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Krime posted:Question: Its only cell phone bingo if you have all of the big 4 involved! Anyway,yeah you will be fine to switch a number regardless of area code, they don't care about that much anymore. Last I checked you should get a choice between the share plan and just adding into their current plan where your two new lines would be $30 for 2GB of data. Someone correct me if I am wrong.
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Spoke Lee posted:I know but I didn't know if they exempted video calls from your limit since they keep saying unlimited. It is unlimited. Verizon isn't limiting anything, you just have to pay for it all once you've used up your bucket. Its a bullshit marketing plan designed to make you not think carefully about your data usage.
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Sep 14, 2012 13:30
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I have found a way to work the system a bit and keep unlimited data on an upgrade. Its a bit of a pain and takes a few steps, and will likely stop working at any point, and you might get a rep who wont do it, so YMMV. 1) Add a new line on your account on a monthly contract, you will need a piece of equipment, can be anything really, not even a smartphone. 2) Do an alternate line upgrade on your eligible line with unlimited data, but have the activating line be the new monthly contract plan line. This should let you keep unlimited data on the eligible line, extend its contract for 2 years, and get you a subsidized phone, but not touch the contract on the monthly plan. 3) Wait a day, then switch the new phone to the line you wanted it, and put the monthly contract line back on they old junky equipment, wait another day. 4) Call and cancel the monthly line. 5) Because the monthly line has no contract, and thus NO etf, you are only out possibly out a $35 activation fee (should be credited if you cancel within 3 days), and the prorated service on that monthly line.
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Mighty Horse posted:I have found a way to work the system a bit and keep unlimited data on an upgrade. Its a bit of a pain and takes a few steps, and will likely stop working at any point, and you might get a rep who wont do it, so YMMV. Transferring upgrades will make you lose your unlimited data. Also transferring upgrades still puts a contract on the phone the upgrade came from. You have to make a new line, buy an iphone and 2 year contract on it. Then swap phones. Then pay $10/m for 2 years on the new line or pay $350 ETF (Which would be dumb)
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Sep 14, 2012 15:00
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Don Lapre posted:Transferring upgrades will make you lose your unlimited data. Also transferring upgrades still puts a contract on the phone the upgrade came from. Sounds like he's capitalizing on the fact that an upgrade transfer will kill unlimited data for the recipient line, not the donor line. In this case the recipient had no data plan to wipe out in the first place. Anyway he sells phones so I'd trust him that it works 
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Mighty Horse posted:I have found a way to work the system a bit and keep unlimited data on an upgrade. Its a bit of a pain and takes a few steps, and will likely stop working at any point, and you might get a rep who wont do it, so YMMV. Just here to confirm this works.
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Sep 14, 2012 15:55
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Will that work if you've already got five lines?
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Sep 14, 2012 17:35
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Socialism posted:Yeah, that was the case with the 4S launch iirc, and I asked Verizon people at their store.
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Sep 14, 2012 17:47
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kitten smoothie posted:Sounds like he's capitalizing on the fact that an upgrade transfer will kill unlimited data for the recipient line, not the donor line. In this case the recipient had no data plan to wipe out in the first place. Rereading it, i see whats going on Does the junk phone you use to create the new line have to actually work? edit: guess its best to wait and do this once there is some phone availability otherwise you will have to keep the new line opened till you get your phone? Or is that not the case. Don Lapre fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Sep 14, 2012 |
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Sep 14, 2012 17:47
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I preordered an iPhone 5 from Verizon this morning. I'm switching from AT&T. I wasn't able to use a different shipping address than my billing address when I ordered online and I'd like to have it shipped to my office instead of my apartment. When I called, Verizon said they couldn't change the shipping address. Is there anyway to change this or am I out of luck?
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Sep 14, 2012 18:01
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Spoke Lee posted:I know but I didn't know if they exempted video calls from your limit since they keep saying unlimited. Unlimited for the app != Unlimited across the board. Unlimited by Skype means that you can video-call as much as you want and Skype won't charge you. You will, however, still use data; and if you're capped/limited in any way, video-calling will blow that out of the water in a big goddamn hurry.
