I have been trying to take advantage of a deal that was up on the Samsung.com/US website recently. Samsung occasionally offers prices on new smartphones up to $400 cheaper than Verizon offers for its prepaid plan phones.
When I begin the purchase process on the Samsung website, it switches me over to a Verizon pop-up webpage, where I try to login with my Verizon account details. I can never get past this point because the Verizon login page will only accept user credentials for an unlimited plan. This happens with any device on the Samsung website. As a result I cannot complete the purchase on Samsung.com/US.
I want to stay on my current $25 monthly prepaid Verizon plan, I don't need any of the features on an unlimited plan with all the extra expense.
So I have two questions resulting from this experience:
1) How do I buy a Verizon-linked phone on the Samsung website when Verizon won't let me login because I have a prepaid plan;
and if there is no way to do that (as it seems to me)
2) Can I just buy an unlocked Samsung phone (e.g. Galaxy Note 10+) directly from Samsung and have it work 100% without problems on my Verizon prepaid plan?
