Best place to purchase Android phones online?

[VirtualLarry]

Carrier is T-Mobile pre-paid.

I bought my last phone, actually, last two phones, about 3 years apart, from T-Mobile's online store. The last time, was recently after they were hacked, and they took like nearly forever to ship my phone. I then found out I could have walked into a T-Mobile store and purchased it for the same price, without the two-month wait to ship.

I bought a phone for a relative at BestBuy.com, an Android for T-Mobile pre-paid, that was like $35. Not long after that, they revamped their web site, and now my Confirmed Paypal address shows up in their system as an invalid address. (Go figure. Every other online store I've used Paypal with has no problem with it.)

So BestBuy.com is out.

Anyone buy phones from banggood, gearbest, geekbuying, fasttech, or other Chinese importer?

 

[Kazukian]

How much do you want to spend?

 

[shortylickens]

Amazon has always been good for me. Many of their unlocked phones are T-mobile.

 

[VirtualLarry]

How much do you want to spend?

Around $100. BestBuy no longer has any T-Mobile pre-paid phones on their site any more, apparently they don't carry them.

I checked ebay, there's someone selling Galaxy Core Prime phones, T-Mobile pre-paid package, new sealed, for $89.99 FS. That's about what I'm looking for. (Might pick one of those up, actually.) That, or a Galaxy On 5. (Which one is better?)

Stuff like the Galaxy S5 ($500-600) is way out of my price range.

Edit: Oh, and a removable battery, and an microSDHC/XC slot is a MUST. (Galaxy Core Prime has both.)

 

[blankslate]

from what I have read a number of people from these forums have used swappa.com


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[TurtleCrusher]

The on5 is my backup phone. Metropcs gave me two for switching from Sprint. It's decent enough to do most things good enough. The space ends up being eaten up really quick, even with moving every possible downloaded app to SD. That alone made me want a different phone. I sold my iPhone 6 on Swappa and then saw a deal on a Verizon Note Edge on slick/deals for $185.

If you're willing to potentially up your budget, a used flagship like the Note 4 or Edge (32gb, 3GB ram, qHD screens, microsd, etc) is a HELL of a lot better than anything like the on5. Verizon Note 4/EDGE are all factory gsm unlocked.

Sent from my SM-N915V

 

[luv2liv]

i got 1 from swappa.com
also, this other tech forum i frequent for camera gears http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/board/11