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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iphone 15 Pro Max 256GB
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Verizon [walmart.com] $1200
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Verizon [walmart.com] $999
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Verizon [walmart.com] $829
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Verizon [walmart.com] $729
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iphone 14 Pro Max
AT&T [walmart.com] $999
Verizon [walmart.com] $999
iphone 14 Pro
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Verizon [walmart.com] $899
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As for which credit goes with which line of service - I don't know that it will matter unless you change plans before the 36 monthly credits have been paid out. I assume they would stop paying out TI credits for a particular line of service if you changed that line to a lower tier or if you canceled the line.
Just a general note for others reading this thread...
Both ATT and Verizon's purpose for offering interest free payment plans and/or high value trade in offers is to get customers to sick with their postpaid service for 3+ years.
They use to hand out $~300 - $400 phones for free with 1 year contracts. This moved to 2 year contracts as smart phones got more expensive. Many years ago they also paid out a ~$300 commission per new line of service to their sales partners, but I'm told this number has gone down over time. Other than interest free financing plans (backed by apple in the case of iPhones), the US carriers have moved away from "contracts".
The carrier payouts are baked into the monthly service charges of what ever their current high/medium/low service plans might be. If you are on one of their (pricey) post paid plans and are NOT taking advantage of free/subsidized phones and/or high trade in credits on *EVERY* "renewal" cycle, you are leaving money on the table.
Most of the difference in monthly service pricing between MNVO pre-paid, carrier pre-paid, and carrier post paid plans is these payouts. If you are not taking advantage of these payouts (via free phones / high value billing credits) you will almost always be better off on a pre-paid plan. And as many others have discussed in related threads, in some cases you are better off with a MVNO anyway....
Food for thought.
Is there anything else Im missing here?
Called Walmart rep claimed to cancel the order, but still shows delayed at the site. No email confirmation.
Now sold out online, but asked me to reorder in 72 hours when it comes up. I guess, that is not going to happen.
Who needs to explain this to ATT who have already started billing from the shipped date?
Poor spot to be in.
1. When should I be able to pay the phone off?
2. It's a Verizon phone and when does the 3 day period start to avoid the activation charges?
Thank you!
It seems I can do one or the other but not both. This means that I either keep the line for 36months and just pay the unlimited ultimate (1k will offset the iphone 15 price, pay $100 monthly UU plan x 36) OR cancel the line within 3 days and pay the device in full (999 - 300 Walmart GC = 700+ tax), with auto unlock in 60 days.
Is this what I'm getting?
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Both AT&T and Verizon's current trade-in offers are significantly better than what Walmart's wireless partner(s) can provide.
This has to do with the amount of money going directly to AT&T/Verizon as your monthly service plan payment... Your monthly payment on these pricey unlimited plans is used to subsidize the credits they give back in these special high dollar trade in promos.
Also, take advantage of the current high value trade-ins as soon as you can... the TI values and phone condition requirements are will almost certainly work against your once the current promos are over.
(This worked with physical SIMs so indeed it may work with eSIM).
If you want to save money on the plan, check out the tips I gave on the community wiki (above).
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1. When should I be able to pay the phone off?
2. It's a Verizon phone and when does the 3 day period start to avoid the activation charges?
Thank you!
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