It will be interesting what your store says, the Verizon corporate store I went to the manager claimed that she couldn't do what I was asking and that it wasn't possible which I'm sure is BS since it sounds like you can on the phone.
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It will be interesting what your store says, the Verizon corporate store I went to the manager claimed that she couldn't do what I was asking and that it wasn't possible which I'm sure is BS since it sounds like you can on the phone.
I did this. I think the key is to make the switch online. My details:
I have 3 smartphones and 1 ipad mini on my current share everything plan. I have an iPad 3 that was still on prepaid, so it wasn't on my share everything plan.
Purchased new 5c, created a new line. Came home and chose "replace device" and entered my iPad 3's details (EMEI.) Went immediately down from $40/mo to $10/mo. Switched new iPhone 5c with another smartphone already on the plan (Note 2) so my plan now STILL includes the three smartphones, but now 2 iPads. But instead of an extra $40/mo, it dropped to $10/mo.
Got an email from Verizon this morning confirming my changes, and when I check online at my plan details, it confirms the change as well.
Good luck!
I have 3 smartphones and 1 ipad mini on my current share everything plan. I have an iPad 3 that was still on prepaid, so it wasn't on my share everything plan.
Purchased new 5c, created a new line. Came home and chose "replace device" and entered my iPad 3's details (EMEI.) Went immediately down from $40/mo to $10/mo. Switched new iPhone 5c with another smartphone already on the plan (Note 2) so my plan now STILL includes the three smartphones, but now 2 iPads. But instead of an extra $40/mo, it dropped to $10/mo.
Got an email from Verizon this morning confirming my changes, and when I check online at my plan details, it confirms the change as well.
Good luck!
Subsequently, your monthly rate went up approximately $10/mo to cover that new line. Correct?
Yes, it did. But I was able to cancel the prepaid plan on the iPad 3, which was $20/mo. So I'm ok with it going up $10/mo to share my data plan.
Never made it to the store, so I did the switch online today. However, it did require that I have a MiFi to activate on the line. Went without issue.
My Verizon Wireless -> Manage My Device -> Activate or Switch Device -> Select line -> Activating new device
They told me my SIM wasn't compatible so they are sending a free SIM replacement. Line went from 40/mo to 20/mo.
I did the same thing yesterday, except instead of them sending me one I just went to the Verizon store a few minutes away and was out within 5 minutes.
Yeah but you could use any other device. I spoke to about 10 people at Verizon and they all said that I could use a tablet or mifi. I canceled the the MiFi contract, only had about a month left on it, and added the phone and was going to do the swap on the website. The only thing was that the SIM card didn't work since I terminated the contract so instead of waiting on them to send me one in the mail I went to the Verizon store a few minutes away and they did the swap right in the store. Took ~5 minutes.
I went with MiFi because there are some instances where I need to tether and don't want to drain my phone battery plus i'll use it so i can do voice+data at the same time when I'm not on wifi.
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Don't do it, you can sell it yourselves for over $100 more.
http://tinyurl.com/kv53hf9
That's just an eBay example, but it appears that the 32gb i5 will sell somewhere in the range of $450 to $480, however you try to do it.