Tracfone Bonus Minutes MysterySearch This Site: How many Tracfone bonus minutes will you get when you use one of their promotion codes? It's actually a bit of a mystery. Check out the promo codes pages to pick up some Tracfone bonus minutes. The MysteryLet's see how many bonus minutes you really can get if you click here to refill your Tracfone Prepaid Wireless Airtime7/29/2008 150 extra Tracfone bonus minutesPromo code 58300 is supposed to give 30 bonus minutes when you use it when purchasing and activating a 120 minute card. This should add up to a total of 150 minutes of airtime.However, this morning I received 180 bonus minutes instead of 30 which came to a total of 300 minutes for $30 or about 10 cents a minute. (Note, however, at other times I have received exactly the amount of bonus airtime I was supposed to receive.) 
3/24/2008 30 extra Tracfone Bonus MinutesPromo code 59687 which expires 3/25/08 was supposed to add 50 bonus minutes when you purchase and activate a 200-minute Tracfone airtime card. Tried it yesterday and got 280 minutes, so I got 30 bonus minutes in addition to the 50 promotional minutes.
Note: Is it possible that because the minutes don't expire until 5/15/2009 (due to airtime already added previously), more bonus minutes were given?
50 Tracfone bonus minutesOnce you register on Tracfone's website, you will receive emails with special offers. For example, a while back, I got an email explaining how to add promotional codes. The email included this (expired) code:Promo code 53664 Buy a 60 minute airtime card and add it using the promotion code to get 20 (or 60, the email isn't clear) extra minutes. Expires November 30, 2007. Update: I used this code when purchasing a 60 minute card and received 110 bonus minutes. Assuming that I got the 60 minutes bonus for using the promo code, this seems to indicate that I got another 50 bonus minutes. This could be because:
But the bonus minutes themselves are not broken down, so it's something of a mystery. 
CuriouserCompare that to the bonus minutes received earlier:Promo code 53211: Get 30 minutes free when you buy and add 60 minute,120 minute or 200 minute airtime card. Expired 25 September 2007. 
Why?I suspect there are two reasons Tracfone does this.First, of course, they save money when you buy airtime directly from them rather than through a retail store, since they don't have to pay that middleman. Second, they're doing some kind of weird market research where they see if they give you these varying extra bonus minutes how likely will you be to come back and buy airtime directly through them. Lower limitTracfone's parent company also owns Net10 which offers a rate of 10 cents per minute (but which requires you to purchase a slightly larger number of minutes).So, therefore, Tracfone's bonus minutes will be such that the effective per-minute cost rate will not be much cheaper than the Net10's rate. Sometimes You Get NothingFinally, sometime you don’t getPromo code 58031 adds 40 bonus minutes when you add a 60 minute or greater airtime card. Expired Dec. 10, 2007. I used this one, but did not get any "extra" bonus minutes this time: 
Update 12/19/2007I tried promo code 58031 again, even though it had expired, and this time got ninety extra minutes. No guarantees of course, since I previously got no bonus minutes beyond the offer, and because the code is offically expired.
Upside RiskSo while it remains a mystery how many Tracfone bonus minutes you will receive every time you buy airtime online, the good thing is that you know you will (probably) get a few more minutes than you expected.
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