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[bargainsgirl]

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@Carmie wrote:

My husband has an unlimited minute/text Tracfone.  It is wonderful and has saved us money.

Unlimited means just that. Unlimited is for 365 days.  If you replace your old Tracfone that already has unused minutes/texts on it, you lose them.  Unused data can be transferred, but not minutes or texts.

If you have a ton of unused minutes/ texts, it is better to use them up before you activate a new unlimited phone.

Tracfone also does not allow you to transfer unlimited minutes/ texts to any other phone you might own.  You must use the phone sold with the plan. It is a package deal.

When my husbands 365 days are over, we plan to purchase another unlimited phone.  He will need to use the new phone and toss his year old one.

What a waste, huh?

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That is a waste.  Did CS Tracfone explain that?  Seems very deceptive if you buy one.

[Tinkrbl44]

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@bargainsgirl wrote:

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@Carmie wrote:

My husband has an unlimited minute/text Tracfone.  It is wonderful and has saved us money.

Unlimited means just that. Unlimited is for 365 days.  If you replace your old Tracfone that already has unused minutes/texts on it, you lose them.  Unused data can be transferred, but not minutes or texts.

If you have a ton of unused minutes/ texts, it is better to use them up before you activate a new unlimited phone.

Tracfone also does not allow you to transfer unlimited minutes/ texts to any other phone you might own.  You must use the phone sold with the plan. It is a package deal.

When my husbands 365 days are over, we plan to purchase another unlimited phone.  He will need to use the new phone and toss his year old one.

What a waste, huh?

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That is a waste.  Did CS Tracfone explain that?  Seems very deceptive if you buy one.

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@bargainsgirl 

I had the same phone for about 6 years and just renewed my plan on the Tracfone site.  It saved a LOT of money over a regular plan with a monthly bill.  

Then I realized that buying a new phone every year was actually cheaper.

If a one year plan is $149 on the Tracfone site, and a new phone, new accessories AND a full year plan are on sale for $129 at HSN, what's the better deal?  

This is the standard old-time sales and marketing plan to "give away the razors (for free) to sell the blades".   

People not only stay with Tracfone because of all the money they save, but there's the word-of-mouth recommendations that increase sales, too.

[sueinsf]

I still have a Tracfone with plenty of minutes left, but at some point I might be interested in a phone with unlimited talk and text. With all the tracfones I have had, if you want to keep that phone you can just add another year of service for $50.  Once your year is up you need to buy a new phone with a new unlimited plan?  There is no ability to keep your phone and renew that service?  

[Nightowlz]

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@bargainsgirl wrote:

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@Carmie wrote:

My husband has an unlimited minute/text Tracfone.  It is wonderful and has saved us money.

Unlimited means just that. Unlimited is for 365 days.  If you replace your old Tracfone that already has unused minutes/texts on it, you lose them.  Unused data can be transferred, but not minutes or texts.

If you have a ton of unused minutes/ texts, it is better to use them up before you activate a new unlimited phone.

Tracfone also does not allow you to transfer unlimited minutes/ texts to any other phone you might own.  You must use the phone sold with the plan. It is a package deal.

When my husbands 365 days are over, we plan to purchase another unlimited phone.  He will need to use the new phone and toss his year old one.

What a waste, huh?

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That is a waste.  Did CS Tracfone explain that?  Seems very deceptive if you buy one.

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@bargainsgirl @Carmie 

I forgot DH still had airtime left on his phone when I added the unlimited service.

When he texts Tracfone for Balance it shows his unlimited service which expires in May. It also shows what he has left from hi 1 year service card that is not the unlimited service which expires in June.

It uses the Unlimited instead of using up you other airtime first.

We are going to let the unlimited expire in May. Before his other airtime ends in June we will add a 30 day card monthly for a few months until he can use it up before we add the unlimited plan back to his phone. 

[Nightowlz]

Since you probably already have a Tracfone I would still buy this phone. You have 1 year to activate it. Use up airtime on phone you have first. 

This is the first phone sold by Tracfone that I have seen that offers 6 years OS updates & 6 years Security updates. Samsung is offering this on their phones now not Tracfone.

I already have a Samsung phone.

Go to HSN to enter your zip code to see if this phone will work in your area.

