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Would sprint buy the epic 4g?

I just realized I qualified for an upgrade since april. I was thinking it was in augest.
Anyway, I wanna buy a new phone. I really don't want to sell my epic because I love it and I just want a new phone to keep on the side and not to actually use. So my number would stay on the epic and I would get a newer phone for my music and games and stuff. I don't think anyone would do this but I am lol I need my keyboard.
So I was thinking gs3 or epic touch.
But just incase I have to pay an amount of money that I don't have and I would have to give up my epic to get a newer phone would sprint buy this phone from me for a reasonable price? Like let's say $100?
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I think Sprint will give your around $30-35 dollars.
You will get much more if you sell it online or some such.
You can use your upgrade to get a new Phone, probably around $200, and just not activate it, and then you can keep using your Epic.
Thanks said, if your Epic is in working order, and has a clean ESN, I would give you $100 for it.

DCRocks said:
I think Sprint will give your around $30-35 dollars.
You will get much more if you sell it online or some such.
You can use your upgrade to get a new Phone, probably around $200, and just not activate it, and then you can keep using your Epic.
Thanks said, if your Epic is in working order, and has a clean ESN, I would give you $100 for it.
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Ya I was thinking I may sell it online. And I also have an extra battery for it. Its the same as its stock one.
I'm going to go to the sprint store sometime soon and see what phones they have there and what they offer.
if I have to sell my phone to get a new one I may sell it for about $100. Ill let you know if you want it. And yes its in perfect condition I don't remember dropping it not even once and everything works.
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You can't use an upgrade and not activate the phone.
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They give you $50 (at least they did for my mom's) and recycle it.... bad ESN or not, it is all the same...
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MДЯCЦSДИT said:
They give you $50 (at least they did for my mom's) and recycle it.... bad ESN or not, it is all the same...
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Depends on condition as well I know I can get 45$ for mine that's with the small dent on the bottom and surface scratch marks.
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xjayman said:
You can't use an upgrade and not activate the phone.
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seriously? They won't just give me it in a box and let me "activate" it later?
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They give you $50 (at least they did for my mom's) and recycle it.... bad ESN or not, it is all the same...
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And that's not worth selling it. Ill try and sell it online if I have to.
The GSIII is looking really nice in blue lol.
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lilajrestnom said:
seriously? They won't just give me it in a box and let me "activate" it later?
And that's not worth selling it. Ill try and sell it online if I have to.
The GSIII is looking really nice in blue lol.
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The upgrade discount is only valid if it's activated on a renewed contract. No activation means no discount.
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Zeinzu said:
The upgrade discount is only valid if it's activated on a renewed contract. No activation means no discount.
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So I would have to activate then switch phones? That should work, right?
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After you activate a new/upgrade account, that phone must remain active on that line for 6 months. (might be 3) This is why I use GVoice. I have 4 lines and me and wifey trade up renewals with 2 of the lines.
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MДЯCЦSДИT said:
They give you $50 (at least they did for my mom's) and recycle it.... bad ESN or not, it is all the same...
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Sprint doesn't allow buy backs of any of their devices which have dirty ESNS. Corporate retail employees who do this sort of thing can and will be subjected to disciplinary action of up to and including termination of employment. I know this personally from seeing about half a dozen of employees in our DM's market promoted to customer. You have to remember people that Sprint has a report on just about anything you do in RMS and are able to drill down to employee ID level.

They wanted to give me $60 for mine when I upgraded, but I decided to keep it and try selling it for a little more private.
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BubZX said:
They wanted to give me $60 for mine when I upgraded, but I decided to keep it and try selling it for a little more private.
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dude on craigslist i've seen them go for 150+

XxLostSoulxX said:
dude on craigslist i've seen them go for 150+
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Me too....in 2010
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Just got a text from Sprint stating they will give me $56 for my Epic..
I laughed!
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xjayman said:
Me too....in 2010
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My brother just got 120 for his... without any accessories or a charger...

flastnoles11 said:
My brother just got 120 for his... without any accessories or a charger...
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That's fair...100 to 125 I think is fair for both parties
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xjayman said:
Me too....in 2010
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haha no over here in Dallas their selling them for around 300$ and actually selling them for those prices so i'd day they can go around for those prices.

