Tracfone Rewards Program

[taxmantoo]

Thanks, taxmantoo.
Here's a complicated question that I hope someone will have an answer to - After I get the 10,000 points for activating a new line, do I have to keep the old line active forever in order to keep the points?

Background to my question - I have an existing account with a phone bundle tied to it that expires next month. I will be activating a new phone bundle to get the 10,000 points. Those points will be available only in January, but my existing phone expires in December. Will that be a problem?

The points will be "pending" for probably 60 days. Once they become "available", they're yours to keep or spend.
I believe if you shut down the 2nd phone while the points are pending, they will never become available.
Do you have 1500 available points you can use to extend your original line a month?

[happygrrl1]

Taxman, thanks for the heads up on the spin and scratch games. I got 10 points but then I did my husband’s phone. He got 1000 points! He is always luckier than I am on games like this.

Redeem points is still not active on Android.

[gmannix]

I have a verizon moto e4 that I was going to activate to get the 10000 reward points with but ran into a problem. Tracfone says the phone, never activated, is not compatible with tracfone. Have I missed something here??

[Senkoboy]

I have a verizon moto e4 that I was going to activate to get the 10000 reward points with but ran into a problem. Tracfone says the phone, never activated, is not compatible with tracfone. Have I missed something here??

Is it unlocked? Verizon phone or TracFone phone?

[gmannix]

I have a verizon moto e4, not tracfone. I assume it is locked, never activated.

[Lisme]

Wasn't that the phone everyone was getting unlocked on eBay? Try that.

[mframe]

I have a verizon moto e4, not tracfone. I assume it is locked, never activated.

Even if it is unlocked on eBay, it can't be used with Verizon MVNOs until it is whitelisted. It has to be used on Verizon Prepaid for a certain number of months or a certain amount of top-up has been added (I'm not sure what the amounts were) before Verizon will officially unlock and whitelist it.

That said, even if it is used on other carriers, I don't think the Verizon firmware allows VoLTE on TMO or AT&T.

[gmannix]

So....I basically have a doorstop . Anyone out there looking for a cheap brick? Cheap!

[Lisme]

Speaking of ancient history, I did have one. I had it unlocked on eBay and used it on Tracfone/AT&T. I don't remember about VoLTE. But that wouldn't matter on AT&T, I think.

[Lisme]

I think you can get it unlocked and use it on Tracfone/AT&T. They aren't even allowing VoLTE except for certain phones, I believe.

[Mosaic55]

I have a verizon moto e4 that I was going to activate to get the 10000 reward points with but ran into a problem. Tracfone says the phone, never activated, is not compatible with tracfone. Have I missed something here??

I have one of those E4s as well. Definitely no volte on T-Mobile. I used it for some time with a data only freedompop sim. My understanding is that if you have a whitelisted imei to activate on Verizon, you can move the sim to the e4 and it will work.
I'm not sure if it does volte on ATT.

[jettable]

The points will be "pending" for probably 60 days. Once they become "available", they're yours to keep or spend.
I believe if you shut down the 2nd phone while the points are pending, they will never become available.
Do you have 1500 available points you can use to extend your original line a month?

No unfortunately, I don’t have 1500 points - didn’t have a place to enter referral code when I signed up for the Rewards program. I was one of those unlucky few (many?) victims of Tracfone’s programming glitches.

[gmannix]

I sorta jumped the gun last March and ordered the ZTE Majesty for 5 bucks in order to get a $15 smartcard for a dollar +tax. Later realized the cards were available with some finangling for a dollar apiece + tax. Got a 1/2 dozen more. Tried to sell the phone with one of the cards for $25 and got nary a nibble, so I loaded the card on the phone today, put it my account and my rewards went up by 10,000 like right now. I'll run the package through marketplace once more and if it don't sell for $20 give it to a neighbor kid. Now, do I have to keep it in my account for 60 days in order to redeem rewards on today's activity, ( spin the wheel, scratch-off,and a coupla games played added325 points to the 1o grand). Also, can I reset the phone to get my personal data off without losing the buckets that I activated it with?

[LadyLC]

Are you sure that the 10,000 points are available for redemption or were they only added to your total?

It states "For points to become available to use, the new line must remain active for 60 days after adding it to your account".

[gmannix]

Actually the points were added to my account, but you're correct, it shows : prior/available, and pending. I don't know exactly when I signed on and accumulated 'available' points, but I am able to spin and play games and what-not to gain points as I suspect everyone is. It will be interesting to see how this all pans out. Hopefully before he dreaded verizon take-over...hah