Thanks, bro. I did some hard time in the big house. Word to the wise: don't use one of those puffy things in the shower bay. Apparently it sends the wrong message.

 

You're all over it, Gloopy. I recently asked, about five different ways, what the benefit was of being eligible for an upgrade with AT&T wireless, and not once did I get a good answer. They want you on the "Next" plan, whereby you're leasing the latest phone, for the highest possible price.

It's like renting your sofa, maybe worse.

As far as I could tell, the best option is to buy the phone outright, and not try to mask the cost, because it's always there. The more masking, the greater the actual cost.

 

So many loopholes and exemptions I can't keep them straight!

 

I agree, however they don't want you to do that so they make it as hard as possible to actually buy the phone for the price they actually charge for it without getting into their money shuffling plans.

Apple flat out will not sell you a fully paid for iPhone 6 other than the T Mobile option, which I guess you could maybe take to another carrier if you paid two activation fees, who knows. Other than that, you have to look hard for how to do it. You usually will have to go to the service provider website or certain brick and mortar stores (not all can do it). Even then its a well hidden option burried well below the other lease/financing options, and you will likely be the only person any given salesman has ever dealt with that has tried to do it.

Even then, you'll have the latest phone with half the storage of the latest cellular iPad Mini3 at the same price or more.

They know people won't upgrade every year or two if they put the true price they have to pay on a sticker up front. That's why they lead with $299 or no money down and roll the rest into plans with some very fuzzy math.

 

That's a good word right there. And I probably shouldn't have to say it, but scented bath oils screams the wrong message.

 

Answering my own question. EMail from the Easybid/Easyswap folks says it won't work on the Surface 2, because it uses Windows RT versus a full-up version of Windows, which it needs. Later versions of the Surface use Windows 8.x, I guess.

 

I put in a WS for a specific trip in open time. The value is below my p/u limit, there are no turn-time issues...the trip falls into a huge blank spot in my schedule.

Last PCS run, no award, yet the trip is still in open time. Aren't white slips awarded every PCS run? I though as long as nobody senior to me asked for it via WS, it would be awarded. Where am I wrong?

 

Check your look back. 100 in 672.

 

If you go in and select the F Key with Deny, it will tell you why it wasn't awarded.

 

I'm fine with that. As long as the 350 has 747 pay rates.