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Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter
Take a look at the Tracfone. You can buy one at Walmart or Walgreens.
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Originally Posted by janmcn
Tracfone is great if you don't make a lot of calls. I spend $20 for 120 minutes every three months and have never run out of minutes, but I keep it mostly in case of emergency. Plus, sometimes you can get the phone on sale for $10.
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Originally Posted by logdog
You can buy a Tracfone phone with one year of service and triple minutes on Amazon.com for about $85. That gives you 100 minutes a month for about $7 a month and the phone is essentially free.
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One of my biggest mistakes was a two-year contract with AT&T, which I couldn't wait to end....
I've been using Tracfone for over two years, and it has been terrific. The service is excellent, on those rare occasions when I have to make an out-of-country call, the charge is the same as a domestic call, that is, the number of minutes used, the phones are readily available and relatively inexpensive (I shop on ebay; send me a PM for more info), and phones with lifetime triple minutes, as mentioned above, result in a much reduced cost per minute.
A couple of years back, the annual Villages survey asked if I had a cell phone. Yes, I do. The next question asked if it was a smart phone. No, it's a stupid phone: It makes calls and it receives calls! Actually, you can do texting on Tracfones also, though I have no clue how to do so as I have no use for texting. For me it was definitely the way to go, as I have a land line as well; I'm not sure I would recommend Tracfone if it were one's ONLY phone service.