said here.
Actually, I have had the cheapest plan...
and it's been $40/month for 450 minutes + $30/month for DATA = $70/month, PLUS all those F$%*ING Fees and taxes. However, I do have unlimited data.
Today, I am signing up a friend on my account and we will both get 10GB data with unlimited minutes and unlimited texting per month for $130 divided by 2.
So for $65 I will have 10GB of data and unlimited minutes. And I will get $100 off of my next month's bill.