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Carrier Carrier deal talk - ATT & VZW

luked14 said:
I’m curious about this too. In theory, you could add a new line, transfer an existing line to the new one, then cancel the old one. In my case, I would move an existing iPad to the new line since I don’t care what number is associated with the iPad. I’m not sure if Verizon has some kind of waiting period with new lines where they don’t let you make changes for a certain amount of time to prevent things like this.
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FYI, I posted my question about the BOGO, as a theoretical question since I know they would not comment on unannounced deals, on Verizon's forums and received the following response from an employee:

"We want to make sure our customers have the best deals available to them. With regard to your question in theory as long as the new line of service is active and not canceled you you would technically still qualify for a bogo promotion. If you were to decide to cancel another line and lose the number associated to it you would not be penalized for doing so. You cannot disconnect or transfer the service to an existing line and cancel the new service line."

https://community.verizonwireless.com/message/1606202#1606202
 
benboy12 said:
FYI, I posted my question about the BOGO, as a theoretical question since I know they would not comment on unannounced deals, on Verizon's forums and received the following response from an employee:

"We want to make sure our customers have the best deals available to them. With regard to your question in theory as long as the new line of service is active and not canceled you you would technically still qualify for a bogo promotion. If you were to decide to cancel another line and lose the number associated to it you would not be penalized for doing so. You cannot disconnect or transfer the service to an existing line and cancel the new service line."

https://community.verizonwireless.com/message/1606202#1606202
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Thanks for posting this. It basically confirms that our theoretical scenario should work. If this deal ends up being confirmed by Verizon, I’ll try to do it via Verizon’s website as soon as pre-orders go live.

FYI, last year I was able to place an order for a X about 20 minutes before they were supposed to be available.
 
My wife has Verizon and the add a line deal seems good but I’m pretty sure she would lose her discounted rate plan.
 
Do we have to add a new line?
I want to purchase 2 iPhone XS on a payment plan, but don't really need an extra line.....
 
Brand new to Verizon. I opened two lines yesterday and ported my (Line 1) iPhone X and wife’s 6s (Line 2). Because AT&T is incompetent my mother in laws iPhone 6s (Soon to be line 3) did not unlock and we have to wait for it to unlock before bringing her to Verizon.


So I saw the new deal for $700 off a second IPhone Xs and wondered if what I want to do will work.


I want to upgrade line two from 6s to Iphone Xs


I want to add line 3 to get the second Xs for the discount.


After I get the second Xs I want to move that phone to the line one X and add the line one X to the new line (Line 3)


Then port the phone number currently with AT&T to line 3.


Is this at all possible?
 
xRYD3Rx said:
That suck's cause I don't need a new line. SMH!
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I hear ya. I just happened to be in position where I was going to add my fiance to my plan in the next few weeks, otherwise I wouldn't take advantage either. That's the thing though, they want those new customers. We existing customers are already hooked lol.
 
ARizz44 said:
I hear ya. I just happened to be in position where I was going to add my fiance to my plan in the next few weeks, otherwise I wouldn't take advantage either. That's the thing though, they want those new customers. We existing customers are already hooked lol.
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Well both of the lines I want to upgrade are not on a contract or a payment plan.
I was thinking I can just add a new line, a month or 2 later I can put the # on my existing line onto the new line and than cancel the line with no contract keeping the newly added line with the number I currently have.
Just don't want to lose my phone number.
 
Someone with a single line plan is going to have to help explain what they are doing to get this deal to work for them because I'm lost. Also, AT&T wants any way to get me off the old unlimited plan.
 
Looks like im going to jump from Verizon to ATT for the BOGO. Im not adding a line to Verizon so oh well. But can't have new phones delivered to stores for att so Ill have to brave the stores and see what happens. Att isn't requiring trade ins it appears. SO i can still trade in our 7+ and get around 290 each or sell on eBay
 
synonys said:
AT&T seems to be doing the BOGO with a new line deal too.
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I just paid off my 2 phones on att. I clicked on the upgrade my phone option and they are advertising a buy 1 give one for $38.84/41.67 256 ram and change.(+ all the legalese), Thats for the s and max phones. NO mention of needing a new line. Then trade in the old phone to att or try swappa for a little more money. The trouble with the trade is att says up to 200, they will let you know AFTER you ship them your phone.
I gotta check with the wife, she's happy with the size of her 7, don't know if she wants bigger. Its a no brainer for me but who knows?
I'll be calling later this morning
 
UncleSalty said:
I just paid off my 2 phones on att. I clicked on the upgrade my phone option and they are advertising a buy 1 give one for $38.84/41.67 256 ram and change.(+ all the legalese), Thats for the s and max phones. NO mention of needing a new line. Then trade in the old phone to att or try swappa for a little more money. The trouble with the trade is att says up to 200, they will let you know AFTER you ship them your phone.
I gotta check with the wife, she's happy with the size of her 7, don't know if she wants bigger. Its a no brainer for me but who knows?
I'll be calling later this morning
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Those prices look like they are the 30 month repayment plan, definitely NOt the BOGO offer. For BOGO it is needed to add a line.
 
srharris22 said:
Those prices look like they are the 30 month repayment plan, definitely NOt the BOGO offer. For BOGO it is needed to add a line.
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definitely bait and switch
the upgrade ad says buy one give one, you add one to your cart then an offer for the second one shows.
It says up to 700 for another phone, plus another line. I called, how is 700 the price of the xs?
I got nowhere. They said the promo is for 1 xs and 1 8.
Nowhere on the ad or in the fine print is this mentioned. I think they're making it up as they go.
If I can get 2 iPhone xs 1 for the installment and one for the second line price its still a deal for me. every xtra line on
my plan is only 20.00 plus tax, at 30 mo thats only 750ish
 
chatted with cs rep last night and they told me i had to cancel my exisiting line first before taking advantage of the "bogo $700 off" deal. anyone know if this is true? Would rather have the new iphones in hand before cancelling the line.
 
mistersnowmans said:
chatted with cs rep last night and they told me i had to cancel my exisiting line first before taking advantage of the "bogo $700 off" deal. anyone know if this is true? Would rather have the new iphones in hand before cancelling the line.
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Which carrier? The Verizon rep who commented on my forum post did not incidents this.
 
UncleSalty said:
definitely bait and switch
the upgrade ad says buy one give one, you add one to your cart then an offer for the second one shows.
It says up to 700 for another phone, plus another line. I called, how is 700 the price of the xs?
I got nowhere. They said the promo is for 1 xs and 1 8.
Nowhere on the ad or in the fine print is this mentioned. I think they're making it up as they go.
If I can get 2 iPhone xs 1 for the installment and one for the second line price its still a deal for me. every xtra line on
my plan is only 20.00 plus tax, at 30 mo thats only 750ish
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The promo says get one free is for the 8 but it’s up to $700 credit on X, XS, XS Max
It’s in the fine print, actually on website the asked if I wanted another XS Max for $700 off, but I wanted the XS for my wife so I did some research.
I’m going in store on Friday to confirm all this, so just hoping they have enough in stock
 
benboy12 said:
Which carrier? The Verizon rep who commented on my forum post did not incidents this.
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Verizon. I chatted them last night before the drop, but it may just be cs reps not knowing what they're talking about. I'm just going to keep a copy of your forum post around just in case. Do you plan on cancelling your existing line?
 
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