Metro By T-Mobile offers
Existing Smartphone Plan Customers: 64GB Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+ 5G w/
30-Days Service for
$69.99 when you follow the instructions below.
Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member
karma_joy for finding this deal.
Deal Instructions:- Go to 64GB Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+ 5G
- Select the 'Existing Customer' tab and log into your T-Mobile account
- Purchase the 64GB Samsung Galaxy Tab A9+ 5G and pay the applicable sales tax on the pre-credit price at time of purchase
- Instant rebate of $230 will be applied to the full retail price of $279.99
- Activate a new tablet line on a qualifying $20/month or higher rate plan to your existing Metro smartphone plan
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Called to order through customer service but order didn't go through.
Tried again on the website and was able to order one just now.
Better than buying the Costco WI-FI only version for double the price!
You're getting that reply because your browser couldn't connect to the authentication server Metro uses.
Could be an adblocker, host file, etc. Or even your ISP could be doing it.
The simple answer is to turn off any and all adblockers, script blockers etc.
When everything is working correctly you'll see three challenge questions to authenticate your identity.
And before you say it, yes they do this even if you've already logged in with your Metro account to purchase the tablet. It seems they do the three challenge questions on every order regardless of whether you're already a customer or not.
To sum it up, you need to find what's blocking the connection to that authentication server. I found that turning off all adblocking etc, and opening an incognito tab on my phone, which had WIFI off, and connecting through my mobile network fixed this problem several times.
Good luck
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I've seen this error come and go several times, but in every instance I've come across it was the challenge questions that were not being displayed.
Each of these orders that I've encountered that were failing and getting this error, went through after the three questions were displayed.
I've never tried calling them to fix this problem because in my experience problems in authenticating identity is something customer service is trained not to reveal to the "customer". This is because it may be someone trying to get information to help them "hack/bypass" the system.
The problem may be multifaceted, the server may be erroring because of the "pending" orders, etc, or maybe the inability to connect with the challenge server is originating on their end.
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That makes sense. I probably was only seeing one kind of issue. That was my experience but like you said it could very well be multifaceted issue. Good explanation. Thanks.
-Sign up and prepay for one month of service
(what's the smallest amount I can do?)
-Once I have an active account, add a second line (this tablet) for $20 per month prepaid plus the cost of the device ($50).
Then once all my order go through just cancel everything from auto paying in the future and once it's all said and done, I'll end up with two lines of prepaid service and a new tablet?
My thoughts exactly. If you don't care for that $20 plan/sim, you should be able to use the tablet just as a regular WIFI only tablet, without Metro activation, or after canceling the service at the end of the first month. Can only be confirmed if anyone had such experience or wait until one of us get the tablet.
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-Sign up and prepay for one month of service
(what's the smallest amount I can do?)
-Once I have an active account, add a second line (this tablet) for $20 per month prepaid plus the cost of the device ($50).
Then once all my order go through just cancel everything from auto paying in the future and once it's all said and done, I'll end up with two lines of prepaid service and a new tablet?
I might port my wife's number off of Straight Talk for this deal.
I got two Samsung A7 Lite tablets from Metro in the last 45 days...
They both needed a working SIM to get past the initial setup screens.
Meaning you can't use it until a working SIM is in the device. You can't connect to WIFI either.
With that being said, I read somewhere that you can bypass this with a certain sequence of screen taps. I'm not sure but I think I read this in the previous Metro A7 Lite thread.
I do have another suggestion, once your tablet has shipped you can go to the Metro order status link* [metrobyt-mobile.com] and log in with your order number etc. and you should see an activate button. This may even trigger the 180-day waiting period for unlocking.
* https://www.metrobyt-mobile.com/order-status
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