I was just looking at their web site. Check this out: http://www.t-mobile.com/shop/phones/Cell-Phone-Detail.aspx?cell-phone=Nexus-4 Suggested retail: $549.99 Instant discount: -$300.00 Mail-in rebate card: -$50.00 Free Shipping $0.00 $199.99 They did give me the $50 rebate card. But it's hard to understand how Google is promising to sell it unlocked for $350, but T-Mobile has a "suggested retail" price of $550. Harder still to understand is how they would charge me the $300 instead of giving me the instant discount. Is it just incompetence? I called T-Mobile and talked to a rep -- just got off the phone. They say that the price I was charged is correct. I told them I would return the phone. They said OK. The problem is incompetent and poorly-trained staff, I believe, and probably a really crazy and foolish team planning their discount schemes. Just weird. They might feel like they have me because I transferred my old Sprint number, killed my Sprint account and now I'll have no cell phone. But I have no real need for a cell phone. I mostly use Google Voice numbers that will ring in my home or office, so I get calls, and if I miss them, Google Voice will show me the message on my computer, or tablet, or whatever, so I'll get it. Mike On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Yaron wrote: > I would definitely go over to t-mobile and give them some crap for that > because, yeah, that makes ZERO sense. > > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Mike Miller wrote: > >> I ended up buying the Nexus 4 today, but it looks like T-Mobile charged >> me $500 for it even though I was signing a 2-year contract. I probably >> should have said "no" to that "deal," which in retrospect makes no >> sense. If Google sells an unlocked Nexus 4 with 16GB memory for $350, >> how can I be paying $500 *and* signing a 2-year contract? Isn't the >> contract supposed to bring the price down? I might just return it, on >> principal, pay their $50 restocking fee, and live without a phone for >> awhile to see if I really need one. >> >> Mike