Comments on: Tip #5: Optimize your cellphone bill

By: Nancy

Nancy — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:50:23 +0000

I have Sprint. Had Sprint for over 10 years. Every mnonth I have about 300 or 400 minutes left EVERY month. My son texts more than calls. We have 700 minutes on shared plan. I use about 150 every month. This past month for some reason he has been calling more than texting and we were over by about 250 minutes. $92.00 charge. I am going to demand all my minutes that I have had left over and if they don’t do it,I will cancel and I will have that bill hanging over my head till the day I die,but I really don’t care. I am tired of paying for something that I nerver get.

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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.

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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.