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Switchiing from postpaid to prepaid?
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Posted by: nunya2oo7

Bought a Motorola w755 off of Ebay that was used for postpaid account and want to use it for a prepaid account- is that at all possible? Don't want to keep the number. Any info would be greatly appreciated! Thanks

Posted by: gestaltent

It's very possible. But first , you have to check the esn (electronic serial number) under the battery by calling customer service or tech support to make sure the phone isn't on Verizon's list of "restricted" phones .These are phones not allowed to activate on their network, prepaid or post for a variety of reasons. Mostly: 1) Stolen. 2) Reported lost. 3) No E911 capability. 4) A handset from another provider flashed to Verizon 5)outstanding unpaid accounts by previous owner of handset. There are more, but these seem to be the majority of why activations are refused.

If you check your phone and it comes up clean, you should have no problem. Just go to your local Walmart, Radio Shack, Best Buy and purchase some Verizon airtime prepaid Inpulse cards or go to their website and activate it from there. I'm not sure, but I think Verizon online charges a prepaid $25 activation fee. Check first.

Taking a standard Verizon phone (postpaid) and putting it on a prepaid account is much easier then taking a prepaid (inpulse) phone and trying to put that on a regular postpaid account. Verizon doesn't want the cheaper prepaid handsets competing with their bread and butter postpaid models so they intentionally force the user to have to maintain their prepaid phone in good standing for SIX months before it is allowed to be used on the regular Verizon services. Sprint/Nextel uses a similar model, but even more restrictive by not allowing their cheaper Prepaid Boost iden handsets to take Nextel sims AT ALL unless unlocked , though the more expensive Nextel handsets can take the cheaper Boost sims with no tampering necessary.

Good luck with the plan change. And just my own opinion but maybe you'd want to look at Page Plus, they use the Verizon Network, but have different customer service and are a lot cheaper in some areas, especially talk and less restrictive about what handsets can run on their networks (For example: they allow Blackberries without data plans and non e911 phones and from what I understand even Non Verizon handsets. They WON'T allow phones on the stolen/lost list . I don't know if they care at all about outstanding accounts, after all , that's VZ's problem, not Page Plus's.) Page Plus also came up with a new no contract 1500 minute/1500 text for $40 a month plan (which will start service April 15, 2009) as well as still offering $2.49 a day unlimited talk (charged every day and $1.99 in Fl, Mich. and I think Ohio) . That smokes Verizon's talk plans. (No flat rate monthly prepaid plans and Unlimited talk is 3.99 a day, but texts are a penny each. )Verizon does have better text and data deals though in their prepaid ($20 unlimited monthly texting, $1 a day unlimited web browsing only on days used). Something to think about depending on your usage and needs.