N finally decided to get a smartphone. He spent a week researching smartphones online, and then announced that the cheapest one he could find costs $560 on Amazon, and then you have to unblock it and connect it to your carrier.
“There is very little time left!” he fretted. “I need to have it before our trip to Montreal on the 29th!”
“Do you want to get one for free within the hour?” I asked.
After a long struggle to get him to suspend his disbelief, I took him to the AT&T store, and we walked out with a free smartphone. We also got free HBO as a bonus for the purchase.
It’s so funny that N still feels like he’s in Russia and needs to pay for these things.
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I live in Israel and have no idea how one can get a smartphone for free.
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I don’t know how it works in Israel but here it’s very easy. Unless, of course, you want the latest, fanciest model. Then it’s harder.
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Not sure how it works in Israel, but in the EU phone companies are kinda desperate to lock clients in, so if you sign an X-year-contract (1-2), or if you promise to stay for 1-2 years more, they’ll throw in a free or heavily discounted phone to sweeten the deal.
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Exactly. Even in Canada,where the industry is heavily monopolistic, phones are free.
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