Can I Use A Pre-Paid Phone As My Upgrade??

I need to upgrade my phone, I purchased a prepaid phone from virgin mobile earlier this year, and was wondering if there was a way I could just use that for my new upgrade instead of having to fork out more money for yet another new phone.

Thanks, spottedcatfish, for your reply.
Hello AshleyNBarron,
Spottedcatfish is correct. You’re not able to activate a non Verizon Wireless device in our network. Additionally, I would to provide you with a way for you to check the ESN of a device to see if it can be activated in our network. Just click on the following link. Keep in mind if you would like to activate a Verizon Wireless prepaid device, the device has to be active on a prepaid account for at least 6 months prior to being activated on a post paid account. We constantly offer different promotions with our devices so I do encourage you to review our current devices to see if one fits your needs. Thanks for being part of Verizon Wireless.

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I'm sorry about your husband's phone, luckily we do have options. Currently, a pre-paid device must be activated on a pre-pay account for six months before eligible to activate on a standard post-pay account. However, we do offer Certified Pre-Owned devices at a fraction of the cost of the devices at full retail. You can review all of our devices here: http://bit.ly/CPOdevices. If you have insurance on his line, you can file an insurance claim with Asurion at www.phoneclaim.com.
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jkhitunes wrote:
Wonder why an Apple person told me this would work??
Apple should read this stuff once in a while.
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I searched the board before publishing, but didn't find a clear answer, so I will ask here.
I set up an iTunes account with a credit card because I assumed that was the only way to get an account.
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jkhitunes wrote:
Wonder why an Apple person told me this would work??
Apple should read this stuff once in a while.
Some prepaid cards appear to act as credit cards to the merchant. If yours is one of them it should work, but debit cards are not accepted for the iTunes Store.
Can you use a pre-paid credit card from Wal-Mart?
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"Pre-paid" and "credit" are mutually exclusive.
I believe this way of thinking about it ought to be valid: if you need a PIN code, the card won't work.
I don't use debit cards so I can't be certain if this will apply consistently, but let me know if that makes sense.

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jkhitunes wrote:
Wonder why an Apple person told me this would work??
Apple should read this stuff once in a while.
Some prepaid cards appear to act as credit cards to the merchant. If yours is one of them it should work, but debit cards are not accepted for the iTunes Store.
Can you use a pre-paid credit card from Wal-Mart?
Do you mean an iTunes Card, the kind sold at Wal-Mart? Sure, that will work.
"Pre-paid" and "credit" are mutually exclusive.
I believe this way of thinking about it ought to be valid: if you need a PIN code, the card won't work.
I don't use debit cards so I can't be certain if this will apply consistently, but let me know if that makes sense.

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