XxLostSoulxX said:
haha no over here in Dallas their selling them for around 300$ and actually selling them for those prices so i'd day they can go around for those prices.
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Maybe I'll ship you mine to sell ....I've been upgrade eligible since may but I like my phone. When I do upgrade I'm keeping my epic as backup instead of tep. if anything happens to new phone after first year I'll break this bad boy back out.
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xjayman said:
Maybe I'll ship you mine to sell ....I've been upgrade eligible since may but I like my phone. When I do upgrade I'm keeping my epic as backup instead of tep. if anything happens to new phone after first year I'll break this bad boy back out.
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That's exactly why I don't wanna have to sell this phone I just love it lol.
But seriously if I get an upgrade I have to use that phone for the first 6 months??? I can't believe that cuz they can't just tie me to one phone. What if I bought another phone I'm not allowed to use that?
I was really wanting to buy the g23. But I think the epic touch wouldn't be bad either. And its 100 dollars cheaper. But its a shame that both the epic and the epic touch cost 100 with a new contract lol.
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Can I exchange my phone?

I got my phone on launch day white and I wanna exchange it for the blue.
Will t-mobile let me exchange it?
What is there guide lines with this?
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I believe the exchanging policy is permitted 30 days from purchase (AT&T, idk if that goes for other carriers, but I believe other carriers do have this in some way or another), and that is for a new phone. I don't think you can exchange it for a color, and if you could there is a restocking fee you have to pay.
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iAndropple said:
I believe the exchanging policy is permitted 30 days from purchase (AT&T, idk if that goes for other carriers, but I believe other carriers do have this in some way or another), and that is for a new phone. I don't think you can exchange it for a color, and if you could there is a restocking fee you have to pay.
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Exchanging policy is permitted 30days only in California. The rest of the states are limited to 14days.

liquid.emotion said:
Exchanging policy is permitted 30days only in California. The rest of the states are limited to 14days.
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That is incorrect in my case. I live in New York, and got my phone, the Galaxy S3 from AT&T. I do indeed have the 30 day exchange policy, the woman who helped set up my phone even said so.
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iAndropple said:
That is incorrect in my case. I live in New York, and got my phone, the Galaxy S3 from AT&T. I do indeed have the 30 day exchange policy, the woman who helped set up my phone even said so.
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Only att does that, other carriers do only 14 days, I had all of them myself, unless you get it from a third party store like walmart, best buy, etc (this exclude California)
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jgalan14 said:
Only att does that, other carriers do only 14 days, I had all of them myself, unless you get it from a third party store like walmart, best buy, etc
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Boom. There you go
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iAndropple said:
Boom. There you go
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Maybe he wants 3g over edge since cdma carriers have that
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PulseMonkey said:
I got my phone on launch day white and I wanna exchange it for the blue.
Will t-mobile let me exchange it?
What is there guide lines with this?
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Where do you live, maybe we can trade?
Does yours have any light bleed?
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From my past experiance they will not exchange it for a diffrent color. Even if you tell them that there is a problem with the white unit. I had to return it, get my money back and purchase it again in the color I wanted. Keep in mind this was before the $50 restocking fee.
Good luck.

saldebot said:
From my past experiance they will not exchange it for a diffrent color. Even if you tell them that there is a problem with the white unit. I had to return it, get my money back and purchase it again in the color I wanted. Keep in mind this was before the $50 restocking fee.
Good luck.
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Good info I forgot to mention that too, that's what they charged me to exchange mine
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You can also purchase a blue back battery cover and then get the blue Spectre Tempered Glass Screen Protector and your phone is now blue....

When ordering mine thru 611, I asked "What if I don't like the white, can I return it for blue, will there be a restocking fee?" and she told me no. I also have PHP and have been a customer since the voicestream days.

