Buying a phone retail in a store

I visited several NYC Verizon stores today looking to purchase a Samsung S4 at full retail price and was told to go to Best Buy as corporate stores do not allow customers to buy phones without a contract.
All I want to do is to give you money and you tell me to go to another retailer?  C'mon Verizon, you love money.  Let me give you my money.  

Why don't you just order it directly from Verizon on your My Verizon account?

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  • HT4528 Do I have to have an upgrade, or can I just buy the phone at an apple store and activate it at Verizon?

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    Thanks for the positive feedback. Best thing to do is write a letter to that store or something of that nature to tell them you appreciated it. It really tells us how we're doing and what we could work on by getting feedback like that and we will respond to you as a way of saying thanks.

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    FYI, this is the iPad forum, iPhone forum is here:
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    Ethmoid wrote:
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  • Apple id was originally disabled. I reset my password and can sign into my apple id account. But when i want to buy an app in the app store it says my apple id is disabled again.

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    Sir/Madam,
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    Coz i'm not the one who make my apple ID when i first buy my phone. I can't ask my friend
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    hi everyone,
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    Nope. You can only have one credit card attached to an account at a time. Its not that big of a deal to use two accounts, users do this all the time. Create the second account(UK Account) in iTunes on your computer...sign out of your Italian account first. Then authorize your computer for this new account: Store>Authorize this computer. Then sync your phone. Now, to switch accounts on your phone: Settings>Store...tap the ID shown...sign out...then sign back in with the ID you want to use.

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