GarnetFox

Ever since I have had my mobile I have been putting on £5 either by debit card, top up card or electronic card. I especially only use the £5 now that I have very little money. Went to the shop today to get a top up, only to be told by the sour faced cow of an assistant that 'as of Sept 1st, they have stopped doing £5 on electronic top up'. I asked for a card instead then only to find out that the lowest denomination of these is £20.

Where was this advertised? Where did they post this little snippet of news? Was the customer well informed? I don't think so. [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

So now I have to find the money to put on £10 by electronic or £20 by card. I' so fecking peed off! [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]

yoza

OK.... lets start a whip round,
I pledge £10
next please...........

MarkO

If you're that hard up, surely you shouldn't have a mobile anyway? And besides, it's not like it's costing you any more. What difference does it make whether you put £20 on it once a month, or £5 on it once a week?

Typical bloody woman, complaining about nothing. I had a friend at college who had a similar outlook - she only ever put £5 of petrol in her car, so was constantly running out. I suggested she fill up to the brim, but she somehow thought it would end up costing her more. Duh!

mattstant

i hate pink now thats one orrible colour

MarkO

Good point. Isn't Garnet a type of orangey colour?

Lee

MarkO its a well known fact that if you fill up your car you will lose out since the petrol will evaporate !!!!

Jeez..don't you know anything lol

jasonwrxowner

Garnet, get a contract and then you won't have any problems. You also get different ammounts of free texts and talktime.

Dream Weaver

Pay as you go - waste of time IMHO.

I am on Virgin mobile through Orange and it is great. I dont pay a monthly fee, just pay for the calls I make. 15p a minute for first 5 minutes each day, then 5p a minute after that. So it is similar to pay as you go, but cheaper and I dont have to worry about the voucher/card thing.

Works out about £4.50 a month

P1Fanatic

Hmm I moved from Orange to Vodafone and am beginning to regret it. Only moved cos Orange take so long bringing out new phones. It is a lot more expensive and the number of times my phone says SOS Calls Only is starting to **** me off no end. Come back Orange all is forgiven.

Might have to try that Virgin Tariff DreamWeaver as it sounds like my kind of talk plan as the minutes I use differs greatly from month to month.

sillysi

I have gone the same route as DW, Orange give a better signal where I live than Virgin(One2One) and the Virgin tariff works out cheaper.

Si.

TelBoy

DW, why do you think pay as you go is a waste of time?

If you put on a £50 voucher, all the costs are halved, making it just about the cheapest option out there, unless i'm mistaken..

S55 HOT

Orange PAYG is a pain - I put my wife's phone on it last year and now I can't move back without getting a new number

It seems to be the only tarrif that they will not (they claim cannot) transfer numbers from - even to an Orange contract.

sebastian

i hate orange's smug adverts make you sick.

daz b

Get on to o2

Ian Griffiths

PAYG, buy it for your kids so they can't run up high bills. In other cases, get a good competitive contract, save money *and* know where the cash is going.