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16GB Motorola MOTO E5 Play AT&T Prepaid Smartphone Expired

$30
$99.99
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Best Buy has 16GB Motorola MOTO E5 Play AT&T Prepaid Smartphone (Black; XT1921-2) on sale for $29.99. Select in-store pickup where available, or shipping is free for orders $35+. Thanks SpyrusNViware

Note, select "Activate Later" if you do not wish to activate with purchase.

Specs
  • Snapdragon 427 Processor
  • 5.2" 1280x720 IPS Display
  • 16GB Internal Storage (expandable via MicroSD)
  • 8MP Rear + 5MP Front Cameras
  • Android Oreo 8.0

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Best Buy has the AT&T Prepaid Motorola Moto E5 Play for $29.99 (choose activate later).

Motorola Moto E5 Play AT&T Prepaid [bestbuy.com]

Specs
Snapdragon 427 Processor
5.2" 1280x720 IPS Display
16GB Internal Storage (expandable via MicroSD)
8MP Rear + 5MP Front Cameras
Android Oreo 8.0

This deal from Nov is back, but without free shipping. You can order for store pickup for free though. ***EDIT*** Is now OOS for shipping. Deal is dead unless BB near you has in stock.Later it went to regular price, $99.99, and then on sale for $39.99. It's now back to $29.99. I think these won't be around for much longer, as they are a couple of generations old now.


Take note of the comments on the previous post to figure out if this is right for you.
https://slickdeals.net/f/13599010-at-t-prepaid-16gb-motorola-moto-e5-play-phone-29-99-best-buy-early-bf-price?src=SiteSearch


These seem to work on any AT&T MVNO as long as you don't power it on with the included AT&T prepaid SIM first. My son and I are using these as backups with FreedomPop 1yr pre-loaded SIMs with 1GB/mo, BUT, recently I was trying to run out of data and compare data usage of Hangouts Vs the FreedomPop app. All calls with the FreedomPop app (in/out/LTE/WiFi) were disconnected after 10 minutes. I know I've made longer calls in the past, so don't know what's up with that.
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This is a very good phone for the price. However, be aware that AT&T pre-paid phones (including this phone) have a locked bootloader. This mean that this phone can NOT be rooted or have custom firmware installed. If you plan to use the stock firmware then this is a good phone, buy it (but don't buy it to root or install custom firmware)
Yup. You can use AT&T Prepaid devices on postpaid or any MVNO that uses AT&T
I think what OP meant is if you turn on the phone with the SIM that came with it, then the phone will be locked to that AT&T prepaid SIM, and cannot work on AT&T postpaid or AT&T MVNO's carriers.

I believe it was back in 2013 or earlier, those older AT&T Prepaid phones would not work with postpaid. They needed to be on prepaid for at least 6 months before they could be bought over to postpaid. Now some people still don't know that, so they thought that you could bypass that by simply insert a postpaid SIM or MVNO SIM first. They didn't realized that newer AT&T prepaid phone will also work on postpaid these days.

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MusicShark
01-30-2020 at 05:33 AM.
01-30-2020 at 05:33 AM.
Quote from fishyx :
No idea. Balance was zero until I checked out. Funny thing is, when I look at my new account, it shows that there was a $20.00 charge and my Prepaid card account confirms it. Glad I'm using a Prepaid Visa instead of my real one!!!!
Did the $7.74 show up in your CC or your account?
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fishyx
01-30-2020 at 05:47 AM.
01-30-2020 at 05:47 AM.
Quote from MusicShark :
Did the $7.74 show up in your CC or your account?
The $7.74 only showed up when I was checking out on the Visible site and didn't show up on my CC account. $20.00 was the only charge to my Prepaid Credit Card. Not really sure what's going on but there's only a $30.00 balance on this Prepaid Visa card I'm using SmilieSmilie. Wondering if Visible is gonna try to hit me for another $25.00 when I activate the sim???
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MusicShark
01-30-2020 at 06:01 AM.
01-30-2020 at 06:01 AM.
Quote from fishyx :
The $7.74 only showed up when I was checking out on the Visible site and didn't show up on my CC account. $20.00 was the only charge to my Prepaid Credit Card. Not really sure what's going on but there's only a $30.00 balance on this Prepaid Visa card I'm using SmilieSmilie. Wondering if Visible is gonna try to hit me for another $25.00 when I activate the sim???
if worst comes to worse, they could blacklist your phone. the mystery Visible laugh out loud
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Vivixander
01-30-2020 at 06:52 AM.
01-30-2020 at 06:52 AM.
Quote from fishyx :
A Meijer Netspend Visa Prepaid card worked just fine to do the Visible swap deal. Gotta load $35.00 cuz they charged me $7.74 immediately and will hit me for $25.00 more at activation. Sending them an old HTC Droid Incredible!!!SmilieSmilie
Same thing happened to me but at the advice of a PP, I emptied my cart and did it over and the $7.74 disappeared. They claim they charge on activation but they charge your CC immediately you hit submit. The next charge is auto set for a month after activation date.
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desi_babu_2010
01-30-2020 at 07:49 AM.
01-30-2020 at 07:49 AM.
Quote from Vivixander :
Same thing happened to me but at the advice of a PP, I emptied my cart and did it over and the $7.74 disappeared. They claim they charge on activation but they charge your CC immediately you hit submit. The next charge is auto set for a month after activation date.
who /what is a PP that is giving u advice ?
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fishyx
01-30-2020 at 08:06 AM.
01-30-2020 at 08:06 AM.
Quote from Vivixander :
Same thing happened to me but at the advice of a PP, I emptied my cart and did it over and the $7.74 disappeared. They claim they charge on activation but they charge your CC immediately you hit submit. The next charge is auto set for a month after activation date.
Thanks. Good to know and that makes a lot of sense since the charge on my credit card was $20.00.
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AnnieK
01-30-2020 at 10:02 AM.
01-30-2020 at 10:02 AM.
Quote from fishyx :
Thanks. Good to know and that makes a lot of sense since the charge on my credit card was $20.00.
If we don't want to stay with Visible after the first of the month, do we port the number out or just disable autopay if we don't want to keep the number?
Also do you have to port a number in or can you get a new number?
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Deckard26354
01-30-2020 at 10:31 AM.
01-30-2020 at 10:31 AM.
Quote from Vivixander :
Same thing happened to me but at the advice of a PP, I emptied my cart and did it over and the $7.74 disappeared. They claim they charge on activation but they charge your CC immediately you hit submit. The next charge is auto set for a month after activation date.
I just had the same thing happen(it's the tax BTW), and after emptying my cart and redoing it, I wasn't charged the extra amount.

