Current Options To Keep UDP Lines On Contract

Current Options To Keep UDP Lines On Contract

1. Best Buy Method and Sell the Phone, 4ever Method and Sell the Phone and Snkydvl and Sell the Phone;

2. 4ever Method and Leave the Phone on the TDP Line;

3. Aohus through Verizon or Best Buy;

4. 1/2 FAM through Verizon or Best Buy;

5. FrenzyTom and TwelfthMan; and

6. Best Buy Method and Change the UDP Line's Phone Number/Google Voice Trick.

You can no longer do upgrade transfers through Best Buy so 4ever Method and Sell the Phone and 4ever Method and Leave the Phone on the TDP Line can only be done through Verizon online.

Best Buy Method and Sell the Phone

1. Through Best Buy online order a new smartphone using your UDP line's upgrade and have it shipped to home not shipped to store;

2. When the new smartphone arrives, remove the SIM card it ships with without turning it on or plugging it in; and

3. Sell the new smartphone without a SIM card.

BBM and Sell the Phone and BBM and Change the UDP Line's Phone Number/Google Voice Trick can be done through Verizon but you have to pick a new data plan. Everyone who has picked a new data plan and reported back kept UDP as long as they did not activate the subsidized device on the UDP line whose upgrade was used to purchase it. Picking a new data plan means a 2GB data plan, it does NOT mean switching off of the Nationwide plans to a new Verizon plan. You should not switch to the Verizon plans.

If you order an iPhone through Best Buy, you need to understand about the US Reseller Flex Policy:

https://www.reddit.com/r/VerizonUDP/comments/53prk0/all_ip77_purchased_through_best_buy_will_lock_to/

If you get an email or phone call after you order from Best Buy saying they could not process your order and they need for you to call them, it is best to cancel the order. If you can't cancel online, then you have to call to cancel. If you call and they want to process the order over the phone, they will likely try to involve Verizon and the Verizon rep will manually kick you off of your UDP.

If you get such an email or phone call, after you cancel the order check to make sure your Verizon balance is paid off in full, that your shipping and billing address of your credit card match and that you used the proper account PIN. If all of those things are true, you may have been randomly selected for them to manually process your order. If so, you will be kicked off of UDP if you call them and give them your Verizon info. After canceling, you can try re-placing the order and seeing what happens, but if you repeatedly get the email/call, then I believe you have been selected for a manual order. Idk if this is a BB quality assurance thing or a Verizon thing, but I suspect it is a BB QA thing because it only happens with BB not any of the other 3rd party retailers.

If this repeatedly happens to you when ordering through BB, your option is to order through Verizon. However, if you order from Verizon, you have to pick a new data plan. But as long as you do not activate the subsidized phone on the UDP line whose upgrade was used to purchase it, you don't lose UDP.

I would not order through apple.com.

https://www.reddit.com/r/VerizonUDP/comments/55ufty/warning_do_not_buy_iphones_from_apple_if_you_have/

If you order through apple.com, in order to activate the phone, you must input the last 4 of your SSN and billing zip code. This presents a problem if you are going to sell the phone. The phone needs to be activated on another Verizon line other than your UDP line to clear that before you sell it or you can activate it with an inactive Verizon SIM card over WiFi. Do not activate a subsidized iPhone through iTunes!!!! Also, if the buyer does activate through iTunes, that could boot you off of UDP.

Moreover, several people both last year and this year who ordered through apple.com did not have their contracts extend and could not reuse their upgrades to stay on contract. So apple.com is a risky place to order from.