If my service with Verizon was disconnected, can I take my iphone 6 plus to straight talk?

I know, I should have paid my bill with Verizon, but what I was told and what I have actually been paying is entirely too much for one phone.

From what I understand, all Verizon LTE phones come factory unlocked. When I checked the compatability on straight talk.com thw IMEI is compatable and I should be able to purchase a Straight Talk nano sim, out the sim in my iPhone and be set to transfer my straight talk service and use my amazing iPhone instead of my crappy straight talk ZTE I'm using.
No matter how many articles I read that say this is how it works, now where can I find that Verizon will lock my phone due to nonpayment. I would like to make sure that's the case before I purchase the nano sim online and wait til it gets here to find out.

Please, any accurate information is welcomed and appreciated! I don't want to just let a brand new iPhone 6 plus just collect dust.

No. Verizon will have blacklisted your phone's ESN, due to non payment. And if you were making installment payments on the phone, Straight Talk would not be able to activate that phone anyway.

And the only way you'd be able to use that phone on a different carrier would be to pay the ETF, and pay the phone off in full, if you did not buy it outright the day you got it. So does not matter if the phone is carrier unlocked, once you default it gets blacklisted to prevent you from using it or selling it (without you becoming a scammer anyway).

BTW all carriers do this and honor the blacklists in the US, Canada and Europe.

So the scam you tried to pull on Verizon to get a new phone, USED to work, but you are just a couple to three years too late to beat the carriers, now that the US Blacklists the IMEI/ESN like the rest of the world does. The old "I didn't know my bill would be so high, I'm unlocking my brand new phone and skipping to someplace cheaper" SCAM is dead.

Thanks for answering my question! FYI, not everyone in the world is scamming someone else. The only thing I wanted to know was if I could use my phone or not. Please, don't get so but hurt over my question.

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