{"id":3930,"date":"2022-03-03T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/?p=3930"},"modified":"2023-04-18T11:52:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T17:52:43","slug":"turning-an-old-phone-into-a-new-burner-phone-for-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/03\/turning-an-old-phone-into-a-new-burner-phone-for-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Turning an Old Phone into a New Burner Phone for $0"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Wha?<\/h4>\n<p>This site has a laser-focus on manufactured spend and travel hacking, and while today\u2019s post may seem like neither, it enables both and is very much a key part of the game, especially when scaling a deal (in other words, still on-brand for MEAB). I\u2019ve also had a few of you ask about getting a new burner phone recently, so there\u2019s that motivation too.<\/p>\n<p>In case you\u2019re still unconvinced about today\u2019s post, an extra phone number is useful because it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enables new accounts<\/li>\n<li>Gives another referral vector<\/li>\n<li>Can be a route out of a shutdown<\/li>\n<li>Can be parlayed into another google voice account<\/li>\n<li>Is another source of 2FA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And of course owning a new cell phone instead of a nearly dead iPhone 3G helps you in other ways too (e.x. for running FinTech apps are activating a Boost SIM). <\/p>\n<p>Nowlet\u2019s tie that into Visible, a low cost cell phone service provider and creepy advertiser owned by Verizon.<\/p>\n<h4>Trading Up<\/h4>\n<p>If you have android or iPhone in a drawer that still turns on, it\u2019s probably eligible for Visible\u2019s <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visible.com\/deals\/swap\">swap program<\/a>. In fact, the older and weirder it is, the better. (If you don\u2019t have one, you can find an old phone on ebay that fits the bill for under $20. Just make sure it turns on and isn\u2019t severely damaged.) With the trade up program, you\u2019ll get a new <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/battery-Unlocked-Motorola-Camera-Indigo\/dp\/B09BTB5MKT\/ref=sr_1_3?crid=15XUNNQDN1YB4&amp;keywords=moto+g+pure&amp;qid=1646269580&amp;sprefix=moto+g+pur%2Caps%2C494&amp;sr=8-3\">Moto G Pure<\/a> for effectively free by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cashbackmonitor.com\/cashback-store\/visible\/\">Shopping through a portal<\/a> like Rakuten for $30 back<\/li>\n<li>Using anyone\u2019s Visible referral code for the first month at $5<\/li>\n<li>Joining literally any party in <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visible.com\/plan\/party-pay\">Party Pay<\/a> for the second month at $25<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After 60 days, Visible unlocks all phones which leaves you at a net cost of $0 to trade an old phone for a Moto G Pure, and you\u2019ll get a new cell phone number for games in the mean time. Of course when the phone is unlocked it can be used for games with just about any service out there.<\/p>\n<p>For more on burners, see <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/11\/on-the-importance-of-cell-phone-burners\/\">Cell Phone Burners and Travel Hacking<\/a> or <a class=\"ek-link\" href=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/12\/cell-phone-burner-followup\/\">Cell Phone Burner Followup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-editorskit-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3931\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/magic-trick.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/magic-trick.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/magic-trick-300x296.jpeg 300w\" width=\"420\"\/><figcaption>Showing off a Visible cell phone magic swap trick to a baboon for some reason.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wha? This site has a laser-focus on manufactured spend and travel hacking, and while today\u2019s post may seem like neither, it enables both and is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3930"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7085,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3930\/revisions\/7085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}