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Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

Bubba - BOLD — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:07:17 -0000

Well purchase a new Bold as of Sept 30, and then as of Oct 1, price drop -- look at the data plans. they are giving less, 5 gig for 75.00 -- should have left as it was for 6 gig for 30.00 bucks.... I have been with Rogers for 20 yrs, will just have to fight with them on getting my 100.00 back

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

Tony GotBold — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:33:56 -0000

A little late for a comment, since this story published how long ago? But I had to say my piece. Rogers knows how to play the game. I must have made several calls to Rogers on release day, which started with "no bold available yet" to "$649 + can't keep cheap voiceplan + no promo data plan" and after some serious haggling and being transferred several times - paying $399 for the phone while extending my current contract to 3 years and getting the 6gb/$30 dataplan - suddenly seemed like a steal.

Now if only Rogers had used someone other than UPS to send it, I would actually have it in my hands... instead I am at the mercy of some delivery contractor, who apparently has had several excuses as to why he couldn't delivery my package this week. But that is another story.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

iphone bound — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:11:23 -0000

silly! Nothing is Canadian anymore! lol Seriously, people talk about buy Canadian. Canadian businesses need to understand that in order to play with the global big boys, they need to be more competitive. I am sick and tired of people saying buy Canadian when that is all that Canadian businesses are using to selling their products. Buy Canadian, we'll charge you more, less selection. Frankly, blackberry knowing that they would pretty much be in direct competition with the iphone 3g, comes out with this half a$$ed product launch and charges $200 more in price? If RIM wants 4 percent market share, they better start acting like it!

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

Kevin — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:25:40 -0000

iPhone- that is UnCanadian- buy something your neighbours build!! Anyway, I would never give up a full keyboard for a full touch device- I can't imagine the email interface working that well, and since I send over 100 emails per day, that means everything.

O'Canada, RIM's native land! (c'mon everybody, sing!)

I am in the middle of migrating from my 8820 to the BOLD right now. The USB loading speed seems much quicker than the 8820.

So far so good- I am loving the look and the crisp screen!

Kevin

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

iphone bound — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:16:26 -0000

Have they not heard our cries? Do they not understand that Canadians are getting sick of their corporate price gouging? I have been comparing the iphone and bberry bold for about two months now and is the bold really worth 200 dollars more. Now what to do? Wait till the price drops? Well if you do wait, you won't be able to take advantage of the special promotion that will soon expire. Let's be honest, the big red doesn't listen to it's consumers because if they did, they wouldn't have sent me another blackberry after I put mine in the wash. Yep, you heard me correctly I called rogers about 15 times and must have spent hours on the phone with them. After being a gov't corporate acct holder(apparently the highest esteem in their eyes and I kept being told that even though no one cld help me), they would places orders for phones only to have them, dissappear. Then when I would call to verify, they told me I was ineligible because I was gov't corporate and the program was only for corporate but then they would remind me that my class was so high. I was bewildered by that but then came to the realization that credit class f probably stood for the four letter word that starts with f and throw an ed at the end for arguments sake. So finally after calling about 15 times and telling them I put my phone in the wash, a company rep suggested calling "the red" and suggesting that my bberry just stopped working (and yes I am aware of the dye run that happens when you water log your bberry). Sure enough it worked! Like new bberry in the mail in approx. 3 days. Thanks "r" for not listening to me and thanks for not logging your customer's complaints! You figure by now that carriers would start logging their customer's problems so at least if you were to get disconnected or check up on an order, they would have some reference material.
400 bucks for a bold? After your paying customers shell out upwards of 60 bucks a month (lest we forget the mystery system access fee)to use the device. Not worth it in my opinion! albeit what does my opinion matter; I'm just the guy who put's it in the wash lol!

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

old bluetooth — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 07:08:19 -0000

RIM you are making the people at Apple very happy. Your very poor release of the Bold is more of a laughing stock than their mobile me, and a 3g iPhone that doesn't work properly.Maybe you should come out and actually say something instead of all of these incompetents on these blogs.Real instead of rumor.Hello is anyone home up there or are you playing with your moose?I work for a multi-billion dollar corporation and they muff things too, but at least they put out the truth, or at least the truth as they see it.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

Bla1ze — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:56:31 -0000

Err..1-866-BLK-BERR..lol, one too many #'s there..

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

Bla1ze — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 03:55:21 -0000

@Shaun Rotman

"The only thing I can think of is their replacement program. No one seems to ever talk about that. With Rogers you can call in UP TO A YEAR (and in some cases even longer than that) after getting your BB and they’ll replace it if need be at no cost to you!"

How is this a BENEFIT of Rogers?, it's a manufacturers warranty which is STANDARD...across the board, I don't know of any manufacturer who doesn't offer that.

