Can i buy a phone from best buy and activate it at verizon

Q: Can I buy a phone at Best Buy and add it to my Verizon plan?

Perhaps youre ready to upgrade your phone, with the cost to be added be to the Verizon plans cost, over the course of 36 months. Best Buy offers all the upgraded phone options you could want.

Good afternoon, ADrinkInMyHand,

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Thank you for taking the time to reach out to us here on our community forums and letting us know about your experience purchasing this phone. Getting a new phone should be a fun event and I can understand your frustration to hear that we are unable to active this phone on your business plan. I appreciate you providing your feedback and would be glad to provide some more information on how to get assistance moving forward.

As you mentioned, there are some workarounds for purchasing a phone with a business plan. Generally, this would be un unlocked phone that you could then activate with your carrier. Due to system limitations, a product that is already locked to another carrier can not be converted to an unlocked phone.

While I understand that it isn't the desired outcome to this situation, I would recommend keeping an eye on our website for updates on this phone's availability. Please let me know if you have any other questions, I'm happy to help as much as I can!

I have Verizon and my dad, who is the account holder, ordered me a new phone through BestBuy but it's registered with our Verizon plan already. Since this is the case, I'm unsure whether I'll be able to activate it home myself or if I will need to go in to either BestBuy or Verizon to have that done? My dad said he wasn't sure as the BestBuy associates activated his phone for him in the store when he bough it, but since this is an online purchase he's not sure how that works. Can someone help me? I don't know if it matters but I'm just going from an iPhone 8 to the new XS Max, same phone number, line, and everything.

Thanks in advance!

Can you activate a Best Buy phone with Verizon?

1-4 of 4 Answers. Yes, you can. I bought the phone from BB and they activated it to my Verizon acct.

Can I buy a phone at Best Buy and add it to my Verizon plan?

Perhaps you're ready to upgrade your phone, with the cost to be added be to the Verizon plans cost, over the course of 36 months. Best Buy offers all the upgraded phone options you could want.