One Year Contract?

Hello there,
I am 100% certain to be buying the next Dual Core Android phone that releases from Verizon.
Here is my dilemma:
I want to buy it from Best Buy.
However, I will NOT buy it from Best Buy if I cannot sign a one year contract for it...
So, here is my question:
Is it a Best Buy POLICY that says they cannot sell one year contracts, or is it each individual stores decision?
I never worked in mobile so I don't know haha.
~ J
Former Geek Squad Counter Intelligence Agent.
Anything posted by me is helpful information (and my own personal opinion) and is not the opinion or view of Best Buy or Geek Squad.

At the moment you cannot sign a 1 year contract with Verizon inside Best Buy Mobile. This may change in the future. Its not a decision you make at store level those things are decided much higher up.

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New rumor vzw is ending one year contracts on 04/17/2011
http://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/verizon-1-year-contracts.png
Time to jump ship after my contracts end if true.

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True to get me Netflix and Im done. To be honest just got the tbolt (again rumor) because verizon is going to end unlimited 4g plans during the summer an the next 4g phones dont look that appeling the Bionic is ok but dont like blur and the Charge well its Samsung we all know thier story. The only phone besides the tbolt that i will consider is a nexus phone but there is no word of any nexus phones are going to be released with Verizon.
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One year contract option?

Just curious if there will be a one year contract option for the iphone.

GoodShepard wrote:
So, when I buy a new Verizon iPhone I will be paying for the phone which has already past half way of its product cycle. I will be paying for the phone which is about 7 months old when it is released. So verizon iPhone custometrs will be off of iphone release cycle by 6 months if I sign up for iPhone in Feb. However, If there is a one year contract option just like every other smart phone available now on VZW, it gives an option for the subscribers who want to change the phone every year.
However, they have already said that there WILL NOT be a 1 year contract option.

Why is one year contracts so expensive anymore? ETF's simply do not jive with upgrade prices.

Ok so I was looking at the LG Octane, but was shocked at the prices for a one year upgrade. The retail price is listed at $249.99. The ETF is $175. So if I subtract the "subsidized" amount of $175 from the $250, I should be buying this thing for less than $75. Why is it almost $220 with a $50 online discount, making it almost $170?
The carriers for years have been saying that the ETF's were to protect themselves from people quiting early, and them losing the retail price of the phone. It seems to me that they are getting closer to $345 for the LG octane with all the upfront price of the phone and the ETF fees, if someone was to quit early.
I also was told by several dealers that I can get this phone for FREE with a 2 year contract, but I can not find any similar reasonable deals on a one year contract. Currently, if I buy a LG OCTANE on a one year contract, I am paying at least $100 more than the phone should be.
I have heard the excuse a few times that "it is for the carrier to recoup lost service revenue also", but again, that is not what the ETF's have been used for, for over 20 years. It is also contrary to the excuses that they have said to CONGRESS to justify the need for ETF's.
So, please explain to me why the ETF's are this high, or why the cost of the phones are this high, when they were never meant to be used like this???????

For what it's worth, you posted this in 2011, and here in 2014 I am still having this same issue. Over the last two days, I have had to unlock my apple account 8 times. I didn't get any new devices. I haven't initiated a password reset. I didn't forget my password. I set up two factor authentication and have been able to do the unlocking with the key and using a code sent to one of my devices.
That all works.
It's this having to unlock my account every time I go to use any of my devices. And I have many: iMac, iPad, iPad2, iPad mini, iPhone 5s, iPod touch (daughter), and my old iPhone 4 being used as an ipod touch now. They are all synced, and all was working just fine.
I have initiated an incident with Apple (again) but I know they are just going to suggest I change my Apple ID. It's a simple one, and one that I am sure others think is theirs. I don't want to change it. I shouldn't have to. Apple should be able to tell me who is trying to use it, or at least from where.
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One Year Contract Question

First off a Quote:
Verizon may have only announced pricing on the iphone with a 2-year contract, but that doesn’t rule out speculation that the carrier will also offer a 1-year-contract option. Most, if not all of, Verizon's smartphones on its Web site offer a shorter-term one-year contract option. Although these cost more than with 2-year contracts, the prices are still significantly lower than the full retail price.
Indeed, Verizon Spokeswoman Brenda Raney told FOX Business, "All of our phones have a one year option. There are no plans to change that for iPhone."
I went into tonight guessing it'd be 50/50 on whether verizon would include the one year option. Unless i missed it, such an option wasn't included. Anyone believe they will add it on or near-after launch day? Or are they backpeddling on that above statement now? I was prepared to order it tonight and am comming away disappointed. I dislike two-year plans and normally take up one year plans to justify getting a newer smartphone every year.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/personal-finance/2011/01/11/iphone-meets-verizon-dont-know/#ixzz1CspmnrSV

At the moment you cannot sign a 1 year contract with Verizon inside Best Buy Mobile. This may change in the future. Its not a decision you make at store level those things are decided much higher up.

Officially no one-year contract option

Just got a tweet from a Verizon spokeswoman who had previously said there'd be a one year option:
{edited for privacy}.......there will be month to month with no contract. Two yr but no one year.
Ugh.

