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Sabtu, 25 Januari 2014

Cell Phone Deals

from Greg
Last week tablet certified reported on a great deal that Best Buy had on Galaxy phone. You can read that story HERE. Well the deals are getting better and better. Cricket announced 5 lines for $100 a month family plan and Aio is matching the Best Buy offer with a sale on devices featuring Samsung Galaxy smartphones starting at $49.99.

from Cricket

Cricket Helps Families Save in 2014 with "5 Smartphone Lines for $100"

As New Year's resolutions to save money linger and tax season approaches, Cricket Wireless is launching the best value multi-line plan ever – up to five smartphone lines for $100 per month. This new offer, along with "The Nation's Best Trade-In" program from Cricket (also announced today), will be available to new and current Cricket Wireless customers beginning this Sunday, January 26, 2014 at company-owned stores and premier dealers. Customers can enjoy unlimited talk, text, music and one gigabyte of full-speed data for as little as $20 per line.

Compared to other multi-line discounts, this new plan offers twice as much full-speed data and at least one more phone line than other carriers. Customers can save even more by signing up for Automatic Bill Pay, saving them an additional five dollars a month per account. That's just $95 for five smartphone lines.

"Our goal is to relentlessly advocate for our customers and help them save money so they can do more of what matters," said Julie Dexter Berg, chief marketing officer at Cricket.  "Our '5 Smartphone Lines for $100' plan, combined with 'The Nation's Best Trade-In' program, provides them the most affordable monthly plan and best bang for the buck for each phone so they can get the very best mobile experience."

Cricket's multi-line plans also include Muve Music, the first complete music experience created for the mobile phone. Muve Music gives Cricket customers unlimited access to more than 17 million songs that they can download directly to their phone and enjoy anytime – even offline or out of network – as part of their mobile plan, without using their data allotment or incurring additional charges.

About Cricket
Cricket is the pioneer and leader in delivering innovative value-rich prepaid wireless services with no long-term contracts. Cricket offers nationwide wireless voice and mobile data services over high-quality, all-digital 4G LTE and 3G CDMA wireless networks. Cricket's innovative products and services, including the award-winning Muve Music® - the first music service designed for a wireless phone, are available nationwide at Cricket branded retail stores, dealers, national retailers and at www.mycricket.com. For more information about Cricket, please visit www.mycricket.com.

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from Aio
Aio announced today a sale on devices featuring Samsung Galaxy smartphones starting at $49.99.

Until March 13, new customers activating Aio service can get the Samsung Galaxy Amp TM for $49.99 (normally priced at $129.99); the Samsung Galaxy Express TM for $199.99 (normally priced at $249.99); or the Samsung Galaxy S4 for 529.99 (normally priced at $579.99).  These devices, combined with Aio's first-class service on a reliable 4G nationwide network, are now available with no-annual contract through dealer-owned Aio Wireless stores as well as online to all U.S. customers.

Aio customers may also choose from a wide selection of smartphones, tablets, and feature phones from ZTE, Samsung, Nokia, and others. Customers may bring a device they love to an Aio store for activation on the Aio network or activate online at www.aiowireless.com.  Or, they may bring a qualifying wireless phone to an Aio store to trade-in for a credit towards an upgraded phone or accessory.

Aio customers may also now take advantage of Aio's newly launched Refer-A-Friend Program, which will reward $25 in Referral Rewards to each new qualifying customer recommended by an existing Aio customer.  In addition, qualifying existing Aio customers will also receive $25 in Referral Rewards for each successful referral that comes to Aio.   

Aio makes wireless easy with a friendly in-store and online experience and three simple plans from which to choose from. All three plans include unlimited talk, text, and data—with a pre-established amount of high-speed access, including 4G LTE.  Plans range from $40 to $70 per month, taxes and fees included.

"We are thrilled to offer this Samsung Galaxy smartphone sale as we kick off the New Year," said Andy Smoak, head of Product and Marketing. "Now it's more affordable than ever to get a Samsung Galaxy smartphone with prices starting at $49.99 for new activations running on our reliable 4G nationwide network," he added.

For more information visit www.aiowireless.com, or like us on Facebook and follow us on www.twitter.com/aiowireless.

About Aio Wireless 
Aio Wireless (pronounced A-O) was created for today's value-conscious connected consumers who want it all.  We created a new class of service for individuals who expect a first class wireless service at a value price - one with no-annual contract, friendly service, uncomplicated plans and the mobile phones and tablets you love.   All of Aio's phone plans include unlimited talk, text, and data, with taxes and fees included - the price you see is the price you pay. Aio Wireless is a subsidiary of AT&T Inc.  Visit www.aiowireless.com to find out more.

