Carrier T-Mobile question: Cost of SIM card for Simple Choice Plan

[B.A.T]

I currently have my phone service with T-Mobile and want to move my wife and two kids away from Sprint and onto a Simple Choice Plan with me. I went to a store yesterday and was told that for all three of their phones I need to purchase a sim kit for $15 each. When I look online it appears that I can purchase the SIM starter kit from T-mobile for free.

My question is if they will allow me to purchase 3 iPhones in the store and let me use my SIM cards that I purchase online? Does anybody have any experience with this?

 

[CEmajr]

I currently have my phone service with T-Mobile and want to move my wife and two kids away from Sprint and onto a Simple Choice Plan with me. I went to a store yesterday and was told that for all three of their phones I need to purchase a sim kit for $15 each. When I look online it appears that I can purchase the SIM starter kit from T-mobile for free.

My question is if they will allow me to purchase 3 iPhones in the store and let me use my SIM cards that I purchase online? Does anybody have any experience with this?

No there's no way of getting around the $15 fee. It's like an activation fee. Even with your own SIM cards you'll have to pay the $15. When they ring out a new activation in the system the $15 is added to each line by default regardless of where the SIM card actually came from.

 

[JackieInCo]

The sim cards that you can buy on the T-Mobile website are only for bringing your own device and activating it online.

I ordered three sim cards online yesterday just to have on hand between all my phones and iPad/Nexus 7.

 

[ahfu25]

If you get service over the phone instead of online or in the store they will send you the sim for free and waive the activation fee.