Also, there's a cash back site offering $10 for Visible, and it's already pending for me from ordering the e6 with swap less than an hour ago.
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YossifE
01-30-2020 at 12:24 PM.
01-30-2020 at 12:24 PM.
Hi, I'm totally unfamiliar with the whole prepaid aspect of these cheapy phones. Am I only able to use this with an AT&T prepaid plan or can it use other prepaid plans as well?

Thinking of getting this for my Mom as her primary phone, she needs at least 100 mins talk/text and limited use of data for gps/web stuff. What is a good cheap plan for this phone in that case?
Thanks!
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eekster
01-30-2020 at 12:27 PM.
01-30-2020 at 12:27 PM.
The idiots at visible tried to charge me another $25 when I tried to activated the phone. Glad I canceled my card.
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Baguda
01-30-2020 at 12:33 PM.
01-30-2020 at 12:33 PM.
Quote from SpyrusNViware :
You could do the Visible swap for the e6 that has kind of hijacked this thread. That should work with T-Mo just fine.
I just looked that up, and it requires signing up with another service I don't need for $40 per month. I didn't read if you can cancel after the first month, but I don't need an E6 that bad right now. I haven't looked up if the E6 has a user replaceable battery which was the #1 reason (plus the price) I bought the E5 Play I have. I just wanted to pick up a cheap backup E5 Play before they're OOS everywhere and no more phones are made with user replaceable batteries.

Almost every phone or tablet I've gotten has gotten a bad battery quickly (several of them bulging and destroying the phones or tablets) so I absolutely abhor paying a lot of money for devices with non-replaceable batteries whose batteries are likely to die/bulge in 2-3 years. The last phone I tried to replace the battery myself using Youtube instructions I wrecked because a trace came off. The cheapest place that will replace batteries charges $50 for what takes them about 10 minutes (+$20 to order a battery which costs $10 on eBay). Neither wrecking my phone nor paying $50+ per device every 2-3 years is a good solution to me.

The tax code will never be simplified because the CPA lobby would never allow it, and I guess phone manufacturers are supporting the phone repair companies by getting rid of user replaceable batteries. The only constant to me is that the consumer (me) gets the short end of the deal.
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Gor32
01-30-2020 at 01:02 PM.
01-30-2020 at 01:02 PM.
Quote from donftw :
i believe you do otherwise you're going to get charged for the phone. i activated the sim on my galaxy s6 that i'm sending in ... so i can sell this new e6 phone sealed in box. the s6 was a refurb with a bad battery and the screen is apparently glued on, so it's street value is limited.

Where is your s6 from? I tried to activate my visible sim in a universally unlocked phone and it's not compatible. My phone was previously active in vzw.
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TheBigAlphaMale
01-30-2020 at 01:06 PM.
01-30-2020 at 01:06 PM.
Quote from gwite :
If you have an old Android phone laying around, you can swap it for the new, unlocked E6 for a total of $20. No porting required.

$20 for new UNlocked Moto E6. The $20 covers 1 month of Visible service. The phone is free with swap. No further obligations.

1 (business)day delivery.

If interested, message me. Thx
I'll take a PM please, thanks
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01-30-2020 at 01:08 PM.
01-30-2020 at 01:08 PM.
Quote from eekster :
The idiots at visible tried to charge me another $25 when I tried to activated the phone. Glad I canceled my card.
Did you mean "activated" the Visible Sim?

If you have already cancelled your CC, How do you know that they were trying to charge you another $25?
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helius
01-30-2020 at 01:10 PM.
01-30-2020 at 01:10 PM.
Quote from Saturn_Ion :
Where is your s6 from? I tried to activate my visible sim in a universally unlocked phone and it's not compatible. My phone was previously active in vzw.
The oldest Samsung Galaxy phone that you're able to use on Visible is the S8.

https://www.androidcentral.com/wh...le-visible
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