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Part II - UDP For Life
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finally free from this dumb hold vzw had me on. RIGHT after all the fun is gone sigh... or is it...?
I've done two to a business today with another authorized today. I've done two to two individuals yesterday and one today already. More to come.
That's incredible! This cannot be pure luck. Are you willing to share how you accomplished this?
And if Desert Silver had kept things to himself, none of us would know about this. Anyhow, I think Verizon can tell from ebay whether or not AOLing UDP is viable or not. There is no stopping that.
There's no special steps. Same as before. Call up and get a helpful rep
Thanks. I suppose that is a very safe and smart response on this very public forum
That's true, to an extent. Believe it or not, I did see the unlimited option when I tried to preorder my iPhone 6 plus. But for the masses, yeah, they probably wouldn't have seen it.
Oh well.
well I am part of the masses, lol! I wouldn't have known about this if CNotes hadn't posted on AC about it.
And for me at least this isn't a second job and I have enjoyed the fun and comradery of this thread not to mention the tips on how to accomplish all of this.
Agreed.
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Same here...i wonder if we have the same person
Most likely....
I agree with this. I think we now all need to go work for Verizon since we can train their employees and know their systems better then most of them do.
Some of the 6's were activated, some were not. I always activated the lines with the 5s, then sometimes switched it to the 6 if we did 2 phones. I never activated a phone with the SIM it came with, thinking that it bypassed the activation fee for Best Buy so it probably would do the same for this.
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Oddly, in Chicago the 6 Plus is "plentiful" on Verizon. As for the 6, Space Gray and Silver are plentiful in 16GB and 64GB. Gold is now hard to get! It's the reverse of what it was 2 weeks ago. AT&T supplies are pretty good. Sprint is nonexistent.
T-Mobile is still in scarce supply. It's probably all the people looking for "unlocked" devices who don't realize they can purchase the Verizon or AT&T models at full price.
I never did either but I did have to call to get the SIMs activated on the line as they were not already activated and the system would not text me the authorization code. Perhaps that was the difference - having a rep do it?
So did you take the SIM out of the unactivated iPhone 6 and then use that SIM to activate the iPhone 5s? Is that how you avoided the activation fee?
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Is an AT&T model not locked to AT&T if you pay full price for it?
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Does it have to be an Iphone or any smartphone that you can stick the new Iphone 6 SIM card using an adapter?
I did exactly that. I hope I avoided activation fees and am not in for a surprise! I'll know in another week or so when the next bill is available.
You see the activation fees on the very next bill IME or you don't ever see them. I will try your way next time. I was trying to develop a method to sell a sealed device but like I said, I didn't recoup the $35 activation fee, which really surprised me but the open ones don't sell for much less than the sealed ones.
yeah I just picked up a Space Gray 6+ 64gb at the Michigan Ave store, no issues, they did have a line almost out the door. Luckily I did web order.
Since the SIM cards are "pre" activated by the scan activation in store, you should be able to use an adapter to activate them in another device. If they were completely virgin SIM cards, you would get the incompatible SIM card error if you tried to activate them for the first time in a device that used a different size SIM card.
Once a SIM card is already active on a line, you can use an adapter to switch b/t devices no problem.
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