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Pastimes : Let's Talk About the Wars (moderated) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (76)	8/13/2006 3:13:18 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 441

Walmarts are everywhere and all the potential customers shop there already. Walmarts aren't everywhere. I hadn't ever been in one until a couple of years ago and I don't shop there now in part because there isn't one near me. They aren't in a lot of big cities, the kind of cities where people sell things out of trunks, because there's not enough land for them to build there. Who'd buy the phones? When I first saw that, I quick went to walmart.com thinking I had found a great deal for someone like me who uses a cell phone mainly for emergency. The minutes that come with the phone would have lasted me for years. Currently I have a plan that is seven bucks a month plus .25 a minute. Two minutes is a heavy usage month for me. So a phone with many years of paid-up use is a terrific bargain. I thought of giving one to my elderly father to carry around with him just in case he had an emergency and needed 911. But when I read up on them I realized that you just can't buy one for thirty bucks and use it once a year indefinitely. Anyway, the point of this is that if I didn't know there was any such thing as a thirty dollar cell phone, maybe a lot of people shopping out of trunks a long way from Walmart don't know, either.