i think they should make there inpluse prepaid plans with verizon to verizon intexting soon either in 2008 or 2009

Well, I originally started with the $70 prepay plan that Verizon had. I had 700 minutes, unlimited night and weekend minutes, free mobile to mobile calling, and things like that. I got the plan in 2006. In November of 2007, the plan basically became obsolete. My number had been given away, and basically, there was no way I could even get the plan I had back. I went along with the INpulse b.s. It has been really expensive and a total disappointment. I purchased a card on November 24th, and the same night someone had stolen my pin number. Get this: the card had never been taken from me. It was still in my purse inside the receipt. I called Verizon, and they told me that it was someone who lived in Wisconsin that stole the number. I live in Louisiana, which is 900 and something odd miles away. They couldn't explain it for the life of me. Then, they would not give me credit. Even though, I had the receipt from Walgreens, and I had proof on my credit card statement from when I bought it. I talked to the manager or something, and he said that he would give my claim to the corporate office for further investigation. To this day, I have yet to be called. Another complaint I have is roaming. I can be sitting in my bedroom, and the little roaming triangle flashes. The cost for roaming charges is .69 per minute. That gets quite expensive. Even if the person doesn't pick up, you still pay that much. Every 30 seconds counts as a whole minute. They can improve the plans by putting the $50 and $70 plans back in. It was a lot better. As previously stated, I had no problems. $70 wasn't bad for all that I was getting. Shortly after I got my phone which was in May of 2006, they changed the $50/$70 plans to 3000 night and weekend minutes. Honestly, I would not suggest going with Verizon Wireless INpulse unless they change the plans back to the way they used to be. If you don't you will be shelling out ridiculous amounts of cash on those prepay cards and other miscellaneous experiences. Another flaw is that you cannot use PDAs on the INpulse plans. I currently own a Treo and a Moto Q, but I cannot use either of the 2 for INpulse. They are just sitting in a box because they cannot use the PDA ESNs. The Verizon contract plans are the best. The prepaid plans suck horribly. I forgot to mention how if you don't add money by the expiration date, your account will be suspended and your number will be thrown back into the pool of "new" numbers. That basically means that if you don't add money by "x" date, your number will be taken away from you. Honestly, there are no pros. The .99 cent a day charge is outrageous. Half of the time my phone isn't on, but I'm still being charged. Point blank: DO NOT GET PREPAID SERVICE FROM VERIZON WIRELESS. It will be the worst mistake you will ever make. I'm sorry that I didn't find out sooner.

We purchased the verizon prepaid for our daughter and it is the best! You don't pay the daily fee if you don't answer or call off of your phone. All she very does is text message and since we have the INPulse Power plan we only pay 2 cents for each text message and we have NEVER paid a daily fee. It can be costly with V cast and I think the downloadable ringers are little costly, but other than that it isn't bad at all. Evern if you pay the $2.99 fee for a day you get minutes for $.02 and unlimited verizon to verizon. Now days thats pretty good considering almost everybody knows someone with a verizon phone. Not to crazy about the razor phone kinda think it's junk, but the plans are good.

I have the easy pay plan. For me to txt is .05 so that's cool with me. I don't talk that much, but occasionally I tend to overdue it on the Vcast downloads. It's trial and error, you know exactly how much you got on your card and what you can indulge in and what you can't. You overindulge you have no minutes; you learn to resist and you've got enough to sustain until your next paycheck. I've got the cherry chocolate slider and it only cost me with tax and all $107 and some change at Walmart. Considering what you have to pay on the plan it's a bargain for me. They just got in the Juke at Wallyworld to for $124.85, but I don't like that one because of the "switchblade" action so to speak. Looks like it would break easy. Cons with the phone, hard to find a cover for the slider sometimes. In the mall I know they sell some. I bought a "PLAYBOY" slider cover, but just for one it was $16! I usually by a $50 card and it can last me for the month. This prepay plan fits right in with our budget right now; we really can't afford a plan with expensive texting. I'm 42 so like I said I don't txt or talk that much so it works for me.

Ya the prices are a little too pricy but i like it, im only 16 and to me this is great, no locked in agreements, im paying $30 every couple of weeks, and its all acess and no supprises at the end of the month i like it.

