New Cricket Wireless Customers: 256GB Apple iPhone 8 Plus (Gold) + $60/mo Plan EXPIRED

Requires 6mths of service and port-in #

https://www.cricketwireless.com/c...gray.html?

Please take 2 minutes to read this original post in its entirety (saves you time of going through > 50 pages of thread). Also post #657 is awesome; don't forget to read it;

For ported information, don't copy and paste the ported account info, type it in manually in Cricket's screen.

Brand new iphone 8 Plus 64GB (Grey color) $99
Free Next Business Day Shipping
This is the iphone 8 "Plus" with 5.5" screen not the puny 4.7" screen of the regular iphone 8
Need to port in a number to be eligible
Need to pick $60 plan (for at least a month) but can downgrade on activation; you can cancel the plan but then the $60 will be reflected in your account as a credit.
Autopay will get $5 off your monthly bill
Cricket Wireless runs off the AT&T network. In fact, Cricket is now owned by ATT.
This is a PRE-paid plan so you can cancel the plan anytime
Cricket will ask for last 4 digits of social security but there is no credit check.
Phone locked to Cricket for 6 months (but can be used for trade in for better offers)
Cricket promotional devices are limited to two per household. (So, if you got another promotional offer from Cricket in the last X (6?) months, you can only get 1 more to stay within the limit)
Get $25 credit if using a referral code. Credit will be posted to your account so it is not instant. Just search the internet and ebay for the referral code.
Many credit cards offer $25 credit for cricket wireless (example, Bank of America)
Porting info (account / PIN) needs to be confirmed at the time of placing an order with Cricket but the actual port (switching the numbers between the SIM cards) does not happen until you activate service (Cricket's phone and SIM card need to be in your possession).

"Go to account summary and at the bottom it says something like get xtras, click that and you will go to the refer a friend page and in there you have an option "have a code"."

So, hypothetically this could be $99 for phone less $25 credit on credit card less $25 credit using Cricket referral code for a net cost of $49. The two $25 credits are on the back end so you won't see it instantly when you order

You don't need to have service for all 6 months but the 6 month requirement is needed to unlock the phone.

Tax is charged on the port in price and not the MRP/MSRP of the phone so that's a great thing..

A locked phone such as the one in this thread can be used for trade ins for other deals. The trade in value for most deals give you teh same amount regardless if the phone if 64GB, 256GB or 128 GB.

256GB version in gold color available for $199

You get free Pandora Premium music for 90 days. I didn't notice how to opt out but presumable you can do so to avoid auto billing for it after 90 days.

If you have problems ordering with Firefox, use CHROME or EDGE browser.

referral code for $25 credit can be added upto 30 days from activation.

You must confirm your number transfer within three days of ordering or your order will be canceled

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Also, the $40 plan ($35 with auto-pay) just got recently bumped from 5GB to 10GB. So, really a good deal for $5 increase from the $30 2GB plan, even if you are parking your number temporarily to move."

"I believe you have 30-days to activate the phone. The 3-days is for verifying / confirming the porting information, if there was anything incorrect in the information provided when placing the order. If your porting information is correct, your phone will get shipped. Otherwise, they will wait for 3-days for you to confirm the details before cancelling it. If your order is shipped, then you to activate within 30-days (from ship date or receive date - not sure, but within 25-days as a safe bet)."

"I did Tello took custom plan 100 min no data for $5. Used sprint sim / lg phone .. got new number. Activated, made test call. got port out everything in 15~20 minutes online without human interaction"

https://www.cricketwireless.com/c...-gray.html

"If you need a number highly recommend picking up one of these at Best Buy for $5, activate the service which is free with credit than immediately port out. Cheaper and safer than ebay IMO. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/ting...Id=6406986"

POST PURCHASE STEPS
1) Activate phone (for new accounts)
2) Create an online account
3) Add referral code for $25 credit (can be done withing first 30 days)
4) Downgrade plan
5) Add autopay to get $5 monthly credits
6) Remove Pandora Premium for which you are automatically enrolled into when you order the phone and which you will be billed $10 each month after the first 3 months unless you proactively cancel it.
7) Buy screen protector as, without it, 99% chance the phone will slip out of your hands and you will break the screen in 2 years.




The last time, the 128GB version of this phone with Cricket went frontpage per the link below. Now you have the 64Gb version which is $50 cheaper than the 128GB version.

https://slickdeals.net/f/14238494-new-iphone-8-plus-128-gb-149-with-port-free-shipping-and-60-plan?src=SiteSearch


Here are details on the $60 plan:
$60/mo. ($55/mo. with Auto Pay)
Unlimited + 15 GB Mobile Hotspot
Cricket's Fastest Speeds
Unlimited high-speed data access at our fastest speeds (Cricket may temporarily slow data speeds if the network is busy)
15 GB Mobile Hotspot (compatible phone required)
Unlimited talk, text & picture messages in the U.S.
SD quality video streaming (480p)
Mexico & Canada usage (Canada usage cannot exceed 50%)
Unlimited texts from the U.S. to 37 countries
HD Voice & Wi-Fi Calling with compatible phone

Got the 128Gb deal (actually still waiting till it ships)

Wonder if I get this deal as well and wondering if I could use the $60 added on this one and make it a credit on the other account. Would want to use this one as a trade in...

Any ideas ?

Keep in mind that the iphone 8 plus 128GB version for $149 with port in was a front page deal on slickdeals just last week and sold out. This will go frontpage and will sell out as well. Deals like these are few and far between.

Quote from Cappy123 : Got the 128Gb deal (actually still waiting till it ships) Wonder if I get this deal as well and wondering if I could use the $60 added on this one and make it a credit on the other account. Would want to use this one as a trade in... Any ideas ?

did you get automatically enrolled into Pandora Premium and was there a box to uncheck from being auto enrolled into it.

not good news that your phone did not ship. i wonder if they ran out of stock.

I wonder if metro and boost gonna push similar deal on 8 plus.

Get it while it's still in stock. Once it goes fp, it will go out of stock fast.

Quote from dravid : did you get automatically enrolled into Pandora Premium and was there a box to uncheck from being auto enrolled into it. not good news that your phone did not ship. i wonder if they ran out of stock.

They are delayed and are sending us 256GB for the same price. And I have no idea about Pandora. Didn't need it, so I probably didn't opt in.

$25 chase offer was expired 2 days ago

Update: I just checked, chase renewed offer on its biz cards

Quote from Cappy123 : They are delayed and are sending us 256GB for the same price. And I have no idea about Pandora. Didn't need it, so I probably didn't opt in.

Oh, so they ran out of ($149) 128GB and therefore giving you the ($199) 256GB; good for you. So those that ordered late actually benefited from the delay. I guess if you are one of the last ones to order the $99 version, they could conceivably run out of stock and offer a free upgrade to the 256 GB. But, who can ever guess on the timing since we can't see the Cricket stock.

You are auto enrolled in Pandora Premium unless you opt out, not the other way around.

Quote from erictom : $25 chase offer was expired 2 days ago

available for other banks

I removed Chase from the OP, thanks

The 8+ was $150 the other day.

For those who don't need unlimited services, you can downgrade to their 10GB plan which is $40 less $5 auto pay credit for a net cost of $35/month. There are even cheaper plans but the 10GB plan may be a sweet spot for many.