1. Trade in device and use that credit to pay off phone in 36months while keeping phone plan. For UU on verizon this comes up to (100avg x 36) - 300 Walmart GC
2. No trade in, but pay off phone immediately within 3 days of receiving to avoid activation fees. For the iphone 15 pro, this comes up to be 999- 300 Walmart GC regardless what plan you choose.
Follow steps included this wiki to port out your locked device to other carrier.
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Same for 2021 and 2022.
AT&T details
Order/cancel? Activation starts on ship date (or store activation date). AT&T does not prorate after 3 days, so if you don't receive the device by the 3rd day you have to pay for the entire month of service.
To get the activation fees waived (if you're not cancelling within 3 days) be sure to sign up for AARP. It can be free or almost free
https://slickdeals.net/f/17039080-aarp-1-year-for-free-or-4-capital-one-offer-or-chase-card-offer-and-maybe-make-money-see-details-and-free-power-cord-charger-or-trunk-organizer
- Contact AT&T over chat and ask them to waive your activation fee since it's an AARP benefit. This will save $35/line.
- Set up autopay from att.com or MyAtt app to save $10/line/month (debit; or credit -$5/month).
- Do you have AT&T fiber home internet? Contact AT&T over chat to "bundle" home internet plus wireless for a $20/month discount. You can also sign up for home internet after getting wireless to receive the same $20/month discount. There are loads of sign-up offers include $350 gift card back for new customers https://slickdeals.net/f/17073514-new-at-t-fiber-customers-purchase-at-t-fiber-internet-plan-300mbps-get-up-to-350-in-reward-cards-or-logitech-g-cloud-gaming-handheld-device-6-200-reward-card
- Pay off installment plan from MyAtt app or at att.com. You can do this as soon as activated/device ships.
- Turn on iPhone and let it activate with the pushed AT&T eSim (should be automatic once connected to wifi). Make a phone call.
- Transfer the AT&T eSim to another unlocked iPhone. "Use eSIM Quick Transfer on iPhone" Procedure https://support.apple.c
om/en-us/HT212780
- Make a call on the unlocked iPhone. Check in myAtt or att.com and check every few minutes until the unlocked iPhone shows up in your account as your device.
- Request unlock https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/ as a non-ATT customer, with non-ATT phone# and email for the new iPhone
- Check email and click to acknowledge unlock request. May take a few minutes to receive this.
- Wait for unlock approval email. It could take only a few minutes or up to a day
- new iPhone will be unlocked once you try a different provider eSIM. You can either use a new eSIM or transfer one from your other iPhone.
- If you want to, cancel AT&T service over chat or phone so that you don't go beyond 3 days post activation. If you instead want to keep the service, do everything I mentioned above to bring your monthly cost down.
Edit: AT&T chat is closed on the weekend I called reseller support and they refused to cancel the line and said I had to wait 30 days. I had to port out to another carrier.- Call *PORT on the new iPhone to get a porting pin. You also need your wireless account number (displayed when you login to att.com).
- I had a great experience porting to usmobile.com for their 50 day free trial. Just sign up and fill out the details including port (AT&T Postpaid, account number, port pin). Transfer completed in minutes!
Verizon details
- check out the recent iPhone 13 community wiki on unlock (60 days on iPhone 14/15!), pay off, 3 day rule etc. for Verizon
https://slickdeals.net/f/17028796-verizon-or-at-t-128gb-apple-iphone-13-new-or-added-line-8-30-mo-for-36-months-299-total-more-free-s-h
- We haven't found a way to unlock the iPhone 14/15 like we did the 13 because it has an eSIM assigned that gets activated on boot, and no physical SIM card. Also the phones are showing Verizon locked and not flex reseller policy. It will automatically unlock 60 days post activation however.
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Ya didn't think of mentioning that OP?
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You buy iPhone from VZ
Then use an inactive ATT SIM card to Boot it up the first time to lock it with ATT
Submit request unlock as non-ATT member
Thanks!
We were able to unlock both our devices. We are still in the process of canceling the lines.
To anyone trying ATT:
Answers for my questions i asked in my earlier post:
"Do you have a mobile number from AT&T?"
Answer should be "NO"
Which phone IMEI should we enter?
New phone's IMEI. ip14 or 14 pro etc.
And next questions will be like name, Phone no. Email id etc. - these should be different than the ones used while buying the phone and during activation.
Hope it helps.
Can I just port the lines out and they will send final bill with payment?
Edit: Also, during the trade-in process, there is no place it asked me which line the credits should be applied for? How will the system know which line to apply what device credits?
I didn't get an option for choosing which trade in phone went with which line of service. I submitted three separate trades in requests and choose in store dropped off for all three.
I did my first port about 6 hours ago as one of the phones is for my daughter and she is going out of town for a few weeks.
I plan to drop the 3 phones later today. I'll work on ports after that or in the next day or two.
On the ports...
If you do online port from ATT to Verizon, you will be asked for ATT account number and ATT account pin. The PIN is not your passcode to your ATT account. The PIN is the 6 digit (time expiring) port out passcode you request from ATT mobile app or web site.
If give Verizon the wrong port out pin, you will get a automated call ~30 - 60 minutes after submission asking you key in your (ATT port out) PIN. You don't get much tie to respond before being forwarded to customer service. CS can complete the port if you have the right code.
Verizon says ports from other mobile carriers will take 4 - 24 hours to complete, but it took less than an hour for this line.
Can I just port the lines out and they will send final bill with payment?
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If i understand correctly basically you get a WM gift card for buying the phone full price?
What worked for me is to use 800-837-4966 from a different phone (this may not be necessary but it's what worked for me)
Enter phone number and PIN when prompted
Say "pay off device" when prompted
It will tell you what you owe
Then it will ask if you want a human to handle the payment for extra $10, press 1 to stick to automated system when prompted.
At this point it told me multiple times I couldn't make a payment until late December. I kept trying until it accepted the payment and it went through and gave me a confirmation number. Also received an email at that point.
Then I chatted online with a live rep to cancel line. Looks like $35 activation fee is credited.
All good !!
Your only issue is avoid the activation fees by cancel within 3 days and depend if you are order VZ or ATT, both have different time line
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