phones

[laupp]

whats your experience with the cheepest cell phone for occasonal use contract prepay on prepay do they count used days or calinder days you thoughts thanks

 

[JD2ACWD]

tracfone prepay you can add minutes if needed best thing I ever did

 

[Anonymous-0]

got a trac phone. 400m 1yr service around $100. for the farm. works great as I don't use it much. great for the money.

 

[Anonymous-0]

Forgot to add phone was $24.00

 

[Lou from Wi.]

Got 2 VERIZON's Buy a card $15.00 per phone every other month. Good phone for when were out and about. Wish you success. Regards LOU.

 

[Ray(MO)]

Net10 150 minutes a month $15

 

[Ray(MO)]

Net10, 150 minutes a month $15.

 

[C.R.]

tracfone,with the double your minuts card added it is a good deal if you do not wreck phones alot

 

[bison]

borrow it from a co worker when you need it.LOL

 

[Nate V. IA]

I have a Verizon, $15 a month is the minimum, there is a set up fee and if you forget to add the 15 a month they may or may not stick it to you again. If you have money left at the end of the month it rolls over to the next as long as you keep adding the 15. My phone is more of a calculator, I have a bunch of money on it because I don't use it much so it keeps compounding. They offered a deal a while back, put $100 on it one time and its good for a year, they aren't charging me 15 a month now.

Every day you use it, making or receiving an actual call and talking to someone it's $1.00 plus 10 cents a minute. Call somebody on Sunday and talk for 2 minutes $1.20 will be deducted. Make another call on Sunday, talk for three minutes $0.30 will be deducted. Talk to someone that also has Verizon account that same day its free. Someone calls Monday leaves a voice mail it wont cost you until you listen to it. Call some one Tuesday and no one answers $1.00. Call ten people and talk for ten hours on Wed, all of them have a Verizon account $1.00. Don,t use it for two weeks no charge.
They will not bill you, they send a text message telling you your account is going to expire when the money gets (less than $5) low or the end of the month is coming.
I had to buy my phone, its a cheapy but has a nice calculator and I have had service whenever I needed it. This is the best deal I could find for my scenario.

Nate

 

[Anonymous-0]

Brother had a trac-phone, but got rid of it. Used it to much, got pretty expensive. Would probably work ok for me though, since I don't use one very much. Might go for a week or two and never make or get a call.

 

[timcasbolt]

ditto

 

[IOWA NORTHEAST]

Just a word on the trac phones with double minutes. I had two of them, so I could go to Wally World at my choice, and add minutes.

I let the time laps on one of them, and then it makes your double minute card expire. I had already paid for the next round on minutes at the back of the Wally store, and then they GAVE ME THE WORD THAT THE DOUBLE MINUTE CARD WAS NO GOOD. I TOLD THEM TO CANCEL MY PHONE.

I then went to customer service and asked for a return.....the answer was we can not do that. I said for your saftey, you best call security!....Then she said I'm not supposed to do this, but I will this one time. I explained The transaction was less than ten minutes ago, and I paid cash, and had no so much as left the store. She still calaimed she was not supposed to do the refund.

Read your double minute card, note all the small print (for the scam).

Otherwise it is a great deal for the non user like myself. I disabled the voice message, that uses alot on minutes, and often I can always track the atempted call, and return it from my land line for no charge.

I also do not have the text part, and all my pages from the local EMS, and fire calls do not show up on my cell.

 

[Stan in Oly, WA]

I got a TracFone at Target for about $20. It included double minutes for life. The same phone w/o that feature was $5 less.

With TracFone you have to buy service time (days of service which expire at the rate of one day per day whether you use the phone or not) and minutes of airtime which expire as you use the phone. Any call that is answered costs you at least one minute, but the time is measured in 6 second increments after that.

Your unused airtime rolls into the next period as long as you don't let the service time lapse.

I bought some service time and airtime (which doubled automatically, just as promised) when I got the phone. Including whatever amount of each which came with the phone, I purchased enough to have about 1100 minutes and 400 (m/l) days. The price goes down considerably with larger purchases, and seems to be a better deal from TracFone online than from stores---but I may be mistaken about that. I calculated that it cost me just under ten cents a minute all in.

TracFone has a map of their national service area. There's a dead zone for me out on the coast where I go occasionally and could use phone service.

The company is in South America, but I haven't had any more trouble understanding their tech reps than with any other company. Online or by phone, they are fast and capable.

TracFone suits the way I use a cell phone, which is to say, not much. It's the end of Feb and I've still got 960 minutes. It's a cheap way to have a cell phone for emergencies, but probably not for normal use. There's never a time when it's free to talk on it.

Stan

 

[Jerry/MT]

My wife and I have a Tracphone and it costs us $16 and change a month for 180 minutes,(100 on her phone and 80 on mine) through one of their budget plans. Most of our freinds are paying $70/month per phone for all the stuff that an old fart like me doesn"t use. My wife and I have yet to use all minutes in a month. Of course I don"t go everywhere with the phone glued to my ear and neither does the wife. I think the phones and the accesory pack were a one time cost of $35 for each phone.
The tech support I got to set up the phones was excellent. The rest of the customer support sucks. But then I heve rarely had to use their customer support.

 

[State of Jefferson]

I have a pre-paid Verizon. Works great for me. Costs a dollar for every day you use the phone, and $.10 per minute to talk. But doesn't cost any airtime to talk to other verizon customers, which is %90 of the people I talk to. I buy a $20 a month unlimited text package because its an easy way for me to communicate with people. My total bill for the month is under $50.

Ben

 

[laupp]

thanks for all your comments

 

[Bob85355]

I"ve been with T-Mobile for several years on a prepaid: $100 per year for 1000 minutes, unused rollover. Works out to $8.33 per month. Good coverage and no complaints.

Bob
Central Arizona