Comments on: Tip #5: Optimize your cellphone bill

By: tori

tori — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:54:16 +0000

I just tried this with Verizon and unfortunately it didn’t work out. Rather than give me a discount, the operator offered to cancel everything and charge me a $250 cancellation fee. What did I do wrong?!

By: Mary

Mary — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:29:19 +0000

I’m on a discounted plan through my company and was paying 50/mo for 500 minutes. My roommate mentioned her plan for 30/mo for 450 min. I have never gone over and looked at my current month which is done next week and I only have used 66 minutes so I quickly switched to the $20/mo cheaper plan and can’t wait. I hate giving Verizon any extra money since they have caused me so much stress and blatantly steal people’s money so yay!

By: Marc

Marc — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:31:24 +0000

Just checked out billshrink after watching your recent youtube spot. Saved $60 a month on my phone bill in 2 minutes. Amazing.

By: phone

phone — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:50:20 +0000

I’ve blogged about it before and started back in July with a plan change saving $536/year. tks.

By: Five Ways to be Frugal Today!

Five Ways to be Frugal Today! — Sat, 16 May 2009 13:37:34 +0000

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By: jon roth

jon roth — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:07:22 +0000

I saved $9/mo on AT&T. First used Billshrink.com to get my argument straight. I went from a $40/mo plan for 450 minutes, 5000 nights&weekends with $9 add-on for early N&W (starting 7PM) to an unadvertised (I think) $40 1000 minute plan with unlimited N&W, but no mobile-to-mobile or rollover. Annual savings $108 (before taxes), took 2 phone calls and about an hour.

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:46:58 +0000

I just called Comcast and saved $32/mo with no changes to service just by asking for a cheaper bundle.

By: Chike

Chike — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:33:55 +0000

To Michael, Nov 2008:

We’re stuck with the iPhone, but you still might be able to save money.

After reading the comments here, I went to the att.com/wireless website and downgraded my plan on the original iPhone for a net savings of $27/month. It took less than 5 minutes.

You lose some rollover minutes by doing this, but in my case I use the data much more than the actual phone. (Rollover minutes have no value if you never actually use them.)

By: Optimize Your Cell Phone Bill

Optimize Your Cell Phone Bill — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:20:49 +0000

[...] So I’m trying to optimize our cell phone bill based on reading Ramit’s post on lowering cell phone expenses. [...]

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:37:03 +0000

I just made this call to my cell phone company last night and got a free month of service and 100 extra minutes this month. Worked like a charm. Thanks Ramit!