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Due to my recent experience with Freedompop, I am NO LONGER RECOMMENDING this company. Mad

The company started off with potential but after many sleazy experiences I can definitively say that they are acting in bad faith and not to be trusted.
Please do your own due diligence but my $0.02 is certainly,
STAY AWAY! DO NOT TRY.



P.S.- Early adopters who deposited should probably contact them about a refund. They screwed us. https://slickdeals.net/f/5276432-freedompop-friends?p=79497123#post79497123
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Last Edited by Powza July 28, 2021 at 01:04 AM
There is no need to post in the thread/comments unless you want to, just follow these steps.

#1. Login to freedompop account, and select the "Earn & Share" Tab.

#2. COPY AND PASTE users from below, and select "Invite Friends"
As of , you can only paste 300 characters at a time, so you'll have to spend a few minutes cutting & pasting sections of the list.

#3. Login to slickdeals and Click 'Edit Contents' on the bottom of this wiki, and add your email address to the TOP of this list
Note: For some reason not everyone has access to edit, if you can't, don't worry, you'll most likely get enough friends from step #2. Please don't ask other people to add you to this list unless they plan to remove you later. You are welcome to post your email address in the thread itself asking people to add you as a friend, then edit your post later if you don't want your email address to remain public.



#4. Accept all the friend invites on freedompop (from the 'Invite Friends' subtab under Earn & Share), and when you are satisfied with your number of friends remove yourself from the list. Having more than 10 friends on your account will help you keep your 500 Mb monthly data if someone on your list deactivates their account. You can't have too many friends. If your number of active friends drops below 10, you won't get your full 500mb bonus

Under no circumstances you are obligated to send data to your new friends.

If you aren't going to check your account to accept more friends, please REMOVE YOUR EMAIL FROM THIS LIST so that new people won't waste their time sending you friend invites, especially since we can't just paste the whole list at once anymore, and to avoid your risk of receiving spam from having your email address posted publicly.

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I suggest people read the first post. Frown
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please add audreylin913 at my gmail.com
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11-14-2015 at 05:33 AM.
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Quote from fatbat :
I suggest people read the first post. Frown

I read it and I noticed there is no explanation. It sounds like you had a bad experience, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is a bad company.

If you could explain why?
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11-14-2015 at 08:29 AM.
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Quote from pony :
I read it and I noticed there is no explanation. It sounds like you had a bad experience, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it is a bad company.

If you could explain why?
I don't have a full handle on it, but I think it has something to do with an old practice where they used to make you put down a deposit on the hardware (phone or hotspot) and if you didn't return the hardware within one year, you lost your deposit, essentially buying the hardware. It seems to be coming up now because Sprint is sunsetting WiMax, largely shut down on November 6th. These deposits were up to $100, so some people are feeling burned now that they need a new device to continue their service.
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11-15-2015 at 10:11 PM.
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Quote from Technosquid :
I don't have a full handle on it, but I think it has something to do with an old practice where they used to make you put down a deposit on the hardware (phone or hotspot) and if you didn't return the hardware within one year, you lost your deposit, essentially buying the hardware. It seems to be coming up now because Sprint is sunsetting WiMax, largely shut down on November 6th. These deposits were up to $100, so some people are feeling burned now that they need a new device to continue their service.
Actually back then the deposit was confirmed refundable without a time limit. That was why a bunch of SDers took the leap (2012). Deposit was ~$99 for their branded hotspot device.

But Freedompop quietly changed the terms mid-2015 that only allow refunds within a year of activation.
This immediately voids all deposit refunds mid-2014 and before. Mad

It is pretty clear how unfair and bad faith this added policy is if you consider the amount of deposit vs the device value and how the change was made purposely without notifications first.
Also, it is conveniently before Nov 2015 when these older devices would become obsolete and unusable. Really this was probably the main reason as to why this policy was added in.

By speaking with Freedompop representatives, I got the sense that both party knew they were screwing us over but that was the policy they are adamantly going to stand by.
Obviously these actions show that Freedompop value money over loyal customers, and for that I caution all fellow SDers. Cool


(TL DR: Freedompop intentionally screws over early customers by secretly editing terms)
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Hi people please add me into freedom pop earning extra data first time using freedom pop as a student so get more time on phone thanks
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11-16-2015 at 01:42 PM.
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Thank you for adding me every data extra help me out as a student now can use with phone for free service so happy
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NguyenD8084
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I just become a freedom pop provider and loving it only been two days when not using data from within put it on air plane mode because they will try to drain data even not using it only apply on WIFI when near employing groove ip or hangout app to make calls and free text as well voicemail without an charge those are my tips any others please let me know I am only a teen in school free plan or once in a while pay help a lot thanks
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Full.

Thank you!
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