[GLLUG] [OT] Adding Cell Phone Minutes

The Chan Family crazytales at gmail.com
Thu Feb 5 20:40:44 EST 2009


kyocera means it's most likely Virgin Mobile. tracfone likes motorolas.

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:54 PM, Chick Tower <c.e.tower at gmail.com> wrote:
> The ad claims it's a Kyocera.  The woman says an ex-boyfriend left it
> behind and the phone says new minutes needed to be purchased by May of 2008.
>
>                                Chick
>
>
> Clay Dowling wrote:
>> MetroPCS uses a similar scheme.  It's almost certainly a tracphone though.
>>
>> Clay
>>
>> On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Charles wrote:
>>
>>> Chick Tower wrote:
>>>> Someone on Craig's List advertised a cell phone for free.  It's one of
>>>> those like you can buy at WalMart and buy additional minutes for.  Do
>>>> any of you know if just anyone can take such a phone purchased by
>>>> someone else, add minutes to it, and use it?
>>>
>>> If it's a Tracfone:
>>>
>>> Yes, you can technically just take the phone and add minutes to it. If
>>> the activation period has expired, you'll have to re-activate it but
>>> that's not a big deal. (Can be done online or over another phone.)
>
>
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