Verizon unlimited upgrade loophole

[noisemaker]

keep in mind this loophole could close at any given moment. They can take away our unlimited anytime they want as well I guess, but I'm glad I upgraded my two unlimited lines for now while I still had the chance.

That's a chance I'm going to have to take. I've gotten very comfortable sitting on this fence.

 

[exempli_gratia]

You only need one other phone line, other than your current unlimited line. The VZW rep who turned me onto this said that some folks add a minimal month-to-month line to their account to pull this off, then cancel it. I didn't do it that way, so I can't vouch for that method, but I've seen online where others have done it. Cost them a month's fee for the dummy line. Your mileage may vary.

So you're using a dummy line, to which you transfer your upgrade (from the unlimited line) , get the new phone on that dummy line, transfer the phone to the unlimited line, and cancel the dummy line?

Wouldn't you be incurring Early Termination Fee,
$350, when dropping the dummy line (since you got the discounted phone under it)?

 

[ibcop]

So you're using a dummy line, to which you transfer your upgrade (from the unlimited line) , get the new phone on that dummy line, transfer the phone to the unlimited line, and cancel the dummy line?

Wouldn't you be incurring Early Termination Fee,
$350, when dropping the dummy line (since you got the discounted phone under it)?

You are correct. And if you add a line to get a smart phone, you have a $350 ETF, regardless of if you move that device to another line.

 

[jesup]

I did this for two phones; one using the upgrade available on the flip phone, the other with a transferred upgrade, both to S4′s. Worked fine; just had to go in and get new SIMs for each one ? I couldn?t online-activate with the original SIMs to transfer the phones to the ?correct? numbers.. And make sure to go to an ?owned? store (Verizon CS warned me about this); you?ll get the SIMs for free - an affiliate store may charge. (We bought a case to make the people there feel better about doing this, as due to verizon?s system it took them a while.)

 

[Chuck73080]

I did this for two phones; one using the upgrade available on the flip phone, the other with a transferred upgrade, both to S4′s. Worked fine; just had to go in and get new SIMs for each one ? I couldn?t online-activate with the original SIMs to transfer the phones to the ?correct? numbers.. And make sure to go to an ?owned? store (Verizon CS warned me about this); you?ll get the SIMs for free - an affiliate store may charge. (We bought a case to make the people there feel better about doing this, as due to verizon?s system it took them a while.)

Two weeks ago I was able to swap my S4 onto the unlimited line and Thunderbolt to the new line. It took about 30 minutes but the CSR was really nice.


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[digitard]

Yeah,
I did this as well a while back when I upgraded to an iPhone 5 (don't judge me! heh). My pops wanted an iPhone 4S, which I already had, and I wanted a 5 so he upgraded and then we simply activated my iPhone on his account, and then I swapped his over. I think if the SIM card is attached to one number they might just have to charge you 10 bucks for a new one (they mentioned that once to me, but I never paid attention since when I did this I was at the store and they simply setup the SIM card for LTE for my number right away).

Anyhow... works great. I was able to keep my unlimited data, and got an iPhone 5 and he got my 4S happily. Win / Win.

** Before anyone asks... I'm here because I'm switching to an S4 as a company I work with is hooking me up so I can run their new Android build and I'm a big tech nerd so I'm quite antsy waiting **

 

[Nas559]

I went in to a vzw store n they told me that even if you transfer your upgrade from a unlimited line to a flip phone line n use it, you still lose your unlimited data b/c the upgrade is still connected to the original line. I went in on Aug 12. Anybody done it recently?

 

[dpham00]

I went in to a vzw store n they told me that even if you transfer your upgrade from a unlimited line to a flip phone line n use it, you still lose your unlimited data b/c the upgrade is still connected to the original line. I went in on Aug 12. Anybody done it recently?

Just do it online...

Sent from my Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II

 

[jerrod22]

I did it about two weeks ago with 2 existing lines I had the s4 on the upgraded tiered line for like 2 minutes. Then went into the store as I needed a sim for my line and had it activated. Dont transfers phones between lines yoy want to activate upgrade, deactivate and then activate on new line

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