T-Mobile Sparq pre-paid phone for $20 with free shipping + $12 BigCrumbs Cash Back (or $7.50 FW CashBack if you prefer less). Net price $8+tax. Full QWERTY keyboard slide-out and web access. Will work with post-paid contracts, just put your SIM in and talk away.
I bought two of these for my kids a few months ago when they were $50 with a $30 airtime card - and they love their phones. This deal is better because you are not stuck with $30 cards that require you to call customer service to get a decent airtime rate (T-Mobile prepaid is very effective if you are gold rewards: $100 cards). Also you save some tax.
Just a warning: I'm still waiting for my 2nd $7.50 FW CashBack to be acknowledged.
BNizzle said: Ah the days of 500 hour standby time.
I went back to an old style phone because I don't text or use the phone much --- I don't want a fancy screen that is hard to read in the sun and burns off all my stored power
so I got a used Samsung T139 on eBay for about $10 --- couldn't be happier with a basic phone that will dial a number without going through a lot of touchpad bullshit
to each their own --- I just never joined the smart phone thing
In for one. I've ordered phones from Tmobile before but this time went through a whole set of fraud prevention questions after the order (questions about houses and cars)... passed them and order is processing. I have gotten FW CB before but know its been finicky for others, so hope it goes through fine. Thanks OP
Good price for a backup phone. Last time I sent my smartphone in to HTC for warranty repair, they had it for a month. I was glad to have a cheap one around from a deal like this.
@zklopman: T-Mobile is very bad at reporting transactions in my experience. You'll get it eventually through the FW support process.
@pitflyer: Your experience makes me a little nervous. I hope T-Mobile isn't going the way of AT&T and doing hard credit pulls for prepaid products. The $200 refurb Galaxy Tab from last year dinged me on Experian. It doesn't hurt much, but it's a bad policy since it's totally unnecessary.
ETA: They didn't ask me any identity-veriifying questions when I ordered. This is the first time I've ever had an order be "in process" with them, though, so I'm expecting a cancellation.
Warning for anyone wanting to order 2 phones I have never received Cash Back for both phones when ordering 2 on same order. I would make two different orders with one phone in each order. This has been my experience.
love4money said: Will this work with PagePlus Cellular service after I get it unlocked (if needed to be unlocked)?No, T-Mobile (GSM) and Page Plus (CDMA) use completely different technologies.
bj381964 said: Warning for anyone wanting to order 2 phones I have never received Cash Back for both phones when ordering 2 on same order. I would make two different orders with one phone in each order. This has been my experience.
File a report with FW, they have always accommodated me.
Can't get it to show for $20 when I go to Cash Back, T-Mobile, no contract phones, comes up $59.00. If I use the link that shows the phone for $20, will it register as Cash Back?
RE: They didn't ask me any identity-veriifying questions when I ordered
Me either for the first time ever. No requirement for a live chat then have them call me as they did in the past. I was logged into my tmobile prepaid account, I read that that id's you to them.
The only thing I do not like in the past is them pulling the sim from the card and putting it in the phone for you. Maybe they will not this time.
I'm currently using a basic prepaid T-Mobile Nokia phone with a prepaid sim card in it. Can I just pull out that old sim card from Nokia and then put it into this Sparq phone and then just use it, or do I have to go through some activation process?
WebNomad said: I'm currently using a basic prepaid T-Mobile Nokia phone with a prepaid sim card in it. Can I just pull out that old sim card from Nokia and then put it into this Sparq phone and then just use it, or do I have to go through some activation process?
Transfer the SIM and you are good to go - minutes and phone number will transfer automatically (so will contacts if you saved them to the SIM).
WebNomad said: I'm currently using a basic prepaid T-Mobile Nokia phone with a prepaid sim card in it. Can I just pull out that old sim card from Nokia and then put it into this Sparq phone and then just use it, or do I have to go through some activation process?
RE: or do I have to go through some activation process?
Tmobile phones come ready to use. As does AT&T. Only new sim cards need activation, which for prepaids is included when you buy the sim kit. I think they call it phone activation that so in some instances they can charge you for it.....
Some prepaid services do tie the sim card to the phone....Tmobile/AT&T does not. The odd thing is, when you activate a Tmobile prepaid sim card, they do ask you for the phones serial number.. But just remove and put in any Tmobile phone if need be later on....It will work
jatan1986 said: Will have to try later -- keep getting the CC processing error
That may be there new CODE for no deal. Thats what I get from Net10, tracfone and Straight Talk, and they do actually hit the card and get approval... of course in a few days it drops off....
yesidonoitall said: jatan1986 said: Will have to try later -- keep getting the CC processing error
That may be there new CODE for no deal. Thats what I get from Net10, tracfone and Straight Talk, and they do actually hit the card and get approval... of course in a few days it drops off.... There is a limit on how many prepaid phones you can buy with one card in a year.
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