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sold months ago

Gee mistertk, 160 lucas seems a bit high. At Movistar you can get a 3G for 50 lucas; a 3GS (16gb) from 200 lucas down to 30 lucas; a 3GS (32GB) from 270 lucas down to 100 lucas. These prices are of course with a plan (18 months). I am looking to get a 3GS with the cheapest plan available, especially since I don't use the phone enough to warrant getting the most expensive plan.

Yes, I am aware of that but they all tie you to a plan. I always purchase my phones paying the full price because I prefer not to be tied to any company, so I can rather than paying a 30 lucas a month for the special iPhone plan I can go for a cheap voice+data plan for let's say... 14 lucas (currently at Claro). They won't sell me the iPhone with a non-iphone plan and if I go for a cheap one (because I'm a student I have to pay it with my own money) I'd have to pay a lot for it + 18 months of subscription in order to keep the phone as mine after that, or else I'd have to return it and all the money paid to get it won't serve for anything. If you look at the local mercadolibre or US ebay the price seems within reason, a 3G starts from over 230 lucas here.