HTC Evo 4G LTE Early Upgrade [Details] - HTC EVO 3D

My father works at a top call center for Sprint. He handles early upgrades for customers.
This is what he told me when he got off work:
Sprint is now doing "early buy-upgrades"
***DEPENDING ON HOW FAR OUT YOU ARE FROM YOUR ORIGINAL CONTRACT ENDING*** you pay a fee + the cost of the phone (nationally advertised new customer price, i.e. $199.99 for the Evo LTE).
Example: I asked my dad, I'm 10 months out from my contract ending, how would I go about obtaining the Evo LTE.
Response: If you're within 3 months, $45 early buy upgrade fee. Since you're 10 months out, $95 upgrade fee. This early buy upgrade fee is billed to your account. The cost of the phone, ($199.99) MUST BE PAID UPFRONT. No billing hardware device costs to the account.
In other words, for me (10 months out), it would cost $95 (billed to account) + $199.99 for the Evo LTE (paid upfront).
EDIT: In other words, you're essentially paying a scaled fee to reset your eligibility. Of course, if you choose this option, your contract resets, and you won't be eligible again for another 22 months (as usual).

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G.Newton said:
My father works at a top call center for Sprint. He handles early upgrades for customers.
This is what he told me when he got off work:
Sprint is now doing "early buy-upgrades"
***DEPENDING ON HOW FAR OUT YOU ARE FROM YOUR ORIGINAL CONTRACT ENDING*** you pay a fee + the cost of the phone (nationally advertised new customer price, i.e. $199.99 for the Evo LTE).
Example: I asked my dad, I'm 10 months out from my contract ending, how would I go about obtaining the Evo LTE.
Response: If you're within 3 months, $45 early buy upgrade fee. Since you're 10 months out, $95 upgrade fee. This early buy upgrade fee is billed to your account. The cost of the phone, ($199.99) MUST BE PAID UPFRONT. No billing hardware device costs to the account.
In other words, for me (10 months out), it would cost $95 (billed to account) + $199.99 for the Evo LTE (paid upfront).
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I've heard about people doing this but they didn't say anything about having to actually buy the phone right then and there. Hmmm...
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benthe1 said:
I've heard about people doing this but they didn't say anything about having to actually buy the phone right then and there. Hmmm...
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My father told me Sprint STOPPED billing hardware/device costs to accounts. Too much fraud was occurring.
Example: bill the Evo LTE to account, pay early termination fee. You keep phone.

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what people have to remember is that, NOT EVERYONE IS AVAILABLE TO DO SO. this is for select customers (of course, the majority will be eligible, go figure). You need to call and verify that you are available to do so, if you are, you have to make sure you don't have to go through telesales. If they tell you you are, tell them to put notes into your account letting retail stores know that you have chosen this option otherwise they will look at you like your an idiot...just saying. I was a tech for Sprint for a while. I have had to deal with customers all pissed off because some information was lost on the way through word of mouth.. ITS ANNOYING not having all the facts. plus it speeds up your process within the stores... food for thought

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http://insidesprintnow.wordpress.com/2012/06/08/early-upgrade-buy-up-replaced-by-upgrade-now/
Seems to be confirmed

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deadlocked007 said:
So what that is saying is I get $275 towards a new device if I'm less than a year away!!
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Incorrect

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deadlocked007 said:
So what that is saying is I get $275 towards a new device if I'm less than a year away!!
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It says to buy out the contract if your between 18-20 you'll pay 100 which gets biilled and pay upfront the 199.99 for the smart advanced phones non advanced is 50 so....which basically $300 but if u sell your phone then surely it would cost u maybe 150 give or take
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Not sure if anyone knew this, but this was happening last year with the EVO 3D.

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For that price you can go out and Buy a Design or EVO 3D on boost mobile straight up. And have a decent phone with no contract and cheaper bill and it would only continue to go down every 6 months if you paid your bill on time. If you step back and think about it. Its really crazy the things we all do just to get these new phones.......digital heroin

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Or go out and spend $300 for the Virgin Mobile (HTC Evo V 4G) version which comes with Ice Cream Sandwich on it stock. Which is what I did so I spend a whopping $35 a month
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This makes no sense what so ever.. you could loose your plan which sprint will no loner honor. Also extending by two more years? Whats to say a better phone wont come out by the time your contract is up? I'm just saying if you want the upgrade it makes sense to buy it rather than add 2 years.. just my two cents.

