successfully negotiated with carrier, try it!

[stormkroe]

After reading several people's stories, I decided to try to sweeten my monthly deal. I'm on Telus (in Canada for the last 7 years), and my original plan, which I use for work, was:
600 anytime minutes
1gb data
Unlimited sms, mms
200 'north America' minutes
5 favorite numbers
$136 per month

Now I've got:
500 anytime
5gb data
Unlimited north America
Free 5pm night's and weekends
Unlimited sms mms
10 favorite numbers
$95 per month without renewing my contract.
I feel pretty good about it, I tried to get a gs3 for free to resign, but the rep couldn't do it. I'll try back in a week or so and push for the phone a little harder.
Obviously not everyone can get special deals, but it's worth the effort anyway. Also, boo for Canada cellular pricing 32 GB gs3 on 3 YEAR term $209 plus tax.

 

[Red Storm]

I was all ready to jump in here and call shens, but then I noticed you're Canadian...

Good luck negotiating with the main US carriers.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

I was all ready to jump in here and call shens, but then I noticed you're Canadian...

Good luck negotiating with the main US carriers.

+1

What part of AT&T doesn't he understand?

 

[stormkroe]

Doesn't hurt to try, I guess. It's a bit tricky sometimes, but most things are negotiable.
Also, I'm not a Canadian, I just live there. Nothing against them, some of my friends are canadian.

 

[slugg]

I told AT&T to match Straight Talk's price or I'd switch. They said it's impossible. I told them Straight Talk leases AT&T's infrastructure, plus they still make a profit, so I know it's possible. They offered me absolutely NOTHING. $100+ to match Straight Talk's plan. So yea, I switched.

 

[stormkroe]

Maybe they give mire leeway if you're a high profit customer to them? Between my phone and my wife's, I pay telus around $200 per month on a 3 year contract. I read that their tier 3 customer (highest bracket) is about $100 per month average, so maybe they considered that when trying to keep me...

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Maybe they give mire leeway if you're a high profit customer to them? Between my phone and my wife's, I pay telus around $200 per month on a 3 year contract. I read that their tier 3 customer (highest bracket) is about $100 per month average, so maybe they considered that when trying to keep me...

Perhaps but, only because it's Canada. You see normal business factors don't affect AT&T. They operate on the you need us more than we need you theory.

 

[Dulanic]

US carriers = fail. They won't do shit to keep you as a customer.

 

[gevorg]

AT&T's reaction:

 

[benzylic]

~5 years ago or so you used to be able to talk sprint into giving you a recurring monthly credit. It used to be super easy with sprint, people had some ridiculous discounts on their plans, some people would take way to much advantage of though, then sprint started to crack down, got rid of those people (who bitched about getting kicked off). then sprint instituted a policy of no stacked discounts and that ended that. now they laugh at you like the guys in the picture.

 

[Dominato3r]

IF you live in a major Canadian city look at Wind. I'm with them right now and have unlimited everything for $25/month. They've also got the Galaxy Nexus, SGS3 and I think the HTC one S on a tab.

 

[shortylickens]

I got Verizon to knock down their price a little bit, but only for 6 months. I dumped them after that.