Line Roll-over To Get New Pricing

[LokutusofBorg]

I've been reading a lot off and on for weeks, and haven't found a definitive answer on this so thought I would ask.

My wife and I have been Verizon customers for years, and have been off-contract for a few years now both still using feature phones. Phone bills have been hitting $110 lately, so I figure we're not really saving anything by continuing to hold off on moving to smart phones.

We'd like to stay with Verizon for many reasons, but the upgrade pricing being so much more than new customer pricing just pisses me off, and I'm determined to find a way around it. I was settled on getting Incredible 2's for us both, because we really liked them in the store, and they're either free (I have a leftover New Every 2 credit) or $30 now. But if I can get new pricing, then we have a lot more choices in phones, obviously.

So I was wondering if I could just add new lines to get the new phones, and once they're up, transfer our numbers over to Google Voice and make the new lines the only lines on the account. And then in two years again, do the same thing to just roll over to new lines and get new pricing on phones.

Is this actually a valid method to get new pricing on phones? Will VZW penalize us at some point if they realize that's what we're doing?

 

[alent1234]

iPhone's are the same price all the time

For android call cs and ask the process of closing your account

 

[LokutusofBorg]

I don't want to close my account, just add a new line, and then drop the old line.

I've seen this suggested in other places, but never seen anyone say "yes, this works fine". That's all I'm looking for.

 

[Dulanic]

iPhone's are the same price all the time

For android call cs and ask the process of closing your account

It is not a iPhone perk.... It has to do with the fact Apple is not letting 3rd party sellers sell their iphone unless they agree to Apple pricing and other terms. The incredible 2 is the same price either way also.. as long as it is purchased through the rip off price offered by Verizon. Where as a incredible 2 can be had for free or $30 (depending on what type of purchase) if it is purchased through say... amazon or let's talk or wirefly. It sucks for the iPhone buyer because they can't cut out the middle man huge profits.

As for OP... there really isn't anything Verizon can/will do about you doing that.

 

[alent1234]

You say it sucks for iPhone buyers but I know someone that bought a mytouch 4g earlier this year for $99 or $199 and a few days later t-mobile had it on sale for free or close to it. He wasn't happy.

 

[Dulanic]

You say it sucks for iPhone buyers but I know someone that bought a mytouch 4g earlier this year for $99 or $199 and a few days later t-mobile had it on sale for free or close to it. He wasn't happy.

............ Wow how wonderful it must be to be happy to never get a sale price. Too bad your friend didn't bother to buy it from somewhere with a price guarantee.... Hell even best buy does that much.

 

[alent1234]

he ended up getting it from another reseller. he was pissed and returned it to t-mobile and rebought it a month or two later from a reseller. lets talk i think

 

[Raduque]

I don't want to close my account, just add a new line, and then drop the old line.

I've seen this suggested in other places, but never seen anyone say "yes, this works fine". That's all I'm looking for.

Verizon's not gonna know what you're doing, nor will they care, as long as you keep the lines active for the life of the contract, or pay the ETF to cancel.