 pflogBueller? Bueller?Premium,MVM
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kudos:3 | [Pricing] Employee discount transfer? My current verizon discount is via my wife's old job (she no longer works there). However, my employer offers the same discount (different employer).
I found »www.verizonwireless.com/discounts
But I'm wondering if registering my company discount will:
a. cause my contract to renew/reset
b. force me to a shared data plan
If either of those are going to happen, then it looks like I'm going to change carriers. They're expensive enough with the discount. Without it, they can forget it.
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| It wont do either but if the account is in her name you cant apply a discount in your name. Have them change the account to your name then apply for the discount |
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pflogBueller? Bueller?Premium,MVM
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kudos:3 | said by tdumaine:It wont do either but if the account is in her name you cant apply a discount in your name. Have them change the account to your name then apply for the discount
I believe the account is in my name, which is odd since they let her discount apply to the bill. Is there a way to check who the primary account holder is via their website? If it's her, I assume I need her there when we swap the owner and apply the different discount?
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| When i log on to my verizon account it says right up top that im the account owner (my girlfriend is an account manager), so unless that was setup wrong it should say. If not a call in can find that out easily, but ya, if it is in your name and they had a discount for her work, that shouldnt have worked even |
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pflogBueller? Bueller?Premium,MVM
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kudos:3 | said by tdumaine:When i log on to my verizon account it says right up top that im the account owner (my girlfriend is an account manager), so unless that was setup wrong it should say. If not a call in can find that out easily, but ya, if it is in your name and they had a discount for her work, that shouldnt have worked even
Well to be fair, this account was created like 11 years ago  So who knows how broken their system was back then or what it allowed...
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Lol good point there. The curent system wont let a discount be applied if the employee/customer information do not match. I get to answer this one quite often at work.
Shhhh i didnt tell ya that  |
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pflogBueller? Bueller?Premium,MVM
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kudos:3 | said by tdumaine:Lol good point there. The curent system wont let a discount be applied if the employee/customer information do not match. I get to answer this one quite often at work.
Shhhh i didnt tell ya that
Well I started to use that discount web site, and now it's locked me out of the account  It keep redirecting me to a page that says:
Unfortunately, we are unable to identify your correct employee discount at this time
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Is that the page where left side has employer info and the right side wants account info? (verizonwireless.com/discounts wants an email, but if ya click dont have an email goes to that page) |
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pflogBueller? Bueller?Premium,MVM
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kudos:3 | said by tdumaine:Is that the page where left side has employer info and the right side wants account info? (verizonwireless.com/discounts wants an email, but if ya click dont have an email goes to that page)
Yeah I had clicked the link but not completed it because I got scared by the massive legalese agreement I had to accept 
I just did it and now I show the 20% discount. 2% less than my wife's previous one, but that should be barely noticeable. Do these discounts usually only apply to the "base" part of the plan? E.g. ours current bill says:
Nationwide Talk & Text FS 700
03/01 - 03/28
$90.00
22% Access Discount
03/01 - 03/28
-$19.80
Email & Web Unlimited
03/01 - 03/28
$29.99
20% - Feature Discount
03/01 - 03/28
-$6.00
Monthly discount for eligible services:up to 20% for XXXXX CORPORATION employees.
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| Thats how its been for a while now. Example: im on the share everything talk/text/1gb of data. I get my discount on that portion ($50 - 20%), not on the line access (40 for smartphones/30 for basic/etc).
Why would it make your bill go up that much? 22% vs 20% like you said is only a buck or 2 |
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pflogBueller? Bueller?Premium,MVM
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kudos:3 | said by tdumaine:Thats how its been for a while now. Example: im on the share everything talk/text/1gb of data. I get my discount on that portion ($50 - 20%), not on the line access (40 for smartphones/30 for basic/etc).
Why would it make your bill go up that much? 22% vs 20% like you said is only a buck or 2
Because it seems the previous discount applies 22% to the $90 and 20% to the $30. Now I'm only getting 20% on the $90, so I lose 2% on that (NBD) but the entirety of the 20% discount of the $30.
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It should unless your discount does not have an entitlement to feature discounts. To find that out you might have to call in. To see if you can see it online, do the following:
Log in to your my verizon. Just below the phone, you will see a grid of boxes with "I want to..." above it. Below the grid, click on "More Actions". Then click on "View documents/reciepts", its the second from the bottom under the profile section. Then scroll down on the next page and look for "Promotion/Offer Added to Account" (it should have a date next to it, but click right on where it says "Promotion/Offer Added to Account"). It will then open a pdf, and on mine it shows the 20% discount.
It should show the feature discount if it is going to apply one (mines shared data so i dont see that line or discount, but the 29.99 unl data is elig for discounts if the discount has feature discounts) |
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pflogBueller? Bueller?Premium,MVM
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kudos:3 | Thanks for all your help!
Unfortunately when I go there it only shows my bills. I don't see one for the promotion/offer added to account. I'll check back tomorrow, it may not show up right away?
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Could be. Its an easy check on calling in, very easily seen when im asked that. And np for the help, you arent ranting or getting mad cause you may not like the answers. That always gets me with customers lol |
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pflogBueller? Bueller?Premium,MVM
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kudos:3 | said by tdumaine:Could be. Its an easy check on calling in, very easily seen when im asked that. And np for the help, you arent ranting or getting mad cause you may not like the answers. That always gets me with customers lol
Yeah for some reason the rep I spoke to was unable to locate my specific discount, but I'll call tomorrow after it's been applied to the account over night and hopefully it's an easy lookup then
Thanks again!
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| They said what? lol once you get a notice its applied, we can see it on an account. Might have been a newbie employie, but top view>B2B tab if they sound lost again |
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Why do you want to change the discount to another name? if they're still giving you the discount and never asked for new proof just leave the discount alone instead of being worried about being renewed or put into a new package. As they say- if its not broken, don't "fix it" |
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| said by TBusiness:Why do you want to change the discount to another name? if they're still giving you the discount and never asked for new proof just leave the discount alone instead of being worried about being renewed or put into a new package. As they say- if its not broken, don't "fix it"
Pretty sure he did because it was time to re validate the discount and since wife doesnt have that job and/or account is in his name he couldnt just continue the previous discount |
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| I could have assumed as well. but never mentioned that's why I asked. |
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pflogBueller? Bueller?Premium,MVM
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kudos:3 | reply to tdumaine
said by tdumaine:said by TBusiness:Why do you want to change the discount to another name? if they're still giving you the discount and never asked for new proof just leave the discount alone instead of being worried about being renewed or put into a new package. As they say- if its not broken, don't "fix it"
Pretty sure he did because it was time to re validate the discount and since wife doesnt have that job and/or account is in his name he couldnt just continue the previous discount *ding*
I felt slightly bad for keeping her discount as she's been a stay-at-home mom for quite some time; however, I thought the discounts were the same (I didn't know hers was 2% more heh) so I figured to VZW it was a wash. I heard VZW will be asking people to authenticate it, so I figured this was an opportune time to do so before I got the notice/request.
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