Love Verizon cause nothing else works and for real ppl learn how to spell thigns the right way no one is going to take you seriously if all you can do is complain with spelling that is worse than a third graders HAHAHA still great service and what not EVERY company has it's faults Thanks again

ok lets start by saying i spend close to 250 dollars a month on minutes and thats ridiculous but its the only phone that works everywhere i go and every time i need it so unless u have alot of money to waste dont get the phone but if u can afford it buy it you wont be dissappointed.

i have trace phone and i pay 25$ every 3 months (for minutes) and if i don't use all 500 minutes! (25$):)! they expire so i buy more minutes and then the minutes i didnt use transfer over to the minutes i just bought i want a new phone but after reading some of the comments im totally glade i have trace phone! just make sure you get a good trace phone service

The $2.99 Inpulse plans now includes Weekends too.

I recently got a Verizon prepaid cell phone at one of the corporate stores. I got the 1.99 daily access fee plan and I am pretty happy with it because I only pay the 1.99 on the days i use it. The only thing I did not like was the $25 dollar activation fee they charge you at the corporate store. People don't get charge this fee when they activate through walt-mart or target. It would be nice if they had some text packages too. What other things do you guys think they should include to make service better??????

for .99 a day just get a Cricket pay in advance for $35 and its unlimited..call anyone you want day or night and text too.

I've had many other prepaid phones and have always been told verizon is the greatest of all prepaid phones well i finally got one and i have to agree it is it really is i tell all my friends about verizon.

I think it would be very helpful if everyone dates their reviews and mentions their geographical area. This would weed out obsolete issues and and better reflect local coverage.

Posted 5/3/08: Verizon's prepay plans are just too expensive so I switched to T-Mobile's Pay By the Day prepay plan. Customers on T-Mobile's Pay By the Day prepay plan get free m2m, free nights that start at 7PM and end at 6:59AM and all their over calls are just 10 cents a minute. T-Mobile charges a $1 a day to use this plan but only on days that the phone is used. I'm so happy that T-Mobile introduced this plan. I was paying an almost $90 a month fee($2.99 a day) just to use Verizon's Power Plus Inpulse plan. Never again!!!

you people like verizon because probably never went with other prepaid. try t-mobile and you will see the differents in your pocket. verizon rates are way out of control. paying a $1 a day if using the phone plus your minutes its crayzy. and expiring after months base on your prepaid no Goldmember like tmobile. after seeing their plans all i can say they are a ripoff. even if the tmobile wont have the service like verizon(i never had problem with tmobile, but some peoples complain)tmobile will be a much BETTER choice

i love verizon

it sux verizon takes your money its cheaper to b on a plan than pre pay but their deposits are rediculous. I have impulse and they take more than .99 i know this in 4-5 days i get messages saying my balance is low with no texting...its a giant scam

verizon is the best i have had no problems with the service the phone is great and they r just the BEST!!!!!!!!

I have found that Verizon is a mixed bag of pros and cons. Unlike most other services, they don't offer ultra cheap poor performing phones, which in the end is a plus. Coverage is what Verizon is known for, another plus. I also like the announcement of how much time I have for the call when I dial out.

A couple key quirks though. If you don't use your phone a lot, Verizon minutes expire earlier, at 30 and 60 days, than most other carriers (who are usually 90 days). I happen to use my phone when I am in a rural area - it's my secondary phone - and the hours add up and up while the expiration date comes around too soon. Clearly YMMV depending on your use.

I feel the bottom line with Verizon is that they are a good deal for those who use a phone quite a bit, but still can't justify a post paid plan. For those who want a second/emergency phone, this is not the best value out there.

I've used Verizon for over 10 years, recently change to the Core plan to be able to send/recieve ringtones and pics. I think the price for the prepay plan is great but would be slightly better if the minutes lasted a little longer as I don't talk much and 90 days or more would be better but as long as you get more minutes before your time is up you don't lose any minutes. I also have to consider that everyone else I know has Verizon so if I even tried to change to another company it would cost all of them a lot more money to talk to me and I think $15 a month for prepay compared to +$30 a month for a contract plan (once taxes,etc are added on) is just not worth it for me.
5/19/08 TN.

