Pre-Paid Cell

TracFone has a reasonably priced phone...and right now, I think Dollar General Stores have the basic TracFone model on sale for less than $10. I believe it's $20 for 60 minutes when you load minutes on the phone. You can either buy a minute card or add minutes online. I've used one for several years now, and I really like it. No monthly bills, no credit checks, nothing like that.

No, someone calling you would not have to have a prepaid cell - anyone can call you.

Just make sure that you have enough time on your phone when you are using it or it will cut your call off,...been there and done that.

Good point, ladybug!

Just a side note, TracFone also has a program where you can pay $10.00 a month and have your phone automatically loaded with 50 minutes and your service extended for another month.

I use this program because I don't use my phone for much of anything except when I'm traveling - so that amount of minutes keeps my phone active.

Thank you!!!! Can someone tell that you have a prepaid phone when you call them? or when they call you?

Its for my small business and dont want them to know its a prepaid phone.

Thanks!!!!! :D

You know, I'm not sure about that. I'm not sure if it comes up and says your name on the Caller ID or if it says "TracFone Customer".

Ok, I just checked my own Caller ID - I called my house with my TracFone to talk to my son one day last week - it says "Wireless Caller".

Boost is really cool. If you know other people who have Boost and/or Nextel/Sprint you can use the 2 way to call them without using any of your minutes. They also have premium pre pay plans which do not cost anymore than a contract phone bill. These give you free minutes after 7 pm and unlimited text messaging as well as unlimited internet. I think they start around 60 per month. You just have to reload your phone every month.

Just this weekend, I went to get a pre-paid phone. I ended up getting regular cell phone service. US Cellular offered a deal of phone for a penny (I upgraded the phone and paid only $35 for it), no activation fee, 700 minutes for $39.99/mo w/ FREE INCOMING CALLS, and pro-rate term fee- after 5 months - if I were to terminate my contract. So, I walked out with new phone & service and paid only $45 total! Which was less than what a pre-paid phone (PLUS the minutes) would've cost. (We won't talk about how much AT&T wanted for their "Go Phone.")

And no, your callers won't know it's a pre-paid.

My advice, if you can, look into the US Cellular deal. Perhaps other cell phone companies will match it!

Another place to look for a prepaid phone is ebay. I was thinking about selling my old Go Phone and they are going dirt cheap. I would be careful about buying cards but they even had cards at a very discounted rate.