So I've had my Motorola Z Play for about 4 years. It's been a great phone! It's virtually indestructible, and it had an amazing battery life. Problem is, it was starting to slow down, and took a half-dozen seconds to do anything, and had some serious lag.
It was time for an upgrade.
I recently started working at one of the big service providers for Canada, and noticed they gave employee discounts. I took a look around, and they had a phone plan on sale that was about thirty dollars more than what I'm currently paying, but with the employee discount cutting that in half, I'd be paying roughly 83% of the same cost for three times the data, and an unlimited 'low speed' mode after that. (I was paying 50$+tax a month for 8GB of data. The new plan was 85$+tax for 25 GB with unlimited 'low speed' usage after the data maxed out)
A great deal overall!
Deciding to upgrade the phone at the same time, I saw they had a deal on a cheap Moto G Stylus, 5$/month for 24 months, with the retail price being 350$. The employee discount doesn't apply to phone financing, but I'd be paying almost a third of the retail price for a new phone, so I thought it was a decent deal. Comparing specs, the Stylus was actually a bit better than my Z Play.
So I call in to the customer line, and get talking to the agent. He's real calm, because he knows I'm a fellow employee, so he doesn't have to stress about being pandering. He gets the new phone plan added to my internet account, and then we move onto actually buying the phone.
I tell him what I want, and he's all like "Wait a minute, I might have something better!" so he puts me on hold, and comes back after a little bit, and tells me that he was checking the pricing system. He tells me how we just got a huge overstock of Motorola phones, but they weren't selling well, so there's a MASSIVE discounted price on them, 70$ off the monthly financing price.
The Phone in question: Motorola Edge+.
The retail price: 1499.99$. They were going for 15$ a month for 2 years.
If you're math-shy, that comes out to 360$, or about 22% of the retail price on the phone.
Which is just... ridiculous.
Then we get into add-ons. Turns out, the deal we had at Christmas time where you could get a free tablet with a new phone purchase was still going! So I also got a 250$ tablet for free, with a free data access on it so I can use the phone line data on the tablet wherever I want, too!
At the end of the day, I'm only paying about ~9$ more a month than I was before. I got a phone better than an Iphone 12 for dirt cheap, a free tablet, and a phone plan that was much better than what I had before.
So yeah, I'm having a good week.
February 24, 2021 at 12:10AM
