The lady gives me back a lot of information, and among it that the card will work till the MM/DD+1. Finally! I have the simple information I wanted!
"Carlos E. R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote
| Now I got this SMS from them:
|
| +++................
| T-Mobile: Reminder: please refill your plan by MM/DD to ensure wireless
| service at t-mo.co/refill24 or call us at 611. Please disregard if
| you've already paid for next month's service
| ................++-
|
| Now, the question was, do I have service on that MM/DD, or not? Being
| the day I fly back, it is crucial.
|
| At that provided web page, a link got me somewhere else, where to login
| or create a login. I wanted to avoid creating a login.
This is interesting. I have a Tracfone, now owned by
Verizon. First I just bought cards to add minutes. Then
I had to get an "app" to manage the process. Last week
I couldn't get the app to work. They wanted me to log in.
I never had an account, yet they think I do. So I
gave them an email to send my password to. They said
the email was sent. It never arrived... Very weird.
I've wondered whether this could be something being
required by US Homeland Security: Stop all anonymous
cellphones. But Tracfone was stopping my cellphone
altogether! Luckily for me, I rarely use it. But I do like to
have a cellphone for emergencies.
Finally I found an item in the app menu. (The app won't
work to manage my account but it does open and show
a menu.) The option said "Add minutes for a friend". Huh?
What the heck. I clicked it. It then invited me to enter
the new minutes serial number from the card, along with
my cellphone number. And it worked!
Hi,
I had a problem with T-Mobile. Being from the other side of the pond,
I'd like to ask you how normal this is.
I bought in Spain, on Amazon, before traveling a prepaid T-Mobile SIM card.
On 2023-09-15 19:27, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
I had a problem with T-Mobile. Being from the other side of the pond,
I'd like to ask you how normal this is.
I bought in Spain, on Amazon, before traveling a prepaid T-Mobile SIM
card.
It got worse.
I decided to stay one week more. I have to call my travel agent back in Spain, but T-Mobile says I don't have enough in my card.
Ok, expand it. 60+ dollars, says the web page, but then says my credits
cards numbers are all invalid, and doesn't accept Spain as a country.
So phone them.
Getting to a human was terribly hard, 3 phone calls to two numbers. This
time I chose Spanish (on two calls the request was ignored and got
English). The agent says that it is true, they don't accept my card.
That I have to go to Walmart and buy an addition card, or to a t-mobile
shop, with a true POS machine that will accept my card. So I will go to
that shop, located one.
Gosh :-/
On 2023-09-15 19:27, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Hi,
I had a problem with T-Mobile. Being from the other side of the pond,
I'd like to ask you how normal this is.
I bought in Spain, on Amazon, before traveling a prepaid T-Mobile SIM
card.
It got worse.
I decided to stay one week more. I have to call my travel agent back in Spain, but T-Mobile says I don't have enough in my card.
Ok, expand it. 60+ dollars, says the web page, but then says my credits
cards numbers are all invalid, and doesn't accept Spain as a country.
So phone them.
Getting to a human was terribly hard, 3 phone calls to two numbers. This
time I chose Spanish (on two calls the request was ignored and got
English). The agent says that it is true, they don't accept my card.
That I have to go to Walmart and buy an addition card, or to a t-mobile
shop, with a true POS machine that will accept my card. So I will go to
that shop, located one.
Gosh :-/
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