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Holiday shopping is almost over and we did great.

Admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:38:31 +0000

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.

At&t agents selling the iPhone

Admin — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:44:05 +0000

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.

My iPhone 3Gs and what I think about it

Admin — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:33:00 +0000

I did an upgrade on my att line for the new 3Gs iPhone 32gb. The phone is great for the Internet and watching YouTube but as a business phone I prefer my Blackberry. The things I like about the new iPhone are the large display to watch videos, the new stereo Bluetooth capability and the application store which has over 50,000 apps.

The iPhone camera did not impress me with the quality of pictures and the video I took was posted to YouTube for you to decide.

Pros:
Thousands of applications
Cut and paste
Video editing capability
Faster processor
faster web browsing
Visual Voice-mail
Email folders access (I had access to my Yahoo email folders)

Cons:
Email set up with my websites hosted with Godaddy was not easy I needed Apple support to set up.
Battery life
Phone book has a 2000 capacity ( my Blackberry Bold had over 3000 contacts so when I transferred my contacts I lost over 1000)

These are the apps I downloaded while I had the 3Gs Apple iPhone.

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I will test this phone out but I will not keep this phone, I will sell it for $600. I paid $300 with my upgrade with att and after tax I made $270 profit. My friends all did upgrades for the 32GB iPhone and sold them to me for $600 also. I was hoping to buy hundreds of iPhones like I did last year.