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Sep 14, 2012 18:30
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quotison posted:I preordered an iPhone 5 from Verizon this morning. I'm switching from AT&T. I wasn't able to use a different shipping address than my billing address when I ordered online and I'd like to have it shipped to my office instead of my apartment. When I called, Verizon said they couldn't change the shipping address. Is there anyway to change this or am I out of luck? I don't know if Verizon uses FedEx or UPS, but either way, when you get your tracking number you can go to the shipment carrier's website and have them redirect the shipment. So if you can't change the address, you still have some options. I believe it's free with FedEx and $5 with UPS, so cross your fingers it's fedex.
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Sep 14, 2012 18:35
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This is from a couple pages back butsleepness posted:Quick question, my google searches are not leading to any concrete answers. I'm thinking about switching from ATT to Verizon for the new iPhone to benefit from LTE in my area, but was curious if that if I am connected to LTE, could I do voice and data simultaneously? Looks like the answer is no.
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Sep 14, 2012 18:44
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Endless Mike posted:This is wrong, by the way. I was able to order an iPhone on Verizon for full price without an issue. (Two, actually, since the Apple store had a 2 week wait by the time I woke up, so I put one through both Apple and Verizon and will cancel the one that ships second.) Yeah I realized that last night - it's the unlocked, not off-contract, that's initially unavailable.
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Sep 14, 2012 18:51
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Is the Verizon order status page broken for anyone else? 
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Sep 14, 2012 20:22
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kstatix posted:Just here to confirm this works. Can you do this online or do you have to call to do this?
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Ulysses S. Grant posted:Is the Verizon order status page broken for anyone else? Yes, use this link instead.
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Sep 14, 2012 21:28
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god this blows posted:Can you do this online or do you have to call to do this? Unless something changed recently, no, you can't add new lines of service online with your own equipment. Also, all you need us a clean idle esn. You don't ever have to have the phone on or anything. You can literally find a busted rear end phone with a clean esn and it'll work.
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Sep 14, 2012 21:39
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kstatix posted:Unless something changed recently, no, you can't add new lines of service online with your own equipment. I have an old Motorola Razr, the original kind.
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Sep 14, 2012 21:41
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god this blows posted:I have an old Motorola Razr, the original kind. That works.
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Sep 14, 2012 22:17
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Can you still activate a LG VX8300, or is that too old?
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Sep 15, 2012 02:08
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WithoutTheFezOn posted:Can you still activate a LG VX8300, or is that too old? Not at all. Go nuts. The only phones that can't be activated are the ones that are so old that they're not even e911 capable. So pretty much anything manufactured after 2004 or so should be fine.
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Sep 15, 2012 03:03
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Considering a switch to verizon from sprint when my contract is up in november. Basically just tired of paying for 4g that I'm never going to get from sprint, especially with their new LTE overhaul coming up. How does verizon's data plan work? Do you pay for X amount of gb a month or something like that? The only way I'd stick with sprint is if verizon ended up being significantly more expensive.
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Sep 15, 2012 14:54
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Kingtheninja posted:Considering a switch to verizon from sprint when my contract is up in november. Basically just tired of paying for 4g that I'm never going to get from sprint, especially with their new LTE overhaul coming up. Yeah I just switched to the 2GB for $30 a month and I'm interested in how much it is if I go over. I read it is $10 for 2 additional GB, is that accurate?
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foodfight posted:Yeah I just switched to the 2GB for $30 a month and I'm interested in how much it is if I go over. I read it is $10 for 2 additional GB, is that accurate? $10 for every GB
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Sep 15, 2012 15:31
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foodfight posted:Yeah I just switched to the 2GB for $30 a month and I'm interested in how much it is if I go over. I read it is $10 for 2 additional GB, is that accurate?
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Sep 15, 2012 16:09
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Don Lapre posted:Transferring upgrades will make you lose your unlimited data. Also transferring upgrades still puts a contract on the phone the upgrade came from. I have 4 lines on my family plan. 3 of the lines are legacy unlimited data. The fourth of the lines is a 2GB/$30 plan (Line B). I have an upgrade on my unlimited data primary line (Line A), and I figure I could just circumvent things to get a subsidized device if I take that upgrade that's available on my primary line (Line A) and transfer it to the 2GB/$30 line (Line B). The way I figure it would go, is that my Line A stays untouched, while losing upgrade eligibility, then my Line B is on contract for longer while its data plan stays the same and a subsidized phone (meant for Line B) gets shipped out. Apparently burning the upgrade will negatively affect both lines?
