Pixi to be just $24.95 at Wirefly 20
If $100 at Sprint was a deal, and $30 at Walmart a deal, what’s $25? Wirefly, that’s what it is. Online phone retailer Wirefly is launching the Palm Pixi at a price lower than you’ll find anywhere else: $24.95 for new contract customers. Current Sprint customers won’t left out in the cold either - they’ll be able to pick up the Pixi from Wirefly for a mere $99.99 with a renewed contract. Both new customers and current Sprint subscribers will be treated to a rebate-free experience.
It seems that Sprint is really the only place you’ll have to deal with mail-in-rebates, which is a shame as that’s still where most customers will get their phones. But with deals around like this from reputable dealers, there’s little reason to deal with the hassle and cost of buying from Sprint. A new contract customer getting a Pixi from a Sprint store will have to fork over $199.99 out the door and wait weeks to get the $100 rebate back. Getting a Pixi from Wirefly will save you $175 at purchase over Sprint, and at this pricing the Pixi is becoming a dangerous contender in the smartphone sales volume fight.
Note: The Wirefly website will not show the Pixi’s pricing until midnight.
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Hi,
I assume the $99 price would be if you're contract is up and you extend it, yes?
Correct.
But Droid Eris is now only $19.99 on Overstock.com...drats. Palm can't catch a break!
Android is overrated. I had a Samsung Galaxy and it was just awful, so many basic features missing. The UI was consistently clunky and laggy too, not a very pleasant experience. Let's face it, Google aren't known for their UI design and that extends to Android.
Droid Eris is absolute RUBBISH. A Verizon salesman tried to push it on me while I was playing with a Motorola Droid... runs Android 1.3, for crying out loud... and SLOW at that! (You guys thought the HERO was slow? Droid Eris is even WORSE!) Heck, they should offer the Droid Eris FREE of charge.
At least with the Palm Pixi you get a great phone at that price.
i refuse to order phones online because getting a replacement is a BITCH that way. still buying mine from best buy lol (:
Umm... That's a terrible reason to choose where to buy your phone from. Sprint gives you a 1-yr warranty for ANY phone that you bring, so long as it's never been activated on another account before.
Soo... you buy a phone from Amazon, Wirefly, LetsTalk, WalMart, BestBuy, RadioShack, etc... and you get a 1-yr warranty thru Sprint from each & every one of those retailers. Nice to know, eh?
The last time i checked Walmart site the Pixi offer wasnt listed anymore.
You can go to radio shack and start or renew a contract with sprint. And recieve the no rebate hassle.
However if my wife goes to a Sprint stoer they will take all her contacts off her Treo 755p and put them into her Palm profile. So she walks out of the store with her contacts on her Pixi (this was what Sprint did ffor me when i got my pre in June, as well). Can Best Buy or The Shack do this as well? 'Cause if not then I (and she) would rather wait for the rebate than have to put all those contacts in by hand.
when I bought my Pre, I got it from Best Buy. So I simply bought my Pre, then took my old phone (LG Musiq) to the Sprint Store and they got my numbers in for free. Weeeeee
They can do that... just make sure she syncs her contacts to GOOGLE. Palm Profile has lost a few peoples' contacts and they're NOT happy.
Sprint's rebate system is really crappy. I bought my Pre in July and I still don't have my rebate. I called them about a week ago to check the status on the fax that the Sprint store sent them with my receipt about two weeks. They never got the fax (even though the store got a fax return confirmation fax), and so they finally said he would manually approve my rebate over the phone. But, their systems have been "very busy" so it won't be able to be mailed for 30-45 business days. So yeah, if you really intend to get that rebate, it seems it's a fight.
This is great, except it will end up being $55, because you have to pay $36 in activation fees.
if you search for " palm pixi " on wirefly, th price appears as 24.99 , http://www.wirefly.com/search/all/palm+pixi/?referringdomain=wirefly I have a question, if I upgrade what would be the price..?
What's the deal with these huge price discrepancies from place to place? I don't get it. One place says $99.00 while another says $25. It feels very used car salesmanish. There is clearly a lot of fine print, and the terms and conditions, service, fees, and warranties can't be the same. Then there are rebates, some, instant, some maybe never. How much do you need to walk out of the store with one of these and what will your contract actually look like? Does this kind of retail shell game bother anyone?
Apple would never allow this kind of game to be played with one of their products, but what about the others? Is this just standard practice with major brands, or am I just out of the loop and behind the times? As a consumer, it feels wrong. What am I missing?
Umm... first off, the warranties are the same across the board for Sprint phones. As long as it's brand new (i.e. - never been activated on a Sprint account before), then you get a 1-yr warranty thru Sprint. That's all you need to know.
Some retailers might add activation fee and/or shipping & handling... but a call to Sprint will usually get the activation fee waived for you.
"Apple would never allow this kind of game to be played with one of their products, but what about the others? Is this just standard practice with major brands, or am I just out of the loop and behind the times? As a consumer, it feels wrong. What am I missing?"
Palm and "Pixi" are about to be common in society because of this. Just part of the game that has to be played nowadays.
"Palm and Pixi are about to be common in society because of this."
I would say this is still unlikely in the short term. The Pre has only helped slow the exodus of customers from Sprint in the short term, but has no moved it in the other direction (gaining a net of new customers instead of a gross of new customers offset by people defecting to AT&T and Verizon).
Whatever the value Pixi offers, Sprint is still repulsive to a lot of people for various reasons. The vast majority of sales for Pre Phones and Heros and such are still to pre-existing Sprint customers, and these peeps won't be getting these outrageously cheap $30 and $35 deals. They'd have to pay the normal $99/$199 out of the door, and that makes this less a LOT less of a value compared to the Pre.
I ordered a Pixi through Wirefly yesterday. My order status says they're out of stock. Good news if that means they've had a lot of orders! I'm buying a Pixi for my daughter for Christmas, so I can wait a few days.