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expiredPhantomZephyr posted Aug 2, 2021 5:04 PM
Tracfone 1-Year Prepaid Smartphone Plan w/ 1200 Min, 1200 Texts & 3GB Data
$24
$125
80% off
+ Free Shippingat eBay
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While in chat:
1) confirm with the rep that the sim card you bought has the proper minutes/texts/data
2) confirm with the rep what your existing account has for minutes/texts/data
3) ask the rep to add your new sim card stats to your existing account
4) while still in chat, make sure that everything was added correctly (can take a few minutes to update) ask the rep for the totals so that it's on the transcript
5) get the chat transcript and save it
This way if there's any question at all, you have the transcript to prove what you should have.
tl;dr Always use chat
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Thanks for the help.
I'm guessing we'll be able to keep the phone number when transferring?
At work we have an old flip phone. We take turns carrying it for after hours support calls. It's only actually used a few minutes a month, if that, but needs to be able to receive calls 24/7, away from wifi. This would be perfect for us. (I know there are other solutions involving call-forwarding but this may be even cheaper than those.)
I imagine if you just had an old phone that you wanted to use for emergencies.. like maybe when running or at the beach where you don't want to worry about your primary phone getting lost/damaged.
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I bought one this morning, I'm trying to buy a second one and ebay won't let me add it to the cart.
Does anyone that already have this plan managed to order again to add another year?
I can give it to my kid as a first phone. I am against it but my wife wants a phone because a lot of his friends have phones now. I will probably turn off all the data except messaging app so with that 1200 minutes call/text/3gb should last. I have iPhone 6s that I happen to found in drawer. All it needs cheap battery and off it goes.
Best case scenario is that they are on WiFi all the time and all their friends are on iPhones and they use iMessage with an Apple ID instead of using their phone number to text. You can limit iMessage to not use cellular SMS text services to make it last. (If it's a green bubble, don't text unless absolutely necessary, blue bubble texts only!)
On the other hand, that 3 gigs a year won't last a few weeks with a kid on YouTube when away from WiFi.
These plans are not kid friendly. If you can teach your kid to keep their fingers off the phone and use it ONLY in emergencies and not burn out the allotments, kudos to you!
These plans are perfect for older parents and grand parents who need an emergency phone when they go out because street payphones have totally disappeared.
$24 is cheap to put an old phone in each cars' gloveboxes along with a mobile charger and have the peace of mind for 12 months.
I bought one this morning, I'm trying to buy a second one and ebay won't let me add it to the cart.
Does anyone that already have this plan managed to order again to add another year?
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We use the phone itself as an IOT remote with cellular connectivity. It's signed into all of our streaming and smart home services. Wife likes having it around in the kitchen.
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