For that matter you can even call RIM and take advantage of it, granted it's faster through your carrier but 1-866-BLK-BERRY will honour that as well.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

conor — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:27:59 -0000

I am stilllgonna buy it before the new school year, but those greedy rogers guys are gonna get angry when people don't buy it because of the price. If you want the best phone out there, then it will be worth the money. Right now I have an iPhone 3G and I hate it, so I will be buying this one.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

Futurdreamz — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:17:09 -0000

Might as well buy the Bold with a shorter contract and then bring it to T-Mobile, or another one of the new carriers coming to Canada, immediately.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

old bluetooth — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:45:39 -0000

I am fine with my Curve, too bad they didn't load it with 3g and WiFi to begin with, then the 3g iPhone would have not mattered as much. As far as cost goes, they have to be kidding if they think the consumer market will pay those prices. The enterprise groups might, but why as a consumer would you pay for the Bold, when you could have a consumer delight iPhone? really marketed to different segments. RIM seems to be going back to their roots, the enterprise area, and letting Apple have the consumer area.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

Geoff — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:46:00 -0000

I've had 5 different berry's... I'm an addict, but the pricing on this is sending me towards the iphone.

ROGERS OFFICALLY SUCKS ASS.

GREEDY @#$@$@#$@

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

Jim — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:41:01 -0000

I'm with Justin. Forget the Bold...my next phone will be an iPhone. When Apple fixes MobileMe, I will switch to the iPhone. While I love my Curve, i need a better calendar program and web browsing. And when i'm ready to buy an iPhone, the price will be cheaper than a Bold or other BB.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

Andrew — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:28:03 -0000

$400 is a lot of money, but at the end of the day you're getting the best phone on the market. In my opinion, the iphone doesn't compare at all. RIM has done an exceptional job on this device, and I don't see anything coming close to this coming out in the next year, except maybe other RIM devices like the Thunder or Javelin.

Overall this is an exceptional upgrade from either the Curve or the 8800, and you will definitely see me in line with my 400 bucks ready to but it.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

Joseph — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:44:27 -0000

Hold out until prices drop on the Bold. With the 4.5 OS out there and likely still making the rounds, that's likely enough new functionality for many to hang on for a few months.

Look what happened to the first iPhone. RIM will/should drop the price tag if they really want to move units.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

DavidB — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:14:26 -0000

This is just dumb. People aren't going to buy the Bold at double the price of an iPhone. Too bad there isn't another GSM carrier in Canada, RIM SHOULD have some leverage on Bold pricing but with NO COMPETITION this is what you poor Canucks are stuck with. Of course, when (if) it launches in the USA there will be no competition either, and with ATT "in bed" with Apple I highly doubt we will see much of a difference, it will launch down here as expensive or almost so.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

Marc — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:43:05 -0000

I will not be purchasing the Bold. I am a Verizon customer and will be patiently waiting for the Thunder to replace my Palm Treo 700p.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

Kyle S. — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:51:08 -0000

I'll buy it once it, or the Javelin, comes to T-Mobile. But at the rate things are going, my children will be using Bolds or Javelins before I do (I am 18 with no children).

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

JerryD — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:14:49 -0000

If I had the cash or someone else was paying - I'd get it in a heartbeat.

Unfortunately I'm stuck waiting until it's released by AT&T at which point I'll be able to get my company to upgrade me to it for free. That will happen the day it's available!!!

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

Dale — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:06:36 -0000

I will get the bold. I spent more then this for PDAs in the past, and the Bold is more capable then they are. Additionally I'll buy it to lock myself into the 6gb deal in case Rogers backslides on data plans in the future.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

M to the K — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:36:07 -0000

Yup, still getting the Bold. I have a good corp plan, so I will save 100 off the upgrade price. Without that discount, I'd stick with my Curve and let RIM's Q3 earnings be damned.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

Jeremy — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 10:04:26 -0000

There are two things preventing me from buying the Bold. The price and the camera. Where I work, camera phones aren't allowed. I'll have to stick with my 8820 for a bit longer.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

John Hall — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:55:22 -0000

$399.00 what do they think they have, keep it I will wait for the $99.00 price and maybe I will wait for the Thunder

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

JonV — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:28:26 -0000

Hellz no! Are you kidding me? At that price. I got life stuff to pay for. My Curve is good enough for another year.

Re: “Will you buy the Rogers BlackBerry Bold?” (Weekly Contest)

roman411 — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:10:38 -0000

"BlackBerry Bold or if $50 for the Pearl 8220 sounds a lot more enticing"?

Neither!

Sticking with my 8310. Damn reliable and still has GPS.