Aio's plan pricing includes applicable state and local taxes, and fees. Each unlimited plan includes a pre-established amount of high-speed-data access, and service is subject to Aio's Terms and Conditions of Service and Unreasonable Use Policy. Coverage and services are not available everywhere.
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Kamis, 16 Januari 2014

RANT Best Buy

from Greg
I hate the Best Buy in Murfreesboro TN. The address: 2615 Medical Center Pkwy Murfreesboro, TN 37129. Avoid if at all possible. Drive to Franklin or Nashville. You have been warned. I have promised myself I will not go back multiple times but eventually find myself picking up something I can't wait on Amazon to ship. There is a 50% chance I will leave mad.

Other Best Buy stores are wonderful. My wife and I had the best shopping experience of our lives at the old Hickory Hollow Best Buy where we bought a refrigerator and gas stove. After a disappointing trip to a scratch and dent Sears warehouse we stopped by the store on a whim as we headed home. We got a better deal on new appliances than Sears was offering on refurbished items. My wife wrote a letter to Best Buy telling them how pleased she was. They delivered and installed exactly as promised.

Further I have visited the Knoxville and Destin Best Buys numerous times and have always had a pleasant shopping experience. It is just the Mufreesboro store that is the odd man out, the rotten apple, and the party pooper.

Why do I hate the store so much? A few examples:
- A store associate told me they were out of stock on a Pico projector. The inventory system is usually correct so I asked him to check the back. He refused. REFUSED! I knew the store pretty well so I poked around and found 3 of them in the TV department. A $600 purchase. I talked to the store manager and said it was an 'unexcusable mistake'.

- Picked up item off the shelf went to the front of the store to the cash registers where no one was working. I stood there with another customer for 5 minutes until the door security guy said we would have to checkout at the customer service desk. 10 minute wait in line at the customer service desk behind someone returning an item. The whole time I watch two Best Buy employees in the camera department (two employees in cameras? what is this 1985?) talking to each other. As I left the store there was still no one running a register. I worked retail for 17 years. RULE NUMBER ONE someone works the register every minute the store is open. RULE NUMBER TWO if three people are at each open register open another register.

- Went in to upgrade cell phone. Took an early lunch to avoid a crowd. When I got to the store the one person working in cell phones was a Verizon employee and they were helping a customer. I waited 20 minutes. The Verizon employee never addressed me or even looked at me. Guess what? The whole time two guys stood in the camera department talking to each other. Not one customer ever went into the camera area. The same customer was being helped and two new people were waiting to be helped when I gave up. Needing to get back to work happened upon the store manager as I left, who I told about the issue. He agreed it was terrible but he didn't have any other trained people scheduled to work for another hour so I was SOL (Google it).

I have many more. So it is with glee I predict that Best Buy will be closing stores by the end of the year and completely shuttered by 2019.


from Mashable
Best Buy Stock Plummets 30% After Disappointing Holiday Sales

Best Buy's efforts to combat showrooming and lure shoppers into stores during the holidays with aggressive promotions appear to have backfired.


The electronics retailer announced Thursday morning that sales at comparable stores — stores open for at least 14 months — declined by 0.8% for the nine week period ending Jan. 5. That came in well below estimates as analysts had expected Best Buy's sales to grow this holiday season.

Investors reacted by sending the stock down sharply. Best Buy was down by more than 30% at one point in pre-market trading Thursday.

Read the full story HERE


Best Buy store. Image is cropped.
from Slate
Best Buy Shares Collapsing After Bad Holiday Sales


Best Buy shares were tumbling by 30 percent or more in pre-market trading Thursday morning on holiday sales data* that painted a bleak portrait of the big-box electronics retailer's holiday fortunes. The key takeaway is that U.S. comparable store sales fell 0.9 percent in the nine weeks ending Jan. 4, 2014, with CEO Hubert Joly saying that "aggressive promotional activity in the retail industry during the holiday period" cut into everyone's sales.

In other words, Best Buy and others cut prices to try to stay competitive with Amazon and margins suffered as a result.

I don't exactly want to dance on Best Buy's grave here. Lots of people work in Best Buy shops and it's sad that when any company struggles, innocent people end up losing their jobs. Just look at these J.C. Penney layoffs. At the same time, the Joly-era revival of Best Buy's fortunes during most of 2013 was a genuine economic feel-bad story. Great companies succeed by offering great value propositions to their customers, win-win transactions where everyone ends up happy. Joly boosted Best Buy's share price by slashing costs while maintaining reliance on upselling customers to overpriced accessories. It's a pernicious business model that offers neither the efficiencies of Amazon's e-commerce nor the intensive customer service of the independent electronics retailers that Best Buy displaced. The top performing stocks of 2013 generally painted an optimistic portrait of the American economy. The exception was Best Buy's 239 percent increase.

Read the full story HERE


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from Reuters
Best Buy Co Inc (BBY.N) shares fell nearly 29 percent on Thursday after the world's largest consumer electronics chain reported a drop in holiday sales despite offering deep discounts.

The retailer also forecast a bigger-than-expected decline in operating margins for the quarter covering the biggest selling season of the year.

The company cited intense discounting by rivals, tight supplies of phones and high-end tablets, and weak traffic in December for the disappointing report. This was the latest evidence that holiday sales at many chains came at the expense of profit.

