Cricket’s IMEI checker doesn’t even work for me.
On Firefox on my Mac laptop it always return this:
Oops! We’re having trouble processing your request right now. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please try again later.
On Chrome it just spins forever. Same for Chrome on an Android phone.
I’m beginning to understand why people in the US give up in frustration trying to get a legitimate plan. They instead go with dubious resellers or use an “unlimited” phone or tablet plan in a router where they can change the IMEI to match the device it was activated on.