Customer Reviews

Virgin Mobile $30 Top-Up Card

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The top-up card is pretty easy to use: you buy it, you go to Virgin Mobile USA's website, and you "top up" using the PIN code on the card. There's no expiration date on the card so you can use it to refill your Virgin Mobile minutes whenever. This also means if you see a discounted card somewhere, get a bunch and save.

Unfortuantely you cannot use the top-up card from your VM phone; you must go through the website.

You need to top up every 90 days (not 3 months). If you fail to do so, you can't use the phone, but you get a 60-day grace period (and keep the unused balance). If you still don't top up after the grace, your number will be deactivated, at which point you need to reactivate it. Good thing is, activation is totally free.

I shopped around before deciding to go with Virgin Mobile. I was a previous Sprint PCS customer so I knew the Virgin Mobile Network would be adequate (they use the Sprint Network). The Virgin Mobile plan is simple and there are no hidden fees. Here is the breakdown...$0.25 a minute for the first 10 minutes of the day and $0.10 a minute after that. Or, $0.35 a day and $0.10 a minute. Text messaging is free to receive and $0.10 to send.

You have to top-off your Virgin Mobile phone at least $20.00 every 90 days. If you don't use your phone much, but enjoy the convenience of having it, it will only cost $6.66 a month to operate.

Virgin Mobile is the best prepaid service provider. TracFone is just HORRIBLE (minutes go as high as $.50 a minute and text messages are $.30 each and I think you have to pay to receive text messages with TracFone. With Virgin Mobile, its $.25 a minutes for the first ten minutes of the day and $.10 a minute after that. Text messages are $.10 to send and free to receive. A lot of content is available at virginmobileusa.com for putting on your phone (ringtones, celebrity voicemail greetings, MTV and Comedy Central Content, and a lot more). You only have to play $20 every three month which is A LOT cheaper than most cell phone service providers. And best of all, NO CONTRACTS!!! Virgin Mobile is the way to go for prepaid phone service.

Using your voicemail is not free, it takes your top-up minutes. Cards are better that auto top-up in case your phone is stolen.

Voicemail can be heard through your home phone which is FREE! I love how they make it that you only have to pay $20 every 3 months and there is NO contracts! Just splendid!

it can last u for 90 days but u can add 90 to ur phone and have it active for a year with the virgin mobile service preserver.

I actually read the fine-print (read lookout guy's reveiew) *and* I also checked the account. I've got the minute2minute plan and there has been NO SUCH $1.50 access fee that I ever had to pay. Infact, I've had some days where I would have, say, 15 minutes of total calls, I would pay $.25 for the first ten minutes of calls on a day, and the rest were without charge! This is probably a mistake on their part, but I could clearly see, and *doing the math* as our friend Lookout Guy suggests, that my total costs equal the top-up card that I'm buying. If he's getting so screwed, either he should have read the fine print, or take Virgin to court for deceptive charges.

Keep this one thing in mind: Those who fight for principle are the one's who still care about it. Those who don't, for whatever reason, don't care. So either stop whining or do something about it.

Amazon is sending out top-up cards that show an expiration date of December 2004, but they still work. The expired status caused a moment of anxiety, but apparently it doesn't really mean anything.

PAY as you go phone review...
Virginmobile is trying to get your money! be careful! you get a 1000 minutes card for 50$ thinking that you will have these minutes by entering the pin number but NOOOO! there is another step you need to follow. you have to pick voice minute package which is not among any of the instructions. if you do not pick that plan, you are paying 20 cents a minute. You call them and they do NOTHING about it (except giving you 15 extra minutes -it is like a joke!).

The customer service people are extremely rude and they even hang up on me! they also threaten you by saying that your call is monitored?!?!

Never ever use their services for especially pay as you go phones... I would give them 0 or negative starts if I could...

The expiration date on the card was December 2004, but it worked nonetheless with no problems. And if you combine it with some Gold Box offer or the A9 discount, you can end up having more air time than you paid for.