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The Offer
Check your Chase Offers for the following deal:
- Earn $20 cash back on your Consumer Cellular purchase when you spend $20 or more.
The Fine Print
- Offer expires 3/31/2024. Offer valid one time only. Offer only valid on purchases made directly with the merchant. Offer not valid on purchases made using third-party services, delivery services, or a third-party payment account (e.g., buy now pay later). Payment must be made on or before offer expiration date.
Our Verdict
Nice freebie for Consumer Cellular customers.
Hat tip to Shoddy-League-806
The offer was actually extended by a month on some of my cards. Still waiting for the Cap1 to post though.
Its not really an extension, they just repeat the offer monthly 3 or 4 times and then it goes away for a while. As you found out, you can take advantage of each offer and prepay in $20 chunks to build up a credit on your balance. Just make sure to always have autopay enabled or you’ll get charged the extra $5.
On the cards I already used I did not get the extension though, only on the cards on which I have not used that offer before. Still, a nice deal, I think I can get >100 in free credits. My WF card also had that offer.
Just got this after signing up with Capital One for $225:
We are sorry to hear of your request to cancel your service with Consumer Cellular. We have disconnected your service effective 3/19/2024.
I don’t know why or if I should sign up again and hope they don’t cancel it again? Anyone have similar experience or advice?
I had this offer on 3 Chase Freedom cards before but today I found all of them disappeared. Anybody met this problem as well?
Anybody know if it’s possible to purchase and Apple Watch on installment and then use multiple Chase Cards to pay it off early?
Anybody knows if it is possible to prepay the balance and take advantage of the offer across several cards ?
Worked for me – got cashback on multiple cards
click through the cap one shopping link for consumer cellular and added some items and went to shopping cart and left it there for a few hours. 3 days later, got an email offering from cap for consume cellular offering 225. click through that email link while signed in and it tracked 3 days later
put a fake name/DOB/SSN on one account and it shipped
Thanks for the heads up. Did the same, my offer bumped up to 150. Tracked three day later.
What did you order?
20$ plan and bring my own phone
That’s what I did, but so far the charge is only $5.32 for the SIM card I am awaiting. How do I get the charge of $20 by the 3/31 deadline for this offer? Thanks
Register/login->
Billing-> Edit Billing (Add/change credit card info)
-> Make Payment
Thanks. I guess I cant register yet because it asks for the phone number and I am waiting for the SIM card.
For folks looking to shop around for MVNO cell plans, I recommend this as an outstanding resource: https://prepaidcompare.net
I spent many hours doing research before stumbling onto it, at which point I realized that I had pretty much been reinventing the wheel.
firstyear15 $15/mo per TV ad that says don’t tell anybody. so don’t. just wrote it down.
Just another DP: Somehow the charge on my Chase is showing as $10 and pending, did this deal yesterday evening and signed up for 5gb plan for $20 total, now unsure if I’ll get the statement credit or not. Didn’t receive an eSim yet and when I called customer service they said my order has been cancelled by an agent somehow and before I could ask she placed another order and gave me the eSim using details on file. Didn’t want that as I’m unsure if my TopCashback $75.75 bonus for this will come through now or not. TCB shows pending but nervous about it getting clawed back as order number must have changed.
Any update on the chase front?
A warning about Consumer Cellular. They are very dishonest in their advertising, and I don’t think it is coincidence that they target an older demographic (which doesn’t mean stupid, but more likely to be naive and less likely to bail once they receive their first bill).
Nowhere in their advertising, not even the fine print (see fine print at the bottom of AARP | Consumer Cellular for example), do they mention additional fees they add which inflate the actual cost of the service by 30% or more. I’m not talking about government mandated taxes. I’m talking about made up things like “Operational Compliance Fee” and “Fed USF Cellular”. These are not government mandated charges. They are simply added profit under phony names.
You can say other carriers and MVNOs do similar things (although RedPocket and Visible are examples of ones that do not), but that’s not my irritation with Consumer Cellular. It is the fact that there is nothing to warn you about these added charges until you receive your bill.
Yes, this is true — ~$11.50 per month in junk fees. If you have a large family plan, it can still be a good deal even with the junk fees — but I can see how this would be very annoying on a one-person plan.
i had freeupmobile (AT&T mvno) was good.
Visible wireless had no response from customer service so they might have none. I did get 30/mo though for basically unlmimted hot spot so long you never need cust support. bought cheap phone at manuf. website.