So you still have to pay a monthly fee? Can't you just buy minutes and use them throughout the year as you need them? Do the minutes roll-over?
1443855
With the 5 Tracfones in our family, we buy the year card, it is usually cheaper than buying a monthly card. On some phones we get double minutes for life and the newer ones we get triple minutes for life. The minutes do roll over to the next year. You do need to add minutes once a year.
1443856
No, you don't pay a monthly fee- I usually buy minutes for 3 months at a time and what I don't use roll over. It is possible to buy minutes for a whole year but I don't always use my phone very much so the 3 month deal works for me.
1443857
For Tracfone there is no monthly fee. When you buy minutes, you get a specific activation period (30, 60, 90, 365 days) and you need to buy more when either the minutes or the time run out. All minutes roll over as long as the phone is kept activated.
1443858
Mine is a Tracfone. So I purchase the minutes as I need or want them. With your minutes, comes service time. The service time could run out before the minutes if you don't use the phone very often. Usually, you're a good half a year ahead. I am anyway. You don't want to let the service days go to zero. That's what keeps your phone activated. 90 days are included with most or all minute cards. No contract. I buy the minutes online at Tracfone. If you buy the phone with tripple minutes, it's great. Check out Tracfone, if you haven't already. You do have to choose a phone with your zip code. Some phones don't work in some areas, I guess. Mine is a Tracfone. So I purchase the minutes as I need or want them. With your minutes, comes service time. The service time could run out before the minutes if you don't use the phone very often. Usually, you're a good half a year ahead. I am anyway. You don't want to let the service days go to zero. That's what keeps your phone activated. 90 days are included with most or all minute cards. No contract. I buy the minutes online at Tracfone. If you buy the phone with tripple minutes, it's great. Check out Tracfone, if you haven't already. You do have to choose a phone with your zip... » Read More Mine is a Tracfone. So I purchase the minutes as I need or want them. With your minutes, comes service time. The service time could run out before the minutes if you don't use the phone very often. Usually, you're a good half a year ahead. I am anyway. You don't want to let the service days go to zero. That's what keeps your phone activated. 90 days are included with most or all minute cards. No contract. I buy the minutes online at Tracfone. If you buy the phone with tripple minutes, it's great. Check out Tracfone, if you haven't already. You do have to choose a phone with your zip code. Some phones don't work in some areas, I guess. « Show Less
1403784
Yes, the minutes roll over as do the days. I have purchased the year card when i saw a good deal and it was before my year and minutes were up from the last purchase. And both rolled over, soi have gobs of minutes and days. And remember that texts on the Tracfone are 3 texts a minute of your talking time which is great.
2080256
You have to buy minutes when they run out or when your time runs out. For example: I always buy the card that loads 400 minutes (which triples to 1200) card with 365 days of service. It's the best deal. Before one of those runs out you have to reload. I don't use my phone excessively so that card lasts me the full year before I have to reload. Hope this helps.Deb
1838730
No, There are is no monthly fee. It is truly free when you activate the device it will offer you free 2.5 gb free but if you look closer it will say first month and the second option is 500mb of free data monthly for life. Use that one. after setup log in to your account and turn off "auto top of/auto refill" of data or when you get to 450mb of data they will charge to refill.
1302010
I dont' pay anything. I think the only way you have to pay a monthly fee is if you use there cloud for storage of your documents. I store them on my PC so I don't pay anything. Hope that helps
630380
I'm not a tester and don't own the unit (not yet anyway), but I've been checking it out... yes, the monthly service is $10-13 after the initial 3 month free period expires. Based on my experience with other units, this is about the same as the cost of one or more map updates per year that other vendors charge for, but the service includes more ... so for me, this will not be a big concern.
319143
I don't know. I use the Easy Minutes where I get 200 minutes automatically added per month for about $16. I had an old flip phone and transfered my minutes over from that.I would think the cards would work though.
2032888
I haven't had to pay an annual fee. I am also using the ProMode. The downfall is Callaway is discontinuing their support for course downloads at the end of this year. Which may not matter if you get everything you want beforehand.
319144
I don't know. I use the Easy Minutes where I get 200 minutes automatically added per month for about $16. I had an old flip phone and transfered my minutes over from that. I would think the cards would work though.
851746
No it does not come with any minutes. When I signed up to order minutes through the phone (by giving them my credit card information) I got a 10 minute bonus. Otherwise, you have to buy minutes or purchase a card (you have a choice of minutes to buy on the cards).
1913398
No it doesn't - if your talking about paying a monthly fee, if not talking about that then please clarify Thanks
1065688
as long as you own the service....the minutes roll over. I don't use my minutes during the time frame, they just roll over
224860
You buy minutes as you need them and no monthly plan is needed unless you want one. You can buy as little as $10 at a time or more if you want to. As far as minutes go, it works pretty much the same way as any other Tracfone except that the talk, text and data minutes are deducted separately. So if you text, the minutes will come off your text minutes only. Triple minutes on this phone makes a big difference.
92588
It is a prepaid phone so you just buy the minute cards according to how many minutes you plan on using. So, if you are a more conservative cell phone user, then it could be as little as $100 for a year
820246
No yearly fee. - but don't buy it - price is right - but the product and it's use are horrible. I have had a month of grief and just sent it back. Best unit is a Golf Buddy. Garmin is not accurate. Good luck
146194
the only reoccurring costs I know of are the subscriptions like PAYROLL. We also only buy the new version every 3 years, because after 3 years they stop supporting them. $499.90 yearly would be to buy the new version of the software... which you don't have to do.
92587
There was no monthly charge, I just prepaid four minutes. So if you did not use it for a month you paid nothing and if you used it a lot you paid for the minutes are used. in fact, I still have the phone, it has been at least six months since I used it, and it still has about 100 minutes loaded onto it.