FreedomPOP strikes again !!!!    

$29 for a refurbie MOTO E, a free MEGABYTE of Cellar Data and a promise of no cost ever .......

This is twice as good as my last foray into FreedomPOP which was a $49 phone and only a half meg of free cell data.  But the phone sounded like talking in a rain barrel all the time.

There is some rumor (likely brown vaporish) that FreedomPOP has fixed their call echo rainbarrel issues as well.

I can risk $29 I think .....   and I have recovered pretty well from my surgery and am "feeling lucky, punk?" as Dirty Harry used to say.


It doesn't take much to amuse me, huh?  


  FreedomPOP strikes again !!!!

Eventually, one of these things may actually work right.

If by burner phone do you mean a cheap phone?  Yes, as low as $5 --- but the plan on that phone costs $25 a month.    You are far better to get a TracPhone as the "maintenance time" on a FreedomPOP burner phone is too too much time and aggravation.

FreedomPOP is all about gimmicks and tricky misleading deals .....

You always have to be very careful to understand what you are getting into.

This one I am taking has a $29 phone cost and NO COST for plan.   If it turns out to be a lie, they get the phone back ASAP.

 
Current order crossed the 5 day limit, allowing me to insist on getting delivery information.   Supposedly FP has to geek now or offer my money back (or else Paypal will just take the money from them).

If you choose to deal with FP you have to be mentally prepared to act tough -- "acting reasonably" just increasing the overall screwing you can get from folks like FP and their distributors.

I decided I needed a boot cleaner outside the back door.
Being the scrounger , tightwad, fabricator and such, that I am I decided to just Build one. Some bed frame, coupla wire brushes, several hours later, and, voila, ugly as sin, worked like crap, and  THEN I saw one, for sale at Harbor Freight. A whopping Six Dollars! I got two...

I've built stuff, worked great, saved some money,but I have learned to hire someone or buy the thing I need, IF the hassle factor starts to look like it might be equal to or exceed the potential savings.

When a car gets wrecked the insurance company calls it a total when the estimate for repair gets to 50% of retail.

Yes, you're looking at some real savings, And, you have already been through the learning curve, so, for You, that could be a winning combination. I'm going to keep following the thread and stay up with your journey. IF you wind up with a decent phone,for cheap and explain HOW, I just might be interested in having my very own cell phone.
My wife probably has an old one laying in a drawer..

Bummer, dude,,,

3/20/2016 17:10 PDT - Buyer: I paid for a phone. I have no phone, no shipper, no tracer number and no return communications from the seller after trying his email twice and Bonanza twice and Paypal once.   I am tired of dealing with this -- please reverse the charges and put my money back in my Paypal account.


Is this all FreedomPOP's fault? -- no, they have a third party making claims FOR them, a third party that has no phone to send to you, just a vague promise of some sort of future phone dancing somewhere out in the future.

But that is the FreedomPOP BS way, you know --- Bull Fertilizer all the way ---- and they go along with this, as does Bonanza the internet service listing the mostly misleading ads.

Paypal however does not play -- they will either refund my money or else give the guy a concrete response time period and then give him a shipping period to meet.   Then if he doesn't do that, back the funds go.   Paypal will attempt to be fair to both sides.

In fairness, Justin --- FreedomPOP does allow Best Buy and New Egg and others to sell their phones.    The deal is cut between you and the third party and FreedomPOP is supposed to ship you the phone the next day after getting a ship notification from the 3rd party reseller.   YOU get a ship notification from FreedomPOP, supposedly.

BUT, when this doesn't happen, you have to suspect maybe some funny business has taken place.

..... then you take actions to get your funds back.

I think the dude is going to find out it isn't smart to blow off Paypal.

The seller responded to our request for shipment tracking information. We
still need to investigate and confirm this information, but we wanted to
share the seller's response with you:

Tracking Company: FedEx
Tracking Number: N/A

No further action on your part is required at this time. We will continue
our investigation, and contact you with any updates.


Sincerely,
PayPal