I got my first cell phone some years back. And when they upgraded, some friends who had the same model gave me their olfd ones. So I have *three* of them.
I eventually upgraded, but if my current phone breaks, I can just take it to the store and get the service switched over to one of the old phones in a few minutes. I won't have to camera or music player features, but I can live without those. (and just pull the microSD card to get the data off the phone (which I back up on the computer anyway).
The spares came in handy a couple years back when a friend's brother had his phone stolen. He was on her plan, so I just read her the numbers from inside one of the spares (under the battery) and Verizon switched the service over.
It'd been a couple days what with her bro (a real flake) not telling her and playing phone tag to get the info to her. She didn't need the phone since her brother had been being a pain about his share of the bill, so she wasn't going to give him the phone anyway, just let it sit until the contract expired (cheaper than cancelling)
But once the service switched, I got to watch lots of annoyed texts from the friends of whoever had swiped it and been using it.
They finally quit after a week or so. And a few months later the contract expired so I turned it off again and stuck it in the drawer with the other two.
I eventually upgraded, but if my current phone breaks, I can just take it to the store and get the service switched over to one of the old phones in a few minutes. I won't have to camera or music player features, but I can live without those. (and just pull the microSD card to get the data off the phone (which I back up on the computer anyway).
The spares came in handy a couple years back when a friend's brother had his phone stolen. He was on her plan, so I just read her the numbers from inside one of the spares (under the battery) and Verizon switched the service over.
It'd been a couple days what with her bro (a real flake) not telling her and playing phone tag to get the info to her. She didn't need the phone since her brother had been being a pain about his share of the bill, so she wasn't going to give him the phone anyway, just let it sit until the contract expired (cheaper than cancelling)
But once the service switched, I got to watch lots of annoyed texts from the friends of whoever had swiped it and been using it.
They finally quit after a week or so. And a few months later the contract expired so I turned it off again and stuck it in the drawer with the other two.
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