The First Prepaid Phone Challenge Payments

They’re being mailed! We’ve gotten quite a few emails from people that didn’t read the details… and didn’t notice that we had to hold the gift cards for 30 days.

To review, we had to begin holding the Best Buy gift cards for 30 days, because some took it upon themselves to return the free phone. Why they wanted to return a free phone… I have no idea. But, we can’t pay people for sending back a phone (that actually winds up costing more when you factor in the return shipping).

So, those are being mailed out as we speak. We’ve mailed a good third of them already, and we expect everyone’s to be sent out in the mail… by week’s end.

And yes, for the new challenge (announced this morning), there will also be a 30 day hold. Don’t blame us, blame the geniuses that decided to return a free phone.