Be Careful Of Free Ringtone Offers

These days virtually everyone has a cellphone. People who never dreamed they would be so connected are now completely addicted to their cellphones. Whether they need them for conducting business or maintaining personal relationships, cellphones have become an indispensable tool for the modern world.

Most cellphone owners sooner or later experience a situation where they hear their cellphone start to ring in public. The only problem is that it is a generic ring, and half the people in the crowd reach for their cellphones! Most of us want our cellphone ringtones to be more unique than that, if not for personal identify reason than certainly so that we can identify our own cellphone as the one that is ringing in a crowd.

So, eventually most of consider ways to personalize our ringtones. Some cellphones come with multiple ringers installed, but not very many. So, we eventually realize that the best way to personalize our ringtone is to download one, or more, from an online ringtone service.

The options for downloading ringtones start with the option of downloading from the carriers. Just by going into the phone menu, you can select an option to search for ringtones from the collection offered by your carrier. This is certainly convenient, but as in most situations in life, you pay extra for that convenience. When purchasing a ringtone through a carrier, you can expect to pay anywhere from $2 to $3 per ringtone! This is certainly a good deal of money just for a 30 second song snippet.

It turns out there are less expensive options. One such option is to purchase individual ringtones from specific websites. There are websites where you can purchase individual ringtones for $1 to $2 each. This is a big improvement over what is offered by the carriers.

Another option is to take advantage of the free ringtone offers you see advertised all over the place. It sounds pretty good - just enter your phone number in a web form and you get 10 or 12 free ringtones.

The problem is that there is a catch, and in fact it is a big catch. When you join a service like this you are really joining a monthly ringtone service that costs anywhere from $9.99 to $19.99 per month. For this monthly charge you get some extra credits to download additional ringtones. But do you really want to pay over $200 just to download some ringtones?

In other words, those free ringtone offers can be pretty deceptive. The ringtones really aren't free at all if they cost you $10 or $20 per month. Usually the notification that you are joining a paid ringtone service is buried in the fine print on the signup page. Many people sign up and don't realize what has happened until they get their next phone bill. As you can imagine, the carriers get an enormous number of complaints about these services.

So are there any other options? Yes, in fact there is a service that lets you pay a single yearly fee of less than $24. During the entire year, you can then download an unlimited number of ringtones and wallpapers for your cellphone. You get a huge selection of the same ringtones and wallpapers offered by the other services but at only one tenth the yearly cost. If you plan on downloading any amount of ringtones and wallpapers, it is definitely in you best interest to explore a one time payment service like this to get the most value for your money.

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