Convert a pre-paid cheapy phone into a keeper?

So, I heard it through the grapevine that if you walk into a Verizon store, give them a sob story about how your kid lost his phone that you got a $200 rebate on for activating a month ago, and then balk at the $300 price tag on the new phone you want to replace it, the Verizon retail clerk *might* tell you to go pick up the pre-paid equivalent at a substantially lower rate, take the SIM card out of the pre-paid unit, take it from you, and then reprogram the SIM card, pop it into the cheapy pre-paid phone, and *voila*, hand you fully-functional replacement phone, minus the insulting price. How’s that for a run-on sentence? Also, I hear it helps to slip the guy a twenty. A $300 phone for a hundred bucks, including the tip. Any truth to this?

September 18, 2006 | Tags: | 3 Comments »

3 Responses to “Convert a pre-paid cheapy phone into a keeper?”

  1. PhoneBoy says:
    September 18, 2006 at 11:45 pm

    Can’t be true. Verizon doesn’t use SIM cards. :)

    Certainly in the GSM world, you can do this. Buy the cheapo prepaid phone and put your postpaid SIM in and off you go.

    The only “trouble” I see you potentially getting into with Verizon and other CDMA carriers is that all of their phone’s ESNs are loaded in the computer. They’d know right away that you’re swapping over to a prepaid phone and could, theoretically, reject the request to swap ESNs.

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