After buying some minutes from Tracfone, is there an expiry for those minutes? Do we have to use all those in a year or two?
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Every minutes card has a time frame attached to it. Most, I think are 90 days and some a year. So if you bought a 120 minute card, it will add 90 days of service and with your double minutes phone, you would have 240 minutes. Those minutes stay on your phone, however, once you are past the 90 days of service, or whatever, you will have to purchase another minutes card to add more service time/minutes to continue using the phone.
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Yes, the minutes expire at some future time depending on what quantity and time you purchase. Go to their site and you can see the different choices:https://www.tracfone.com/direct/Purchase?app=TRACFONE〈=en&fromPopup;=yes&payGo;=true&promoId;=48334&cardType;=TSAPP4001Y
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Every card has it own expiry date when you put it in the phone mostly it about two years you have unroll the date to put more minutes on the phone before they turn it off
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Hi Gloria, Double minutes means that when you add minutes, for example; you purchase a tracfone card with 60 minutes on it, tracfone will add 120 minutes of time to your phone account. I'm not sure if you can purchase tracfone minutes cards from amazon, but if you go to the Tracfone website you can buy them onlne there.
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Stella,My husband and I are retired and we both have the LG 840 Tracfone. We don't use it very often, but feel that the one-year service is the best deal. We get triple minutes, and you never loose any minutes, as long as you buy more minutes before the year runs out. You could get lesser amount of minutes, but the 1 yr. plan is the best for your money.
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I'd contact the Tracfone folks or whoever your carrier is. You should have an account you can view online. Remember there are 2 elements, service days and minutes. You probably are past the end date of your service days. You can sometimes purchase a lower number of minutes and then add'l service days. When I bought my phone, it came with lifetime triple minutes. It is often hard to contact the carrier, but hang in there.
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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).
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I have gotten this phone from Safelink, but from what I can understand is that most likely not...I think if you purchase minutes through tracfone, I think that you don't have time constraints on using minutes
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In the package it will have a phone number (& website) for Tracfone you can call that number to buy some minutes and begin your service. In case you're wondering how the Tracfone service works, usually you buy minutes (20-200) and it will give your phone a certain amount of service time (several months - a year). If you want an active phone but don't want to buy anymore minutes they have a maintenance option (which I don't remember the name). Basically it will keep your working for a monthly fee.If you already have a Tracfone you can move your unused minutes over to your new Tracfone. In the package it will have a phone number (& website) for Tracfone you can call that number to buy some minutes and begin your service. In case you're wondering how the Tracfone service works, usually you buy minutes (20-200) and it will give your phone a certain amount of service time (several months - a year). If you want an active phone but don't want to buy anymore minutes they have a maintenance option (which I don't remember the name). Basically it will keep your working for a monthly fee.If you already have a Tracfone you can move your unused minutes over to your new... » Read More In the package it will have a phone number (& website) for Tracfone you can call that number to buy some minutes and begin your service. In case you're wondering how the Tracfone service works, usually you buy minutes (20-200) and it will give your phone a certain amount of service time (several months - a year). If you want an active phone but don't want to buy anymore minutes they have a maintenance option (which I don't remember the name). Basically it will keep your working for a monthly fee.If you already have a Tracfone you can move your unused minutes over to your new Tracfone. « Show Less
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By keeping minutes and service time active your Tracfone service time or Minutes will roll over. If your Tracfone service time expires you must reactivate within two months you will get to keep your minutes.
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You don't need the one year service card. You can buy the phone and activate it without any airtime card. You'll get a service date of 90 days and 20 complimentary minutes, standard on every Tracfone. Then you just buy what you want, buy from the many options available. Tracfone.com has different airtime cards to choose from. And the Value Plan has 4 options for either purchasing minutes or just purchasing 30 days of service. Yes you can buy just the phone but there is no 'triple minutes card'. Triple minutes is a feature of the phone, not the airtime cards.
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I buy the minutes when I see them getting low before I run out. It's easy to keep track because tracfone always gives you updates on how much you have left. Hope that helps answer your question.
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TracFone activation was no charge. You get a few free minutes (20, I think) automatically, but I recommend buying a phone card and adding it right away. A 60-minute card will get you 180 minutes from TracFone on this "triple minutes" phone. There are also plenty of "bonus" codes out there that can score you a few extra minutes when adding a card (just search the Net for 'bonus codes Tracfone').
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Yes. Make sure when you get your codes that you go to Tracfone Reviewer http://tracfonereviewer.blogspot.com/p/tracfone-promo-codes.html and get a code for some extra minutes. A 200 minute card can get an extra 40 minutes. Note: Triple minutes do not apply to extra minute codes. ie. A 200 minute card, as of writing this, with the code available would net 640 total minutes.
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With any prepaid phone you buy new minutes when your minutes are gone. Every three months is the norm. I buy the one year card ad I buy from the website. They automatically add the minutes to your phone and they talk you thru how to do it.
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
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No. Takes 10-15 minutes. You log into Tracfone, use the information provided with the phone and activate it. It's just about instantly active after you do that.
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Some Tracfones come with triple minutes, some with double. Every time you buy minutes, you will automatically get 3 times the number you purchase. So if you purchase 60 minutes, Tracfone will automatically put 180 minutes on your phone.
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The first one we ordered years ago, came with years (multiple) plus double minutes , from QVC I think. This latest one, replacement, doesn't come with any minutes. You can go online "tracphone", and order whatever.