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Holiday shopping is almost over and we did great.
This holiday season was supposed to be great because at&t stated to us that we would be getting the Apple iPhone in the early part of November. We are not able to sell the Apple iPhone until at&t makes some changes in our contract allowing us to authorized to sell the Apple iPhone. If we are caught selling the iPhone we are in breach of our contract and may lose our at&t dealership. November came and went with no iPhone for any at&t indirect agents. This hurt in this economy, not able to sell the most sought after mobile phone in history. We turn away scores of potential customers because we don’t carry the device that everyone wants.
Luckily for us the new Blackberry Bold 9700 was released at the end of November. We are Blackberry experts at our store locations so when it was to be released on November 22nd we had already been selling since November 18th. We were picking up in sales at the end of November but we started off so slow we would not reach our goal for the last quarter. Then the Blackberry devices were dropped in price for the holidays and the buying frenzy begun. We still have 2 days left before Christmas and we surpassed or sales goal already. The Blackberry and the reduced price helped us throughout the season. We are thankful for the help we got but still resentful for not having the iPhone. I can only imagine what our sales would have been if we had the Apple iPhone in our stores for the holidays. I know one thing the at&t corporate stores would have suffered because there customer service sucks.
Now we can only hope for the best in 2010. The Android phones and the new Sony Ericsson PDA phone will help shake up the market spurring sales and I know we will eventually carry the iPhone. Next year look for new at&t plans with expanded mobile to mobile with all carriers like Sprint is offering now and more non contract offerings.
Blackberry 9700 sale at AT&T
I hear on December 4th AT&T his having a sale on the Blackberry 9700 for $149.99 with a $100 mail in rebate. I will verify in the morning but this is my link to AT&T so please click here to go to AT&T cell phone home page. The Blackberry 9700 on att.com is $99 after rebate.
It is confirmed we are selling the blackberry 9700 for $100 after mail-in rebate in our stores in South Florida. That’s a great deal for the latest 3G Blackberry for at&t the only wireless provider with Rollover minutes. I have two South Florida stores one in Miami off the Palmetto and 40th street and in Weston on Weston road and Commerce blvd. Call me for details 754-273-5544
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Watch this video I took from the Blackberry Bold 9700 at Universal Studios.
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Refurbished cell phones on at&t.com have a 90 day warranty but you may add insurance for $4.99 a month with a $50 deductible that covers loss, stolen, water damage and basically anything. You are allowed two claims per year. The Apple iPhone is the only cell phone on AT&T that can not have insurance added.
Blackberry Bold 9700
We just got the Blackberry Bold 9700 today for at&t and so far today we sold about 20. The cost on at&t from me in the store is $450 non contract, $299 with $100 rebate with 2 year contract new or upgrade and $350 with $100 rebate early upgrade. Early upgrades can be done after completing six months of any new contract if you have not done an early upgrade within a year and if you did an early upgrade you can do one every year.
We are limited with the amount of non contract phones we can sell at the beginning because we would like to have our customers whom been waiting for the new Bold and are doing a new contract or upgrade to come first.
Call me at 754-273-5544 if you would like to pick up a Blackberry 9700 in Dade or Broward county Florida. I will check your account to tell you if you can do an upgrade and I will go over you plan to try and save you money$$$. Check out my online deals for the new Blackberry 9700 for at&t and T-Mobile.
AT&T retailers will have a hard time this holiday season
So far this month has been extremely slow for us. We have 2 AT&T retail stores in South Florida, one in Miami and another in Weston. Both stores are rated very high in customer service and we are proud of our achievement but customer service does not pay the bills. Selling new activations for cell phones, U-verse, home phones, Direct TV and DSL pays the bills. Consumers are still not used to coming into a AT&T cell phone store to order home services and not everyone has U-verse available in there neighborhood. So our main business is still cell phone sales.
I hate to repeat myself but if we had the iPhone we would double our business but AT&T corporate will not let that happen until after the holiday season. What will happen on Black Friday is everyone will rush to the malls and the big box stores to get those great deals offered but the AT&T indirect dealers can not match deals that a national big box store can. Those big box stores can lose money or break even on the cell phone deal hoping that while you are in the store you will purchase other items, maybe a T.V. or computer. Whatever deals AT&T retailers can offer is at the mercy of AT&T they can raise the price or lower the price of our inventory and offer discounts as they please. I believe the industry is about to have a shake up, a lot of stores will close and the few that are left will not be as profitable like back in the days. When I first started selling cell phones companies like Cellular One and Bellsouth Mobility were paying $750+ commission per new activation now its 1/6 of that if you are lucky. I am lucky I can compete with any cell phone deal with my online cell phone stores.
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Blackberry new Bold 2
The new Blackberry Bold 2 will be available in my store November 9th. The price should be comparable to the Bold now but I really do not know the exact price until a few more days. I am predicting it will be $300 after mail in rebate. The Bold now is $200 after mail in rebate. The Bold will also have a new color it will be available in white, now that’s the older Bold not the new one.
