businessinsider.com— The 99-cent offer comes with a two-year contract wth Sprint at $60 per month. So the customer pays $1,440 over two years and Sprint makes a neat net gain of around $1,050 off the deal.
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Holy s**t that is a great idea. I'm serious. Get a new car at a heavy discount, the only catch is you have to use a specific brand of gas for the first 50,000 miles or so! Genius! Maybe also at a premium price? like normal price + 20% or something.I wonder how they would track that. I guess if the car is cheap enough people will sign just about anything, so really gas companies could use a system like onstar to track fill-ups. Of course, it would take a lot of building up of an infrastructure. Maybe GPS could be employed, and marketed as a safety feature.Of course the company would need to make sure you're actually driving the car, instead of just letting it sit in your garage. I guess that would have to be in the contract somewhere.I would seriously take a company up on this deal, and I bet a ton of other people would to. I would want to pick my car though. They're not sticking me with a Hyundai or something.
exxon does not care where you buy your gasoline, they distribute it to everyone. It is nearly a monopoly along with chevron. And I can tell you now revenue wise they make a hell of a lot more than 8 cents a gallon. They make 40 Billion a year on $400 Billion in revenues. They are the equivalent of a small country in OPEC, with all the oil fields they own.
that's exactly what i was thinking. it's just like how verizon is giving away a netbook (or giftcards in the past) for signing up for tv/fios. no one is saying to sign up just for the perks. if you sign up because you genuinely want the service, then it's totally worth it.
im spending 2583.63 over the span of two years=/mine's a little higher though cuz i bought my 8gig 3G when they were still 235...i dont really regret my purchase... but considering ive been recently fired it kind of sucks.
lazyslackerJul 7, 2009
Holy s**t that is a great idea. I'm serious. Get a new car at a heavy discount, the only catch is you have to use a specific brand of gas for the first 50,000 miles or so! Genius! Maybe also at a premium price? like normal price + 20% or something.I wonder how they would track that. I guess if the car is cheap enough people will sign just about anything, so really gas companies could use a system like onstar to track fill-ups. Of course, it would take a lot of building up of an infrastructure. Maybe GPS could be employed, and marketed as a safety feature.Of course the company would need to make sure you're actually driving the car, instead of just letting it sit in your garage. I guess that would have to be in the contract somewhere.I would seriously take a company up on this deal, and I bet a ton of other people would to. I would want to pick my car though. They're not sticking me with a Hyundai or something.
Closed AccountJul 7, 2009
You don't have to have a contract to have a cell phone...Don't be such a victim.
the8thbitJul 7, 2009
You'll never use your data service, because you'll never be in range.f**king Sprint.
bigpappapunkJul 7, 2009
I rarely use my netbook....
petskaJul 7, 2009
exxon does not care where you buy your gasoline, they distribute it to everyone. It is nearly a monopoly along with chevron. And I can tell you now revenue wise they make a hell of a lot more than 8 cents a gallon. They make 40 Billion a year on $400 Billion in revenues. They are the equivalent of a small country in OPEC, with all the oil fields they own.
nipterinkJul 7, 2009
that's exactly what i was thinking. it's just like how verizon is giving away a netbook (or giftcards in the past) for signing up for tv/fios. no one is saying to sign up just for the perks. if you sign up because you genuinely want the service, then it's totally worth it.
t0x2cJul 13, 2009
Ahaha that happened to me, except I only paid $1k for my Maxima. The Bose system is wonderful, but the tires are finally starting to wear down.
Closed AccountOct 30, 2009
im spending 2583.63 over the span of two years=/mine's a little higher though cuz i bought my 8gig 3G when they were still 235...i dont really regret my purchase... but considering ive been recently fired it kind of sucks.