There's basically no loophole to retain unlimited data on Verizon now, right? I'm trying to figure out what I want to do. Verizon is only offering $180 for my Note 3, so fuck that. Seems like I should get at least $300 for it.
There are still a few ways. You can upgrade another line and then just put your sim in the phone. Only issue is the other line now has to keep the data package for 2 years, before this past august you could drop the data plan, now you have to keep it. So if you have a dumb phone line this isn't a good idea anymore, but if you have another smart phone line with an upgrade then this way works fine.