Question about Straight Talk; Starting service for first time?

Question:

My girlfriend's sister is going to be living with us for the summer and it's important to me that she have a cell phone. I have a spare Windows 8 straight talk phone that I bought for a really good price just to use as a WiFi media player for around the house and the gym. When I purchased it it already came with a Straight Talk Sim Card.

I've never activated it before, how do I got about doing this? Can I just go to Walmart and buy a $45 time card or do I need to buy one of the more expensive activation kits? 

The WM employee I spoke to sounded like I needed the activation kit but I was hoping I could avoid that because I already have a sim card.

I know with VM we were able to activate phones for the first time just be having the phone, a time card and calling CSR (nothing else was required) but I'm not sure if it is the same for straight talk.

I'm hoping to get this done over the weekend so any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

2 things:

1: How hot is the sister?

2: Sorry, but that's all I had.

eulogywerd21 said:

2 things:

1: How hot is the sister?

2: Sorry, but that's all I had.

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Answer:

Very but they are Puerto Rican and I value my life... also she is pregnant.

It's not mine.

I don't think.

No it's not.

I know.

GBAstar said:

Answer:

Very but they are Puerto Rican and I value my life... also she is pregnant.

It's not mine.

I don't think.

No it's not.

I know.

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You had me at Puerto Rican, but then lost me at pregnant. I wish you the best of luck because that hormonal chick is going to need to get her chat on.

You should be able to activate the sim online prolly, usually just put in the sim card # with the airtime # and you're up and running.

If you already have a SIM card, then you're good to go. You can do it on their website and select whatever plan they have. You don't need a prepaid card, you can just set up payment using a credit card. 

Activation shouldn't take more than a few hours. 

^ Thank you! I'll give a try now---for whatever reason I was under the impression that I needed an airtime card for activation

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The three month card Walmart has is a little cheaper online but it does take 3 days to get the code. It ends up being like a 10 dollar savings for buying that over monthly cards.

CaseyRyback said:

The three month card Walmart has is a little cheaper online but it does take 3 days to get the code. It ends up being like a 10 dollar savings for buying that over monthly cards.

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^ Thanks. I saw you can save $5-$10 by buying 3 months at a time but I have read a few horror stories where they ban accounts for going way over the data thresholds and don't refund any unused air time. I don't use much data but then again this phone isn't from me and I don't want to have to babysit my girlfriend's sister.

Also I'm a little frustrated----I bought a refurbished Windows 8 phone directly from straight talk a month ago. I actually bought two; one to use offline as a media player and the other with the intentions to eventually activate it.

So yesterday I go online enter the phone S/N and SIM S/N and pay for a month's of service. I get a confirmation e-mail and am told to wait anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours for the phone to activate.

5 hours later and the phone still can't make calls. I call customer service and after being bounced around a few times I'm told that the sim card that came with the phone must be bad. They asked several times where I got the phone from, as if it was stolen, and needed proof I bought it from them directly.

I was then told I'd have to wait for them to mail a new sim (3-5 days) and was promised that my service plan wouldn't start until I received the new sim and activated the phone but I'm not sure I believe that because I was already charged for the month's plan yesterday when I tried to activate it originally so I imagine the plan will only last 30 days from that date.

I just want to provide a quick update.

This is by far the most ridiculous experience I have ever had with a company. As I stated above I paid for the one month of service on 05/30 and was told it could take up to 5 hours for the phone to start working on the ST service.

A day went by and the phone was not able to make calls. When I called in they decided that the Sim Card must be defective and they'd send me a new once which I'd receive in 3-5 days. 7 days went by and nothing so I called and was told they'd send another. Another week goes by and nothing. By now I'm pissed. Getting a live rep is difficult and of the dozen or so I've spoken to since I first had problems on 05/30 none spoke clearly understandable English---which is whatever, I've dealt with CSR's from outsourced call centers before but these were particularly bad. After being disconnected twice I finally got someone who was able to give me a "courtesy" refund of the service I paid for on 05/30 but as of today (06/16) haven't  been able to use.

Now I have to go to WM and buy a ing new activation packet which will "hopefully" contain a working sim card that should have come with my phone---which I bought directly from straight talk---in the first ing place.

If I didn't already have this phone I'd just find a deal on a halfway decent VM phone but their service is so spotty this far north

I didn't see your topic until today but getting to this page and reading your latest post confirmed the suspicions I had when reading the other post of yours. So basically you ended up having to get the activation kit after trying to opt out of it...pretty much what I expected would be the case. Sucks but lots of companies do this sort of thing - you're not cutting corners when it comes to these people unfortunately.

Navex said:

I didn't see your topic until today but getting to this page and reading your latest post confirmed the suspicions I had when reading the other post of yours. So basically you ended up having to get the activation kit after trying to opt out of it...pretty much what I expected would be the case. Sucks but lots of companies do this sort of thing - you're not cutting corners when it comes to these people unfortunately.

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No---I couldn't use the activation kit because it was only for "non straight talk phones being ported to straight talk" and would not work for actual straight talk phones. And come to find out Walmart doesn't sell straight talk sim cards for straight talk phones because the ones that come with the phones are supposed to work---but mine didn't. My option was to either wait for ST to get their shit together and send me a sim card (they've tried twice and I haven't received either or buy the cheapest phone WM had and use that sim card. I went a different route and found someone who had an extra ST card from a phone they no longer used and was able to get the phone activated.