Potential New customer to cricket

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dancerchickayana

New member
Hello everyone,
I am thinking of getting Cricket but it has just come to Kansas city today and none of the actual stores are open yet. so before i actually go in to the store i would like to ask you guys a few questions:
1) How do you like cricket?
2) When you signed up as a new customer did they offer any instant rebates in your area?
3) Do you suggest i buy service at a cricket store or on the cricket website?
 
cricket is pretty much everything they promise. the coverage is good in the area that is supposed to be covered, and the new improved travel time is really good. i get almost no dropped calls on cricket. all the phones they have right now are pretty decent, except maybe the kx9, but KC doesn't get that phone anyway. I think the website is offering some extra promotions right now that you can't get in the store ($20 instant on all phones), but i don't know what's going on in KC. Cricket usually has special promotions in the launch markets. I'm sure there are stores open there, just probably not all of them, but the big promo's may take a week or two to go into effect. Cricket seems to have started doing a soft launch followed by a hard re-launch about a month later. if you have any other questions feel free to pm me or just post it up here. there's a few dealers and one or two cricket employees on here, and we can answer almost any question you have about cricket.
 
1. I work for them, if you don't travel much or at all its great
2. They do offer instant rebates, but not really, Almost better if you have your own phone.
3. Cricket store, but if your slick, you can visit an indirect store... might and I say might get a better deal (just read simple3 post) online is good also :)
 
thanks for the reply. Since cricket was just launched in kc yesterday no stores are open yet. I guess i'm going to wait for awhile to see what kind of specials they will have in kc.
 
I got a phone a few years ago and reactivated it just over the phone, and had to pay all the charges and stuff, then I actually went into the store and found out they had a lot of good special offers, so I basically screwed myself over.. If you have to buy a brand new phone though, I would suggest going into the store and checking on the internet both to compare offers. The stores in my area are offering the 1st month free and no activation, and the internet for a while was offering like 75 off a phone or something? I don't know, just compare both.
The service is usually really good within the calling area, but I won't lie to you, Verizon and Cingular have more bars in my area. In my situation though, Cricket is really the best deal I could get.
If you talk and text a crapload, or you use a lot of long distance, its great. If you use a lot of internet and picture messaging, its great. Some of the other companies will charge you up the butt for internet and stuff, like using your airtime and charging per kb downloaded or per kb uploaded from pictures.. But with cricket, everything is completely unlimited.
While you have at least 1 or two bars, the service seems to be very reliable. I have never dropped a call when I had at least 1 bar of service. My friend has Cingular, and every time I've used his phone it drops a call, even with 4 or 5 bars of service.
Picture messaging doesn't work to some other providers, if you're going to be picture messaging to people outside of cricket a lot, I'd check to make sure it works first. T-mobile and Verizon work perfectly for me, but often times sprint and cingular don't get my messages.
I don't work for cricket or anything, but people say I should, I love to talk up cricket because I honestly love my service. There are a few times I get frustrated when I go out of the area and can't use my phone, but if you don't plan on leaving the area very often it is perfect. Hopefully this helps you a little.. :D
 
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