I have a recommendation for all Blackberry users please back up your device. The software that came in the book will allow you to do this easily, as soon as you open the program you will see an icon saying back up and restore. Click that icon then connect your Blackberry device. The back up icon will back up all your contacts, email, sms, speed dials, bookmarks, Blackberry messenger contacts and more. The file can be saved in any folder on your computer. When you get your new Blackberry, you will go through the first couple of steps but instead of clicking back up you will click restore. For those of you who lost your disk you can download the software at www.blackberry.com on the left you will see desktop software click that and then follow the prompts. They even have new software for MAC users.
We will back up any one device and keep a copy on our servers in our at&t store in 2242 Weston Road Weston Florida or 7136 Bird Road Miami Florida. Call me if you want to set up an appointment at 7542735544 we will also take orders for the new Blackberry Bold 2 and any other at&t device. We also sell all at&t home services like U-verse, DSL, Direct TV and home phones.
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At&t agents selling the iPhone
I was so happy when at&t told us we were finally going to sell the Apple iPhone in our stores last month. This would be just in time for the holidays, I was worried business has been slow and this would boost business tremendously. We turn away at least 5 people a day to the at&t corporate stores or the Apple store because we do not sell the Apple iPhone. This Apple iPhone has been the top selling cell phone for the last few years but at&t indirect agents like ourselves could not sell the phone or they would lose there license to sell at&t products. It was two slaps in the face when Best Buy and Wallmart got to sell the iPhone before us.
At&t had made an agreement with Apple so the indirect agents could not carry the Apple iPhone. I assume because it would keep the iPhone an exclusive product but that’s my assumption. We have been waiting impatiently for our chance to carry the most profitable item that at&t has carried in years but we just got slap again. We were told only one select indirect agent would get the phone this year. I will not name that agent but they do have over 20 stores in South Florida and we only have 2. It did not matter our stores was rated best in customer service, best in customer satisfaction and the best for customer repeat business. The one agent that will get the Apple iPhone was not as half as good as us but they do have pull because of the amount of stores they have. The at&t corporate stores were rated lowest on this scale for customer satisfaction and return business. I guess why would you go to an at&t corporate store that the employees are not knowledgeable and there customer service skills suck unless there was a product like the Apple iPhone that you only could get there.
We were told now next year in January we would be able to carry the Apple iPhone after the holiday season had ended. I hope the Google Android phones kicks Apples ass and when Verizon get the Apple products and I hope Verizon keeps on kicking at&t ass. Sorry at&t you don’t have any loyalty to your agents who do most of your business.
U-verse customer service
My U-verse has a technical support which is a 24/7 free phone support. If a tech has to come out to the house its a $55 charge that I learned the hard way. When they hooked up my Uverse television and internet they changed my wireless network and I could not use it. I did call the technical support on the phone to see what we could do to get it running, after 30 minutes on the phone they said they had to send a tech out to repair it. The tech came out and changed my network settings back to what I had before and everything worked again. It was not until my next bill that I saw the $55 charge. I called and said that no one told me I would be charged and it was there fault that the network was not properly set up before, they eventually credited my account for the $55. That was the first issue with U-verse technical support a few nights back my internet was running slow. I was getting between 3.0 and 12.3 Megs. I have U300 television and U-verse 18 Megs internet, so I called technical support late at night around 3am. The representative was from a call center most likely in India from her accent. We cleared a lot of files on my computer and on the U-verse system, the whole process took about an hour. She then said for my trouble she would give me free for one month U-verse 300 television, I told her that’s what I have now, she said no I have U200. I told her I have Showtime so I definitely have U300 because I would not have the premium channels, she then skipped talking about it again. She then told me to test my internet speeds. I was now getting a consistent 12 to 12.5 megs speed, I thanked her and then asked why I never get over the 12 when I pay for 18 megs, I was told I do not have 18 I have 12 and to call customer service in the morning to go over my plan. I asked her to please note the account with all the things we spoke about. I know personally how important it is to have the notes on the account so the next representative would know what’s going on. She said she did add the notes, I then asked her please make sure the notes are good because that is very important, I did not want to spend all that time on the phone again, I was assured it was done. I did call customer service the next day and the customer service representative was rude and told me I had U300 and 18 megs and this is a technical support issue. He then transferred me to technical support which was an American voice, I guess at night the calls get transferred to India. He told me I have U200 and 12 megs internet. I told him read the notes and he said there were no notes and the tech at night lied because the notes would have been on my account if she had put any. He then told me he would have to transfer me back to customer service and he would tell them what is occurring. A customer rep got on the line, by this time I was on the phone for 30 minutes. The customer service representative told me she had to call back to technical support and confirm the speed but I told her I could not hold any longer because I was at work and my break was over. She told me that they would call me back after talking to technical support for U-verse. They never called me back from U-verse technical support or customer service, I had to call the next day. The customer service representative now had seen in the notes that a supervisor was to call me but didn’t. This customer service representative gave me a credit for the 3 months of not having U-verse 18 megs internet speed and I told her don’t even bother to fix it leave me at the 12 megs now. This was a big mission and a normal customer should not have to go through this hassle. I am not a normal customer I sell at&t services including U-verse and I know what I am doing but I still spent hours on the phone and it took a couple of days.
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