5-19-08 I have had many verizon inpulse phones all my friends have verizon so the calling is cool but the think that is really a kick in the balls is when a txt message is sent to your phone whether u open it or not BOOM -10 cents automatically and that happened to me some girl spammed my phone over and over with those stupid forward messages and it took 30$ in 2 days away verizon needs to include unlimited verizon to verizon txt for like 10 bucks a month if they did verizon would rise even higher the service is really cool and such and the thing 10 cents a minute ya gets pricey once u like call voicemail to check ur mail ya thats a big no no im 13 and im paying 40 dollars a month atleast because of the automatic -10 cents a txt if someone sends it to your phone and it dosent make it automatically minus 10 cents like i called my friend once and day before i added 15 my balance was like 7 dollars u know and im like wtf and looked online the culprit forward txt messages so verizon u need to include unlimited verizon to verizon txt or else ull lose customers

The most expensive pre-paid by far. I'd only recommend if: 1) Verizon is the only reliable cell provider in your area 2) You will be specifically speaking with other Verizon wireless customers...where you can take advantage of their free mobile-to-mobile.

Otherwise...Net10 or T-Mobile offer much more affordable prepay options.

I love Verizon. Im not going to say its better than other phones but other than that its treating my well.

I had a VZW phone, the 2366i. I bought it on the INPulse plan, VZW's pre-paid plan, becaust it was in my knowledge, cheap. NOT true. The daily activation fee costed me $0.99 A DAY, as well as losing minutes, just for having the phone on. I couldn't even go more than a week without having to pay for more minutes. It ended up costing me a fortune.

Inpulse help is not available 24/7.

it is a crock and I'm bringing this back tommorow !!!!!

Verizon use to be the number one prepaid I dont know what happened to them they use to have the best plans now there crappy.For seventy dollars you use to get 700 mins with free nights and weekends now they charge 99 cents off the top or 1.99 off the top or even 2.99 of the top thats alot of money to keep a phone on plus it cost u when you talk if verizon customers started to complain I think they would switch it back. Virgin mobile and boost mobile got good deals 60.00 dollars u get 600 mins free after 7:00 pm cant beat that verizon needs to step it up before they start losing customers im on my way out and ive been a customer for a long time.

it's so cool but 15 dollars is not enuff for anyone and there are no free weekends and inpluse texting is to much......

It's true Verizon is not cheap. but ya get what you pay for. I love the Razr v3m being able to download music from the phone is too cool. I like the vzw mobile web too. I was pleased with virgin mobiles pricing when I had that service,but the phones are really childrens phones. as for verizons service being 24/7 I don't know,I never had to call it,which is as it should be. I guess if you only talk there are cheaper companys. For me,I like and use lots of the features especially vcast music and web,also I.M.and pix place is really useful,you can text your pix to verizons site store it there send it to a lab to print you have your own free pic site to store stuff in video ,sound ,pix.etc. again if you just talk,unless you need good sound quality for some reason you can get cheaper...for lots of stuff verizon's #1 for me.

Verizon is pricy. Charging $1 per day for usage is a ripoff.

Why would anyone pay for a service which you have already paid for? and let these company charge you again and again? Moreover, they do not give free Text messaging?

Better go with another Wireless Carrier.

I had cingular contract before and they screwed me over so I vowed not to have contract again, I've had inpulse now for about 6months and I really like it, they changed it now so you only pay daily fee if you use it which is nice and the m2m is FANTASTIC!! Most of the people I call have verizon anyway so I don't use many minutes, however I too think texting should be free after 9 like night minutes as well as free weekends. I would definately recommend it though! Also, we need a broader phone choice.

Verizon's service is great, but why cant i download ringtones from the phone?? every other provider lets u do it with even crappier phones than verizon has. it doesnt make sense to me, but other than that, i like verizon

I just left Verizon INpulse not long ago but I slightly miss it. For the exception of the rates, INpulse is a major improvement over companies like Virgin Mobile and Boost. I am 17 but I can't stand the childish marketing (or whatever you'd call it) those two companies have ("top up" "where you at?"). The phones seem to be of excellent quality. I had the LG Chocolate (VX8500). Verizon has the best signal I've ever encountered with a cell phone company but their prepaid rates are nasty. $3 on days you use it just to get the unlimited nights and weekends. If you use it every day, that'd be $90 a month while some prepaid companies offer UNLIMITED calling for cheaper than that. If their rates were better, they'd be perfect. I just miss the signal and cell phone quality (I'm a cell phone junkie).

ALLTEL IS WAY BETTER AND U SAVE A LOT. You pay the same amount that you pay on verizon prepaid and get A WHOLE LOT MORE!!! You get unlimited txting, free weekends, and u can call after 6 for free!!!On verizon u pay the same amount and u dont get any of it!! i thought verizon was good untill i switched to alltel.

