Why Use Tracfones in Canada? Or what IS a Tracfone anyway?

When it comes to mobile phones, cell phones, you simply cannot beat tracfones and boy oh boy do cell phone manufactures HATE that! But it's their own fault. Totally. They bloody raped everyone with huge fees that were (still are) totally uncalled for (haha-get the pun?).

The way the company I had used looked at it was this. I pay them 55.98 DOLLARS EVERY MONTH just for the PRIVILEDGE of USING THEIR SERVICE! BLAA - and that was before any call was even made!!! I shit you not! But I didn't really have a choice living in a remote area, one company services it and so, they have you by the gonads.

Until...the day...I found TRACFONE. Now, that has been some time ago. I ran across them because of the work I do and here is one excellent feature for all you cheaters out there, all those hiding from someone for what ever reason, those who are avoiding the IRS - the list is as endless as the problems we human beings get ourselves into.

- aside from your NEVER going to have a contract to use them, are completely and utterly UNTRACEABLE; If you are a battered wife - GET A TRACFONE - they cost all of between $15.00 for the basic model to a Whopping (gee) $35.00 for one with a CAMERA in it!

And here's the thing that I was amazed by - they are of high quality! I expected them to be just little crappy plastic disposable things - like those cameras where you send in the whole thing. Well, I COULDN'T HAVE BEEN MORE WRONG. They also sport a full color screen - Voicemail - call-waiting - Caller ID - an alarm clock, a stopwatch, a calculator...and all those features are on the $15.00 model!

On the $15.00 model (Motorola C139) you also get - for free - 20 included ringtones, 100 entry phonebook, AND standby time on a fully charged battery is approximately 18 DAYS. Battery talk time is about 11 HOURS.

This really IS one time when that saying "if it sounds to good to be true..." just does NOT apply! Oh, and if you don't want to use the Internet, just give them a call at 1-800-867-7183

Well, I was eating crow for dinner; I could not have been more wrong! They are just as nice (nicer even) than any cell phone out there, save perhaps the ones that cost $1000.00 or the diamond studded type (you know, that one you lost yesterday-yawn) - well for most of us, those are not an option in any event.

If everyone on hug bought this phone right now from this page, cancelled their old contracts and used only tracfones; well - #1 - I'd be nearly out of business and #2 - all those other companies and carriers would either go bankrupt or have to completely change the way they do business and I doubt they CAN so - it's basically bankruptcy for all of them.

First - WHY are they untraceable? There is no contract! Your name and address are NOWHERE.

When you buy one at the store, you just pay cash for it. Since there is no contract, no, nada, zilch information ON YOU is given out to the clerk. They ring it through with the bar-code on the package - scanning the bar code activates the phone. Period. The phone doesn't CARE who it belongs to.

So you have now bought your phone, paid cash (why cash? just to be triple sure; but trust me when I tell you it wouldn't matter if you DID use a credit card but I just wouldn't.

You go home and open 'er up. Most of them come loaded with 10 minutes of air time. What is needed and all in the pkg are these items:

• The phone
• the SIM Card (important)
• The battery pack
• The charger
• The super easy to understand pamphlet.

You can just log-in to their website (it's on the box) and load as many minutes as you want on your phone! NO CONTRACTS, NO BILLS, NO HIDDEN FEES, NO SURPRISES.

Another way of adding minutes is to buy tracfone airtime cards which can be found nearly anywhere - even at K-mart. They are available at over 70,000 retailers nationwide. yep, no typo - 70,000. The minutes cards come in, I believe, 20 min, 60 min or 120 and 200 min. The website also gives you bonus deal, has specials, etc.... You can even get a deal where you have the phone activated for one year and you get 400 minutes with that.

But it is ALL up to YOU!

It is the only phone I know of that allows you to be in total control of accumulating minutes and days of service. AND get this - being that it has nationwide coverage, it costs the SAME to phone locally as it does to phone long-distance, international too - NO ROAMING FEE, NADA. The phone does not care!

You really HAVE to try these out - if anything I've told you you find not to be accurate - I'll BUY the thing off you. What have you got to lose, $15.00.

Also a major - they are so cheap that you can get one for every kid in your house so they can always be safe, always phone home and can't use excuses. If they say - "I forgot it at home", tell them then I'll take it away if you do that again! - Trust me - they won't forget it again!!

These are really nice phones for so many reasons.