Buying a Tracfone, What Does it Cost to Own a Tracfone?

What does it cost to buy a Tracfone Phone?

You can purchase a Tracfone wireless phone for between ten and seventy dollars. Often you can get a free refurbished phone when buying a larger minute card.

How does Tracfone Prepaid Work?

Three steps. You purchase a Phone, activate it and then add a Tracfone Minute Card. It is quite easy. Add a phone card at least every ninety days to continue your phone in service. If you run out of minutes or service time your phone will no longer work. If you let Tracfone service expire you will lose your phone number.

What is the Best Value Tracfone Minute Card?

Minute Cards come in several denominations. Minutes are more expensive on the smaller cards. Most of the cards give you 90 days service time. If your cell phone has Double Minutes then your cost per minute is half what you will pay with the basic Tracfone without DMFL.

Currently the cheapest per minute rate is the $80 450/900 minute card. You will get 3 months of service with this card also. You can only purchase this phone card online. Adding bonus codes when you add a minute card can get you from 20 to 300 extra minutes.

How much are Tracfone Units?

Minutes come on Prepaid Cards. Minutes and Units are the same thing. When adding a card to your phone you will receive Minutes and 90 days of service time usually.

Regular Tracfone Rates/DMFL Rates

The $20 60/120 minute Tracfone card will cost you 33.3/16.6 cents per minute.

The $30 120/240 minute Tracfone Card cost 25/12.5 cents per minute.

The $40 200/400 minute Trafone Card cost 20/10 cents per minute.

The $80 450/900 minute Tracfone Card cost 17.2/8.8 cents per minute.

The $100 400/800 One year card will cost you 25/12.5 cents per minute and you get twelve months of service.

Where can I buy a Tracfone Minute refill card?

Refill cards are available at over 20,000 retail stores in the US.