I like it...I think its a good Idea...the only bad part is that I text like crazy so I think they need more text buddle plans...other than that one issue....I feel InPulse is great and I would probably recomend it to my friends....oh yeah and any one with the samsung in blue with the camera phone...how do you get online?...lol..thanks

i have the 99cent core and i only talk to people that have verizon and money takig away i can see if i was talking to someone who have t mobile.iam going to att.99cent it not good.and idont talk that much and stillcharge.need another plan.

verizon wireless stinks.60 bucks a month even if you don't use it!

I just got my verizon phone with the prepay plan. I also have a tracfone, for several years. I'll still be keeping it. I got the verizon phone because just about all of my family members, who are spaced far and wide in the U.S. have a verizon plan.So I can talk to them for almost free (Don't forget the 99 cent thing) when using the phone.
So here come the cons of the verizon plan. Do away with the 99 cents and up charge. Even though it's only when you use the phone. I like tracfone because they offer a plan where for about 5dollars they will add a month to your phone when your month is about to run out when you still have a lot of minutes left and you don't need to buy minutes.Of course It is good to have a credit card so they can take out the 5 dollars automatically. After awhile, when I get a lot of use out of the verizon phone, I'll probably let it laps and later when I think I may want to try it again, I'll re subscribe to it. I'll get around the 35 dollar re subscribe fee some how. Verizon needs to use at least some of tracfones ideas. Also by the same token tracfone needs to get bigger selection of phones like the motorazr or others.

I purchase a impulse phone a little over a month ago, put in $50.00 in minutes, I hardly ever use my phone maybe 2-3 times in a week anyway I had just put minutes a day later a got a text message saying that my profile had been updated. That same afternoon I tried making a call and could not make the call or receive call, the next day I went to verizon store for help someone had stollen my minutes and my phone number and changed it to someones else phone and changed the # so it could not be tracked!!! verizon would not help me because I didnt know the pass word that the thef had used... in other words I'm left with out a phone and they stoled my minutes..

I'm Sorry but Verizon is a huge rip off when it comes to prepaid plans 15 dollar card last me about 3 days and thats barely texting and calling ridiculous

Verizon service is pretty good around here but at my home I get no service from anyone so my phone is only used when I am out at work or shopping or what not so the price of verizon prepaid is not for me. I have net10 and I spend 15 a month and It uses any cdma(verizon, Alltel) tower or gms(Cingular, AT&T) tower depending on the phone you get. So this is by far the best plan for me and there are no roaming charges. My friend has a Verizon prepaid and she spends close to 70 a month on her phone for minutes because of the .99 a day charge and text costs. It would be cheaper for her to get a contract plan. Anyone who uses their phone that much shouldn't be using prepaid anyway.

I had the Verizon $60 monthly plan, which worked fine, except I never used all of the 400 minutes I got with that. Ever. So I was just wasting money. I switched to the prepaid phone which is even worse. I spend at least $15 a week, which obviously translates to the same price I was paying before, only with far, far, far fewer minutes. Either I pay more for too much, or more for too less. I wish they could provide a phone where you were billed each month for the minutes you used, not the minutes you could have used or the ones you're not going to use. And if I have to listen to those damn automated messages demanding I give them more money for a service I'm hardly even using just one more time, I'm going to go crazy. Verizon prepaid is garbage, absolute garbage.

i love dat they have a 10 dollar montlhy plan for text messages!and da best part is its unlimited text messagin!

08/13/08
Honest to Goodness, i found a nice verizon phone, it's a LG VX8300, and the previous owner wanted his phone back and i was gonna give it to him, but he harassed me so i never gave it back, well i figured out the security codes (last 4 digits of the number) and changed the phone into my own, bestowed upon me was Verizon's INPulse plan, i was excited, annoyed, in love, outraged!

what can i say it's a valid love hate triangle, i'm not about to buy some other phone, i love the features on my phone, love the coverage, hate the rest, while i wouldn't reccomend verizon to a friend or family, id still shamefully use it as i have been since i acquired an INPulse phone.

Bottom line: all the thrills of a pricey plan, without actually having a "plan" you will PAY for the convenience of this phone, through the nose.

there should be a plan were u could get free text plan to any one. and pay 20 dollars montlhy plan or higher the 250 text thing

It seems like a good idea at first but you run out of airtime very fast. Also you cannot text because it takes up too much of your min. You have to buy cards every 6 days it seems even if you are not even using your phone that often. Too expensive. (It is also very annoying that before every call you make there is someone telling you how many min. you have left.)

