IPhone 5 Early Termination and Account Transfer

My wife and I both have VZW grandfathered unlimited data plans and want to keep it that way. So here is my grand scheme:
We buy two iPhone 5s on a completely new account and two year agreement ($398). We immediately turn around and close the account(s) and pay the early termination charges ($700). Bam! We just automatically saved $200. Right?
So tell me if anyone sees a whole in my dastardly plan.

If you terminate them within 14 days your going to give your phone back.
You have to wait 30 days to cancel. And it might hurt you if you do this again because Verizon keeps a record of all changes like canceling a line within so many days because say next year you do this again for iPhone 6 or another phone they could say well you just cancelled a line why do you need another 1.
When you cancel you have 30 days to pay for the fee. If you can't affairs that you would need to make a payment araingement.
If you use a new account from a different person and put it on your line you can't add insurance to your phone.

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Once you pay the ETF for that tablet, it's yours. You can try to sell it to make some money, but I cannot think of any quick flip without the wait. i cannot think of any program allowing a trade-in of a tablet right now. You could try an AOL/assumption of liability but I'm doubting that will be agreed upon given your situation. I am not sure how a termination of a free tablet on promo in connection with a 2 year agreement for phone service might work.

Question regarding early termination and handset earpiece volume

Hello,
I purchased iphone a week ago from ATT.
If I terminate my contract after 10 months, do I have to return my iphone to ATT even though I pay the early termination fee?
Another question is this,
when I get a phoe call, the handset earpiece volume is not loud enough to hear in the noisy place.
Is there anyway to fix this problem?
Thank you.

chung1q wrote:
If I terminate my contract after 10 months, do I have to return my iphone to ATT even though I pay the early termination fee?
No, you only have to return it if you cancel within the first 30 days and don't pay the fee.
Is there anyway to fix this problem?
Your volume switches work differently depending on what you are doing. You may get a readout above the "speaker" symbol that appears on the screen telling you what volume is being adjusted.
If you are not using anything, the volume switches adjust the ringer volume.
If you are playing music or video, they adjust the music/video volume.
If your headphones are plugged in, they adjust the headset volume.
If you are actually on a call, they adjust the earpiece volume or speakerphone volume, whichever you are using (without a readout).
If you are on a phone call using bluetooth, they adjust the bluetooth volume.
Dial something like the National Time Signal (303) 499-7111 or your local recdorded weather and adjust the volume during the call.

Early termination of account

I browsed the forums yesterday for information about cancelling my BT contract.
Horrified to learn that there is a charge for cancelling broadband.
I am emigrating soon - leaving the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Will I be subject to the charge?
Best wishes.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

I have just cancelled my account today!! Horrified!!!
I recieved an e-mail just now after earlier having sopken by phone to one of the customer service team. I tried to reply to the e-mail and it was sent back to me. This is the e-mail i sent.
I have just spoken to one of your customer service team and they said that I was going to have to pay £85, which is extreme enough now you have just sent this e-mail and it is now a whooping £131.79. I am not paying this Extortionate amount and would like to speak to someone from BT about it. The only reason I cancelled my account is because the person I am moving in with has already got a new BT account, but I will be seriously suggesting they end this account as I will not be going through this again with BT. First off when I signed up I asked for a 12 month contract, and have today been told that it is in fact an 18 month contract, that's some serious difference!! I will be posting this on BT's forum to let people know what they are getting themselves into, I was not properly advised and was put on a contract that for the last year I thought was a 12 month contract that should have ended in Jan/Feb time 2012. I have never had to pay anything like this with any other Internet/phone company, its Scandals.

My iPhone contract has terminated and I want to unlock my 3gs

I have reached the end of my two year contract on my iphone and I want to unlock it. My cell provider does not do it so how can I get it unlocked? I do not want some shady third party software that screws it all up. The phone is mine now and I want to travel with it internationally.

If you're in the USA, complain to the FCC http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm or call your congressman.
The cell providers obviously need more regulation to prevent their anti-consumer practices.

I cloud and two iphones with one computer and account...

I updated my and my boyfriends phones to the5.0 version, we use the same computer, and started icloud. now his phone numbers and my numbers are on both phones! and his phone when he messages me is now saying my name? Help!

Yes, but you'll have the same data on both.