The news also dragged down shares of consumer electronics peers such as RadioShack Corp (RSH.N) and Hhgregg Inc (HGG.N).

"It just seems that the promotions did not drive incremental sales, that opening on Thanksgiving just added costs," Janney Capital Markets analyst David Strasser said.

Adding to the pressure on Best Buy, he said, was the "promotional cadence of troubled retailers" like Sears (SHLD.O), Toys R Us Inc and smaller electronics chains.

Best Buy cut prices sharply to thwart competition from Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N) and other rivals in what turned to be one of the most promotional seasons since the recession.

Chief Financial Officer Sharon McCollam said the company planned to remain price-competitive in January as well.

Best Buy now expects operating margin, excluding items, to be 175 to 185 basis points lower in the fourth quarter ending February 1 than a year earlier. Credit Suisse analyst Gary Balter said that outlook was well below Wall Street expectations.

The discounting, however, boosted Best Buy's market share at a time when overall industry sales fell, Chief Executive Officer Hubert Joly said, citing data from NPD Group.

Best Buy's sales at stores open at least 14 months were down 0.9 percent in the United States and up 0.1 percent internationally in the nine weeks ended January 4. Total revenue fell about 2.6 percent to $11.45 billion.

Declines in sales of digital imaging, movies, MP3 players and other products more than offset strong demand for computers, appliances and gaming devices, the company said.

Best Buy's online segment was a bright spot in the otherwise weak report. Domestic online revenue was $1.32 billion, and comparable online sales rose 23.5 percent.

During the most recent holiday season, Best Buy offered free shipping for online orders of more than $25 and made its website easier to navigate.

The company also shipped directly from more than 400 stores this season to compete better with the likes of Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Wal-Mart. It is now expanding that service to its 1,000 big box stores, Best Buy said on Thursday.

Shares of Best Buy were down 28.9 percent at $26.70 in early trading.

(Reporting by Dhanya Skariachan; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe and Lisa Von Ahn)

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Selasa, 14 Januari 2014

Uncle David gets a Galaxy


from Greg
My Uncle David Adkins called me last night looking for advice on what cell phone to get now that his is eligible for an upgrade. After considering options from iPhone to Android and from the Verizon store to Best Buy he found an amazing deal in a Samsung Galaxy S4. Best Buy had a special and was sell the S4 for $1 and the S3 for $49 with a contract renewal.

Th is a GREAT deal. The phone is highly recommended and state of the art. It has a 1080i screen and a quad core processor with 2 gigs of dedicated memory. That is more computing power than an entry level PC.

If you are eligible for an upgrade I don't think you can do better than this deal!

from CNET
Read the full review HERE

The good: The Samsung Galaxy S4 has Android 4.2.2, a fantastic camera, a powerful quad-core processor, and software solutions for just about every scenario -- including working as a TV/DVR remote. It's also comfortable in hand and has NFC, a user-replaceable battery, and a microSD storage slot.

The bad: Its screen is dimmer than competitors', its plastic design gives it a cheaper look than its rivals, and we found the Galaxy S4's power button turned on at undesirable times. Not all camera modes work as promised, and a long list of software features can quickly overwhelm and confuse.

The bottom line: Its laundry list of features require time and effort to truly master, but the Galaxy S4 is the top choice for anyone looking for a big-screen, do-everything smartphone.

from Samsung
Read the full product description HERE

It takes a lot of things to be The Next Big Thing - 5" Full HD Super AMOLED™ display, 13MP camera, touch-free way to navigate, and Easy Mode for simplified use.

Capture every moment with Slow Motion video recording – no video editing tools necessary. Slow down or speed up all the action using the Galaxy S 4 Slow Motion and Fast Motion camera modes. Simply choose your mode, select your speed and start recording.

Capture moments with the 13MP autofocus camera. Take simultaneous front and back photos with Dual Camera, edit them right on your phone with Eraser Shot and relive the memories in brilliant clarity with Story Album.
See 11 Camera Tips for Your Galaxy S 4

Experience a whole new way to interact with your smartphone. Wave your hand at the screen to accept calls with Air Gesture, read content by tilting your head or phone with Smart Scroll and preview content by barely touching the screen with Air View™.

It's easy to connect, work or play with the Galaxy S 4. With Group Play, you can connect up to 8 phones wirelessly to play games and share your favorite tunes, photos, and documents — no Wi-Fi necessary.

View all your content on a stunning 5-inch Full HD Super AMOLED™ display that's powered by a robust 1.9GHz quad-core processor — all in a light 0.29LB smartphone.

Easy Mode is a setting you can use to simplify your home screen with bigger icons and your favorite apps, so you can take your time to discover the amazing world of your new Galaxy S4.

With WatchON™ you can change the TV channel from your phone. Also, get a custom TV guide that shows what you like to watch. With Samsung Hub, you can watch more music, movies and games with one app and one sign-in.
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