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ProjektorBoy posted:I have 4 lines on my family plan. 3 of the lines are legacy unlimited data. The fourth of the lines is a 2GB/$30 plan (Line B).
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Sep 15, 2012 17:33
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Is there no way to avoid the Share Anything plans on a new account? I'd like to get on Verizon's network with a new iPhone 5, but it's not worth the $25/month more it would cost than the AT&T plan I have now. ($40 for 450 minutes and $25 for 2GB of data.)
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fourwood posted:Is there no way to avoid the Share Anything plans on a new account? I'd like to get on Verizon's network with a new iPhone 5, but it's not worth the $25/month more it would cost than the AT&T plan I have now. ($40 for 450 minutes and $25 for 2GB of data.) Find a rep in a store willing to switch you to the older plans as they are still available in the sales system as far as I know.
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bub posted:Find a rep in a store willing to switch you to the older plans as they are still available in the sales system as far as I know. This is true. You can still set people up on the nationwide plans. Some reps will tell you they can't, but they're just dumb.
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The lack of even remotely worthwhile feature phones makes me pretty sad. I mean, I get why they're being phased out, but that doesn't change the fact that I still can't afford a monthly data plan, and the few feature phones they still offer on the site are so worthless that I ended up spending $50 on a preowned Alias 2. That's a crock of poo poo in my book. Why can't you just let me get a new phone without a data plan, you awful fuckers? I'm trying to give you my money and you're refusing it.
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My family just upgraded our Verizon plan from a regular plan to a data plan, and got smartphones with it. It turns out that the Verizon storefront we went to wasn't actually run by Verizon, but a third party, and we didn't find out until after signing paperwork. They didn't even have the phone that I wanted in stock, they had to special order it (Galaxy S3 32GB). They couldn't activate the phones. I don't know why, but my dad's got activated after a few attempts, but my mother's phone just doesn't work. It says there is no SIM card, but there is totally a SIM card in the device. They tried different phones and different SIM cards, but none of them worked. They said that the network is backed up because of the new iPhone coming out, but that sounds a bit like BS to me. We tried multiple times at 2:30 in the morning, last night. Why would the network be backed up at 2:30AM? Has this ever happened to anyone signing up for a data plan? We've been trying to get the phone activated since yesterday. It's just so goddamned weird. Do you guys think it would be possible to just cancel out everything we've done there and get it done at a real Verizon storefront? I'm not getting my hopes up but it's worth asking.
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Anyone picked up a Razr M? I have an HTC thunderbolt with unlimited data and I am looking to upgrade at full retail price this fall. I checked out the Razr M at a store the other day and was very impressed. I am really considering just buying the Razr M and then flipping it when the Razr HD/Maxx comes out if I decide I need the bigger HD screen. The Razr M really made the thunderbolt feel like a dinosaur of a phone.
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Spaz Medicine posted:My family just upgraded our Verizon plan from a regular plan to a data plan, and got smartphones with it. It turns out that the Verizon storefront we went to wasn't actually run by Verizon, but a third party, and we didn't find out until after signing paperwork. They didn't even have the phone that I wanted in stock, they had to special order it (Galaxy S3 32GB).
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Sep 16, 2012 17:13
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Verizon is two weeks, I believe.
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Was it just a Kiosk or something? I don't understand how an actual storefront can pretend to be Verizon.
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Cojawfee posted:Was it just a Kiosk or something? I don't understand how an actual storefront can pretend to be Verizon.
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Auron posted:They are called premium retailers if I remember correctly. They are a privately owned third party franchise in which Verizon allows them to use their name. Corporate stores are actually owned by Verizon. Yeah, it was one of these. We didn't even know that was a thing, so we didn't notice it wasn't a corporate store until we had started to sign up. Hell, I don't know if it would have even made a difference if we went to an actual Verizon-owned storefront. I'm irritated and disappointed that we walked in intending to get three smart phones, and walked out with two, only one of which works. The third party makes kind of an easy target. I just don't know who to direct my irritation at.  Hopefully the parents are OK with just cancelling all of it and starting over at an actual Verizon outlet, but I sincerely doubt they want to deal with cellphone salespeople twice in two days. Thanks for the input, everyone. 
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Checking my data usage and I apparently haven't gone over .5 gb in the past year. Knowing that, it looks like a smartphone with 1gb data would run $90. With surcharges etc, should I expect to pay something like $100-105 total?
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