My wife broke her AT&T cell phone. We went to Wal-Mart and purchased a cheap ($15) AT&T cell phone - the kind where you can buy prepaid minutes . I took the SIM card out of the broken phone, put it in the new phone, charged the battery and she was back in business. Total cost: $16.12 including tax. That sure beat going to the AT&T phone store and ponying up a couple of hundred dollars for a new phone.
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Tom in TN
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tg,
I've been doing exactly what you did for at least 7 or 8 years. I mess up my phone regularly with mud/water/damage. Each time I ruin a phone I buy the cheapest one I can get at Wal-Mart, swap the SIM and go on my merry way. Those phones are call "Go-Phones", but I must admit that have always paid $19.95 for my phones. You got an extra good deal.
Tom in TN
I've been doing exactly what you did for at least 7 or 8 years. I mess up my phone regularly with mud/water/damage. Each time I ruin a phone I buy the cheapest one I can get at Wal-Mart, swap the SIM and go on my merry way. Those phones are call "Go-Phones", but I must admit that have always paid $19.95 for my phones. You got an extra good deal.
Tom in TN
George Rausch
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Same thing on the batteries. Replacement batteries not availaboe, or you have to go someplace andp ay $30 or $40. I just buy the cheapest phone, pull the battery, and let the boys take the phone apart for a science project.
Anonymous-0
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Before we switched phone/internet service for the house and got a flatrate that included one cell phone, I'd catch phone numbers (sim cards) on special for 5 euro with 10 euro free calls. Never gave out my phone number and only used them to call out. When empty, put them on ebay.... Can't hold onto a phone long enough for the battery to go bad :roll:
yallardeere
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The phones that use a sim, you can make company unlock phone where any sim can be used..used an att phone on another company for years...they did not want to unlock but I had paid for phone and they did not own it.. told them to unlock...
Anonymous-0
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The ATT store will sell you Go phones for $9.95 plus tax. Thats what the kids get no extra just a phone.
Geo-TH,In
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My Verizon phone doesn't have a SIM card.
After 4 months, my new verizon phone died. Went to a verizon store and they gave me another phone. It only lasted 2 months. They gave me another phone, had to use my old battery. Next phone lasted 1 month. It only lasted a few weeks. I asked verizon, what's going on? Come to find out they were giving me used phones. They were to be reconditioned, but they were still used phones. I was very upset and asked for a new phone. That phone is still working 2+ years.
BTW, had my dish updated. They installed all used equipment and I have to pay an insurance fee, around $7 a month, or be charged when their used equipment breaks.
Don't like class action law suits, but it wouldn't surprise me if verizon and dish won't have a problem.
After 4 months, my new verizon phone died. Went to a verizon store and they gave me another phone. It only lasted 2 months. They gave me another phone, had to use my old battery. Next phone lasted 1 month. It only lasted a few weeks. I asked verizon, what's going on? Come to find out they were giving me used phones. They were to be reconditioned, but they were still used phones. I was very upset and asked for a new phone. That phone is still working 2+ years.
BTW, had my dish updated. They installed all used equipment and I have to pay an insurance fee, around $7 a month, or be charged when their used equipment breaks.
Don't like class action law suits, but it wouldn't surprise me if verizon and dish won't have a problem.
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