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Wednesday, March 25th, 2020 2:46 AM

Prepaid balance expired

I would like to encourage everyone not to do business, with AT&T, pre paid cell services. It is a complete rip off, and AT&T, are taking peoples hard earned money and profiting off it. I’ve had an account with AT&T for over 3 years now; I’ve always maintained a balance of over $150.00. The phone was an emergency phone that I kept in my glove box. With all that has transpired, I remove the phone from my truck, to make sure everything was still functional. I had just check the balance in January, 2020, and it was over $150.00, in the account I had over $150.00, in my prepaid account, and AT&T, said my money expired because, I did not add money to the account. AT&T = Crooks!!

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sandblaster

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3 years ago

Yes, that's the way prepaid works. Your account balance has an expiration date. If you don't add more to the account by that date, your balance is lost. When you do add more to the account, you extend that expiration date. That is the way prepaid has always worked. Did you not know that?

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I would like to encourage everyone not to do business, with AT&T, pre paid cell services. It is a complete rip off, and AT&T, are taking peoples hard earned money and profiting off it. I’ve had an account with AT&T for over 3 years now; I’ve always maintained a balance of over $150.00. The phone was an emergency phone that I kept in my glove box. With all that has transpired, I remove the phone from my truck, to make sure everything was still functional. I had just check the balance in January, 2020, and it was over $150.00, in the account I had over $150.00, in my prepaid account, and AT&T, said my money expired because, I did not add money to the account. AT&T = Crooks!!

ACE - Sage

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Most people pay attention to the expiration date of their refills, and are aware that if they don't refill before the expiration date their funds are lost.
One of our regular users travels all over the world and uses prepaid in many different countries. From his posts it seems that AT&T prepaid service is pretty typical.

You are paying a refill on a regular basis so that AT&T will keep your account open for when you need it. Whether or not you actually use the service is up to you.

If your only purpose is to have a phone in case you get stuck and need to call 911, then you do not need phone service at all. Any phone, even without service or a SIM card, is capable of calling 911 and will connect to any local Tower available.

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@lizdance40 hes posted 4 times in 4 different threads

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His posts are all being consolidated. So we can only explain how wrong he is once instead of four times. 🤷‍♀️😆

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@lizdance40 I would like to encourage everyone not to do business, with AT&T, pre paid cell services. It is a complete rip off, and AT&T, are taking peoples hard earned money and profiting off it. I’ve had an account with AT&T for over 3 years now; I’ve always maintained a balance of over $150.00. The phone was an emergency phone that I kept in my glove box. With all that has transpired, I remove the phone from my truck, to make sure everything was still functional. I had just check the balance in January, 2020, and it was over $150.00, in the account I had over $150.00, in my prepaid account, and AT&T, said my money expired because, I did not add money to the account. AT&T = Crooks!!

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T-Mobile pay as you go plan also requires that you refill on a schedule or your balance will expire. When your balance expires you lose the balance.
As far as I know T-Mobile and AT&T are the only US carriers left with a pay-per-use

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3 years ago

I would like to encourage everyone not to do business, with AT&T, pre paid cell services. It is a complete rip off, and AT&T, are taking peoples hard earned money and profiting off it. I’ve had an account with AT&T for over 3 years now; I’ve always maintained a balance of over $150.00. The phone was an emergency phone that I kept in my glove box. With all that has transpired, I remove the phone from my truck, to make sure everything was still functional. I had just check the balance in January, 2020, and it was over $150.00, in the account I had over $150.00, in my prepaid account, and AT&T, said my money expired because, I did not add money to the account. AT&T = Crooks!!

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled AT&T are CROOKS
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Please don't post duplicates. Once is enough and it violates the forum rules.

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kdfederer

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@Echoes

All of the other prepaid providers have the same rules. Either top up your account

BEFORE your funds expire or lose them.

This is a user to user forum. I am a user, just like almost everyone else on the site.
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