i want a virgin mobile phone, does the activation automaically give me minutes to talk, because my friend told me that when i buy a virgin mobile phone, it doesn't come with minutes, does activation mean that it gives me minutes?
Some of the Virgin Mobile phones do come with minutes, but they'll clearly state it (such as currently occurs with the Aloha or Red Cyclops). If you activate a phone being passed on from someone else they give you (and the other person) minutes. There are times over the years they've also had coupons during activation to give you minutes, and you can find kickback codes out there now to give you minutes. If you use their Sugar Mama service (where you click through ads) you can get 5 free minutes per day. Anyway, you *can* get minutes via methods such as the above, but you'd otherwise need to add funds to your account to get them. Activation won't give you minutes no matter what.
when you buy a phone you buy top up cards with a certain amount of money on it. then you might have 50 $ on it or whatever. Then when you talk, depending on rates, the money goes down and you buy more top up cards. To activate cards you type a number into your phone virgin mobiles website should have steps for you! No, activation just activates the phone and minutes you buy so it knows this phone is in use. At the store they aren't activated because no one bought them. Go to Virgin Mobiles website for activation and more info!!
To activate it , you need to purchase ?5 worth of credit, after that, you get ?5 worth of minutes.
