Add a line Question

[lembowski]

Question for you guys. I called in to set an appointment to grab the Galaxy Nexus tomorrow and the sales rep brought up and interesting proposition to me.

So I was going to buy the phone for full retail assuming it will be $649 ish as I'm not eligible till late in 2012. Now I don't use the phone for calls all that often as I use my work phone for that, so I average 155 non "IN" minutes used every month.

His suggestion was they he could lower my minute plan to 200 or 300 minutes and add a loyalty line to my account. He mentioned that if I go with the 300 minutes and add a line on my current single line it would cost me $15 extra each month. Over 2 years thats $360, so instead of spending $700 after tax I would spend $350 up front and $360 extra over 2 years. I would move the Nexus to my current line and activate an old dumb phone on the 2nd line so no data charges would be applied. The bonus would be I now have 2 lines that have new pricing later on. He did confirm that I could keep the unlimited data on my current line.

Sorry for the long post, but does anyone see any downside to this set-up?

 

[iastonish]

Nah, it's solid, lots of people do it. I'm actually doing it tomorrow as well.

You get the phone a little bit cheaper and you get to make monthly payments, AND you get an additional upgrade.

Go for it and enjoy

 

[FrankXS]

It's routine. I've done it in the past.

-Frank

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[paul-c]

The extra upgrade is really nice to have.

 

[CHIP72]

This sounds like a good plan for someone who doesn't use many voice minutes. If you have a feature phone with a good battery, that second phone can also function as an emergency phone when you cannot charge the smartphone for some reason (like a power outage).

My follow-up question would be if you could use the second line on a smartphone and pay for a data plan on that line at a regular rate ($30/month for 2 GB). If you could do that, that would allow you to have 2 active smartphones, potentially on 2 different operating systems, at the same time, at a reduced rate relative to the regular family share plan. I realize the idea of 2 active smartphones is crazy to some people, but to others it is a very desirable thing, if the extra cost isn't a financial burden.

 

[YourMobileGuru]

I've doe the same thing several times and it is legit, all they careis that you pay the bill lol

Sounds like you are getting a better deal with the loyalty line than I though.