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Cricket Wireless: 64GB Apple iPhone SE or Moto G Stylus 5G Free (existing customers with 3G/unsupported phones)

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I know this deal on the free iPhone SE for new customers has been posted, but I don't think many people know about the free upgrade for existing customers with older 3G incompatible phones.

Cricket/AT&T networks are turning off 3G service in February 2022, making many phones incompatible. If you are receiving texts from Cricket saying your phone is incompatible, you are eligible for a free iPhone SE (or Moto G Stylus 5G) upgrade. This deal will work for all lines on your account that are receiving the Cricket message about incompatible phones.

When you upgrade a line through the website you will see the iPhone price of $249.99. Click to proceed to checkout, and before placing the order you will see "3G $249.99 Targeted Offer-Mfg/Dist Coupon - $249.99", making the phone free.

I was told by the Cricket store owner that this deal should be good until Jan 6th.

https://www.cricketwireless.com/c...black.html
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I know this deal on the free iPhone SE for new customers has been posted, but I don't think many people know about the free upgrade for existing customers with older 3G incompatible phones.

Cricket/AT&T networks are turning off 3G service in February 2022, making many phones incompatible. If you are receiving texts from Cricket saying your phone is incompatible, you are eligible for a free iPhone SE (or Moto G Stylus 5G) upgrade. This deal will work for all lines on your account that are receiving the Cricket message about incompatible phones.

When you upgrade a line through the website you will see the iPhone price of $249.99. Click to proceed to checkout, and before placing the order you will see "3G $249.99 Targeted Offer-Mfg/Dist Coupon - $249.99", making the phone free.

I was told by the Cricket store owner that this deal should be good until Jan 6th.

https://www.cricketwireless.com/c...black.html

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Jan 9, 2022
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Firebird72
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Quote from Slickd3aler :
Not seeing the discount at checkout for the Moto G Stylus. Says $109.99 + a $25 device upgrade fee. Confused
Looks like you can get it (Moto G Stylus 5G) for $25 now, this is what I see in my cart now!
3G $109.99 off Targeted Offer-Mfg/Dist Coupon - $109.99.

Edit: 3G $249.99 off Targeted Offer-Mfg/Dist Coupon -$249.99 (iPhone SE for $25 also)
Last edited by Firebird72 January 8, 2022 at 10:43 PM.
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Firebird72
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Quote from 3325Arch :
Is this deal dead?
New deals same phones 1/9/2022.

(Moto G Stylus 5G) for $25 now, this is what I see in my cart now!
3G $109.99 off Targeted Offer-Mfg/Dist Coupon - $109.99.

(iPhone SE ) for $25 now.
3G $249.99 off Targeted Offer-Mfg/Dist Coupon -$249.99

Of course I want the Moto one 5G, why not a $200 coupon off that one? It's been replaced by the Moto One 5G Ace anyway...
Last edited by Firebird72 January 8, 2022 at 11:20 PM.
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HY-SD
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Quote from Firebird72 :
New deals same phones 1/9/2022.

(Moto G Stylus 5G) for $25 now, this is what I see in my cart now!
3G $109.99 off Targeted Offer-Mfg/Dist Coupon - $109.99.

(iPhone SE ) for $25 now.
3G $249.99 off Targeted Offer-Mfg/Dist Coupon -$249.99

Of course I want the Moto one 5G, why not a $200 coupon off that one? It's been replaced by the Moto One 5G Ace anyway...
so $109.99 - $109.99 = $0...where is that $25 from?
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VioletCaption661
Jan 9, 2022
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Quote from HY-SD :
so $109.99 - $109.99 = $0...where is that $25 from?
Probably their "upgrade" fee.
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ljderm
Jan 9, 2022
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Quote from VioletCaption661 :
Probably their "upgrade" fee.

That is correct. Last week the upgrade fee was waived as well. That is for online orders.

At a store last week, many dealers (probably related to state regs) charged sales tax but phone and upgrade fees were waived. So, this week at a store you may have to pay sales tax PLUS the upgrade fee. I do not know this for certain, so let's hope for some feedback from a new Cricket Store upgrade with the offer.
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Firebird72
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Quote from ljderm :
That is correct. Last week the upgrade fee was waived as well. That is for online orders.

