Comments on: More Details on Verizon’s Re-validation of Employee Discounts and the Three Ways to Keep Them

By: Mark Mann

Mark Mann — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:15:00 +0000

if they take away employee discounts, will that result in a contract change and them having to let us out of our contracts?

By: Mark Mann

Mark Mann — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:14:00 +0000

we’re paying ~200 a month, and that is with my walmart employee discount…but that’s 4 lines(2 smartphones and 2 feature phones)…700 minutes and unlimited data…

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:26:00 +0000

yeah that’s not going to work at all.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:25:00 +0000

If you are a retired military veteran or government employee you will continue to be eligible for the discount. You just have to provide docs,

By: frankandsimple

frankandsimple — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:51:00 +0000

Expecting big corporations to play by the rules and not implement their predatory fixing policies on consumers is NOT a luxury. It is how it should be. You are ridiculous.

By: Tim242

Tim242 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 20:39:00 +0000

A smartphone on a premier carrier is a luxury, just as driving a sports car. Comparing that to healthcare is beyond ridiculous.

By: frankandsimple

frankandsimple — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:28:00 +0000

Spoken like a typical Shill for Big corporations!. Tell the same when your kid is in the hospital and they bill you 100 dollars for a pill of asprin or 50 dollars for a beanie hat for your infant and god forbid, you don’t have medical insurance. Would love see them tell you to your face. “Why didn’t take your kid to another hospital..” or “why didn’t you just get your wife to deliver at home”.

You see, your argument makes no sense because we DO NOT live in a free market society. If only you understood how these big corporations are bending us over and screwing us…. so go back to your Verizon Kiosk!

By: Tim242

Tim242 — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 12:42:00 +0000

Corporate discounts are not part of your contract, period. It is conditional upon continued employment. You can change plans at any time without extending your contract. Contracts are in place to pay off your subsidized phone….hence the $350 ETF. You can claim all you want that you were enticed by a discount to sign the contract. In the end, that is not in your contract. Did you read it? You sound like the typical ignorant customer that thinks you know it all. This reminds me of when insurance went up. Everybody cried foul and wanted out of their contract. It isn’t part of your contract either and can be dropped by you, or Asurion at any time. Bottom line: It may suck to lose your discount, but you knew the terms of the discount when you agreed to it, and it does not affect your contract.

By: Ivo Shandor

Ivo Shandor — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 11:44:00 +0000

Never said employee discount was part of the contract. I said that it was used to get me to sign the contract. They factored it in to the bottom line monthly price so that their price was the best rate each month. That is the reason i signed the contract. BTW my parents both retired last year and had a discount. They already called Verizon and were told the discount would be honored the remainder of their contract. I can only imagine what “corporate cell phone store” you work for because price plans ARE absolutely a part of the contract. If Verizon decided to start charging $100 a month for 500 minutes of talk my contract doesn’t change. Period. I still pay $39.99 for 500 minutes (or whatever the rate was). And if my wife and I already both had phones then why did we have to sign another 2 year contract if the only reason to sign a contract is to subsidize a phone? Also, and I’m not totally sure on this one, but I believe you can only add service to your contract. If you try to change something I’m pretty sure they make sign another 2 year agreement. I’m not sure how things work there at Simple Jack’s Cell Phone Surplus where you work, but it sounds like they may be on the crooked side if they can change the agreed to rate price at any time.

By: Tim242

Tim242 — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:27:00 +0000

Let me put this as simple as I can. Employee discounts are not part of your contract. Price plans are not part of your contract. It’s for that reason you can change your plan at any time without penalty. Your contract is to pay for your subsidized phone, that is all. I think I know a little bit about cell phone contracts, since I work in a corporate cell phone store.

By: Ivo Shandor

Ivo Shandor — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 23:22:00 +0000

You are obviously not buying prepaid because the limits and fees they tack on are not cheaper per minute. And as for the employee discount I’m going to put this as simply as possible for you. When I compared prices with other carriers Verizon factored in our discount BEFORE we signed our contract. BEFORE not after. That was a key factor when signing the contract for a 2 year period. IF our contract were up I have no problem providing the information again. Otherwise it’s a breach of contract, Verizon must allow the person out of the contract with no penalty. This would be akin to buying a new car and getting an employee discount but having that discount dispersed over the span of 60 months equally each month. If that person lost his/her job and the loan increased because the employee discount were retracted. The notion is absurd. Verizon either allows people to opt out of the contract with no penalty or the are violating the terms.

By: PhillipCun

PhillipCun — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:52:00 +0000

ah crap….. im going to lose my discount FUHHH

By: Jarred Sutherland

Jarred Sutherland — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:55:00 +0000

Made you sign a contract? Did they have a gun to your head? I would pay to see the video of you signing that contract, because I am pretty sure you did it willingly.

By: Jarred Sutherland

Jarred Sutherland — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:54:00 +0000

Don’t try to reason with people on the internet, they left their brain in another room.

By: Jarred Sutherland

Jarred Sutherland — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:51:00 +0000

Saddens me how many people think as you do. You seem to think that Verizon owes you something. They do not. I hate Verizon for their business practices as much as the next guy, which is why I have dumped them as of this month and moved to a more affordable pre-paid plan.

Two wrongs don’t make a right, no matter how you try and justify it.