Verizon Value via eBay has
2-Pack 32GB Tracfone Samsung Galaxy A03 Smartphones + 1-Year Plan (1500 Min/Text/Data) Bundle (Various) for
$49.99.
Shipping is frees.
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pamif for finding this deal.
Specs:
- 6.5" diagonal HD+ LCD touchscreen display with 720x1600 resolution
- 2.3GHz Mediatek Helio P35 octa-core processor
- 3GB RAM
- 32GB storage
- Camera Front: 5MP
- Camera Rear (Main): 13MP (F2.2); 2MP (F2.4) macro lens; 2MP (F2.4) depth lens
- Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac 2.4 + 5GHz + Bluetooth 5.0
- Ports:
- microUSB 2.0 port
- microSD memory card slot
- 3.5mm audio jack
- Li-ion 5000 mAh Battery
- Android 11 operating system (upgradable to Android 13)
Top Comments
From verizonvalue
Dear Customer,
Thank you for your interest in TracFone Wireless. We are responding to
your recent inquiry.
To answer your question, yes, for this bundle each phone comes with 1500
calls, text and 1.5 GB data.
If you have any further questions or concerns, please contact us via
chat or by calling one of our customer care representatives at
1-800-867-7183. For your convenience, our representatives are available
Monday-Sunday from 8:00 AM to 11:45 PM EST.
Thank you for being a TracFone Wireless customer. We appreciate your
business.
Sincerely,
Executive Resolution Department
TracFone Wireless
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Also note that while harvesting USUALLY works, often times they block you and you lose the minutes / gb, and they only extend the service days. I have found that I have to wait until 60 days before the end of a previous phone purchase (e.g. month 10 of 12 using it) to transfer over to the new phone prevents this from happening, otherwise it just adds service days and I lose all the minutes/texts/gb. And Tracfone systems and support keep going downhill often requiring you to call or chat for an hour to fix simple issues of it not honoring things even when purchased directly on their own web site.
Note: This is my experience for a "home" phone that replaced landline for cheap continued service and linkage to in-house cordless phones, not a "real" carry with you cell phone--I'd never use these crappy low end phones for anything more than a phone call or random MFA text. Most need rebooting every few weeks to free up consumed resources just sitting there (yes, non-smart Flip phones are way better that way than these old slow bloated smart phones)
https://www.ebay.com/itm/287503823650 - $60 365 day plan. This is probably most useful for unlocking any TF phone after 1 year of activation.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/287505854589 - Moto G Stylus 5G 2024 w/ 1 year plan, maybe the best phone per dollar device they have on sale that comes with a future unlock date
For the phone itself, the A03 is not terribly useful as a daily driver. Maybe only for calls and texts. A phone of last resort. Apps will be laggy. Used one myself a few years back.
Can you request a phone number be assigned to you or do you have to port in one?
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You're right that the phone is absolute trash. And what you said about harvesting has happened to me. They suddenly turned my balance to zero for text/minutes/data. I spent tons of time with them and they gave me all sorts of BS reasons and just wasted time. One said there is a note on the account that "please let the customer know this plan is no longer available" and didn't give me any real reason. Another one kept asking "have you tried to change your number?" "Have you tried to deactivate your account?" and then claimed I had used 7000 minutes in July alone even though my call log showed no usage for months. I asked how it's possible to use 7000 minutes when the plan had only 1000 in the very beginning and no comprehensible reasons. I eventually gave up. But your experience that continually using the phone and harvesting for at least 60 days before attempting harvesting is interesting. I'll try that. Thank you and repped for a very nice pointer.
Once I had a phone with a defect in the touch screen that developed and was about 75 days into service. I naturally had another qvc or hsn one from a deal, when we ported over it added 365 days but no mins or text or data. Chat and call did not reclaim them.
A year later on another line (and account) I tried to switch from a slow tcl polhone (about same speed as these Samsung crap) and it was only 5.5 months in and it did the same thing, loss of everything except days when adding.
After that I have made sure i only moved after 10 months of use. I don't know what there cutoff is. All subsequent have got me purchased amounts.
Now, buying added service online for others in their account, especially the $50 add on 1 yr plan... That's a debacle as well and the chat or phone agents admit that it does not apply correctly. But at least you have proof but takes half an hour to resolve.
Tracfone sucks if it wasn't so cheap for backup devices.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/287503823650 - $60 365 day plan. This is probably most useful for unlocking any TF phone after 1 year of activation.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/287505854589 - Moto G Stylus 5G 2024 w/ 1 year plan, maybe the best phone per dollar device they have on sale that comes with a future unlock date
For the phone itself, the A03 is not terribly useful as a daily driver. Maybe only for calls and texts. A phone of last resort. Apps will be laggy. Used one myself a few years back.
Use the existing phone and text TRANSFER to 611611, it will confirm and ask for new phone IMEI, once complete check balances on account. After about 10-15 minutes, do the same on the new phone via text and it will move back to the original phone with combined balances. Just did it yesterday.
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