All of this is right from Verizon's website.
http://news.vzw.com/contacts/pc_corp.html
Handsets, Product Distribution, Business
Brenda Raney
908-559-7518
[email protected]
Follow Brenda Raney on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/Raneybr

Signed a 1-year contract and then AT&T raised price

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PLEASE READ THIS AGREEMENT CAREFULLY TO ENSURE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND EACH PROVISION....
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I was hoping for a one year contract, but since it wasn't offered, I went with the full retail price. I still have my upgrade available and my contract will soon be over. This will leave me with some flexibility should a newer iPhone appear in the next 20 months.
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Early renewal before my 1 year contract is over

I have a one year contract that is over in November. A long time ago some verizon rep. online told me that I could renew my contract two months early in September (I am in need of a new phone and cant afford full retail price). Can this be true? Id love the help and feedback!

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For some reason i have two accounts and I want to cancel one of them. they are yearly contracts but i dont want to pay double for the same product. How can I cancel one account?

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No international data plan for one year-???

Here is the background. I moved over to Verizon about 4 months ago from Alltel. I did this because I wanted to be able to have a blackberry with international BBm'ing. I did not go with ATT because there coverage was spotty in my area. Since the move, I would say my Alltel coverage was 3x better then the cuurent verizon in my house even with the network extender ( BB don't work well with network extender compare to droids, according to the VZW reps). I did not stay with Alltel because they did not have the storm2. I needed 6 lines and a mifi and the local verizon rep told me no problem that they could do one primary line and 5 additonal line plus the mifi but after I signed up they realized that I maxed out at 5 lines on one account and they made me make my 6th line a primary line and then added the mifi to the 2nd account. More costs per month. Within a month of having my VZW account, one of my kid went to China and we were able to add the international data plan for her trip so she could BBM us. No problems.
Here is the problem. I am going abroad in 2 days and would like to put the international data plan on 2 phones for the trip. The rep says he cannot do becaue the polciies have changed with the "xerox" buyout and they won't let me do it for the following reasons.
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We came to verizon for the purpose of BBM’ing when going international and now we cannot use it. I am paying over $500.00 a month and have not been late on any payments, paid a deposit on the phones, am paying for 2 primary lines and did this a few weeks ago for my daughter and now I cannot add the international option again for a week of vacation abroad? This is really upsetting and pretty much the last straw if it does not get resolved before this trip. I should have stayed at Alltel or went to ATT and got an I phone because this is no better. The rep I talked too was bedeviled by this policy and went two levels up in supervisors and was denied. They are supposed to call me to resolve this issue tonight or in the morning.
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Update:
I got a call from my local rep at the store where I bought all the phones. She said they called corporate and all blocks on my international data plan have been removed? I will stop by this afternoon and confirm that it has all been done???? I still cannot believe how many hoops I will have had to jump through to get this done as it was done 2 months ago, if it actually gets done.
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MY account was not suppose to be a 2 year contract

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For the record it took an hour for me to even get signed up. The associate was using an ipad (or trying to) to set everything up. I probably had to sign 8 different times during this process. He would get all my information and fiddle with the device and get to a point then have to start over because the device kept failing. I almost walked out during this process because the tech was clearly not working. I wish I would have walked out now. After way to many attempts he finally gave up and took me to a point of sale system at a desk. I was upset by this point and he was clearly flustered. My wife who was with me was just plain ticked off.... wrath that I faced later that day for for sticking around so long.
I am not happy with this entire process and seeing that the clerk signed me up for a 2 contract seems devious but I will assume for now it was the issues with his iPad that flustered him so much he messed up on my order. I don't want to spend hours on the phone trying to deal with this, nor to I want to pay a cancellation fee.....I don't even want to cancel my service. I just want to me on the correct plan I asked for.

I thought it was $99 at the time I could be wrong....that isn't the real point. It could have been $1000 and I would have still paid full price to get the contract I wanted. Money wan't and isn't an issue as far as the cost of the device or the EFT.
The first contract that came up on his device was for the month to month prepaid option. The second time he started over and rebooted his iPad app it was also the month to month. We went through this a couple more times after that. After a while of dealing with his ipad he had had me take a seat walked away with my credit card and came back about 5 minutes later. He brought me up to the desk had me sign a signature pad attached to the register and handed me a bag with the hot spot in it and said I was good to go and that he was sorry it took so long.
I know I am a little intimidating and after so many failed attempts I probably wasn't overly quiet when mumbling my frustration to my wife. ( i do feel bad for that) so it was probably my fault he was so flustered. It still shouldn't take an hour to get 1 device. I think when he went to an actual point of sale after he gave up on the ipad is when he must have put me under the wrong plan. I assumed the last information he put in the iPad was transferred over but it must not have.
The thing is I don't want leave Verizon. I like everything they have to offer and no one has coverage like they do. Thanks for your input. If anything I got to vent out some of my frustration. Hopefully they will will do right by me and if not then I will just hang my head and move on.

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