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Question about sim card costs
August 27, 2009
7:17 am
quartzster
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Seems to be most posts are selling sim cards for $30 or more. If one buys $100 worth of minutes you get the current phones for half price. The least expensive phone is $59, therefore the cost of the sim that comes with it is just less than $30. For those that want $100 worth of minutes why would they want to buy a sim for $30 or more when they can also get the phone for the same price?

I can understand buying the sim privately when you do not want $100 worth of minutes.

Am I missing something here?

August 27, 2009
7:54 am
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For those that want $100 worth of minutes why would they want to buy a sim for $30 or more when they can also get the phone for the same price?

Because they already have a phone that they'd rather use instead of the cheap one from SO. (Admittedly they could sell that phone privately, however, unlike in the "old days" new phones are locked.)

August 27, 2009
1:02 pm
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quartzster said:

Seems to be most posts are selling sim cards for $30 or more. If one buys $100 worth of minutes you get the current phones for half price. The least expensive phone is $59, therefore the cost of the sim that comes with it is just less than $30. For those that want $100 worth of minutes why would they want to buy a sim for $30 or more when they can also get the phone for the same price?

I can understand buying the sim privately when you do not want $100 worth of minutes.

Am I missing something here?


I could never understand this logic. If I want new SIM card I would never buy from this or other site. Just Buy new Phone.
But that's me.