Try moving out to rural America where police and fire response is 30+ minutes. There have been at least 6 break-ins in just this neighborhood in the last year and that’s not counting tractor or atv thefts. Positive trade off is that the deer population out numbers the humans, you can see all the stars at night, and…

Let me get this straight... I pay for trash service that includes recycling pickup and I am supposed to waist my time cleaning out containers and money on soap and water so that the trash company can realize a profit from my recyclables? Maybe the business realizing the profit should be the one cleaning and compacting…

This a less a phenomenon of better consumer pricing but more of lowered business risk for prepaid cell phone service carriers and upfront profitability of forcing consumers to purchase phones at full market value.