stevek173
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Well you guys wanted more of me so here you go. The #'s here are pretty fascinating imo if you can get past the doofy feeling of buying a phone/service card in Walmart.
So as you know I started my new job about 2 months ago. I talk all day to clients, lenders and my home office.
Our Verizon plan was set up on 1600 minutes, which costs me about $100. Ridiculous I know, I don't ask questions Nikki pays the bill. Anyway I started getting hammered with overages to the tune of like $200 a month, so I picked up a track phone (Straighttalk). $45 one time for the phone (you can pay more for a better phone) and $45 for a card with unlimited everything - i.e. - phone, text, internet.
Since I have gotten the phone on 5/23 I have used 3637 minutes, so still a couple of days to go.
Under our Verizon plan, 1600 minutes, I would have paid this: Roughly $100 plus 2,037 minutes in overages, so $1,018 in overages for a total of $1118; PLUS Nikkis minutes so I estimate that's like another 200 minutes for her, and throw in another 60 for her parents so a total of $1248 is the estimated bill if I had done this on our current plan lmao.
Yes Verizon does have unlimited plans, but because we pay Nikki's paren't line as an 'extra line' it was like $80 per line or something ridiculous to bump it up.
Plus extra for any internet since that is not in our plan.
I thought range with the track phone might be a problem since I live out in the sticks, it is not. They use whatever is the best depending on where you are. For instance Verizon is the only one that works out here, so it uses it.
My employer offered to pay for my phone bill. Do you think I should go with the estimated Verizon expense or the actual Track Phone expense? I'm sure they won't notice if I choose the Verizon.
So as you know I started my new job about 2 months ago. I talk all day to clients, lenders and my home office.
Our Verizon plan was set up on 1600 minutes, which costs me about $100. Ridiculous I know, I don't ask questions Nikki pays the bill. Anyway I started getting hammered with overages to the tune of like $200 a month, so I picked up a track phone (Straighttalk). $45 one time for the phone (you can pay more for a better phone) and $45 for a card with unlimited everything - i.e. - phone, text, internet.
Since I have gotten the phone on 5/23 I have used 3637 minutes, so still a couple of days to go.
Under our Verizon plan, 1600 minutes, I would have paid this: Roughly $100 plus 2,037 minutes in overages, so $1,018 in overages for a total of $1118; PLUS Nikkis minutes so I estimate that's like another 200 minutes for her, and throw in another 60 for her parents so a total of $1248 is the estimated bill if I had done this on our current plan lmao.
Yes Verizon does have unlimited plans, but because we pay Nikki's paren't line as an 'extra line' it was like $80 per line or something ridiculous to bump it up.
Plus extra for any internet since that is not in our plan.
I thought range with the track phone might be a problem since I live out in the sticks, it is not. They use whatever is the best depending on where you are. For instance Verizon is the only one that works out here, so it uses it.
My employer offered to pay for my phone bill. Do you think I should go with the estimated Verizon expense or the actual Track Phone expense? I'm sure they won't notice if I choose the Verizon.
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