Transferring upgrade to keep unlimited data - Verizon Samsung Galaxy Note II

According to Verizon and one of their premium retailers I will be able to give my upgrade to one of the lines with a dumb phone and order/activate it on that line then transfer it to my line and only affect the dumb phones's contract. Anyone done this or heard of it?
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When you "transfer" an upgrade it extends the original line with the upgrade. You are just giving the new phone to a different line.
A little known secret is that Verizon will allow you to switch contract end dates with other lines, but only when you are terminating a line.
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Dakota0206 said:
When you "transfer" an upgrade it extends the original line with the upgrade. You are just giving the new phone to a different line.
A little known secret is that Verizon will allow you to switch contract end dates with other lines, but only when you are terminating a line.
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You do not have to terminate a line. I changed the contract date on one of my lines. I added a 3rd line to get the Note2. took out the Unlimited data sim card in my main line and put it in my Note2 the same day.
Unlimited Data Note 2 for the win

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DaPoets said:
You do not have to terminate a line. I changed the contract date on one of my lines. I added a 3rd line to get the Note2. took out the Unlimited data sim card in my main line and put it in my Note2 the same day.
Unlimited Data Note 2 for the win
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Ok why did you change the contract end date? And you cant just change the date, you have to swap it with another line.
Yes, you can add a line (up to 5) to get a new phone, but then you have a new 2 year contract on that line. Then when your end date comes on your line you can use it to cancel the new line.
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anchorboy said:
According to Verizon and one of their premium retailers I will be able to give my upgrade to one of the lines with a dumb phone and order/activate it on that line then transfer it to my line and only affect the dumb phones's contract. Anyone done this or heard of it?
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I've done this multiple times to keep unlimited data on our phones. We keep a dumb phone on our 5th line just for this.
But whatever upgrade you give to the dumb phone, that phones contract is the one that gets extended. Not the dumb phones's.
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There's about 4 threads about this.
Yes, it works. I have done it.
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anchorboy said:
According to Verizon and one of their premium retailers I will be able to give my upgrade to one of the lines with a dumb phone and order/activate it on that line then transfer it to my line and only affect the dumb phones's contract. Anyone done this or heard of it?
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I work for a retailer and this is true. You will extend the contract on the number with the upgrade but if it's applied to a feature(basic) phone then you won't loose your unlimited data. Once the phone is activated on the basic phone line it can be then be transferred to your number.

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puradicton said:
I work for a retailer and this is true. You will extend the contract on the number with the upgrade but if it's applied to a feature(basic) phone then you won't loose your unlimited data. Once the phone is activated on the basic phone line it can be then be transferred to your number.
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I just went to a Verizon Corporate store and they swore that, as of the end of last year, the original line that the upgrade is transferred from will get its contract extended and lose its unlimited data. This flies in the face of everything everyone is saying on this thread. Can anyone confirm one way or the other?

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billku said:
I just went to a Verizon Corporate store and they swore that, as of the end of last year, the original line that the upgrade is transferred from will get its contract extended and lose its unlimited data. This flies in the face of everything everyone is saying on this thread. Can anyone confirm one way or the other?
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It won't. Go to another store.
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bond32 said:
It won't. Go to another store.
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Thanks for you're encouragement. This is all so confusing. I called Verizon and asked a rep, and she said it would absolutely make me lost the unlimited data on the line. Do people here think they're instructed to lie about this, or is it that as far as they know it's the policy, but in actual practice the data on the line remains unlimited? I did find a Verizon premier retailer store (ie non-corporate) that said it would not affect the original line's unlimited data. Just scared to death I'll pull the trigger here and lose.

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billku said:
Thanks for you're encouragement. This is all so confusing. I called Verizon and asked a rep, and she said it would absolutely make me lost the unlimited data on the line. Do people here think they're instructed to lie about this, or is it that as far as they know it's the policy, but in actual practice the data on the line remains unlimited? I did find a Verizon premier retailer store (ie non-corporate) that said it would not affect the original line's unlimited data. Just scared to death I'll pull the trigger here and lose.
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To be honest its been a while since I've done this and for all we know they may have either 1. Tried to close this "loophole" in their system or 2. they tell all their employees that it causes you to loose unlimited data but you really don't.
You can always try. If you walk out the store and see unlimited is gone just go back in and return it.
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billku said:
I just went to a Verizon Corporate store and they swore that, as of the end of last year, the original line that the upgrade is transferred from will get its contract extended and lose its unlimited data. This flies in the face of everything everyone is saying on this thread. Can anyone confirm one way or the other?
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Im trying to do this to get my wife an S3. When I called Verizon yesterday, they said I could transfer my upgrade to her line, but I would be forced into the tiered data on my line.
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bond32 said:
To be honest its been a while since I've done this and for all we know they may have either 1. Tried to close this "loophole" in their system or 2. they tell all their employees that it causes you to loose unlimited data but you really don't.
You can always try. If you walk out the store and see unlimited is gone just go back in and return it.
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That seems like a good plan, but the question is, and maybe this one is easier to answer, how long does it take them to boot you off unlimited and onto a tiered plan? Will you see it immediately, or "eventually"? If it's "eventually," the timing on returns may be tricky.

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Dakota0206 said:
Ok why did you change the contract end date? And you cant just change the date, you have to swap it with another line.
Yes, you can add a line (up to 5) to get a new phone, but then you have a new 2 year contract on that line. Then when your end date comes on your line you can use it to cancel the new line.
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You can transfer upgrades to keep unlimited data. However you cannot transfer a disconnect date (contact dates) to cancel the new line before the 2 years..
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Went to a premium (non-corporate) retailer and even they said the line the the upgrade is transferred from loses its unlimited data. If anyone trying to do this now discovers otherwise that this loophole still exists, please let me know

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billku said:
Went to a premium (non-corporate) retailer and even they said the line the the upgrade is transferred from loses its unlimited data. If anyone trying to do this now discovers otherwise that this loophole still exists, please let me know
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It's not really considered a loophole... It's more like how the system works. I recently upgraded my mother to the s3 onbher account this way.
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billku said:
Went to a premium (non-corporate) retailer and even they said the line the the upgrade is transferred from loses its unlimited data. If anyone trying to do this now discovers otherwise that this loophole still exists, please let me know
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And don't go to authorized retailers. Only go to corporate stores..
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mrlaigle said:
It's not really considered a loophole... It's more like how the system works. I recently upgraded my mother to the s3 onbher account this way.
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And don't go to authorized retailers. Only go to corporate stores..
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The corporate store said no as well. I ended up finding a Verizon rep on chat on their site who guaranteed I could do it and said he would notate my file to that end, so I ordered the phone online. I pray to god he's right when I call to activate the phone. I do have a copy of the chat I can send to the activation rep if he disagrees, fingers crossed...

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billku said:
I just went to a Verizon Corporate store and they swore that, as of the end of last year, the original line that the upgrade is transferred from will get its contract extended and lose its unlimited data. This flies in the face of everything everyone is saying on this thread. Can anyone confirm one way or the other?
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Yes. i was skeptic as well. But, I did that on line over a month ago and it works. Just transfer your upgrade (from the unlimited line) to another line (dumb phone or smartphone, doesn't matter). When you get the new phone, activate it first on the line that upgrade was transferred to. Then, reactivate the new phone on your unlimited line. It works.