Arrive on SERO: confirmed

[chong67]

OK, instead of posting more questions, I call 888-882-4030(Employee Plan Telesales).

I talk to a lady and she knows exactly what I am talking about.

She said I have to pay $10 more to get to the SeroP. I can order the phone thru them and they will ship it to me free. The only difference at the store is that you get the phone right away.

I much prefer to get the phone thru mail. Because at they store, the reps is going to put alot of finger print on the new phone. I am a strange person in that I need to put a screen on any phone before I use it. I also do the hot shower trick and get naked cause there will lint flying and I always get it 100% no lint.

I also told her I can get the phone thru BB and she said be careful since you might have to sign 2 contract. I have no more contract with Sprint.

All in all, I am still in no hurry to get this Arrive.

[ldubin]

Can one be sneaky and do the following?
SERO $30 (not P), buy phone on eBay, put that ESN on their Sprint account and have an Arrive on the old SERO $30 off contract? I know...I like money... :-p

[amberdaisie]

I think you could stay off contract, but you'd have to upgrade to SeroP. The last time I bought a phone for my Sero account off of eBay it said my plan was ineligible and that I needed to choose from a list of new plans. The only option was to Chat or Call Sprint and have them add SeroP and they had to activate the phone on my account. Funny thing is when I wanted to change that phone for an Evo I already had a SeroP account and I still needed to call to activate, because it said my plans was ineligible for that type of phone. I was going from a BlackBerry to an Evo.

Originally Posted by ldubin

Can one be sneaky and do the following?
SERO $30 (not P), buy phone on eBay, put that ESN on their Sprint account and have an Arrive on the old SERO $30 off contract? I know...I like money... :-p

[ldubin]

Originally Posted by amberdaisie

I think you could stay off contract, but you'd have to upgrade to SeroP. The last time I bought a phone for my Sero account off of eBay it said my plan was ineligible and that I needed to choose from a list of new plans. The only option was to Chat or Call Sprint and have them add SeroP and they had to activate the phone on my account. Funny thing is when I wanted to change that phone for an Evo I already had a SeroP account and I still needed to call to activate, because it said my plans was ineligible for that type of phone. I was going from a BlackBerry to an Evo.

Thanks! Sadly as expected...though SeroP is still super cheap sooo...I can't be too sad I suppose

[AkumaX]

Originally Posted by amberdaisie

I think you could stay off contract, but you'd have to upgrade to SeroP. The last time I bought a phone for my Sero account off of eBay it said my plan was ineligible and that I needed to choose from a list of new plans. The only option was to Chat or Call Sprint and have them add SeroP and they had to activate the phone on my account. Funny thing is when I wanted to change that phone for an Evo I already had a SeroP account and I still needed to call to activate, because it said my plans was ineligible for that type of phone. I was going from a BlackBerry to an Evo.

Sounds like it's because you needed SeroP + 4G ($40 + $10)

[amberdaisie]

Maybe, but I doubt it. Still, you're welcome to try and find out for all of us.

Originally Posted by AkumaX

Sounds like it's because you needed SeroP + 4G ($40 + $10)

[ctiger]

Originally Posted by ldubin

Can one be sneaky and do the following?
SERO $30 (not P), buy phone on eBay, put that ESN on their Sprint account and have an Arrive on the old SERO $30 off contract? I know...I like money... :-p

Don't really understand what do you want to do. But if you don't re-flash your Arrive to an ESN of an old WM phone, you won't be able to run it on $30 plan. It's the same as all other phones that requires SP.

Originally Posted by amberdaisie

I think you could stay off contract, but you'd have to upgrade to SeroP. The last time I bought a phone for my Sero account off of eBay it said my plan was ineligible and that I needed to choose from a list of new plans. The only option was to Chat or Call Sprint and have them add SeroP and they had to activate the phone on my account. Funny thing is when I wanted to change that phone for an Evo I already had a SeroP account and I still needed to call to activate, because it said my plans was ineligible for that type of phone. I was going from a BlackBerry to an Evo.

There're three levels now,
1. TP2 and older units, you don't need to pay more than $30/m even you activate a new phone
2. All other 3G devices, SP $40 plan
3. All 4G devices, SP$50 plan. Evo 4g, Evo shift 4G Samsung what 4G, can't remember, and so and so.

[boggsie]

I can't imagine giving up my $30 / month SERO plan.

Best regards,
-boggsie