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Rogers BlackBerry Bold Pricing - $399.99 on 3yr Contract By Kevin Michaluk | 15 Aug 2008 11:22 | 
112 comments
Here it is folks, official Pricing on the BlackBerry Bold from Rogers. $399.99 on a 3 year contract. Ouch. And here I was still hoping it would come in at $299 like the 16 gig iPhone 3G. Silly me. Once a
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F***ing crooks!!!!! Sub $300 is a dream.... a really really wet dream. HAHA
Oh Rogers....What did we ever do to you?
this is another rip off from rogers again.
Nice, first Rogers wants to bring the Bills to Toronto which will crush the CFL and now the bold is more money than the iphone? I guess we shouldn't be that surprises - why worry about the bold eating into iphone sales and making Apple's quota - just increase the price. Horrible. Rogers can bite me. I will never be a rogers customer again, ever.
Thought the internet hung on me. Ended up posting 3 times before I saw what happened. lol
Why Damn It Why!?!
I was expecting such a better price point.
I guess the Storm/Thunder will be $599 when it hits Verizon!
ok 599 for thunder on verizon would mean 999 on rogers, if they get the thunder, on a 10 year term.
I think it's time we start a group to petition rogers! Similar to that of what the iphone folks did....This is ridiculous...as BB users, we've been taking s*#t from Rogers for far too long....first with the data price plans (thanks for reducing it to somewhat normal) and now slapping on a $400 price tag on the BOLD! GARBAGE!
Just BRING IT!
Apparently it was $600 cash price no contract? Why would you sign a contract to just pay $200 less?
Get it for $600 and go monthly, no contract.
Yea and if you do a hardware upgrade it'll probably end up being $499 after a $100 mail-in-rebate on a 3 year term cuz you know how reasonable Teddy is.
Kevin, can you pick me up one and send it to New York. I will send you the money! lol
Damn! That seems steep to me considering what the iPhone is pricing at.
Holy sh*t!! Rogers sure knows how to screw with new and existing customers, I'm afraid to know the price of the device with out a contract :(
I understand that everyone wants to get a reasonable price but this is RIMs flagship handset guys. A petition? C'mon, you can get a blackberry pearl for $49 you have so many blackberries to choose from at a reasonable price and you are crying about their top of the line flagship BB being $400. If Rogers is in fact getting them at $275 then yeah, you can complain about Rogers, but the fact of the matter is, they still have cheaper Blackberries for you to choose from.
On a side note, the corporate price for these phones will be $299. My rep confirmed that we will be able to start ordering them on the 19th at $299 and we will be upgraded to the 300mb data plan at %25 off.
is there an unlocked version?
Say No to Rogers!
i couldnt imagine signing a 3yr contract....if that were the case here i would hope the damn phone would be free
Are available from independent stores.....
tigerdirect.ca
bongowireless.ca
puremobile.ca
At least they are consistent with their tactics in robbery.
Gotta hand it to them , a home grown product and other countries pay less for it. Unreal.
Wow, that price is steep, especially with the 16GB iPhone 3G retailing for $100 less...
It is, however, exactly the price I predicted after speaking with RIM PR at WES. They told me "between $300 and $400," and to me that meant $399.99. ;)
http://tinyurl.com/5mz88b
I just hope AT&T's smarter about pricing than Rogers appears to be and lists the Bold for $299 or less...
AS
Some reps will fight it, but as long as you've got some tenure [finished at least one contract, or been a customer longer than 3-4 years] and good payments on your side, you're good to go...If they fight the $100 credit, ask for a 2 month service fee credit, which for most of us will surely result in >$100 value [MSF credit is the cost of your plan/data, before any add-ons or value packs, SAF, or 911]times two...We are monitored by the monetary credit given out, but can hand out service discounts till our heart's content...
This depresses me, but really..not unexpected from Rogers, pipe dreams hoping they would offer it at an $299.99 price point...looks like I'm gonna have to speak to the retention team on this one for sure now! I was willing to pay the $299 without argument, but $399..when an iPhone goes for $299...no way!!
Some reps will fight it, but as long as you've got some tenure [finished at least one contract, or been a customer longer than 3-4 years] and good payments on your side, you're good to go...If they fight the $100 credit, ask for a 2 month service fee credit, which for most of us will surely result in >$100 value [MSF credit is the cost of your plan/data, before any add-ons or value packs, SAF, or 911]times two...We are monitored by the monetary credit given out, but can hand out service discounts till our heart's content...Also, there is a data retention team as well ;)
Whoops sorry for the double, was tryin to respond to Bla1ze ...