$500 equipment termination fee after paying $350 early termination fee?

Hello,
For some reason, my previous posting now says it is an unauthorized one and it cannot be accessed. I'm posting about a case of my girlfriend who upgraded to iPhone 5S 32G ($299.99+26.62) on December 23, 2013 with the 2-yr contract and had to cancel on January 7, 2014 since she had to leave the country. It would have been nicer if the cancellation was within 14 days, then she could simply cancel the contract and return the device without the early termination fee $350. Unfortunately, it was not the case, and she had to pay the early termination fee $350, the upgrade fee $35, and the amount for the last month usage. Everything was paid off as the terms and clauses said, and until that time, everything was fine: paid the gross amount of $299.99+26.62+350+35+more unfortunately, but kept the phone at least.
The bad story came today via an email from Rosee (removed) ([email protected]), a person from Collections Department of stayconnectedwireless.com, saying that my girlfriend will be charged the sum amount of $500 due to terminating your Verizon wireless account without returning the equipment to the store. What??? She looked at T&C very carefully before the unfortunate early termination and paid all the huge amount of fees Verizon described in its T&C for termination. The early termination fee is usually considered to account for the discount you get with the 2-yr contract. At the time of early termination, Verizon either wants the device back or the early termination fee paid, not both. Since my girlfriend already paid off all the fees, the email sounded totally weird. What will be your reaction if you paid $299.99+26.62+350+35+more which is about the full retail price and the store says you have to return the device or pay $500 more?
I had to search over the web to figure out what happened.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/verizon-wireless-stay-connected-new-york-2
http://www.yelp.com/biz/verizon-wireless-stay-connected-new-york-4
http://www.yelp.com/biz/verizon-wireless-stay-connected-new-york-5
http://www.yelp.com/biz/verizon-wireless-stay-connected-new-york-6
http://www.yelp.com/biz/verizon-wireless-stay-connected-new-york-8
http://www.yelp.com/biz/verizon-wireless-stay-connected-new-york-9
http://www.yelp.com/biz/verizon-wireless-stay-connected-new-york-10
http://www.yelp.com/biz/verizon-wireless-stay-connected-new-york-11
I understand how much anger this person Glenn P. had for these "Stay Connected Verizon Wireless" stores that are seemingly genuine Verizon Wireless stores but just premium retailers unless you look at the signboard very very very carefully. In fact, I could realize the fact today since they pretended to be genuine from many aspects. Now after reading the posting and thinking, what happened becomes very clear to me. They are not genuine Verizon Wireless but pretend to be the one, and they put a disgusting term on their receipts: if any 2-yr upgrade or new activation is cancelled within 7 months of contract, there is a $500 equipment termination fee unless the device is returned to the store in perfect condition. What this term essentially forces is, if you terminate between 14 days and 7 months, you pay all the phone price and the early termination fee properly, but you also need to return the device to this disgusting "Stay Connected Verizon Wireless" retail store or pay $500 to the "Stay Connected Verizon Wireless" retail store.
I would like to suggest a few things.
0. Look at the store names and the receipts very carefully. There are stores that are seemingly Verizon Wireless but just retailers. And the receipt may say something absurd. I believe this term is a sort of duplicate penalty (thus not legitimate) that rips off more than the retail price of the phone.
1. Do upgrade or activation from the genuine VERIZON WIRELESS. If you upgrade or activate a phone from these "STAY CONNECTED VERIZON WIRELESS" retailers and if you happen to cancel the contract between 14 days and 7 months, you have to lose your phone or pay additional $500 even if you paid off the already-huge $299.99+26.62+350+35 which is about the full retail price.
2. Verizon Wireless, I believe the company, as an influential company in the US, should carefully control the dealer quality and impose reasonable T&C for the dealer. The genuine Verizon Wireless is reasonable in that sense: either take the device back or charge the early termination fee. However, this unethical retailer does not. They first pretend to be the genuine store in many ways, put an unreasonable (perhaps not legitimate) term with small letters on their receipts without explaining the huge difference, and try to take your PAID phone away if the contract is terminated between 14 days and 7 months. I believe a reasonable T&C has to be enforced by Verizon Wireless for this retailer, or they have to be punished if they resist.
I may have to be ripped off $500 for not paying too much attention on the store name and on the receipt term which nobody will read by trust on Verizon Wireless, but no other people should suffer from the same pain.
How do you think? Thanks for any input from people or Verizon Wireless representatives.
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Hello,
