How often do you have to purchase minutes. I'm sure I'll not use the minutes it comes with, but I assume I will have to by additional minutes anyway.
1065687
TracFone offers service ranging from 30 days to one year, with a choice of minutes. For example, you can buy 120 minutes to use in a 90-day period. Look over the list and select the "card" that looks like the best fit. Go to the TracFone site and select Airtime. And you get double the minutes listed with this phone.
1065688
as long as you own the service....the minutes roll over. I don't use my minutes during the time frame, they just roll over
1065689
That depends on how much you use the phone. With this model, you get double minutes for life, so that's very good. However, you MUST buy at least 60 minutes every 3 months or you will lose any remaining minutes you have on your phone. All in all, I find it the best and cheapest cell phone plan around.
1065690
It depends on how many minutes you use. I bought the phone for my elderly father who has trouble with more complicated phones and I refill his minutes once per month.
2127760
it comes with the customary 10 min. and free activation. after that, whatever card you buy, the minutes are tripled. for example, if you buy the 60 minute card, you actually receive 180 minutes.
1726235
I set up an account on the Tracfone web site and add minutes there. It is easy to do. I think you can do it from the phone also.
2077266
I threw mine away! After I got it I realized it is hour and minutes. I wanted minutes and seconds. I will have to start looking closer at what I am buying.
224860
You buy minutes as you need them and no monthly plan is needed unless you want one. You can buy as little as $10 at a time or more if you want to. As far as minutes go, it works pretty much the same way as any other Tracfone except that the talk, text and data minutes are deducted separately. So if you text, the minutes will come off your text minutes only. Triple minutes on this phone makes a big difference.
454072
We have had ours several years now. We just had to phone & set up our profile and get our number (as I recall). Watch your minutes used, I only lost track one time and could have purchased no-expiration minutes but forgot to. We have been very pleased, they have always been very responsive any time I called.
1664805
It depends. Sometimes they will be bundled with free minutes. Sometimes there are minutes if you buy on Tracfone's website but not if you buy it elsewhere. It's been too long since I bought it for me to remember what deals may have been in effect (if any).
1632833
The card does not come with any minutes. It does however come with about 250mb of data when you first get it. In order to activate the SIM, you may be in the country that you plan to use it in. Then you must visit the local BTC in order to activate the SIM and top it up with minutes, text, and data. It's pretty straight forward. Good luck!
1696154
Just to verify as I am sure people have realized. You can transfer your minutes without issues. Your minutes will NOT triple from your old phone if your Old phone was a triple minute phone, But my understanding is if your switching from a single minute phone it is possible that your minutes may triple due to you new Phone being a Triple Minute Phone. Not guaranteed to happen though.
1675861
You purchase minutes and use as many as you want at any time. When you run out, you purchase more minutes.
2080253
You have to buy minutes when they run out or when your time runs out. For example: I always buy the card that loads 400 minutes (which triples to 1200) card with 365 days of service. It's the best deal. Before one of those runs out you have to reload. I don't use my phone excessively so that card lasts me the full year before I have to reload. Hope this helps. Deb
1443856
No, you don't pay a monthly fee- I usually buy minutes for 3 months at a time and what I don't use roll over. It is possible to buy minutes for a whole year but I don't always use my phone very much so the 3 month deal works for me.
1465799
If I recall correctly, you receive only 8 minutes. Plus they charge you -at least-$2 daily. I used 2 $10 cards in 5 days, using the minimum, because they also charge you when you receive a call. It's good if you have no other choice.
306010
I'm sorry but I have never had this issue so I cannot answer this question adequately. I can guess that you do not have a insufficient number of minutes and therefor you may need to purchase more by increasing the size of your monthly plan.
1761317
Well, I didn't, when I first purchased mine. But I had to buy my minutes from Verizon. Worked quite well for a time; but now, since I quit using so many minutes, Verizon has arbitrarily (VERIZON HAS), change me to a "contract" basis and I have had no luck purchasing minutes like I used to. I call that a really bad business decision. So I agree with the folks that call it a "rip off". I spent over an hour on the phone with Verizon and the results = No Minutes available. Rip Off City!!!
2080258
Since I have triple minutes, I tend to buy the year card and have never run out of time or minutes. I'm not a person who is constantly on the cell phone.
1956874
I top off my phone automatically and I pay $15. If I don't use the phone the balance accumulates. I have over $200 in my balance that I can use, like you, for emergencies. I don't accumulate minutes; I accumulate dollars and I pay only for using the phone by the minute. Sounds to me like you have the wrong plan.