Virgin Mobile $20 Top-Up Card

by Virgin

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00008O394
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,248 in Cell Phones & Accessories (See Top 100 in Cell Phones & Accessories)
  • #51 in Cell Phones & Accessories > Accessories > Replacement Parts

Product Description

Manufacturer's Description

Paying by the minute, not by the month. We call it Top-Up. It's how you add money to your Virgin Mobile account and keep the calls coming. Instant Top-Up: Use a Top-Up Card or credit card to add money to your account right now.

Product Description

Virgin Mobile allows you to choose from three great ways to Pay As You Go – Minute2Minute, Day2Day, and Month2Month. Pick whichever which fits your talk style. All three work on any of our phones and they're all free of long-term commitments. Choose one when you activate your phone, you're always free to switch between offers. Choose Minute2Minute and buy only the minutes you want. This plan gives you up to 150 minutes/month at 25¢/minute the first 10 minutes of the day and 10¢/minute the rest of the day. Choose Day2Day and your calls are only 10¢ minutes all day, every day. Select the Day2Day plan and you get 150–500 minutes/month and 10¢ minutes all the time for just 35¢ each day. This is great way for daily talkers to pay less with no monthly commitment. Choose Month2Month and enjoy our best rates with nights & weekends. Use 300 minutes/month or more, especially on nights and weekends. Start each month with 300 Month2Month minutes for just $29.99 (plus applicable taxes and regulatory fees). No need to pick a plan, it adjusts to your use. Pay $10 forGet additional levels of airtime for just $10 more and get minutes as low as 4¢. Don’t worry about outrageous overages, additional anytime monthly minutes after level 3 are 20¢ and as low as 4¢ each. Month2Month minutes include anytime and night & weekend minutes and the prices exclude applicable taxes and surcharges.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

71 of 73 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Annoying website and answering machine, but good service, May 24, 2004

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Gadgester "No Time, No Money" (Mother Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Virgin Mobile $20 Top-Up Card (Wireless Phone Accessory)

Virgin Mobile's prepaid service is pretty good, if not exactly cheap. It's definitely for people who don't make a lot of calls, since each call costs 25 cents per minute (10 cents after first 10 minutes each day). If you just want a phone only for needy cases (not for mindless chats), this is a good deal. Minimum refill is $20 (twenty) every 90 days, so you can keep a cell phone for only $80 (eighty) per year.

Pros:
- 90-day balance period, plus 60-day grace if you don't refill
- Free voicemail, unlike T-Mobile or AT&T Wireless or Verizon Wireless
- Stylish phones
- MTV content
- Uses Sprint PCS network, decent voice clarity, ok coverage
- Great customer service, resolves problems quickly
- Easy to activate and refill
- Easy (and free) to get balance on the phone
- No credit check, no taxes or surcharges, just flat fees
- You can stay completely anonymous if you want

Cons:
- Extremely annoying menu system when you call
- Very annoying website, slow and stupid and confusing
- Initial cost of phone is high (i.e., no subsidies)
- MTV content costs extra
- Sprint PCS not available in many rural areas
- Network can be busy in the evening

67 of 72 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Policy, Easy To Use!, December 8, 2003

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P. Concordia-Schreffler (Bucks County, Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Virgin Mobile $20 Top-Up Card (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I really love Virgin Mobile. I bought a Virgin Mobile phone for my teen daughter and I love the way the system works... and it is easy to add minutes, easy to keep your phone active, and has a totally fair minute usage plan. Top-Up cards fill the account and the balance can be used for airtime (minutes) messaging, ringtone downloads, and other features known as Virgin Xtras. This is a great way to help ensure that your teen has a phone for emergencies, and personal use but an excellent way to control the expense, while teaching them the responsibility of cell phone usage. It is also an excellent choice for people who don't use their cell phone often. My brother-in-law doesn't use his cell phone much at all... only but a few monutes a month. He wastes $30.00 each month on cell phone service, but he will be switching to Virgin Mobile because with Virgin you only need to Top-Up with at least $20.00 every 90 days to keep your number active, and you don't lose those minutes. $20.00 every 90 days is much less than $30 every month! So he will waste less money with this plan.

The extra features are great!!

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Virgin Mobile Extended Expiration Dates, January 19, 2005

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Liz H. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Virgin Mobile $20 Top-Up Card (Wireless Phone Accessory)

I too purchased a top up card with the expiration date of 12/31/04. I called Virgin Mobile and they said they extended the expiration date until 12/31/05. Just wanted to let people know the cards are still good!