Ben Simmons 25
01-10-2019, 08:05 PM
I've been with Sprint and Verizon for the past I dunno... 16, 17 years? Last 10+ at Verizon... and it dawned on me that it's extremely likely I'm a moron for not using prepaid service all of this time or as long as the deals have been around which is probably forever...
I had Verizon's regular service, long since out of contract... 1 gb a month unlimited calling unlimited text and I was paying just north of $60 a month and I was like lol this is ridiculous so I started exploring other options... looked at all of the providers that piggyback off of the big boys' networks and since I wanted to stay with verizon, inevitably all of the absolute cheapest services had dog shit customer service reviews... well... that led me to Verizon itself offering a prepay service that worked off of their towers and was almost identical service to the postpaid service.
So I switched to Verizon prepaid from Verizon postpaid and so far the service and speed and everything else are seemingly identical except I've slashed $20 monthly off of my bill and now I'm getting 3 gigs down a month instead of 1, which I don't need because I'm almost exclusively on WiFi when using data. But I took the data upgrade anyways, I could have gone down to 500mb down and saved even more.
I was prepaying months in advance anyways, why the hell should I continue on with postpaid service?
I'm going to keep playing with this service for another month or two and then just start prepaying annually...
But the point of this thread is like... so many people I know are with postpaid cellular services and if this prepaid shit offered by the main carriers is virtually identical service for a significantly cheaper price percentage wise, why doesn't everyone switch?
What are the catches? Are there any?
So far the only thing I've even been able to dig up that's "negative" about prepay is the fact that they don't send you a bill and you need to pay in advance otherwise your service gets shut off. Not sure how lenient companies are with that... and that your data is probably more likely to be throttled in speed in times of high network congestion... again... I'm almost always on WiFi, so it doesn't matter.
TLDR: I'm a dumbass that used a postpaid cellular service for 15+ years when I could have saved literal thousands of dollars with a prepaid service getting a 99% identical product. FML.
I had Verizon's regular service, long since out of contract... 1 gb a month unlimited calling unlimited text and I was paying just north of $60 a month and I was like lol this is ridiculous so I started exploring other options... looked at all of the providers that piggyback off of the big boys' networks and since I wanted to stay with verizon, inevitably all of the absolute cheapest services had dog shit customer service reviews... well... that led me to Verizon itself offering a prepay service that worked off of their towers and was almost identical service to the postpaid service.
So I switched to Verizon prepaid from Verizon postpaid and so far the service and speed and everything else are seemingly identical except I've slashed $20 monthly off of my bill and now I'm getting 3 gigs down a month instead of 1, which I don't need because I'm almost exclusively on WiFi when using data. But I took the data upgrade anyways, I could have gone down to 500mb down and saved even more.
I was prepaying months in advance anyways, why the hell should I continue on with postpaid service?
I'm going to keep playing with this service for another month or two and then just start prepaying annually...
But the point of this thread is like... so many people I know are with postpaid cellular services and if this prepaid shit offered by the main carriers is virtually identical service for a significantly cheaper price percentage wise, why doesn't everyone switch?
What are the catches? Are there any?
So far the only thing I've even been able to dig up that's "negative" about prepay is the fact that they don't send you a bill and you need to pay in advance otherwise your service gets shut off. Not sure how lenient companies are with that... and that your data is probably more likely to be throttled in speed in times of high network congestion... again... I'm almost always on WiFi, so it doesn't matter.
TLDR: I'm a dumbass that used a postpaid cellular service for 15+ years when I could have saved literal thousands of dollars with a prepaid service getting a 99% identical product. FML.