I had a verizon wireless card through verizon wireless and the salesperson promised no contract I trusted that when I signed the e-contract when I cancelled I had to pay the termination fee when I thought I was not on a contract. Either that or the remainder of the contract. What was unfair was how they sold it to me verbally saying it was not a contract when the terms of the econtract were something else and I trusted that salesperson verbally. Then I called to discuss this with a representative when I cancelled and the representative promised to reverse the fee before the last bill came out and then when I call again to talk to two supervisors, one says I cannot do anything about that at this point the termination fee is valid and the second says that the representative who agreed to reverse the fee reversed one of two termination fees (totally wrong and un-intelligent) and then the third supervisor says that it does not matter if the representative verbally promised the representative's manager makes the final decision. Well this was not told me to when that representative reversed and disconnected my service and it was a false verbal promise. A verizon representative himself said frequently these misunderstandings occur in sales. Verizon is just lucky that I am not taking this to the law because I know about promises of verbal contracts as I have studied business but I will do everything in my power to make sure everyone I know does not buy from Verizon wireless. Corporate sharks, cheaters, losers, do not give them your money. They promised to reverse the fee and then do not answer the question "Is it illegal to promise a customer something over the phone and then not keep that promise". All they can say is "you signed a contract" (which was also sold to me on the wrong terms) and then they say "you agreed to the termination fee in conversations" yes I did, with rude supervisors who say they "can't do anything else at this point", who will not say "okay" and then they say "the manager did not agree, the representative only promised something verbally" well they did not tell me that when they were promising me that verbally. Horrible business. Rude shark personalities.

I currently have Virgin Mobile pre-paid service for my 11 yr. old son. He recently requested the Verizon pre-paid because he likes their phones and the free mobile to mobile the plan offers. After checking the InPulse Plan out for myself, I realized that we would end up paying a minimum of $30 per month before taxes and surcharge fees with the cheapest plan. With Virgin Mobile, we are only contracted to spend $20 every 90 days. I spend a little more if he uses all his minutes. However, ultimately the plan is for emergencies and costs $120 per yr. I'M STICKING W/VIRGIN MOBILE.

I had Verizon monthly, and loved that they never dropped my calls in the mountains.
In May, I switched to prepay. Vic told me I would only be charged on the days I used the phone (.99)And it would be cheaper to prepay $100.00, so I did. Now, it's August and I find they have been charging me a dollar a day. My money is gone, and when I called, Stephanie & Gerrard (her supervisor) both said, essentially, "Tough Luck. you don't have any proof they said that. I'm switching to another service, but I don't know which one. Verizon is greedy and deceitful!!!

This plan is so annoying!!! I mean it's so confusing, too! I asked two different people on the verizonwireless website about an important question...if the daily fee you pay is good for the rets of that day or for 24 hours...they both gave me different answers! So it is critical I get the correct answer because you can save/lose a lot of money by saying the correct/wrong answer! You also can't buy any text plans so I have to tell my friends that I'll text them first and don't send me chain texts or anything since I don't want to pay the daily fee! Even if someone has the wrong number and they call you and it goes to your voicemail, you STILL have to pay the fee!! Atleast that's what one of the verizon workers told me. If your phone is off, and someone calls you, but they don't leave a voicemail, but it still GOES to voicemail, you get charged!! It doesn't even say missed call if your phone is off! Then I had a popular phone which they don't sell anymore, but I tried to get ringtones from the site, but they said it wasn't compatible. So I have to deal with these sucky ringtones. The only good thing about the plan is they still let you have free verizon to verizon phone calls. This plan would be good for someone who seldom uses their phone.... The only reason I don't switch to say...Virgin Mobile who has atleats a decent prepaid plan is because their phones aren't as attractive and I don't want to lose the free verizon to verizon phone calls since a bunch of my friends have verizon. All in all I get really frustrated with this prepaid plan and the only reason I have it is because the down payment was too much.

Okay, so it may not be the cheapest thing. All I do on mine is pretty much talk. All my friends/boyfriend has verizon so I get to talk to them for "free". The only prob is TXTING! I hardly to any of that. 10 per msg. Outgoing AND Incoming. May not seem like a whole lot. But it adds up.

Was thinking of switching to Cricket. But read their reviews, and You'll see why I had a TOTAL change of mind.