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Try to buy a phone from best buy and not have them set it up for you. It's impossible, they will refuse to sell you the phone.


They charge extra if you don’t activate the phone at the store.


Few people will argue that freedom is free, shoulder the cost and enjoy liberty. It is absolutely a crummy business tactic however, I find myself spending huge amounts of time to buy directly from source instead of retailers / amazon / et al. The high-quality magnetic USB cables I originally discovered through amazon got pulled and I discovered ordering from their site directly was more painless than amazon.




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