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expired Posted by slickwheelin โ€ข Nov 20, 2020

New Cricket Wireless Customers: 64GB Apple iPhone SE Phone + $60/ Mo Plan

w/ Port In + Free S/H

$50

$350

85% off
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Cricket Wireless has for New Customers: 64GB Apple iPhone SE Smartphone on sale for $49.99 when you port-in your number (excludes AT&T ports) and activate a minimum $60/month phone plan. Shipping is free. Thanks slickwheelin

Note, Phone is locked to Cricket for 6 months.

Specs:
  • 4.7" 1334x750 IPS 'Retina' Display
  • Apple A13 Bionic Chip
  • 3GB RAM
  • 64GB Internal Storage
  • 12MP Rear / 7MP Front Cameras
  • Fingerprint Sensor w/ Apple Pay
  • IP67 Dust/Water Resistant
  • 1821 mAh Battery
  • Qi wireless charging
  • iOS 13

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Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
First month service charge & tax due at sale. Offer is valid through 1/7/2021. Refer to forum thread for additional deal information and deal discussion. -slickdewmaster

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Cricket Wireless has for New Customers: 64GB Apple iPhone SE Smartphone on sale for $49.99 when you port-in your number (excludes AT&T ports) and activate a minimum $60/month phone plan. Shipping is free. Thanks slickwheelin

Note, Phone is locked to Cricket for 6 months.

Specs:
  • 4.7" 1334x750 IPS 'Retina' Display
  • Apple A13 Bionic Chip
  • 3GB RAM
  • 64GB Internal Storage
  • 12MP Rear / 7MP Front Cameras
  • Fingerprint Sensor w/ Apple Pay
  • IP67 Dust/Water Resistant
  • 1821 mAh Battery
  • Qi wireless charging
  • iOS 13

Editor's Notes

Written by slickdewmaster | Staff
First month service charge & tax due at sale. Offer is valid through 1/7/2021. Refer to forum thread for additional deal information and deal discussion. -slickdewmaster

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Written by slickwheelin

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R-SIM is a SIM card add-on that looks like a really thin SIM card that mounts on top of your nano sim (or below depending on the model) that allows you to bypass the sim lock by hard coding a new ICCID that is unlocked.

You can buy the R-SIMs off ebay/amazon and they are usually $10 give or take.

It works reasonably well and the wiki talks about how to operate it, the only challenge is sometimes iOS updates break it and sometimes you need a new ICCID but for the most part it's great and allows you to use a SIM locked phone with any provider. and in this case you dont have to wait 180 days with Cricket to get an unlock code.

Keep in mind it is unlike the factory unlocking process which is permanent. Here you are dependent always on the R-SIM.

back in the day it also went by the name Gevey SIM.
As long as you have an old Sprint SIM card laying around (they're reusable)... and an IMEI from a phone that's compatible with Sprint's network, you can sign up for the $5 service (data only) or if you want to play it safe... $6 service (500mb data, 100 min). Pay for service, enter in IMEI and SIM card info, activate. You'll have instant access to a new phone number, pin to access port out info.
I bought 2 already. total cost $196 for 2 phones. trade in value of SE at apple is $210

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jesudas
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Quote from wenhc :
So we can trade in the devices that have Internet locks?
yes. most trade-ins don't care about locked status.
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RyThaFlyGuy
Nov 20, 2020
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Quote from dealpls :
Ordered 2 phones/ lines this morning. Got an email in an hour to correct the port in info.

Just got the shipping confirmation. Also received $10 cb confirmation from the assistant cb site.
Me too! Thought it was only going to be $5. Nice little perk.
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johndoe35
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Most people are clueless on how port-in and activation works. Here's the only thing you need to know about iPhone:

1. it will only activate and port-in when you first turn on the phone

There is no step 2 and there's no step 0.
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slickRoman
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Can the steps for current customers mess up my legacy 5 lines for $100 plan? What if I buy under new account and then just swap sims and cancel new account. In other words I planned to upgrade to this phone anyways and would be used on their network.
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jesudas
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Quote from HappyAction834 :
Thanks for the reply..If I am understanding it correctly, all these people posting that Cricket denied unlocking is because they removed Cricket SIM from the phone? So, if I buy this deal, activate the SIM on phone with the ported number, and leave the phone as it is, I will be fulfilling the T&C for unlocking, is it?
Also, the phone needs to be turned on all the time for T&C to fulfill?

The unlocking process by Cricket seems too confusing after reading all the posts.
safe bet would be to have the SIM inserted in the cricket phone for straight 180 days. don't put your SIM in any other phone. by this way, it is guaranteed to get it unlocked after 180 days. don't switch off the phone. I have been doing this for around 3 years and this is what I do.
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ChristInMe
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Quote from jesudas :
min is .01
Are you sure? See attached image.
There is a method to the madness... Stick Out Tongue
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Quote from slickRoman :
Can the steps for current customers mess up my legacy 5 lines for $100 plan? What if I buy under new account and then just swap sims and cancel new account. In other words I planned to upgrade to this phone anyways and would be used on their network.
Yep. that works. please make sure to create a new account (new email, new credit card) to get this deal. your cost would only be $110 - $5 CB plus relevant tax.

as you said, once you get the new phone, you could use this phone for your old cricket SIM (remember, you won't able to unlock this after 180 days though)

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Butters__
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Quote from slickwheelin :
They are looking for the contact info for the person I use to get porting numbers.
He's been pretty reliable in my experience. Someone else seconded that and it took off !
Can you PM me as well? Thanks!
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Quote from ChristInMe :
Are you sure? See attached image.
There is a method to the madness...
you are talking about BIN price. i was referring to starting bid. please see the below
https://www.ebay.com/itm/FREE-25-...4242269043
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jschuman01
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Number GONE

If anyone needs a good (636) port in number, I have an extra one that expires in 1 month. A $5 Amazon gc would be appreciated to cover my up front cost.
Last edited by jschuman01 November 20, 2020 at 01:48 PM.
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Quote from jesudas :
Yes. change to $30 plan as soon as you activate the account. This should be done in the first day of your plan. I would say, do this in the first 5 minutes after activation.

remaining $30 can be used for your second month of service.
Do you activate before or after you get the phone?
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pitflyer
Nov 20, 2020
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The good ole days of being able to activate a phone, stop paying and then 6 months later it unlocks is gone (I did this before with MetroPCS). So I get you actually have to have 6-7 months of Cricket service to unlock this phone. But after you activate, if you move the SIM to a different already unlocked phone, and put the iPhone SE in the drawer till 7 months pass, will you be able to unlock?

I'm hearing no, the system requires ongoing activity of the actual iPhone, which makes the phone $110+tax to start ($50+$60 plan) and then at least another $65 (2 months at $30 + 1 month at $5 with the referral) == $175 total outlay to get unlocked, some of which may not be useful if it's not going to be your actual phone service.

For me wouldn't mind using Cricket for a few months especially since it's still mostly stay at home, etc, but would like to put into my Pixel 4A from Google FI (which is unlocked to start) while I wait for the iPhone to unlock.
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jesudas
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Quote from JenT4685 :
Do you activate before or after you get the phone?
After getting your phone.
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Quote from JenT4685 :
Do you activate before or after you get the phone?
After

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Tyler1989
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This is a terrible deal factoring 6 months of expensive service. How did this ever become a fire deal?
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