[quote=flu]Don’t the minutes expire per month if you don’t use them?
That was always my beef with prepaid phones.[/quote]
Flu, the minutes don’t expire for a year if you buy $100 worth of them at a time. That’s 1000 minutes, and that’s the case with T-Mobile and AT&T prepaid that I know if. If you buy less than $100, say, only $10 or $50, then the minutes expire after 30 or 60 days, and also the per-minute price is higher.
I hate yapping on the phone. I have a cell so that I can be reached when I’m on the road, and also b/c it’s so hard to find pay phones nowadays. When people call me (or when I call) I get to business right away and then finish the call. If they want to get social and talk about the weather, their pets, or the Padres, I tell them that I have to go, or that the connection is getting weak and I offer to call them back when I get home or office (and then I do call them back from a landline).
That way, the 1000 minutes truly last me a year, easily. To refill you can do it over the phone with your credit card, buy a card from Target, etc. Once I bought the $100 card from eBay for only $94, and no shipping involved: the seller took care of adding the minutes to my account.
