You do not use your minutes for Ibotta and can use only wi-fi. You can load the rebates you want at home and then return home to upload the receipt. I do sometimes turn on my data at the store because I forget what’s on my rebate list and the store’s wi-fi doesn’t usually work. It’s nice to have data in a rebate emergency.
You are right, the price did go up. The have the Rebel 2 with service and minutes on ebay directly from tracfone. https://www.ebay.com/itm/TracFone-LG-Rebel-2-4G-LTE-1-Year-of-Service-with-1200-MIN-1200-Text-1200MB/282914428443 This is the exact phone I had for 10 months and just bought an upgrade. The only problem is 8 gb is not very much room if you load up a lot of apps. I do like my apps. It’s a great little phone though. If you want to get in the smartphone arena the cheapest, buy the rebel 2 on ebay, it will last you for awhile until the service is almost up, then upgrade the phone next year. Or maybe HSN will have the rebel 3 on sale again in a few weeks.
