Straight Talk phone question

Hello,

I'm new to the forum, I've had Straight Talk wireless for about a year now in a rural area in Kansas where the service is great. However, their phone selection for my zip code is pretty terrible.

I've had the Samsung R355C phone now for about a year but would really like to upgrade. However, they haven't made a new phone available to my zip code in over a year. I've done some extensive reading, and it seems they really only have two types of phones, phones ending in "G" which are GSM phones, and phones ending in "C" which are CDMA phones. Their customer service is less than useful and couldn't answer this question for me.

I'm looking into just buying a phone off Ebay from another zip code that is a straight talk phone but ends in "C" as well, indicating it's a CDMA phone. Samsung Precedent SCH-M828C - Black (Straight Talk) Smartphone for example. Is there any data that anyone knows of that I read that will tell me if this will work in my area or not? I'm inclined to say yes, but their customer service just tells me that not all phones work in my area and it has to do with my carrier, etc.... Verizon is my carrier and I'm a CDMA area, so I'm not sure why a CDMA phone thats already using straight talks service wouldn't work in my area.... Any thoughts? TIA.

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Nevermind, I see that it uses sprint towers on Samsung's website... I'm starting to dislike what Straighttalk offers as far as phones in my area. I can get an iPhone through Verizon so I'm not sure why I can't get anything that does anything remotely similar via Straightalk since I'm using the same towers...