I have no familiarity with a 'loyalty plan', but here is my tale from my recent purchase.
I had been planning on getting a phone with my holiday bonus and had been checking prices on plans, and settled on T-Mobile with the 'Even More Plus' month-to-month / no contract plan.
I bought mT4G on Thursday ('Nexus S day') for full price from Radio Shack. (most local BestBuy stores were out of stock, I didn't check a T-Mobile store for inventory)
T-Mobile seems to have gone back to calling the month-month plan 'FlexPay' instead of 'Even More Plus'. I was adamant about getting the phone for the 500 minute / unlimited text / unlimited data plan for 59.99 as I saw it on the site 1 1/2 months ago. The brochures in the store showed a $10 dollar higher plan for Flexpay. (I think it was 10 more...)
I lost my wallet two days ago and didn't have my D.L. with me for Radio Shack to process the account, so I just went out with the phone and called T-Mobile Customer Service.
My crappy Samsung Code WinMo phone on MetroPCS dropped the call as I was being transferred to a different rep, (they were talking about me having to go 'prepaid'), so I took the time to run into a local mini-mart and grabbed three $25 dollar T-Mo prepaid coupon cards and called back.
After explaining to the new person about wanting the 'Even More Plus' plan, they said I would need to have credit run for that, or I could go with 'FlexPay' and prepay each month for the same cost. I already had the coupon cards and said I'd use those, so they activated the phone, and transferred me to another person to read the coupon card numbers to them to count as a first month's payment. I should note that there is a 5 dollar surcharge if you don't have the amount automatically deducted from a credit card or bank account.
The few dollars that is left over is kept on the account in case I want to buy some T-Mobile ringtones or other stuff, or to be used as partial payment for the next month's bill.
I've had the phone for a bit more than a day, but am happy with it so far. Tell them you want the 'Even More Plus' no contract plan and they should hook you up.
they were calling the month to month plan now since T-Mo took it off of the website, going back to the old name of the no-contract plan)
) I paid remembered the 'Even More Plus' plans from October and recalled hearing that T-Mo Customer Service will still honor the plan despite it being removed from the website.
It seems that 'Even More Plus' (month - to - month / no contract) is back to being called FlexPay.