Tuesday
May192009
Palm Pre Off Contract Price: $549!!!
Tony Peric
Looks like Sprint has released the details via an online chat. The Palm Pre's Off Contract price is slated to be $549.99. Considering what the Blackberry Bold and iPhone cost off contract, the price is not bad at all. So those of you that love your SERO plans, but want to get a Palm Pre, now is the time to bust out your piggy bank, because you are going to need it for this phone.
Retail Price - $549.99
2 Year Contract - $150
Instant rebate - $100.00
Mail-in rebate (MIR) - $100.00
Net price - $199.99
Reader Comments (15)
typo june 6th!
Will they let us even activate the phone with SERO?
It looks as if you currently have a Sprint phone that you are willing to "recycle" through their buyback program, you will get a credit to your monthly account balance. They are giving $50 for Samsung Instinct!
https://secure.sprintbuyback.com/rbb/program_availability.php
@Daniel: thanks
Tony: Thanks for posting!
Mike, You should read the previous article.
Can you order the palm pre online via sprint.com on June 6th?
@Suzanne I think so.
Who says it dosent pay to be a Sprint Premier consumer. I just got an email from Sprint today inviting me to a Pre launch party @ the local Sprint store by my pad. At the event they will have "celebs" (dont know about that, but Jerry Rice is a neighbor, does he count?), wine, music, hors d'oeuvres and oh how can I forget!!! The chance to buy the Pre before it hits the shelves for the general public. Event is 6/5 from 5 to midnight. This would explain why the Sprint stores are closing early the day before the launch. Now that is the best news all day, well that and the release date.
If you are having trouble sleeping the night before in anticipation of the Pre, you can follow me on twiter (CaliAgent415) and will give you as much info as possible.
the Pre-Aligence coming soon.. .
So wait, if I have a samsung instinct that i just got when I updated my contract in december, I'm gonna have to pay $549 for a pre?!
Expensive, no gsm, hmmm
Maybe the price will drop by the gsm releases
harry: yes, yes you will have to. and why shouldn't you? the retail price of the instinct is $449.99 and you got the phone for $99.99. we ate $350 right off the bat for you to get that phone for $99.99. why should you be allowed to get full upgrade money off another phone 6 months into your contract? why are you so entitled to this?
oh and by the way don't bother calling retention and threatening to cancel your account...it won't work. the company has dropped the hammer on all of the scamming people were doing and will no longer give away the company. and especially with the pre they won't be offering the pre as an early upgrade or replacement to anyone who isn't entitled. so if you aren't 22 months into your contract, you aren't entitled. if you simply want to swap out of your 2 month old touch pro, you are not entitled.
Wow "anonymous" I wasn't saying I was entitled to anything, I just think that's a lot of money. No need to get all pissy
I find it funny how people mistakenly and/or purposfully associate the "retail" price of a phone with the actual cost of the phone. Sprint doesn't pay $449.99 for every Instinct nor do they pay $549.99 for the Pre. I'm sure Sprint would like everyone to think that was the case but it's not. This special *rebate* price of $200 is closer to what Sprint actually pays for the phone.
Here is what it actually costs to make the pre so you tell me if you are getting ripped off for paying $549.99. the fact of the matter is all the cellphone companys are rip offs. you know what i would like to see is all the companys sell the same excact phones so that instead of you going to a cellphone company for the phone that they sell, You go for the service that they have and there sales and customer service. Cell phones should never sell the company , companys should sell themselves. I want to go to a company because they have good rates the have good customer service they have good coverage aeas not because they sell the pre or the bold or the storm. cmon people open your eyes.
The Pre costs $137.83 in materials cost, and carries an estimated bill-of-materials cost of $170.02, which is much closer to the actual cost of manufacturing when manufacturing and software development is factored in.
At $300, that leaves about $130 in profit for Palm, although, at a subsidized price of about $200, the Pre's expected margins will be much slimmer. And Palm also has to cross these other items off of its checklist before the Palm can be considered a hit.