Primary Line Early Upgrade (in regards to amazonwireless and such)

Ok, so I looked through a few pages and found several upgrade questions, but not one like this, specifically. Unless I missed it, which is entirely possible. 
My phone is the primary line, and I'm available for an actual upgrade in march of '12, but since it is the primary line I can upgrade now via My Verizon. However, Amazonwireless has the Rezound for 149 (upgrade price) which is 150 less than VZW, and is currently causing me to keep a copious amount of tissue nearby to wipe up the drool that keeps pooling at random places. 
My question then, would be does anyone have any experience with VZW bumping up an upgrade for a primary line so that it will show on other websites? I realize it's a competitor's site so this is potentially a stupid question, but it's annoying that I can upgrade, but can't upgrade anywhere but on VZW. (I've tried checking through Amazonwireless and Wirefly, but they both list me as ineligible.) 
I'm thinking it makes no difference, but I've been a VZW customer for only four years, with four lines in good standing, and I've yet to kill a baby panda. 

It's kind of annoying. I talk to one person about moving my upgrade date up by 3 months since I'm already eligible for an upgrade and they say:
Ray: Do you think they would approve it being 3 months away, even though it's the primary line and can technically be upgraded right now?
Cheryl: Yes they will
Ray: Ok, I'll try that. Thanks =)
And then I talk to the person that's supposed to be able to do that, but she tells me that since I'm already eligible for an upgrade they can't touch my upgrade date, which seems kinda odd. I'm not trying to say I'm entitled to anything in the least, it just seems that if I'm going to be upgrading and I could upgrade tomorrow if I wanted to pay 150.00 more than I can pay somewhere else, that they would at least try to get my phone and the other one I was planning on upgrading locked in, since it's been out of contract since May. 
Oh well. Guess different reps have different rules.

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