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Help best place to top up?

I am new to prepaid. From VM's perspective, a dollar is a dollar?
They have weird increments that don't match up with the beyond talk plans. I assume this means nothing right? A dollar is a dollar right, and I only need $45 of them in my account each month?

Doesn't matter where you by the top up from, it's all the same to Virgin. You just need to have enough in your account to pay your bill.
 
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Crazygametime.com $60 topup for $50 and 40$ topup for $34.

Before I switched to Virgin Mobile, I used STIMobile. I got my charge cards from a site called Cheapphonecards.com (at least in the beginning. And I think it's defunct now.)

For some unknown reason, the minutes I got from Cheapphonecards.com would disappear fairly quickly. I might get 100 minutes and they'd all disappear in a week even when I've only made a few short calls. The official cards from STIMobile did not have this problem.

I'm very wary of purchasing non-official cards for any prepaid carrier after that experience..
 
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Before I switched to Virgin Mobile, I used STIMobile. I got my charge cards from a site called Cheapphonecards.com (at least in the beginning. And I think it's defunct now.)

For some unknown reason, the minutes I got from Cheapphonecards.com would disappear fairly quickly. I might get 100 minutes and they'd all disappear in a week even when I've only made a few short calls. The official cards from STIMobile did not have this problem.

I'm very wary of purchasing non-official cards for any prepaid carrier after that experience..

Well the difference is that with phone cards, they have control over your minutes. With virgin mobile pins (or any other carrier), it's done by dollars. And as soon as you type that code into Virgin Mobile, and add the money to your account, there's nothing they can do.

Just bought a $60 card from crazygametime for $50, and can verify they are legit.
 
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Well the difference is that with phone cards, they have control over your minutes. With virgin mobile pins (or any other carrier), it's done by dollars. And as soon as you type that code into Virgin Mobile, and add the money to your account, there's nothing they can do.

Just bought a $60 card from crazygametime for $50, and can verify they are legit.

They're legit. Also they use your number to send you a.pin required to make a purchase. They don't give out your number.
 
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Crazygametime.com $60 topup for $50 and 40$ topup for $34.
I noted this when I saw it, for when my bill was due. Just tried it, and it works perfectly. Thank you!

How legit is this site? They are asking for my phone number, do they put you in some telemarketer list?

Anyone have any experiences?
No problems.
 
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Yeah, it was off-topic in the other thread.

I called eBay out of curiosity, they said they could investigate his account, and possible outcomes could include banning his account from eBay, even over a violation through the classifieds. They don't, however, have a buyer protection policy through classifieds, as we already know.

The seller still has not responded. I just sent him another message, just in case he didn't see the last one for whatever reason. I'm giving him an additional two days to respond, before I file a claim against him. I'm not worried since Paypal should have me covered, as well as my cc company, as an additional layer of protection.

If he doesn't respond to my messages, I would not buy from him again. Even though other people are having some success with this guy, he's obviously unreliable, and uncommunicative. I'd rather spend a few more dollars on a seller with a higher, positive feedback count, who stands by their listings.
 
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Yeah, it was off-topic in the other thread.

I called eBay out of curiosity, they said they could investigate his account, and possible outcomes could include banning his account from eBay, even over a violation through the classifieds. They don't, however, have a buyer protection policy through classifieds, as we already know.

The seller still has not responded. I just sent him another message, just in case he didn't see the last one for whatever reason. I'm giving him an additional two days to respond, before I file a claim against him. I'm not worried since Paypal should have me covered, as well as my cc company, as an additional layer of protection.

If he doesn't respond to my messages, I would not buy from him again. Even though other people are having some success with this guy, he's obviously unreliable, and uncommunicative. I'd rather spend a few more dollars on a seller with a higher, positive feedback count, who stands by their listings.

I'm sorry this happened to you. I can actually see how this happened. that seller was giving two $40 top ups and counting that as a $60 top up...pretty generous if you ask me. But he get in too deep. He ran out of $40 top ups right when you bought one...so he could only apply one of them.

He (she) is now selling $80 top ups which is actually a $60 + $20 top up...which matches with my scenario of him (her) running out of $40 top ups. This doesn't explain why he didn't add one of the $20 top ups he has to make it a $60 top up.

Just something to point out here. All of these people from Kansas City MO who are selling these discount top ups are all likely Chinese people, and their English skills are unknown.

My last 3 paypal transactions for top ups were to:

Huipeng Xu
lixia li
lirong lin (this is the one with 2 feedback who hasn't responded to Droidula)

Are you emailing directly to untiedstatephonetopup@hotmail.com? I don't think that there is intentional malice going on here. I think that there was an error, and perhaps the English isn't good enough to realize that a complaint is being emailed. So I don't feel that this vendor is intentionally trying to dupe people...I just feel that customer support isn't very good, and I attribute that to possibly to a language barrier. Keep trying. I hope this gets resolved soon so that I have the confidence to grab some of those $80 top ups for $44 :D
 
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