Pay as go phone

If the phone has ever been activated as a prepaid phone, the ESN is locked for 6 months, and verizon will not activate it on a postpaid account during that time. I suggest you tell the eBay seller this and try to get your money back. If however the phone has never been activated as a prepaid phone it should work fine, and you might try going to another verizon location (the rep might just want you to buy a new phone and sign another 2 year contract...)

When you buy a pre paid phone new they come with a certain number that you must call that is in the hand book it self, but if the phone came with no hand book then it is supposed to display intial programming because you have not programmed it to your local tower or land line. You can easily fix that by dialing *611 or *228.The verizon employee was probably just telling you that on account of most verizon representives or any kind of representives want you to purchase what they offer not what you can bring in for a cheaper price. There is another possiablty that the employee was not aware of of being able to change over the phone because the pre-paid method is a whole different territory then what a sales rep does, the pre-paid sells it self either you like it with no strings attached or not, pre paid for me is the way to go because if i run out i run out, but with a personal account you run out of min's you pay out the A@$. So its all up to the user and if you go pre paid there is a way you can set up your own features over the phone and you can have them take out so much of month from your card for the min's you want so it adds and you use and you dont lose, also there is a cool feature ten bucks a month gets you unlimited text and 250 pic and video texts. When theres two days before your months up verizon pre paid sends you a text you can add or decide to keep more calling min YOUR CHOICE AND WHEN YOU RUN OUT U DONT BANKRUPT OUT. The ebay user is correct in a sense you either have to walk in and the sales rep is having a good sales week or just know somebody on the inside, oh yeah Ive had a Pre paid phone when they first came out from verizon and havnt went back to my personal account sense, THE CHOICE IS YOURS USE WISELY