Prepaid phone and data plans options???

[Richard Dickson]

I kept thinking I wanted to try this product, so I spent a lot of time reading after I queried the internet for "Straight Talk Reviews" and the preceding two posts from Jim and David seem to really represent the reviews on line. Straight Talk is either the most worthless POS ever made available to the public or it is the most marvelous offering of the century. There just doesn't seem to be a lot of middle ground on the review site.

If I can't get odds better than 50%, I don't believe I am interested in buying any product. It's unfortunate that it is turning out this way because the concept of a cheap monthly rate without a contract is something that I think a lot of the public would be interested in but not if it is just another scam. I think they will have to get better with time or they will blow away in the wind along with a number of other companies. I'll wait!

 

[Jim Saueressig]

I think if you want the phone services only you will be okay, if it is the internet you want well good luck with that. Most of the people who are happy with it are using only the phone services, the people unhappy are dealing with the internet services and in lesser cases the porting of old phone numbers.

EDIT: As expected they haven't resolved the internet issue, they just closed the ticket as fixed when it hasn't been fixed at all. This is a typical no response complaint about ST, I am on the phone to tracfones corporate office now.

Another Edit, Turns out they couldn't answer the image problem either, I think I found it myself as a shortcoming in the browser. It will display an image on a page now but if a link leads directly to an image (not embedded in a page) it will not load it. I may try the $300 phone since I can return it anyways and see if it works, the card can be switched so maybe I will try that.

 

[Jim Saueressig]

I went with the expensive phone and they got things switched over and all is finally good.
I was trying to get another phone for Barb and they are out of the 99$ slider phones at all wal-marts in my driving range and out of all of the better phones online as well. Straight talk is spreading like wildfire, everyone is dumping their over priced contract phones for straight talk.