Walmart Family Mobile TCL Flip 2, 8GB, Black- Prepaid Feature Phone [Locked to Walmart Family Mobile]

recommended

Nice flip phone. Easy to use, great price as well.

i've been without a phone number for months because i couldn't afford it. locked to a carrier, and didn't want to pay all that money to turn it back on. now, im buying a car, and need proof of a phone number. prepaid flip at least gets me a number for a month, and my first thought was "walmart". bought this, went to activate it, it says it's already activated. well, no it's not, because it isn't working. i go to the help chat to see what's up, and they told me to go into the store. awesome, catch-22. need a car to get there, need to get there for the car. i finally got a ride a few days ago. they told me "we don't really do prepaid flip phones anymore, so you're gonna have to buy a service card. here's the cheapest; a month for $25, non-refundable." great, $20 was too good to be true anyway. i buy it, go home, and try to activate it. whole issue is that i don't have a phone number, and it asks for my number! can't set up the phone, go to help chat to figure it out. she takes me through some steps, and tells me "it was scanned wrong, you have to go back to the store so they can scan it". are you kidding? i confirm with her, say thank you, and go to my carrier to turn my smartphone back on for $50. spent $45 total, and figured "if i can't refund the service card, i might as well return the phone", right? wrong. return window just closed, which is what made me write this. my fault for missing the return window obviously, but why sell "prepaid" phones just to go through all this hassle that may not even work this was a pain. it's easier to go into the store.

Do not buy a phone from Walmart, Phone showed up, and after being on the waiting on the phone for a hour. Was told a brand new phone was not setup correctly, so it could not be activated. Only recourse is to drive back to Walmart 20 miles to exchange it. I will drive back and get my money back. I should have know better, only thing you should buy from them is soap, and paper towels.

oredered this product and it is a good one but Walmart didnt scan it properly before it was shipped to me so it was useless to me. I had to return it and get a refund and then purchase it again while i was in the store .... the point of shopping Walmart online, at least for us, is so that we can save money on travel costs.