I went to newegg to see what the price difference was and it says 219 just looking at the phone, then it says 149 when you go to the cart, but changes to 249 when you pick renew/upgrade plan. Someone posted early on in this thread that it was only of the main line, but I got two for the 249 price. The odd thing, and I'm posting hoping someone will know is, I called Big Red and asked if they could move my date up 13 days and they said that they would but it would cost me 20 bucks a line and that I would loose my upgrade money for both lines, but when I started the process at newegg there's a button close to the price that says 'Am I eligible?' so I clicked it. Entered the info it asked for just for S&G, thinking that it was going to make me have to buy one of the lines for full price or just out right deny me, but it said that both lines were eligible. I thought maybe 7 days was close enough? I went to My Verizon and it still said that I was going to have to wait until the 29th, so I went back to newegg and did the order just to see how far it would let me go before I got flagged, and it let me order both phones for 249??? Anyway, they should be here today and I was wondering if I have to wait until the 29th to activate or suffer some type of penalty for early activation? Does anyone know?