At a store last week, many dealers (probably related to state regs) charged sales tax but phone and upgrade fees were waived. So, this week at a store you may have to pay sales tax PLUS the upgrade fee. I do not know this for certain, so let's hope for some feedback from a new Cricket Store upgrade with the offer.
I have 2 accounts:
#1 account 5 lines for $100 had it for 5 years+, only 1 phone was old and I received a New SE for $0.
#2 account 1 line for $30 account only 7 months old. I was not eligible for anything except regular upgrade fee deals so the Moto Stylus 5g for example was $109.99 + $25 upgrade fee. Now I will only pay the upgrade fee and maybe some tax. Pretty good deal if you ask me. Also the $30 plan is now 5GB of data, not 2GB.
Jan 11, 2022
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3325Arch
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Got the "Special Upgrade Offers & Waived Upgrade fee!" message. But didn't see any discount or waived upgrade fee after adding an iPhone SE to the cart. Frown

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hawkeye81x
Jan 11, 2022
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Managed to get an order in for the Moto Stylus 5G and the total was $0 for the one line I had that actively had an incompatible phone. Just shipped an hour ago.
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Firebird72
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Quote from 3325Arch :
Got the "Special Upgrade Offers & Waived Upgrade fee!" message. But didn't see any discount or waived upgrade fee after adding an iPhone SE to the cart. Frown
I still see this: 3G $249.99 OFF Targeted Offer-Mfg/Dist Coupon - $249.99. $25 Total, maybe some added tax.
It's the SE 64GB ONLY!
Last edited by Firebird72 January 10, 2022 at 07:32 PM.
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free2go
Jan 11, 2022
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Need to proceed to the checkout to see the price change

Quote from 3325Arch :
Got the "Special Upgrade Offers & Waived Upgrade fee!" message. But didn't see any discount or waived upgrade fee after adding an iPhone SE to the cart. Frown
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Slickd3aler
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Quote from Firebird72 :
I still see this: 3G $249.99 OFF Targeted Offer-Mfg/Dist Coupon - $249.99. $25 Total, maybe some added tax.
It's the SE 64GB ONLY!
I'm not seeing it either. I went all the way to check out. Here's a screenshot..
Last edited by Slickd3aler January 11, 2022 at 12:02 AM.
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John Ricco
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I have 3 phones that apparently are incompatible. However only one got the "text"
That one was able to get upgraded for free
The other two were eligible for a discount but not free.
I have a feeling the other two will still work after the switch because they are on att comparability list.
Never seen so much misinformation about a deal. Cricket really dropped the ball on this one
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Firebird72
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Quote from 3325Arch :
Got the "Special Upgrade Offers & Waived Upgrade fee!" message. But didn't see any discount or waived upgrade fee after adding an iPhone SE to the cart. Frown
I was seeing the same thing: "Special Upgrade Offers & Waived Upgrade fee!" This was for about a week, but I would be charged $249.99 + $25 and tax for the iPhone SE 64GB. I even went to a cricket store and it was same thing, same price.

Then on 1/9/2022, I was seeing free iphone SE & free Moto Stylus 5g, but I had to pay the $25 upgrade fee. Why this changed, I have no idea?
I did pay my bill on 1/7/2022 did that maybe trigger it? Confused
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OliveRoad1710
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I got the second free upgrade iPhone SE due to incompatibility with VoLTE, and don't want to open it since I already bought a compatible phone I intend to use instead of the free one. My impression is that Cricket requires to activate the SIM that comes with the free iPhone SE. Does anyone know if I can simply insert the SIM to my own purchased phone and activate it without touching the iPhone SE? When the first one was activated, the SIM was inserted into iPhone SE to complete the activation.
Last edited by OliveRoad1710 January 11, 2022 at 05:05 PM.

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Firebird72
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Quote from OliveRoad1710 :
I got the second free upgrade iPhone SE due to incompatibility with VoLTE, and don't want to open it since I already bought a compatible phone I intend to use instead of the free one. My impression is that Cricket requires to activate the SIM that comes with the free iPhone SE. Does anyone know if I can simply insert the SIM to my own purchased phone and activate it without touching the iPhone SE? When the first one was activated, the SIM was inserted into iPhone SE to complete the activation.
Try it and let us know...

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