T-mobile promo if you get a family plan activation: 2 free Ericsson T-300 w/ camera for a negative $250

[MillionaireNextDoor]

Saw this while searching for a good plan for my family..

At www.intelenetwireless.com, they're offering 2 free Ericsson T-300 phones with camera attachment plus free accessories (handsfree kit, car charger, belt clip) for an ending price of negative $250..

2 Ericsson T300s $299.99
$200 T-Mobile Mail-In Rebate -$200.00
$200 Instant Rebate -$200.00
2 $50 Exclusive Mail-In Rebates -$100.00
2 $25 Exclusive Mail-In Rebates -$50.00
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Final Price: NEGATIVE $250.00

..when you sign up for a $69.99 shared plan which includes:

2 Lines (Additional Lines $10 extra each)
800 Shared Plan Minutes
Unlimited Weekend Calling
Free Nationwide Long Distance
Unlimited Mobile to Mobile
Free Long Distance
No Roaming Charges - Nationwide Digital Roaming
Enhanced VoiceMail
Caller ID
Conference Calling
Call Waiting and Call Hold

YMMV:
Next thing we need to find out is if we can sign up without the free phones and still get the rebates (phone customer service is closed at night) since there's a checkbox in front of the phones in the order submission screen whether or not to get the 2 phones.

This is a good deal if you don't need 1000 minutes.. just another line.

 

[weepul]

wow. nice! i got 2 free t300s for family plan but only -$150 when i activated my account in april.

//krunk (^_^x)

 

[kwo]

Hmm...am I to understand the ~$70 is per month? In other words, you get all that, but have to pay $70 per month for how many months?

I'm in the market for a very inexpensive decent coverage cell phone for my wife......and maybe me..and was looking to only spend ~$20/month - don't need a lot of minutes as it's more for emergencies and such...but is that being unrealistic?

Just curious...and thanks for the post!

Ran

 

[SinMen]

$70 a month for a family plan that you can share the 800 minutes with your wife. The contract is probably a year, or may be 6 months, which I am not sure. If you only use it for emergency, you might be better off getting the ones with prepaid minutes.

 

[pcstuff]

This is not a bad deal at all for a family plan. Remember, with t-mobile you get free mobile to mobile calling (from one t-mobile to another t-mobile phone). My wife and i got this phone in April when they had the $150.00 for 2 phones rebate. Yes, the reabte did come, took a while but it did come.

$20.00 for a family plan (2 phones on one bill) is completely unrealistic, nobody offers anything even close to that amount. Like the other poster said, you'll be better off with a prepaid phone.

PS: The only bad thing about this calling plan: You don't and you can't get free nights on this family plan!

 

[Fritzo]

Direct link for your clicking enjoyment.

 

[Jindan]

Does Cingular even have any retention program? Encouraged by many folk's story, I recently told Cingular I want to close my account with them, and I try to get something (at least) from them, maybe little more minutes, or an additional phone line for free, such and such. But they just did not want to do anything and let me closed the plan:brokenheart:
BTW, I have national 250 for $29 w/ them.

Question again: 2 phone line for $29 with Cingular, old customer, is it realistic?

 

[kwo]

Yeah, I figured that was probably pretty unrealistic....I'm quite new to the whole cellular process, and so..well, my ignorance shows, I suppose...

Anyway, thanks for the suggestions on the prepaid....speaking of which, are there any worries with those in terms of reliability of service and the size of the calling area (ie. multistate would be good...)

Ran

 

[KokomoGST]

TMobile still sucks monkey turd in my area... it seems pretty common for TMobile to do insane rebates on phones and such. Not having free nights does suck as well.

 

[qacwac]

Link didn't work and I can't find it. Please post how to find the deal. this blows the Cingular plan my family has away.

Thanks.

 

[SinMen]

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Direct link for your clicking enjoyment.

Try this.

 

[SinMen]

My order is shipped in 3 hrs. Not bad at all.

 

[leonc]

Originally posted by: SinMen
$70 a month for a family plan that you can share the 800 minutes with your wife. The contract is probably a year, or may be 6 months, which I am not sure. If you only use it for emergency, you might be better off getting the ones with prepaid minutes.

1 year plan according to the T's & C's on the website.
Prepaid is still the cheapest way to go for emergency use only (like $10 per month depending upon what cards you buy), but
this would be $35 per month per person for basically 400 minutes each which isn't too shabby if at least one person uses the phone a lot. In my experience what starts as an emergency only phone quickly becomes a "what do you want at the grocery store" phone, so it isn't too bad when you figure that will happen.

 

[SinMen]

They have so many different rebate forms on their site, I just don't know which one to download. May be I will use all of them and see if I get all rebate checks.

 

[coolred]

Man I also am looking for a family plan for me and my fiance. This would actually be are only phones, no home phone. At least thats the plan, and i still can't imagine using 800 minutes. We don't talk a lot on the phone. But man this is a decent deal. And really if you subtract the 250.00 from the price of the plan it comes out to like 50.00 a month, but I heard those phones suck? Is that true?

If only they offered total coverge from Columbus, OH to Fremont, OH I would prolly jump on this. But alas they as well as almost every other company have a big gap right in the middle of my trip to visit my family.

 

[SinMen]

My friend is using the T-300 and it works fine.

 

[zodder]

I'm in the exact same boat, coolred. My GF and I are looking for 2 cells to replace our land line. I currently have Sprint and am looking to see what they have, but this seems like a great deal. I'd love to hear more people's comments on this.

 

[SinMen]

Got my 2 phones this morning. Reception is good, sound is clear. Didn't have much time to play with them yet, but overall seems to be a great deal. They also include an antenna booster in the package.

 

[kwo]

I've toyed with the idea of getting cell lines instead of land lines..but how do y'all connect to the internet if you don't have a land line..oh....I guess y'all are using things like cable modem's, eh?
Also, what is the reliability of cell vs. land lines during inclement weather (e.g. hurricanes,snow storms etc..)? Just curious....

Ran

 

[coolred]

Yes kwo, if I do this, I will go with broadband internet, but i do currentlly use dial up. But my dad currentlly uses a cell phone for his sole phone, and he purchased some little 60 dollar adptor that allows him to connect to the internet. Not sure if it uses his minutes or what, but it is possible.