I don't know about today but this was the case 10 + years ago. I had two lines with LA Cellular and cancelled one within 90 days. I paid the remaining bill and thought it was fine. Collection calls began (bills went to parents') and suddenly they were demanding payment IAO $749 for the device fee. I did not pay a dime for the actual phone in the first place. I never paid them, I could not find where it said in my contract that I was to repay for the off-contract price if I did an ETF. I felt by paying my bill and ETF I did what I was supposed to.
I am curious if that is the case today. If not, why not just buy the phone, pay the ETF and get the hell out of there. Unless you really lose your #.
How come you lose the #? The numbers port now, no?
This will not make sense, but here goes..... I did not go this route
Not for me it could not be done that easy as
Verizon told me. After paying the ETF, I would lose my number no matter what, and they would issue another new phone number. Did not make sense to me.
If I wanted to keep my old phone number, and have it ported, I could buy the phone out right unlocked, take my old/new phone to AT&T first for example, they would port the old number to that new phone, start a new service. I would than pay the ETF for Verizon, but now I would still have my old phone number to the iphone.
Got it thus far guys? Now I would cancel the AT&T service within the 14 days, pay any restocking fee's, and go back to Verizon, and start a new month to month contract, with the new phone and ported number.
This did not make an logical sense but this was told to me by two Verizon reps.
Better way....
There is another way using the shared program, and porting the number from the old phone to the new one (new subsidize) later. I could later cancel the other phone, which was a flip phone, and pay the ETF for it. Another rep informed me of this and that made more sense than the first two reps suggestion. Boy, did I have fun with the first suggestions. If anyone just wants to get out of a contract not caring about losing ones phone number and getting a new one, than just pay the ETF to that original phone, and get a new contract with the iphone 5. Some don't mind telling their friends of the new number and others do....
