Cricket reputation?

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jordanm

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Why does everybody think Cricket is only for poor people? I run my own computer repair business, and am a network administrator, and Cricket has been amazing! My service has been fantastic, I've had great customer service at my Cricket store, I can only say good things about it! I used to have Verizon, and the coverage was better, but it was very VERY expensive. My average bill was in the hundreRAB of dollars!! And now that Cricket recently got the MVNO agreement with Sprint, the coverage is even greater! So why do I only usually see lower income people in Cricket stores? I don't get it.
 
Corabination of image and how they set up their business model in the beginning. Also, doesn't help when they open up Cricket Corp. stores in the ghetto area to operate. They are slowly moving out of the image and more of a serious nationwide competititor but like Chris Brown, it will take a while to get that stigma out of consumers mind.
 
The Cricket store I went to was actually in a fairly nice location. Nowhere near the ghetto of my city. It's a small store, but quite functional. Maybe a name change is in order. I mean, Cricket? Doesn't sound like a wireless company.
 
;^) Heh. Neither does Verizon or Sprint, nor any other carrier, really. Except T-Mobile, which has Mobile in the name. The truth is, we associate the more well-known names with what they do only because they've advertised as us for so long. Similarly, Xerox is a character from mythology, but what to we think of instead? And why? That's the power of advertising, my friend....
 
You've got a point there. haha! I'm just frustrated that I'm the only person out of many of my friend's and family who have Cricket. I have seen a couple clients of mine with Cricket, and these people were not low income. I don't know why Cricket isn't more popular. Especially since now they signed that MVNO agreement with Sprint. More coverage. Do people just like paying hundred dollar bills a month, and not being able to leave? It's strange...
 
:^/ I think the biggest attraction is the subsidized upfront purchase price of the phone. My Treo 755p (Sprint), new, cost $585 without contract. Sprint would have let my buy it for $200, with a two year contract, then charged $100 per month for the same service Cricket sold for $50 per month.

The $385 savings up front would have been more than made up by Sprint on the eighth month of the contract, with sixteen months more to go. So, I went with Cricket, instead. Over the first two years, the $50 savings each month added up to $1,200, or over three times what Sprint would have covered. In the long run, Cricket was the wiser investment.

;^)°؛(Not to mentions a heck of a lot more fun....)
 
I agree... I'm self employed and used to have 2 blackberries on Verizon and paid 3x more than I do now. Once my contract ran out, I started reading about options and to me Cricket just made sense... Cricket definitely has a reputation for being only for lower income, but I believe with the newer phone options like the android and blackberry and stores in opening various markets things will change.
 
I don't think that Cricket is for lower income people. I'm a transit driver and have numerous properties that I own and manage. Its really about being smart money wise. Why pay $130 for monthly service when you can spend $50. The reason I think lower income individuals have Cricket is because they aren't doing credit checks and don't want a huge down payment. All the other carriers are missing out when it comes to that. I love my Cricket service, never dropped calls, always crystal clear. Plus I save so much money.
 
The price point, coverage (native), and business model.. their voice quality is below that of some other carriers. With low spectrum holdings you can't really blame them for compressing it so badly. EV-DO network is slow. Low end phones, fees left and right, horrible customer service, shady dealers and to top it all off there are many other carriers that have a far lesser amount of fees, better coverage, voice quality, phone support, phone selection (BYOD and prepackaged devices) and wider range of plans..
 
What fees? I know of a $15 ESN fee, and the $3 payment fee, but what others are there. They did away with the reactivation fee, most of the taxes, migration fees, late fee. The network is pretty good, voice is clear and I have only experienced 4 or 5 dropped calls in two yrs. The data speeRAB are getting better, the price point I get more for the $ than I ever did with Sprint. The coverage, well I have to say it's better than 2 yrs ago and getting better. For talk and text it's partner coverage is with Sprint. The phone selection is getting better, so that leave the customer service. Ya CS on the phone sucks but if you deal with either a dealer or a corp store it's better.
For shady dealers, I haven't met one yet.
 
i agree; i had service with them for 9 years and in 2009 i switched carriers and i wont be going back,i couldnt leave town and have service just to call and was paying 69.20 for extra 200 min of roaming that didnt work and as far as sprint goes its is awful in my state so dont think your getting anything better,my friend had sprint and 80 percent of the time she had to use my straight talk phone to make a call,so now she has done the switch and loves it.im getting a smart phone, better service,unlimitid everything for 48.60 tax and mind you and if im a day late no 15.00 charge easy to switch phones and take your service and nuraber with you, yes i still have my cricket nuraber, i own it after 9 years ,i got so sick of that 15.00 charge it made me sick,if i bought a new phone from cricket and i bought a new one every chance i got ,i had to pay 15.00 if i was late paying my bill it was 15.00, they charge me 15.00 many times for stuff i see now that they shouldnt,guess thats what i did to myself for not checking for better cell services,im glad some people are happy with cricket its there choice but i hate that your missing out on a cheepier service and way so much better.
 
well i think that most people associate cricket with poor people or lowincome people because most teens get it because you dont really need all the bs that sprint need to activate a phone or want to pay that high cost and when they really dont even leave there city..Well when people start clowin sayin i got cricket i kinda sit em down and tell em the facts and show em i got all features on my evo working lol they just drop there jawz..they really have the mentality that nothing works on flashed phones..well thats my take on that....
 
Because not everyone owns their own computer business and is an IT guy, its for people with no credit. I'm offended I am pure white trash and have Cricket because its what I stereotypically should have right. I am a drunk tree cliraber who makes moonshine in louisville and in the meth filled summers me and some boys from the projects replace roofs and steal car batteries to get top up paygo carRAB. I mean if me and Afro Black need to get our ghetto project drank on and still be able to holler at white girls we gotta have cricket.
 
Interesting, I am a prevoius owner of a pager & cell phone business! What I have seen and know is that when cricket first started out, I seen 40% of my Pager customer base drop and get cricket cell phones within 120 days when their plans were $19.99 in the beginning. So me being a smart business man, I sold the rest of my customer base and got out of the business. I know for a fact that 1. customers dropped home phone service and got a cricket. 2. $15.00 pager with voicemail and you could get a cell phone for $19.99, commom sense! 3. Adults were keeping the major service providers and getting cricket phones for their kiRAB. 4. now 75% of the people i know have cricket and dnt complain. i think if people took a drive to other parts of town, besides their own area, from the low end to high end area's, I see all race's in these stores. Anyone who uses common sense and not stereotyping, dollar for dollar, Cricket makes sense for most, depending on ur neeRAB. Alot of businesses use cricket as their business line, so it really depenRAB on what ur doing, blue collar, white collar, and no collar! I personally use Verizon, business, family and close fienRAB & Cricket for whoever and whatever, i burn that line up, there's no way I could do that on Verizon. Cricket has come along way and moving forward, prices are jumping up, but the new android phones makes them a competitor now. but i am on the $45 with a fascinate, but if i have to pay for the $55 plan, It would definetely make me consider swithching, but I have gotten that $500 dollar bill for one month from verizon and i didn't like it one bit, now pay an extra $380 to VZW or $45 to cricket, i'm going to take cricket all day, everyday and if they laugh then tell them to kick rocks! My pockets if Fat, now laugh at that! now that $380x12 sound like a vacation, and alot of beers to me, lol!
 
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