I read, just this morning,in the business section of the paper, that the Bold will be offererd for around $200 in the US. It reported that the Bold will be released within a month.Any body else heard the same thing?
yep they lost me here and there
What a rip. I can't believe that Rogers wouldn't at least price it at the $299 iphone price. Oh well guess you need to wait 6-9 months for a price drop.
Any idea when the Blackberry Bold will go on sale in the United States?
I can buy a bundled 80gb PS3 with 399.99, Rogers can shove it.. i hope the Javelin is cheaper, plus the BOLD is HUGE!!! couple of weeks ago i was at one of the Rogers Plus stores and a Toronto FC player came in with his BOLD (cuz they got theres super early) and his BB messenger wasnt working.. and i asked if i cud check out his bold and he handed it to me.. its SUPER LIGHT but im not down with its size.. its really bulky and that was the main reason that put me off it.
It's not even the width of a pencil thicker all the way around and the back is contoured...it didn't even feel any bigger in my hands then my curve really..it's still a really functional well fitting device, it "rests" in your hands...but too each his own I guess..
I hope this doesn't inspire AT&T to make the same pricing arrangements. I really wish RIM could control the prices of their devices a bit more.... these carriers are just out of hand.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Instead of lowering the price of Curves and clear them out well in advance, they raise the price of the Bold! Is anyone creating a petition to protest this price?? I'll sign it.
Why would they clear out the Curves? The Bold doesn't replace the Curve, it's a corporate product that's at least two levels higher up the chart than the Curve.
Think Chevy (Curve) -> Buick -> Cadillac (Bold)...
If the US pricing comes anywhere close to this, i will not walk, i will run to an apple store and have a new iphone in hand within hours of the pricing release.
It's not out yet.
Regardless of what you see in a fuzzy picture of a flyer for an unknown market; don't assume anything until its released and ALL of the information is available.
Don't go off 1/2 cocked.
Rogers market pricing is pretty consistent across the board...the same prices in Ontario are gonna be the same in Quebec and Nova Scotia, the only thing I have ever seen differ in those markets is plans themselves.
Exactly
then I'll probably hold onto my Curve(and iPhone 3G) a little longer and just wait for the Javelin I suppose.
I don't have confidence enough that AT&T wants to offer competitive pricing either... it's a win win for them. They would have the Bold and the iPhone...either choice a consumer makes, AT&T gets the sale.
Ditto. Javelin please.
$399 WTF!!
OUCH!!
that's the pricing if you get a contract, what about if i don't want a contract?? If im paying $399 for a 3yr contract i could pay a couple hundred dollars more not to be tied up with robbers i mean rogers..
OUCH!! Is it just me or are other places releasing it much cheaper?
what constitutes a corporate client?, how big do you need to be to get this 299.00 price
thanks
I cannot say how big you need to be to get this price but I can tell you how many bb's we have in our company. In Canada, I would say 1500-2000. Thats not huge by any means but its sizable. Each of these Blackberries are currently on the $45/25mb data plan. About 60% of them have a corporate voice plan attached. In Toronto, our bills are around 10k a month for the data plans alone.
I have a friend who works for a small business with less than 100 employees. Only 7 of them are on corporate Rogers accounts. He has not found out if he will get any discounts on it yet.
I wouldn't take all this info too seriously ... I want the phone as much as the next guy but hey, its out of our control. Its coming - hell they might put a promo price out and then goto a reg price later.
I was all bent for a while , now I am like what ever..
This is a business , if they want t make money they
are going to release sooner or later
So first we hear it's $199 to match the iPhone. Then it's $299. Now it's $399 and it still only has 1 GB on board! WTF. I'm sure there will be a lot of early adopters, but the Bold isn't going to be grabbing a slice of the market share with that entry price. Anyone who's on the fence between iPhone and Bold may decided to go with the iPhone in the end. RIM, don't think lowering the price later will grab them back.
Rogers was also thinking of making the price "BOLD".
All the people on the fence between the iphone and the bold will go iphone for sure.Anyone non corporate will not spend 400 !
I guess Rogers knows they will get either person with whatever phone and gouge them, they may not be making as much with the bold than with the Iphone, so it compensates.
Rogers wins again.
Well it looks like apple will contine to make all the $$$$
because at this price point on a 3yr contract there is no way anyone would put down 400.00 on a non touch screen phone. I don't even want to know how much the blackberry thunder will cost..........r
Does anybody feel cheap and whorish for using Rogers right now? We are all chomping at the bit for this new Bold action and yet we are still even mildly shocked at the obscene pricing that Rogers provides. can we all just say it like it is "MONOPOLY"