EDIT – you need to be a Comcast customer
I don’t think I’ve blogged on a Sunday in YEARS so you know this is a good deal! Xfinity currently has a free Iphone SE promo if you port in a phone number and keep the line for 24 months. What’s the monthly cost you say? Well, they have a SHARED 1GB DATA PLAN for $15/month. So while most carriers you have to pay $20+ a month PER LINE, Xfinity is $15 PER ACCOUNT. The key here is to not actually use the phone numbers. And it also doesn’t make sense to do just 1 line; if you’re going to do this deal, do ALL 5 [max] LINES since the $15/account is a fixed cost.
You’ll have to pay tax on the full price of the phone, but also Topcashback has a $40 per line credit going now which should wipe away your taxes.
Where to get 5 phone numbers to port in? Well you can get 5 Google Voice numbers and pay $3 each to port it out. Or you can use this voip.ms site that charges you $1.25 per phone number (use my referral link and we both get $10 once you load $15 and order a phone number.) I don’t really care if you use voip.ms or not since I just heard about it from a friend and will prob never use the service again. I realize this is extra hoops but trust me, it’s worth your time.
Tmobile values these phones equivalent to the iPhone 7 lineup and the current iphone 12 tradein promo values the 7/SE at $530 off the iPhone 12. Don’t do the Tmo promo now since that requires activating a line – wait for a non-line device only promo and you can then trade these SE’s for a nicer iPhone down the road.
Should take you about 30 minutes to order the 5 phones.
Deal expires 12/7, SO DO IT TODAY!
how to get out of xfinity before 24 month period ?
Without getting into contract with any other provider ,
i see we will end up 15*24 = 360 paid for 5 iphones SE at the end of 24 months , where the value of each phone will be around may be 80 $ , which is equal to 80*5= 400. So in total 40$ profit after 2 years.
Can someone explain , is there a better opportunity here ?
looks like the opportunity may be in the capacity to create referral and new account bonuses.
5 phone #’s costs $6.25, you get the $10 back from the referral. $360 for 2 years divided by 5 phones is $72 each ($71.25 with the cost of the phone #’s minus the $10 referral cashback). Subtract the $40 per line from Topcashback and the now the phones cost you only $31.25.
You can potentially swap those 5 SE phones for $530 trade-in discount off of the iPhone 12. As for Xfinity, you don’t need to renew your contract after the 24-months.
So $498.75 savings on an iPhone 12, and hey maybe you can flip those 5 iPhone 12’s for some serious profit 🤘
i’m not that bright and need some clarification. once activated, these phones will be on your xfinity mobile account, tied to a monthly payment (and associated credit). how would you get them off your account? since they are on a payment plan, they wouldn’t be unlocked, would they? if you do anything to remove them to port out, sell, or whatever, don’t you lose the monthly credit and end up paying for them?
You’re not confused.
Phones are basically free because cashback portal should nullify the tax, but you have to keep them for 2 years. That’s the point where you can port out, sell, trade in, etc.
Topcashback is showing $0 pending for me (5x). Is that expected and the amount will update later or did I do something incorrectly?
You can actually see this on TCB under “What else is essential?”
Transactions will initially track at $0.00 and will uplift at a later date.
https://www.topcashback.com/xfinity-mobile/
So looks normal so far.
Thanks Andy!
Correct. This is structured as 24 months of payment credits. I believe you’d be on the hook for any remaining payments at the point you decide to port them out if it’s before the 24 months are over.
also, voip.ms charges a fee to port out numbers of $25/number.
Look at the banner on their home page again
Not seeing anything related to it. When I emailed support, they said $25 per number to port.
the free porting mentioned is for porting a number into their service.
FYI, I saw this:
At VoIP.ms sole discretion, you may incur a port away fee for any DID number(s) leaving our network as this is a pass-through charge from VoIP.ms carrier(s) or if you are caught using VoIP.ms as a DID Store to purchase DIDs and port them out immediately VoIP.ms reserves the right to charge you a porting out fee.
https://wiki.voip.ms/article/Extra_Services_Costs
I have no experience with voip.ms and do not know if they actually enforce this at all. Decided not to do it myself, but maybe I just need thicker skin. I had a few GV numbers available and just did those only.
Must already be a Xfinity by Comcast internet customer!! Otherwise you can’t get a Xfinity mobile account. Total bust as I can’t even get Comcast to my house because I’m outside of their service area. This qualifying info needs to be a part of the post!
Does Verizon run non line trade in promos like T-Mobile does?
How do I add 5 of them? Is there a quick way or I have to go 1 by 1?
I went one by one…it wasn’t too bad.
What about if you don’t have Xfinity already?
“$25/line/mo. charge applies if Xfinity TV, Internet or Voice post-pay services not maintained. “
Need better instructions. When I click to buy the phone and select the pay monthly option, and then buy, it takes me to a screen where i have to login. Does this only work for customers with existing accounts?
I am having the same issues…I was trying to figure out how to create the account and can’t seem to find a way. This would have been a great deal, just not sure how to execute.
Thanks for the heads up. All phones are out of stock
You can just buy SEs for $70 off ebay. same price as this “deal”.
70 *5 = $350
15*24 = $360
It’s $70 for the four-year-old 1st gen SE. This is the 2020 model.
That’s for iPhone SE first generation phones. This is the second generation iPhone SE, which sells for about $300 refurbished per phone.
Those $70 ones are the old iphone SE (unless you found a good listing I didn’t see?). These are brand new 2020 SEs.
Sadly this is only available if you have Comcast internet home service. They’d really be a mobile player if they opened this up. $45/month for shared mobile plan WHAT?
Wrong SE version
Um. Don’t think you can buy a brand new 2nd gen iPhone SE (ie: NOT the iPhone 5 clone) for $70…
What is the $70 for? Taxes are only $40 and the TCB should cover that.