Trakfone minutes on smartphone

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Victor

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Location
midwest USA
I use Trakfone on my LG phone because there's no plan
you pay only the minutes used. That's the catch.
I was cheated out of minutes by a large number. My time
expired even though I did not use all the minutes allowed.
Not even close...I make only short calls.. I still use my landline.
Honest error or a trick? Cannot prove it. Their customer
service is awful. Very hard to get a live person on the phone!
Interesting that "minute cards" in stores are a better deal than through
the company itself. I am old timer, do not like holding the phone to my ear.

I am interested in only Trakfone customer experiences. Thanks.
(My first Post since March)
 

Jace said:
I use Tracfone..
got a new phone
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.. me too, I got a free smart phone, don't know how to use it, just have it for emergencies. Every three months I pay $20 for three months usage, and a number of minutes, The new minutes are tacked on to the old ones.
 

I have an old AT&T prepaid plan.

Each year I put $100 on it. Any day I use it for voice or text, it charges $3 (used to be $2) and then for 24 hours I have unlimited talk and text. If I don't add $100 then the balance doesn't carry over for the next year and only lasts 30 days or 3 months or something.

I buy my own phones and only upgrade when required to.
 
I believe any data use is going to eat up your minutes, not just phone calls. So if you text or internet browse your eating up minutes.
 
I've had a Tracfone since 2001 when we retired and traveled around the country. I've never had any issues with getting signals, no matter where we were. I upgraded phones several times over the years and my minutes have always be transferred with no problem. Lucky, I guess. A couple years ago, I upgraded to a smart phone. I pay about $23 every 3 months. When my cable company calls me to tell me what a great deal they have on their cell phone service, I just tell them if they can beat what I'm paying now with Tracfone, I'll consider changing. They always say they can't.

Now that Verizon has purchased Tracfone, I'm waiting to see what kind of changes, if any, will be made. Until then, I'm keeping my Tracfone service.
 
I too have had a tracfone for a long time.

Where I live everyone has had landline problems for many years.

I actually bought a tracfone to have on hand ,decades ago , to call my landline company when we would would have problems.

The closest public phone booth was 10 miles from my home, and usually all my neighbors on the same exchange, were having problems the same time I was. There are no public phones around here anymore and even the bank, where you could get enough change to use them, is gone.


But things have gotten better-once every two years or so, mice get into a small Verizon relay box about a half mile from my home and I can hear ( have no dial tone) the mice setting up a nest.

The same phone man seems to have come out over the years and fixes it very fast.

But up here our cell phones often do not work in our homes. We have to go outside sometimes to make a call.

My new Roboblocker came yesterday and I need to set it up to my landline. It gives me peace of mind.Those Robo calls are disturbing. The other two I had broke after about a year so I went with a higher priced one at amazon with lots of positive reviews.

I know a very few seniors who do not have a cell phone at all, nor can they use a PC. Those things can keep us from isolation, and I never leave home without my Cell phone, for safety.
 
We've had Tracfone for over 20 years and never "lost" any minutes, but then, I've never let our airtime lapse either. For a number of years I've been buying their one-year cards. The last time I bought one it cost around $135 for 365 days and included 1500 minutes, 1500 texts, and 1.46 GB data. It eliminates the hassle of having to renew monthly or quarterly. Very rarely used, so we currently have many thousands of minutes, &c.

When we moved here nine years ago we found the reception to be poor. I called Tracfone and they promptly sent me a different SIM card (for free) to install. I've had very few problems with coverage since then.
 
Yeah, a lot of technological "advances" seem to go in the opposite direction now, for those not living in the urban anthills they are designed for. Everything comes at a cost, and I guess the countryside needs to be cleared out over time to make room for vast estates for the elite in the future.

I suppose that's where electric vehicles come in as well. One more way to separate the winners from the losers.
 
Gee, it was Easy to set up my RoboCall blocker but it took me about ten minutes to get it out of the boxes it came in. :oops:
Then I checked it with my cell phone and it is set up correctly.

Now I probably wont even get any calls to Block!:mad:



I am glad I have a box cutter! The adhesive clear plastic packing tape these companies use- is often so hard to deal with.
 
Tracfone works well for me as I make maybe 10 or 20 calls a year and do not text or use internet. I get a minimal $100 /yr plan and still my minutes pile up. Never lost any minutes.

But customer service can be trying for us as we do not get a cell signal at home and they tell me to get a code from them! I have spent most of a day with them at times.
 
I've had Tracfone on and off for years. No problems. Latest one is so complicated it's been laying in a drawer for over a year and a half. I use my Samsung Galaxy8 with AT&T. That's a business set up with my son's company and members of my late daughter in law's family are all on it. I could do almost anything on it if I cared to, but, I do not for fear of being hacked. I do look a lot of things up at times when in a group and someone asks a question.
 

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