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Tracfone phasing out bundles on shopping networks ????

Irishpat1944 — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 23:44:17 GMT

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:4JeW57X4khsJ:www.law360.com/articles/737606/tracfone-says-simply-wireless-improperly-sold-free-airtime+&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

I read this article and some of the tracfone blogs and it looks like the cheap bundles will be phased out. I hope I'm wrong but qvc cancelled their tracfone tsv on 1/12/16 with no explanation. Does anyone know anything abouit this ?

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MikafromTopeka — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 23:58:28 GMT

I wonder if they get too many returns on their smartphone bundles because the coverage is lousy in a lot of places. I've sent two back to Evine earlier this year because although my Tracfone LG 800 works great and I've always had the best service coverage with it through Tracfone I couldn't get coverage for the true smartphones through Tracfone in my area and I did enter my zip code before I purchased them and the system said I was in a covered area.

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Lexie — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:03:23 GMT

I don't doubt that they are phasing them out. They ought to phase out Tracphone entirely as they are a crappy phone service. Their customer service isn't in the U.S, so you spend most of the time you have paid for just trying to figure out what the customer service agent is saying. I hated that phone company and went to Consumer Cellular.

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Carmie — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:14:39 GMT

Oh, too bad. I have Tracfone and so does my husband. We both love it. We use Verison and our phones work great.

I have only had to call their CS one time. They were very helpful and they gave me 1300 minutes of airtime free.

I think their phones and their service are great and easy to use and understand.

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GCR18 — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:21:59 GMT

No issues at all with tracfone customer service or the phone. It would be sad if the bundles went away. First I've heard of the topic.

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hckynutjohn — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 04:22:49 GMT

I think Tracfone got the BIG start from the shopping networks. If not for the networks I doubt I would have even heard of Tracfone, or prepaid cell service. Today hsn had a 5.5" Tracfone Smartphone for less than 100 bucks. It had 2 of the best providers in our area, Sprint and Verizon.

Tracfone sells a lot of new phones to people like myself. I buy a new plan every year as it us cheaper than adding minutes. A lot of their profit is from selling new phones. There is no B&M store that can come even close to selling the numbers sold by shopping networks. I won't believe this until I see Tracfone officially announce this.

If they do I will go with the monthly Sprint plan my wife uses. Cost me more, but I am not signing anymore long term cell phone contracts, I would go without before going that route again.

hckynut(john)

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Venezia — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 04:08:51 GMT

We've only ever had Tracfones for the past 15 years and have had great service. Had to call customer service a few times in the early days but not in the last few years. Everything can be done online or through their automated phone service, IF you just READ and follow the instructions. (It's amazing how many people don't and then complain that it's Tracfone's fault.)

I hope they're not doing away with the bundles.

I never saw anything about a Tracfone TSV for the 12th, so maybe that was just a bit of misinformation?

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Pook — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:49:18 GMT

I have had a tracfone from way back to about when they first started and love the service. I did have some problems early on that were satisfactorily corrected. I have had to call CS many times in the past and if I could not understand them I asked if there was someone who spoke English and was transferred to someone who either was fluent or was from the US - no problem. There is a corporate office in Florida that I was referred to once also. Now everything can be done online and it's great. I have better coverage than many paying big bucks for plans. There is poor coverage for most with expensive plans at our vacation cottage location but my tracfone always works great.

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namaste000 — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:36:44 GMT

Love tracfone - have had at least 5 tracfones through hsn and qvc and hope they don't discontinue bundles. Maybe they will just crack down on companies that did not comply with the rules.

Right now I am on my second LGL41C. It's the best! I ported my number from my previous phone (service was great for that!) and I've got loads of minutes for texts, data, and calls that always carry over.

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Moonlady — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 17:32:14 GMT

If TF is "phasing out bundles," they're not doung so on HSN, who's offered a TF bundle in two separate presentations since the QVC TSV was canceled. Since the QVC rep was reminding viewers of the QVC special as late as January 9, I suspect we'll eventually be seeing them back at Q. At least I hope so.

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10sluvr — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 22:41:21 GMT

i've had several qvc tracfone tsv's and have been very happy. i get great coverage and i'm not sure what i would do with out them. i hate spending money on a phone that sits in my handbag, 80% of the time.

maybe just a delivery problem with the cancelled tsv. they usually have one nov./dec. in the past.

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excpa — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:43:58 GMT

I love my tracfones. I'm not so crazy about the smart phone and couldn't port my landline number (believe me, I really tried) but, other than that, I have excellent service from them. I use the on -line chat to solve problems so the language problem is minimal. After a year of giving them every chance to be honorable, I dropped my land-line phone company when they started playing billing games and it took 3 months to get my refund. No billing problems with Tracfone. My phone needs are prepaid until 2018! My smart phone is prepaid until 2019 by which time I fully expect to be dead.

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hckynutjohn — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:31:01 GMT

Just had a 5" Tracfone bundle yesterday as ts on hsn. Had even more minutes/text and data than last one. Best phone I have seen from Tracfone, and for under $80 delivered?

Don't sound like a phase out to me. Just my opinion of course?

hckynut(john)

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Irishpat1944 — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:22:39 GMT

Supply is now down to MotoE, no others.

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Irishpat1944 — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 00:35:05 GMT

All the ones on hsn are sold out and there are none on evine, I wish I wasn't right about this.

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Moonlady — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 05:42:00 GMT

You're not right about this.The reason they're all sold out on HSN is because....they all sold out after the two presentations (January 16 and 17). The bundle was the same--1200 minutes, text, data, tripled for life of the phone. The phone was a 5.5"-screen ZTE Quartz ($99), and it flew outta there. I've heard that the ZTE still has screen "freezing" problems, and that screen size is a bit large for my taste (and my cute wristlets lol), and I prefer the LG. Bundles are NOT going anywhere.

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hckynutjohn — Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:00:09 GMT

@Moonlady wrote:
You're not right about this.The reason they're all sold out on HSN is because....they all sold out after the two presentations (January 16 and 17). The bundle was the same--1200 minutes, text, data, tripled for life of the phone. The phone was a 5.5"-screen ZTE Quartz ($99), and it flew outta there. I've heard that the ZTE still has screen "freezing" problems, and that screen size is a bit large for my taste (and my cute wristlets lol), and I prefer the LG. Bundles are NOT going anywhere.

Hello moonlady,

The Tracfone bundle I spoke of in my more recent post, was not a ZTE. It was a 5" Alcatel with 1350 minutes/texts and data, for $79.95 delivered. Carriers were Sprint/Verizon.

hckynut(john)

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samdaw — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 04:15:13 GMT

I also think they are phasing them out. I ordered a bundle on HSN on Sunday night when they were 15% off. At that point, HSN had 5 styles, QVC had 2 or 3, and Evine had 1. On Tuesday night, I thought about ordering another one but they were not doing the 15% off so I did not order. All three networks still had all the same models as they did Sunday night. I received the phone today and thought I would order another one even without the 15% discount, but none of the three networks have any tracfones. QVC has one showing up, but it has been going from not available to waitlist all day.

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Venezia — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 21:31:30 GMT

It more likely means they (Tracfone) are coming out with new phones. They do a lot of business through QVC and HSN. I can't see them discontinuing the bundles.

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hckynutjohn — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 22:52:17 GMT

@Venezia wrote:
It more likely means they (Tracfone) are coming out with new phones. They do a lot of business through QVC and HSN. I can't see them discontinuing the bundles.

And evine

hckynut(john)