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OK this is weird. So I bought an EVO 3D at launch for $199. I expect to get a new phone in 2013.
I get a call from Best Buy on saying I'm eligible for a new phone. I'm like right.. that's next year.. didn't think about it.
Go online to pay my bill.. I see a ! next to my number and it says You qualify for a great price . I click on the link and it takes me to the phones with the 2 year discount pricing.. I click on any of the links and I see a 2 year agreement upgrade discount.
I click on my contract details on my account screen and I see that my contract is up on 6/1/13
So, even though my contract is up next year, I qualify for the 2 year discount price right now.. .
I am confused...

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Great News!
G.Newton said:
My father works at a top call center for Sprint. He handles early upgrades for customers.
This is what he told me when he got off work:
Sprint is now doing "early buy-upgrades"
***DEPENDING ON HOW FAR OUT YOU ARE FROM YOUR ORIGINAL CONTRACT ENDING*** you pay a fee + the cost of the phone (nationally advertised new customer price, i.e. $199.99 for the Evo LTE).
Example: I asked my dad, I'm 10 months out from my contract ending, how would I go about obtaining the Evo LTE.
Response: If you're within 3 months, $45 early buy upgrade fee. Since you're 10 months out, $95 upgrade fee. This early buy upgrade fee is billed to your account. The cost of the phone, ($199.99) MUST BE PAID UPFRONT. No billing hardware device costs to the account.
In other words, for me (10 months out), it would cost $95 (billed to account) + $199.99 for the Evo LTE (paid upfront).
EDIT: In other words, you're essentially paying a scaled fee to reset your eligibility. Of course, if you choose this option, your contract resets, and you won't be eligible again for another 22 months (as usual).
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I know one thing, I was ready to shell out the full price for the EVO 4G LTE but after reading this, I am on calling Sprint tonight to see if I'm eligible and will be upgrading tomorrow if I am.

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I usually only but my phones from Sprint but does best buy have better deals?

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bsoplinger said:
Or go out and spend $300 for the Virgin Mobile (HTC Evo V 4G) version which comes with Ice Cream Sandwich on it stock. Which is what I did so I spend a whopping $35 a month
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How's their service though?
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Virgin Mobile uses the Sprint network to provide their service. I'd think that'd make it identical. My VM Evo V 4G (which is the Evo 3D with a different name) even has the Sprint logo unlike my older VM phone which had the Virgin Mobile branding on it. The $35 plan I mention is their 450 minutes talk "unlimited" internet, which is sort of amusing since the fine print says 3/4G data is limited to 2.5G. But still, I figure I break even vs. Sprint with a Evo 3D is 9 months assuming Sprint gives me the phone for free. Where I live there is no 4G (WiMax) service with LTE nowhere on the horizon so its an excellent choice for me.
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bsoplinger said:
Virgin Mobile uses the Sprint network to provide their service. I'd think that'd make it identical. My VM Evo V 4G (which is the Evo 3D with a different name) even has the Sprint logo unlike my older VM phone which had the Virgin Mobile branding on it. The $35 plan I mention is their 450 minutes talk "unlimited" internet, which is sort of amusing since the fine print says 3/4G data is limited to 2.5G. But still, I figure I break even vs. Sprint with a Evo 3D is 9 months assuming Sprint gives me the phone for free. Where I live there is no 4G (WiMax) service with LTE nowhere on the horizon so its an excellent choice for me.
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This is almost correct... Virgin Mobile runs on the Sprint network, but with limited roaming abilities... So, if you have Sprint, you can roam on Verizon/Alltel, US Cellular, ect... With Virgin Mobile, they don't extend the same roaming contracts. You may be able to roam, but it's much more limited.

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Hell no. I will not pay for early upgrade! I was sold a 4g phone that never saw it! I will let my contract end and go m2m! Last time sprint fists me dry! I wanna be a to leave free and clear once I get fed up with sprint data being unlimited slow! It's like saying drink all you want but use this thimble!!
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if you where to go thru with this early upgrade, would you be able to sell your old phone back to sprint knocking off the price of the new phone? just a rumor not for sure but i hear you could get up to $300 for the 3d.. <===just a rumor dont take my word on that!

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eXplicit815 said:
Not sure if anyone knew this, but this was happening last year with the EVO 3D.
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Yep. I did this back in August 2011 to get my evo3d.