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[winter]

YAY

[AvatarFACE]

Just finished work, looking forward to no work tomorrow, oh and gifts.

[Speakman]

SO FUCKING BORED


roll on 10pm

[Retardobot]

Just come out of a complete black-out.

Shit was dark for a good hour.

I felt like going outside into the street.

[Apostrophe Spacemonkey]

You could run around naked, and no one would know.

[Tandoori]

durnk.

[Emrico1]

Krunk

[Tandoori]

Drinking.

[Thor]

Just come out of a complete black-out.

$#@! was dark for a good hour.

I felt like going outside into the street.

Kurt Cobain did that too, wrote one of his best song then

[Codex]

Up for work

since 6

wai u do dis

[Speakman]

I think I've lost it


Considering going to the mall and buying shit. I'll probably hulk out and smash shit

[trololololo]

just ring in a bomb threat at the mall, that will clear out all the plebs
I went to noel leemings riccarton mall at about 9:30 this morning and had to wait in line for about 10-15 minutes

[Retardobot]

I don't understand;

Samsung Galaxy III is $139 per month for a 24 month contract (right now it's a $699 phone and on any other day it can usually be picked up from around $800).

The Iphone5 on the same plan (800mins, 600 text, 2GB of data) is the same price - $139 per month for 0 money down yet it's a $1029 phone.

Telecom are justifying the outrageously expensive monthly contract for the SIII (in order to get it for 0 money down) on the fact that they are trying to sell the handset for whopping $999.

WTF?

[Codex]

Probably haven't reviewed their pricing since it was released, would have been that at the time

iPhone pricing doesn't drop until a new phone comes out where as android handsets drop almost straight away

[Retardobot]

My brother and father have new SIII's.

I'm like WTF.

Might send Telecom an email asking if they are planning to review the price and plan for the SIII.

[Xsannz]

with telecom it's all about cost price not retail price thing is they probably purchased way too much stock at a higher price point.

and their plan subsidies are based on their cost not their retail.

they are probably selling the s3 at a loss just to keep customers...

no money in retail markup..  money is in suckers and contracts ( I would know i was a rep once)

[Retardobot]

So they bummed up by buying too much stock to begin with and now the consumer is paying the price with high costs?

That's ridiculous.

[Codex]

That's telecom

[Xsannz]

So they bummed up by buying too much stock to begin with and now the consumer is paying the price with high costs?

That's ridiculous.

and this surprises you how.

even Vodafone subsidizes prepay or cash sale phones heavily just to keep the customer base, they wright those costs off and incorporate those estimated losses into keeping a live customer base with prepay 0 which is almost pure profit, and contracts which is profit plus covers any losses from the subsidization, and also their retail stores markup accessories by 250% - 500 percent.

eg car charger 29.99  - but as a combo pack with a leather case at christmas it's $9.99 and they still make money at 9.99.

every telecom store will always always go for the upsell, it's the contracts and accessories that keep the money coming in.

also in the last 4 years isps have had such huge drops in bandwidth charges yet you've seen caps only increase marginally, that's because data caps are pretty much 100% margin.
if you want to make sure i know what i am talking about just ask codex, hell vouch that i know what i speak of..

[Retardobot]

I didn't say it surprises me.

Just seems like bad business.

[Speakman]

Just go buy a 2 degrees one from 2d or dick smith, you can still use it on telecoms network if you really want

[Xsannz]

DO NOT buy a telecom s3...

the version telecom sells is the i9300t.  it has a reconfigured antennae mount internally and has a diff firmware to other international variants...

it will only cause you hassles later if you want to be on any other network other than telecom, i switched to a voda version just because of that reason, i have had 3 sIII's so far, well one is the wifes, one was telecom and sold it now have the voda version.

there are huge threads about it... on XDA

[Retardobot]

If I was to buy it outright, I'd probably go a little further and grab a Galaxy Note II.

[Codex]

Why

[Retardobot]

I like the size/form factor.