Lorne&Lorraine wrote:
Bumpyroad, since you don’t need more minutes, your approach makes sense. We use most of our minutes since the DW likes to call home a lot.
Four 60 minute 90 day cards gives us all the minutes we need in addition to one year of service at only slightly more cost than the continuation plan (with no minutes) and for less cost than buying a one-year card with minutes. Bumpyroad, you can input as many cards as you want at one time and the time and minutes both accumulate (ie four 90 day cards provides 360 days of service). No need to travel across the border to add cards sequentially. Just buy the four cards (or whatever) and add them to the phone before leaving the US (actually I buy the equivalent on-line, but the result is the same).
Unfortunately, Tracfone’s web site won’t accept a Canadian credit card with a Canadian address. Many businesses will not accept foreign credit cards on-line. I've even heard of Canadian gas stations that will not accept US credit cards. This is in spite of my understanding that the agreements that these companies have with Mastercard and Visa etc state that they must accept these credit cards no matter where in the world they are issued. But there is probably more to it than this.
S.P. and Lola, that is weird that the new minutes/time show on your phone even though it has no service. I don’t think that has been reported before for Tracfone’s in Canada except for CDMA phones that did have service. Interesting.
last I bought one, long time ago, you could buy the one year/400 minutes (don't remember if that was double 200 or straight 400) for under $100. do you buy the 90 day ones for less than $25.00?
are you positive that you can activate 4 cards at the same time sequentially? I thought that when I tried to add a card before the time was up that they would not tack it on the end, maybe was Onstar however. :)
bumpy