Sprint Tep

Anyone know how long itv takes to get replacement phone through insurance??
I started a thread earlier and i was very upset at the time I didnt mean to ask something like that..I knew it was wrong and I appoligize. Moderator (kennyglass) sorry that was an inapropriate and it wont happen again.
Like I said I was acting out of frustration and my actions were not called for.
So yeah anyone who has dealt with tep how long to get new phone shipped Thanks in advance for any feedback
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1 business day
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Takes business day, so if you can then now, you'll get it on Thursday.
It also depends on if they have the phone in stock or not.
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Some tech stores have cool techs.. stop buy and see if they have a dead s3 with a good screen that they could swap it out for ya.
Offer lunch/breakfast etc
Much cheaper than the deductible
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JSarella said:
Takes business day, so if you can then now, you'll get it on Thursday.
It also depends on if they have the phone in stock or not.
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Took me more than 3 weeks with nothing but lies told as of why the wait. Sammy fixes them for 180 including next day round trip shipping

AT&T Galaxy S3 Deals for the Holidays

If you want to buy the GS3 this season there are some deals for AT&T at RadioShack and BestBuy starting this Sunday, more details here: http://gs3central.com/content.php?r=161-Galaxy-S3-Holiday-Deals-Starts-this-Sunday-Dec-16

O wow this is great lol
Slickest-Nexus!

Well ill tell you right now att has the best deal giving away the skyrocket with the s3.. talk about a powerhouse bundle.
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Anyone know if the skyrocket is out right free or do you have to put it on another line?
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Is this legit? I was seriously minutes away from heading to att and getting my upgrade. Lol
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I was just at radio shack you have to add it to another line
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jjr3211 said:
I was just at radio shack you have to add it to another line
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You have to add the skyrocket to a new line in order for it to be free?
What if you just want the s3 its self?
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bdpyo said:
You have to add the skyrocket to a new line in order for it to be free?
What if you just want the s3 its self?
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Your better off just getting it from best buy then.

NexusPro said:
Your better off just getting it from best buy then.
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Yeah im gonna head there first thing tomorow
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JxWayne89 said:
Well ill tell you right now att has the best deal giving away the skyrocket with the s3.. talk about a powerhouse bundle.
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For the same price you can get 2 S3s from Best Buy.
sent from my S3 Sammy Bean.

So at radio shack you need to add the s2 to another line?
I just ordered an S3 online refurb for $30 but will go buy this tomorrow and send the refurb back.
Should I get it from radio shack or best buy? Only looking to add the S3 to a 2yr upgrade

Waiting in line now, busy at this location and they only have a 16gb version left in blue or white for at&t
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I thought att only had the 16gb version
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If your in California they tax you on the full value of the phone, not the sales price. Ridiculous.

It took 4 hours to get mine. Paid 53.49$
I'll post what happened in a bit...
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2.5 hours to get the wifes at best buy. The worker did everything rite but only could make calls. He seen problems and called att. Got the run around from 4 people and tried 3 sims cards. Finally what went down was a better att rep on phone realized that att itself changed my wife's plan from grandfather unlimited to 3gig limited and tried saying it was always that plan. Well its fixed and still grandfathered in. Best buys paper work had everything rite on it. Att just was trying to kick my wife's plan out and force a diff plan.
But $63 got her the phone.
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Their "beast" system crashed , globally, while I was in there and was shut down for about 3 hours until the guy called att on his personal phone and did it that way, had to hand write my contract.
The beast system is their in-store upgrader which communicates with all major carriers but now I'm home playing with the phone it's a downgrade from the one I previously owned, the screen has a blue/ purpleish haze at the bottom of the screen.
I'm not happy at all with this one. I do plan on writing an email to best buy about their terrible service and considering the iPhone 5.
So much for saving $150..
Also after initially waiting in line for 40 minutes they told me I had no upgrade amid made me go to a att store close by and verified that I did then came back and waited another 3 hours till they figured this mess out
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bdpyo said:
Their "beast" system crashed , globally, while I was in there and was shut down for about 3 hours until the guy called att on his personal phone and did it that way, had to hand write my contract.
The beast system is their in-store upgrader which communicates with all major carriers but now I'm home playing with the phone it's a downgrade from the one I previously owned, the screen has a blue/ purpleish haze at the bottom of the screen.
I'm not happy at all with this one. I do plan on writing an email to best buy about their terrible service and considering the iPhone 5.
So much for saving $150..
Also after initially waiting in line for 40 minutes they told me I had no upgrade amid made me go to a att store close by and verified that I did then came back and waited another 3 hours till they figured this mess out
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Agh, that sounds ROUGH!
I've herd BB called worst buy a bunch of times already. And your experience puts it into perspective.
I ordered a blue ATT 16GB from their website for a line on my family account that wasn't on a 2 year.
You woud have got the upper hand on price cause I payed $58.53. But you had a long wait in line.. And they gave you problems.
What you experienced is why I avoid Black friday, and only go to the store if Absolutely necessary.
I must say, calling ATT or Best buy on a Sunday is the worst way to spend your day.
I wanted to verify with ATT that they knew what was going on, and to make the note on my account
And Just wanted to make sure that Best buy wasn't going to pre-activate the line, or send a text to the phone number. (its a gift)

