What, We Can Negotiate in a Mobile Phone Contract and

What, We Can Negotiate in a Mobile Phone Contract and Bill?

In November, Verizon announced that if you had a smart phone plan with them, and if you wanted to jump ship to another carrier the fine was going to start to be twice as expensive. The typical mobile phone contract is an absolute puzzle that even to certified economists, they are entertaining brainteasers. Well, if you have a mobile phone contract that you are ready to leave for another, but early termination findings are gumming up the works, let's look at some of the best tricks there are to negotiating to bring down the price on your mobile phone contract, and stepping around some problems. If you have a habit of using your work cellphone for most of your social calling, maybe you don't really realize how much you spend. If a $100 charge is all you've ever run up on your personal cellphone, you should try making all your personal calls on it just one month, to see how it racks your bill up. You would probably get something in excess of $500 without the company phone picking up the slack.

I had my hours cut at work recently, and I switched to using my own phone most of the time, and I did find that this happened to me. I right away called Verizon, and gave them my story. They were understanding, and they even offered to let me change my mobile phone contract, and take away some of the add-ons I had that were really costing me next month. But the fees that were for the month already gone, she couldn't help me with. And then I thought of telling her how Verizon was still too expensive for me, and how I wanted to try the scene over at AT&T instead. Her tone of voice changed immediately, and she asked to 'go check with her supervisor'. And would you believe it, she right away came back and said it would be possible to cancel those extra add-on fees after all for the month gone by.

For some reason the cell phone companies live in mortal fear of having you switch to another company, and will always bend the rules for you. All you need to do to put a little substance in your veiled threat; you could study other companies' plans a little bit to be able to throw a few impressive-looking facts around, and you're set. In fact, if you just make it a call about canceling your entire contract right away, you get to speak to the cancellation department, and they are authorized to make you lots of special offers for the privilege of keeping your custom. But whatever you do, when you speak to cell phone rep.s, make sure you get everybody's name and that you drop them liberally when you speak to anyone else. Lowering what you pay for your mobile phone contract has turned into a proper marketing method for all the wireless companies. Virgin Mobile has advertised that they won't be billing people who have trouble at work any service charges, and Verizon advertises that if you have lost your job or something, they do want to help you keep your phone because how else are you going to get your next job. Basically, in today's environment everyone knows that there is trouble keeping up with the bills. And so they would rather work with you to help you have some kind of service, rather than none at all.