I'm sure you're right but for $15.00 it was worth the piece of mind. CheersYou didn't have to pay extra cause 3 hours from now your contract will be extended
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Carrier Verizon raising grandfathered unlimited data plans by $20
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15 for shipping is better than $20 per month for 2 yrs
Heads up for everyone with unlimited data out of contract, I called to cancel, they offered me the same price for a year and another 100 voice minutes, I'm still canceling, but it may help someone else to get the price frozen for a year and more voice minutes.
Yes. It will leave the switch order on ur account so hard to make data plan changes and minutes changes etc.
Just lay low for a bit. Call Verizon up later and play dumb how you got a new phone from a friend and want to use it and ask them Kindly to remove the switch order error message but remind them u have unlimited data.
Supposedly it requires tech 2 level to do this.
Yes. Use Best Buy method. Easy peasy. Read the previous posts for instructions
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nat...ces-unlimited-data-plans-20-article-1.2389957
"This change only affects customers who are out of contract and also won’t impact government and corporate accounts, the Verge reported."
So who qualifies for corporate accounts? I'm on my employer plan/discout, but I pay the bill. Would I qualify for this?
"This change only affects customers who are out of contract and also won’t impact government and corporate accounts, the Verge reported."
So who qualifies for corporate accounts? I'm on my employer plan/discout, but I pay the bill. Would I qualify for this?
A grandfathered plan is any plan in which a user possesses a service from a cellular service company that is no longer offered by the company, but is honored by the company as a result of possessing said service prior to the company no longer offering the service.
If that was confusing:
It's a plan that they no longer sell, but people have.
Yes but clearly this "grandfathered" plan is getting jacked up by $20 a month.
The grandfathered terms and price are no longer honored by the carrier.
What do u mean?
Don't you have a subsidized upgrade if you have unlimited data with Verizon? Did u buy full price?
If u Brought full price because u wanted to keep unlimited data but too lazy to use a loophole to upgrade. Just do what I did. Buy another iPhone subsidized using Best Buy loophole to extend your contracted.
I got $299 iPhone 6S 64gb for $299 plus taxes. Can easily flip it. If I am lazy I will just sell it for $650 on Craigslist brand new. Easy $300 plus profit since it retails for $750 plus taxes ($800 roughly). Some one will buy same day I post it.
So I got to lock into another 2 year contract at $29.99 data plan. Plus can flip an iPhone (I am deciding whether to keep it as a spare since my wife is very reckless with phones and she's dropped her iPhone 6S rose color a few times already and her case is already got junk on it.
I paid full price for my 6S to keep unlimited data even though I have a subsidized upgrade available.
So I do the best buy method and just sell the phone that arrives?
Yes. U have nothing to lose at this point. Even if you mess up the Best Buy method (please follow instructions closely. Choose ship to ur home. Do not activate it in store). The key is to extend your contract.
But since Verizon lte phones are all unlocked and Verizon iPhone works on T-Mobile and att it will be easy to sell as unlock phone.
I ordered 2 phones from best buy yesterday. I called first and confirmed that they are NOT allowing the 6s plus to be shipped at the present time. The 6s will ship.
I ordered a 6s for my first udp line. In 5 hours my account on Verizon wireless had the contract extended until 2017.
I ordered the 6s plus for my second udp line with in store pickup on the 21st. I'm hoping it is available before the 15th for pickup. I'll try to leave the store without activating by saying its a gift for the other person on the account. If the phone is not ready for pickup by the 14th I'll cancel and order a regular 6s just to extend the contract.
The best buy loophole only works with a phone that will ship. The 6s plus is not eligible to ship at the present time.
I ordered a 6s for my first udp line. In 5 hours my account on Verizon wireless had the contract extended until 2017.
I ordered the 6s plus for my second udp line with in store pickup on the 21st. I'm hoping it is available before the 15th for pickup. I'll try to leave the store without activating by saying its a gift for the other person on the account. If the phone is not ready for pickup by the 14th I'll cancel and order a regular 6s just to extend the contract.
The best buy loophole only works with a phone that will ship. The 6s plus is not eligible to ship at the present time.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong. I enter the second line that does not have an upgrade available. It automatically checks off monthly payments that add up to the full price of the phone instead of giving the option to transfer from the UDP line. It also does not offer the shipping option and gives a store pickup only option. I've tried both on the regular 6s and the 6s plus with no luck.