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Buy Tracfone Minutes

How to buy Prepaid Tracfone Minutes.

You may buy Track Phone cards at many stores like Wal-Mart, K-Mart, or Safeway but I recommend buying the cards at the Tracfone.com web site for a couple of reasons.

You will get more minutes and service time for your money if you buy a phone/minute card.  You always get 2 months service when you activate a phone along with the minutes and service time that comes with the card.

Always check for Tracfone bonus coupon codes before you buy your minutes.   Using these codes will bring your cost per minute down significantly.


Here is the Page I use to Buy Tracfone Minutes and use Bonus Coupons. The Tracfone bonus codes allow you to get from 50 to 300 bonus minutes on your Tracfone Minute Cards.

Don’t Purchase TracFone Minutes Cards

At the Tracfone web site you can purchase a phone and receive more minutes than if you purchase a card. Often Tracfone has on special in the “buy phones” section where for the same price as a 450 minute card you get a free phone. This special, when available is only in the Tracfone Purchase Phones section. If you go to the “buy airtime” section of the web site you will pay full price for the unit cards.


Do Not Activate a lot of Minutes on your Tracfone Phone

I do not recommend having too many Tracfone Minutes on your phone for a couple of reasons. With a broken, lost or stolen phone it is hard to get your minutes back on a new phone from Tracfone.   Also I have found when I have lots of minutes on a phone I use a lot more minutes.

Motorola W376 and LG 225 Camera Phones
Motorola W376 and LG 225 Camera Phones

The Tracfone One Year Plan

The One Year Plan can be a good deal. Again if your phone is broken, lost or stolen you will have a hassle getting Tracfone customer service to transfer these benefits to your new phone. I recently got a bonus code (55118) for 300 minutes on a one year card.  I used this code and the one year card on a DMFL phone and ended up with 1100 minutes and 12 months for $99.99.

If you use Tracfone Bonus codes and purchase your minutes on special you will get more TracFone Minutes for your money.

Only Buy a Tracfone with DMFL

Only buy The Doubler Card on the phone, even if you only use 100-200 minutes per month you are still better off only buying a Tracfone with the DMFL (double minutes for life) card included. The DMFL card will usually cost you $50 but you can buy the Motorola W370 with DMFL for $20, you will get the doubler for free.

If you are absolutely certain you will use no more than 70 minutes per month you might purchase one of the Tracfones without the DMFL.  I still would not recommend it.  You are much better off purchasing a phone with the DMFL (double minutes for life).

Moto W370, LG 225, Lg 3280 with DMFL

The Moto W370 and the Lg cg225 phones now always come with DMFL (double minutes for life). These phones are the nicest phones offered by Tracfone. Usually the price is the lower than what you will pay to add DMFL to a Tracfone. I recommend you buy the nicer Tracfone with DMFL and a Tracfone Minute Card included.


Motorola Razr next a Motorola W375
Motorola Razr next a Motorola W375

Tracfone Bonus Code Coupons

When you add a Tracfone Minute Card you can use Bonus Coupon Codes. These are a 5 digit code that when you add them at the same time you are adding a 15 digit code to your Tracfone you will get an extra 40 to 300 minutes. I use this page to Buy Tracfone Minutes and use Bonus Coupons


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