How To Get The Best PrePaid Cell Phone Deal
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Here's How It Works..
T-mobiles pre-paid phone plan offers 1000 minutes for $100. That's .10 cents a minute,
First.. here is how T-Mobile wants you to do it with a no contract mobile phone.. You buy a mobile phone through them for the regular asking price usually somewhere between $40 for basic no frills, to $500 for the luxury models. You buy their "pre-paid" sim card that contains your account in a small little computer about the size of a nickel that is inserted in the back of your phone. The sim card it self can be purchased for about $50 directly from any T-Mobile authorized dealer just in case you already have a t-mobile phone. This sim card contains a few started minutes I believe around 60. Then from there you buy minutes as you need them.
Your cheap mobile minutes carry over every time you buy more.. say you have 30 left and your expiration date is in 2 months. buy $25 dollars more and your minutes you already have plus the ones you just bought all have a new expiration date of 90 days. Once you have made a purchase of $100 total worth of minutes you new expiration date is 365 days. all your minutes from now on whether you add $25 or $100 or whatever will carry out for an additional 365 days for as long as you have your phone.
Also text messaging is 10 cents to send, free to receive. I believe its 25 cents to send pictures (I do not have a camera on mine so not sure.)
this is nice and all but not much of a deal.
The Deal
Here's how to make it all work for you. This is the way I made it work for me.
First you need a cheap mobile phone and a sim card. I already had a t-mobile cell phone at the time so I purchased the sim card first. If you do not have one follow both of the next two steps at the same time.
Getting the Sim Card
go to Ebay.com, if you do not yet have a account at ebay yet, go here to sign-up. Do a search for T-mobile sim cards.
What you are looking for is an already activated t mobile sim card. DO NOT BUY A UNACTIVATED SIM CARD. How do you know you are getting the one you want.. read the persons feedback. Sim card deals sell tons of these and their feedback stands for itself.. Also make sure this is a legit seller and that he always comes through on his auctions.
I paid $12.50 for my sim card through EBay. it came with 125 minutes and the minutes had a expiration date of 3 weeks. Pay close attention to the expiration dates listed in the auction. you want at least 3 weeks. Most sellers are offering the same thing so look just for this... Do not worry about the phone number being local. When the sim card gets to you it will come with a phone number.. Mine was a CA number, I'm in WA. All I did was call T-Mobile's pre-paid customer service, told them I wanted to change to a local number, told them the area code I was looking for and they gave me one. No other questions, nothing that was it. Now you have your sim card with a local number that you basically got for free and paid about 10 cents per minute for what it came with...
T-Mobile pre-paid sim card, activated, 3 week+ exp. date, and at least 125 minutes.
S: $65
