Verizon Pre Plus and Pixi Plus, one penny apiece on Amazon 31
Fri, 16 Apr 2010 9:12 am EDT 
If you were thinking that the Buy One Get One Free deal still running at Verizon was a good deal, but not good enough for you, we’ll happily direct you towards the fine digital folks at Amazon. The online mega retailer is now selling both the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus for, get this, one cent. Of course, that’s with a new two-year contract, but upfront it’s always fun to know that you can pay more in shipping than for the device itself. Except that the two-year contract also comes with free two-day shipping (you can pay more for faster times, if you’re into that sort of thing). So you're looking at a grand total of $0.01 upfront.
And if a new contract isn’t your thing (you still need one to activate the phone, unless you want to go all MetaDoctor on it), you can grab an off-contract Pre Plus for $619.99 or a Pixi Plus for $379.99 - or you can even upgrade your phone on contract through Amazon now. Sweet deals abound. As you may expect, this deal is more thank likely for a limited (and publicly undefined) time, so if you want to jump on the webOS bandwagon for super-cheap, now's the time.
[via: webOSroundup]
Thanks to Complex Pants for the tip!
31 Comments
wow
talk about a bargain. early adopter myself, oh well.
Man, if I didn't want to pay more monthly with Verizon, and pay the early termination fee on Sprint, I would totally do this. /sadface
I hope/wish that when pre-2 is about to come out, one can get pre plus or atleast pre for 50-70 dollars without upgrading the contract or loosing your eligibilty for upgrade.
its a $600 phone. Maybe in six years you'll get it for 50 bucks. Buy a used one off ebay if you want it cheap with no contract.
If you read my post, when (or close to) pre-2 comes out, people would stop buying pre and pre plus. Then it would make sense to sell pre and pre plus a lot cheaper to get rid of the inventory.
Of course in the forum someone was saying that some sprint stores are running out, possibly a harbinger of a pre-2 coming to Sprint? Odds are they will get inventory down to enough for warranty replacements before rolling out a new phone and you will still have to buy used to get one cheep.
I'm kind of hoping this is the case. It would be nice to have a new device on Sprint, and burn through the current stock of "launch" devices on Sprint. Although who wants to pay full price for a "launch" Pre, and then have the next gen device come out for roughly the same price shortly there after? It's a weird position, in my mind.
Can you do that now with any phone? Don't think so. Have fun daydreaming though.
if only it were on sprint. another sadface
Agree, to change carriers solely for the sake of getting an improved version of the phone I already have (and paying more monthly) seems silly, even if the phone is for $.01. It's a great deal, I just wish there was some kind of update to the Sprint version so I could upgrade without moving. I really have no interest in moving to Verizon, as much fun as mobile hotspot is.
Cmon Sprint. You get the "new" phone and what happens?? You drop it like its hot all because Palm added Verizon as a distributor??!!! LAME.. Get with it Sprint. Verizon had a slow start, but they didn't quit advertising.. Do something Sprint....
Sprint you need to cut prices and start marketing heavily again!!
I agree with this completely. You never see Sprint ads with the Pre anymore. Palm lived up to their end of the deal - exclusiveness until January. Sprint dropped the ball with advertising.
Sprint should definitely drop the price of the original, slightly outdated Pre to $50 or $100 at the worst. And I'd like to see more Palm ads from Sprint. Even Verizon's Mom ads were more attractive, IMO.
The best I can find currently is through letstalk.com http://www3.letstalk.com/product/promo.htm?devicePrId=35030
Sprint Palm Pre for $59.99 with new service (since I'm looking to switch from Verizon to save on the monthly cost.)
Edit: And the Sprint version is $79.99 through Amazon.
I love how one of the user photos shows the virtual keyboard. And the 5x4 patch for the launcher showing Preware. Think that will mess with someone buying the phone who's not familiar with precentral and webosinternals? =)
Sprint needs to drop prices and advertise more. When the Pre came out, it got bad reviews. Now with all the OTA updates, the Pre has come a far way. Open your eyes sprint. Well, i hope some one from Palm reads this and directs it to Sprint. lol.. Maybe Sprint's just too blind. Just my 2 cents..
...clearing out inventory in advance of an EOL.
Sad but true.
What's an EOL?
End Of Life. Discontinuing the product.
Equipment overload??
If the Pre is one cent then the Pixi really should be 1/2 cent or 2 for a penny.
@morrison0880: Also the GameBoy emulator and Quake. Great!
I saw that. I think the user put the screenshots up there on purpose. I do believe I'll share my own on there. Putting them in there now. Anyone want to join me?
If this was an EOL discount I think you would see the .01 price from Verizon.com before Amazon
The Amazon Customer reviews are awesome.
How in the world is the non-plus version still $149 at Sprint?
I hate when they advertise a penny for the Pre Plus when in fact if your already a Verizon customer you have to pay $50 actually to upgrade. I just hate it when places do this. This is something Best Buy seems to be pretty good about. They sell most of their phones with the same upgrade price as new customer price!
Reading Thrasher's comment makes me glad i'm on sprint. Reading mgiven's comment makes me feel like an idiot for getting duped by Sprint.
damn. shit is real with vzw. you got to admit, they're trying to undo the droid chaos and unleash some webOS goodness...
The off-contract Pixi Plus is still locked to Verizon, right? So there's no chance of me getting it to activate on Sprint? (And even if the phone would let me, would Sprint do it? And would they force me to use the more expensive WebOS plan?) Would appreciate any first-hand knowledge of this.
I'm surprised they're the same price. I've seen rebates on phones sometimes offering you money back, so I would have thought the Pixi Plus would offer ~$20-30 back instead of being the same price as the Pre.
ex palm ceo colligan on the suggestion the pre should cost less than 200 bucks to be a real competitor to the iphone: "Why would we do that when we have a significantly better product?"
now they have to give them away in bargain bins.
what is it with palm's management and investors that they can't keep their traps shut?
karma's a bitch, eh?