To activate a new account with a flashed phone? The dealer down the street is a real goon and the corporate store employees seem to be a little dim. Would like to avoid them if it's possible.
I don't believe you have to really. To this day I haven't set foot into a Cricket Store...LOL
In my situation when i first became a Cricket customer....I had my Touch and I called from a buddies phone-->opened an account-->gave them the phones ESN-->then payed for first months and activation fee....and boom Done.
*note: There are little details to it but I'm sure you'll figure it out. Just remeraber when asked what kind of phone say its a Razor, although Mine was set-up as a CPE i have had no problems thus far.
how did you make the payment? i'm just saying because i get people in all the time that say they went through care but care sent them into the store to activate because they needed to make a payment.