It won't work in my area because we have to use GSM phones. So evidently it doesn't work with AT&T.

[Carmie]

@Nightowlz   That's interesting.  My husband had a few minutes and quite a few texts, which he very seldom uses on his old phone when his days were about to run out.

When he went to unlimited, he lost his minutes and texts from his old phone, but his leftover data was added to the new phone.

We didn't complain because we only paid $80 for the new phone with unlimited minutes.  His phone is good until next February. This is the second unlimited phone he has had. He always buys extra data.

I just add time to my phone every year.  I have a ton of minutes and texts and data that I never use.

The first pic on the left is my husband's account.  You can see he only has data showing....no minutes or texts.

The second pic on the right is mine.  I just add days to my account.  I have more than enough texts and minutes.  I am aftraid I will lose them if I get an unlimited phone, just like my husband did.

[Venezia]

@Carmie - When HSN and QVC presented Tracfones with this unlimited plan, they made a point of stressing that, if you have a phone currently on the old system (minutes, texts, data), you do not lose that.

The rep explained that whatever you have will be frozen on your account.  At the end of the year of unlimited, if you choose to revert to the old system, your frozen amounts will be restored to your current phone.

I never heard them say that you would lose them or that you would have to toss your current phone and buy a new one, to get another year of the unlimited plan.  In fact, the rep said you would have to buy "another year of service with the unlimited plan".

But perhaps you know differently?  It makes no sense to have to throw away a perfectly good phone after a year.  Where did you get that information?

[AZfem]

Thanks for posting this @bargainsgirl. This looks like a good deal. You even get a phone stand/holder & the full charger which they were not sending for a while. 

[Carmie]

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@Venezia wrote:

@Carmie - When HSN and QVC presented Tracfones with this unlimited plan, they made a point of stressing that, if you have a phone currently on the old system (minutes, texts, data), you do not lose that.

The rep explained that whatever you have will be frozen on your account.  At the end of the year of unlimited, if you choose to revert to the old system, your frozen amounts will be restored to your current phone.

I never heard them say that you would lose them or that you would have to toss your current phone and buy a new one, to get another year of the unlimited plan.  In fact, the rep said you would have to buy "another year of service with the unlimited plan".

But perhaps you know differently?  It makes no sense to have to throw away a perfectly good phone after a year.  Where did you get that information?

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@Venezia   Experience.  When we bought an unlimited Tracfone and activated it, all the texts and minutes on the older phone were lost.

Only the media was carried over.

Also, right in the materials sent with the Tracfone is information telling you that you cannot exchange the unlimited minutes from a new phone to another phone.  

You absolutely must use the new phone with the unlimited minutes.  The unlimited minutes will only work on the phone that came with that package.  You cannot separate them.
 
I agree it is a waste of a one year old phone. 

I just checked to make sure.  Tracfone does not sell a one year, 365 day unlimited plan to add to a phone you already own.  You can only get this plan with the purchase of a new phone in a package deal.

You can get unlimited texts and minutes for 30 days only for $40 a month.

[Venezia]

@Carmie - I've just been on the Tracfone site.  I simply put "Unlimited Plan" in the search bar.  There were several options, but each asked how many months you wanted it for.  I chose 12 months on one of the plans and got the following:  (sorry, it wouldn't let me copy the entire graphic)

365 Days Service Plan

Price is 144 dollars and 00 cents per month

$144

365 Days 

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• Unlimited Talk
• Unlimited Text
• 12 GB Carryover Data

 The total price depends on how much data you want and how many months/days of service.

I thought it would've been strange for the Tracfone rep to say on both QVC and HSN that you could add another annual plan once your current year ran out, if it wasn't true.  That would've been misleading, not to say an out and out lie.

Obviously, it works out cheaper, if you prepay the entire year (otherwise, it's a montly cost), but you can do a month-by-month plan.

I admit the Unlimited Plans don't just jump out at you on the Tracfone website, but they are there and no new phone is required.

(I can't post a live link on these boards or I would do that, to clarify it for anyone who's considering one of the Tracfone deals with Unlimited Minutes.  And please note what I said about the Tracfone rep saying about your existing minutes/data/texts being frozen on your account, in the event you wanted to revert.)