All I want to do is point out to everyone that the authorized Verizon reseller involved in purchasing this phone from Dell is Simplexity. Simplexity is the owner of a popular online phone sales company called Wirefly. Wirefly currently sells it for $149. I have no personal experience of my own but I do have a friend who had a bad experience. I have also read a few others on a couple different forums from time to time.
A friend of mine switched his fiance's cell phone over to his plan not knowing she bought it through Wirefly. Wirefly then came and charged her card almost $300 for not fulfilling her contract. She even tried to get the bank (Discover) to remove the charge and they did, but after three weeks they reapplied the charge. When she called them asking why they said Wirefly contested the charge back and sent in a copy of the contract they had from purchase which stated this would happen if anything changed.
Apparently when you get a phone through them there's some kind of extra contract involved with Wirefly themselves so that you can't change things involved in your plan. The company does this because they get paid residuals from Verizon Wireless. People changing their plans or anything like that after the purchase affects how much money they are going to make. I would imagine there would be the same thing here dealing with Simplexity. See below for what it says on the main page...
...this is the owner of Wirefly...
...and again...
Be sure to read everything in the fine print of that purchase. I would think especially for anyone who's going to return a phone to buy it from here. This means you're more than likely already a VZW customer. Just read the print and remember what you can and can't do until the contract is up.