So i was reading about the kies 4.1.1 jb update and I noticed all the diferentes in the camera filters.
No this current phone does not have those extra options where as the old s3 I had bought and returned a few months ago, and did have the extra options.
What gives??
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Wife's new one didn't have the jb update installed. Had to hook it to kies. Did u check that..?
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Dear sprint reps

If you haven't noticed yet, for every optimus G sale reported on rewards me is $20. New and upgrade. Even if your coworkers don't like the phone, that should be incentive enough. Maybe with this we can get a larger community here
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Meh. Its hard to sell a phone we can't even get in stock.
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_Epic said:
Meh. Its hard to sell a phone we can't even get in stock.
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That was before. Its no longer on backorder. We just got 20 in and their now in stock in every one of our locations. Also available through asurion and AE.
We went through this exact same issue with the s3 multiple times and as well with the iPhone 5. That phone is still on backorder through sprints insurance. Lg releases a popular device and it goes on backorder everyone freaks out and claims an eol which turned out to be a mistake (that is now fixed).
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This is also for people who work at an indirect store.
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eyeisdasteve said:
This is also for people who work at an indirect store.
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ArchTelecom
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I'm a tech at a Preferred Retailer... sales contests on SRM make be sad LoL.
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CelticNinja said:
I'm a tech at a Preferred Retailer... sales contests on SRM make be sad LoL.
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why are you sad? you are eligible too..
anyways here is a new contest through LG themselves. this one is kinda nice. tvs. vacations. money. ect.
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first time uploading an image through the xda website... it seemed very compressed on my screen so below is a download link to the official LG contest.
http://www.box.net/s/amfsx9v4nfyiht9ywc1a

I'm a tech at a 3rd party dealer. Been using SRM for almost 2 years. Repair traffic is low, so I get to sell phones as well. I can totally understand _Epic though. Especially during the BOGO period, it was nearly impossible to get your hands on one, much less two.

phreak777 said:
I'm a tech at a 3rd party dealer. Been using SRM for almost 2 years. Repair traffic is low, so I get to sell phones as well. I can totally understand _Epic though. Especially during the BOGO period, it was nearly impossible to get your hands on one, much less two.
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sold 4 today... 6 yesterday... got 12 more this afternoon just because we asked for more.. they are extremely easy to get ahold of now
edit: im also a tech. we have 4 out 7 at our store. and it still seems slow. we spend most our time selling phones than fixing them. sometimes its easier for us to push an upgrade, take the GP from that than to fix their phone lol. i love srm deals. though i have won some type of prize from nearly all of them including a free S3 and Evo LTE.

tsdeaton said:
sold 4 today... 6 yesterday... got 12 more this afternoon just because we asked for more.. they are extremely easy to get ahold of now
edit: im also a tech. we have 4 out 7 at our store. and it still seems slow. we spend most our time selling phones than fixing them. sometimes its easier for us to push an upgrade, take the GP from that than to fix their phone lol. i love srm deals. though i have won some type of prize from nearly all of them including a free S3 and Evo LTE.
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Our sales volume is also pretty low, so no real chances of winning phones via SRM. Although I have won several through internal contests. Including my LGOG