Thanks for answering. My posting had been blocked for some time, so I thought Verizon simply did not like the posting. Now I discovered this posting was re-opened.
To clarify, I have been using Verizon for 7 years, and I'm well aware of all the Verizon charges, fees, and T&C in the process of properly upgrading phones multiple times. The point is that, the retail store "STAY CONNECTED VERIZON WIRELESS" in NY has deceptive signboard and interior that are sufficient to enforce or confuse customers to believe the store is a genuine Verizon Wireless. And, they inserted unreasonable and unacceptable term on the receipt about the termination (very problematic between 14 days and 7 months). However, they did not notify at all about those (3rd party and termination). If I knew the store was 3rd party, I would have read T&C very closely. Actually, you can see that all the angry yelp reviews by Glenn P. also point out the deceptive signboard part. The person also thought the store was genuine Verizon Wireless until the collection department contacted for the astonishing $500. Later, basically they softly threaten to report for a negative record if you do not return the PAID phone or pay the extra $500.
Apart from the deceptive signboard and interior, I want to simplify the example for the unreasonable T&C as follows. As a customer, I paid for the discounted phone price $299.99+tax, the upgrade fee $35, and the early termination fee $350. At that point, the genuine Verizon Wireless does not take the phone away and all the business is done since the early termination fee compensates the discount. When the weird retail store kicks in, they suddenly require the phone back or $500 equipment termination fee paid because the termination was between 14 days and 7 months from the contract. I don't think they truly have a legal right or basis to do that since it is a duplicate penalty which is also very excessive, but I just respected the one ugly sentence on the receipt about the unreasonable $500 equipment termination fee. Anyway, the full retail price is $749, and the total payment with this retail store became easily more than $1,200 or I have to return the PAID phone (~$700) to them. What an easy business from their sides! I believe Verizon Wireless, once you know about this unethical retail store, you should take a proper action. I would understand a bit more about special T&C if they provided special discounts as Best Buy or Walmart, but the discounted price was exactly same with Verizon Wireless. Is there any justification about the $500 equipment termination fee? Possibly you can have $100 or so to minimize the damage as a 3rd-party store, but not $500.
When I contacted the collection department of stayconnectionwireless.com, the person tried to justify $500, but I just told one thing: I know the genuine Verizon Wireless does not charge the weird equipment termination fee once the early termination fee $350 is paid. The person became silent after my comments because I knew Verizon's T&C very well. However, I had to pay $500 to avoid all the potential legal issues. Normally the good way to deal with this should be to pay first and take wrong things back.
My first expectation was that, Verizon Wireless would take a reasonable response on my posting. However, two postings on this Verizon forum were immediately blocked, so I had to file a complaint on FCC (Federal Communications Commision) about "Stay Connected Verizon Wireless". I don't know how much legal obligation they can impose, though.
Now, since you re-opened my posting and replied, if your company situation allows, I hope Verizon Wireless can investigate this retail store's T&C and advise not to do that. They might be the only store that excessively charges such fees as authorized 3rd-party dealers. If they resist and if I'm one of the board member in Verizon Wireless, I would control the quality of authorized 3rd-party retail stores and take proper actions to retain Verizon's credibility. I don't know whether Verizon Wireless will do that.
Please contact me if more information is needed. Thanks.

Screwed on early termination with a move

I moved from PA to MA, and because those are different billing areas, Verizon is treating the move as an early termination and new activation.
They have decided to bill an ETF and an installation fee. I've been on hold waiting to talk to a supervisor for 20min.
This policy is criminal. Has anyone had luck getting Verizon to be reasonable in handling an interstate move?

So we can get more information from you, We would like to look into this for you. I have copied your post to our private support board. Please refer all correspondences to there from here on out. You can easily get to the private support one of two ways. In the email you signed up for the forums with, you will receive a link to click on. Make sure you are already signed into the forums before clicking on this link. Another way of getting there is by clicking on your username anywhere you see it in the forums. This brings you to your account profile. Scroll down to the section labeled "My Support Cases" . In there you will see the link to your case.Sorry to hear about the problems with your move.
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Here's what i found at this Source:
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