Tesco Mobile Prepay Triple Credit Offer.

Oracle · 02-03-2013 3:42pm #1

Instore a Tesco Mobile rep was offering Triple Credit if you sign up this weekend. Plus a €15 coupon off any phone over €70. This offer doesn't seem to be online. Just posting in case anyone wants the triple credit, the phones aren't good value even with the €15 off TBH.

pissed · 02-03-2013 4:53pm

Must check Ashbourne. On my exit from Lycamobile, bundles gone to the dogs.

What's Tesco's data like at the moment?

I know before I joined Lyca they were bad. Have things improved?

Kairi · 02-03-2013 5:13pm

TMI rep also told me about this offer a couple of weeks ago.
He said it was only available in-store, but I found this:
http://shop.tescomobile.ie/capped-monthly-plans.aspx

pissed · 02-03-2013 5:34pm

Ah, I was thinking say top up by €10 and they give you an extra €20 and buy the 1GB Data bundle from the original €10 and use the rest for calls and texts.

Please note: flexible credit cannot be used for roaming, international calls, premium rate numbers and purchasing any add on bundles. You must top up to access these services. Subscription amount cannot be used as credit.

Pity.

Oracle · 02-03-2013 5:47pm

pissed wrote: »

Ah, I was thinking say top up by €10 and they give you an extra €20 and buy the 1GB Data bundle from the original €10 and use the rest for calls and texts.
Pity.

You can't do that with the Capped plans, the capped plans are a subscription tariff payable monthly. You can this with Triple Credit on Prepay.

The Prepay Triple Credit offer is different, it's €20 free credit when you topup by €10. You can use the €10 "paid for" top up to buy a 1Gb data bundle and a 350Mb data bundle (once-off addons). Then use the free credit for calls and texts.

pissed · 02-03-2013 5:54pm

Oracle wrote: »

You can't do that with the Capped plans, the capped plans are a subscription tariff payable monthly. You can this with Triple Credit on Prepay.

The Prepay Triple Credit offer is different, it's €20 free credit when you topup by €10. You can use the €10 "paid for" top up to buy a 1Gb data bundle and a 350Mb data bundle (once-off addons). Then use the free credit for calls and texts.

Think I missed the boat on that one. Seems to have expired.

2.The Promotion period is the earlier of: 00:01AM on 8 November 2012 until 11:59PM on 20 December 2012; or until 5000 new customers have taken up the Promotion (the Promotion Period).

pissed · 02-03-2013 6:08pm

Actually just off the phone with customer service and the offer is still there. Should be open for the next 2 to 3 months.

So assuming I top up by €10 and buy the 1GB data that leaves €23.50 for calls or texts. Seems ok for the price or am I missing something?

Oracle · 02-03-2013 6:23pm

pissed wrote: »

Actually just off the phone with customer service and the offer is still there. Should be open for the next 2 to 3 months.

So assuming I top up by €10 and buy the 1GB data that leaves €23.50 for calls or texts. Seems ok for the price or am I missing something?

I don't think so, there's 2 separate offers; one is special promo Triple Credit on Prepay, the other is a Capped Pay Monthly plan. The first is Prepay the other is Pay Monthly (Billpay).

The difference is as I've posted above; you can buy addons with the Prepay "paid for" credit not with any of the Capped credit. It's very confusing but thats their system ....

Kairi · 02-03-2013 6:50pm

The offer I heard was different from the OP then:)
TMI said it was a monthly subscription.
Are you sure it's a Prepay Triple Credit offer this weekend Oracle?

kn · 02-03-2013 7:11pm

pissed wrote: »

Actually just off the phone with customer service and the offer is still there. Should be open for the next 2 to 3 months.

So assuming I top up by €10 and buy the 1GB data that leaves €23.50 for calls or texts. Seems ok for the price or am I missing something?

Yes. But data and text bundles cannot come from top up bonus amounts - only from your cash balance so you will still have your €20 bonus credit which has a 30 day validity. Normal browsing without a data bundle is just 2c/Mb. I have Tescomobile and find it good. I took advantage of the triple credit offer for switching last December. No problems and the customer support is excellent between here on boards or the call centre. Calling landlines abroad is dirt cheap on Tesco Mobile with the UK for example at 1c/minute.

I would give it a thumbs up anyway.

pissed · 02-03-2013 7:14pm

Its the prepay triple offer I was talking about. I took it you could buy the data bundle from your initial €10 top up and use the bonus €20 for calls and texts?

kn · 02-03-2013 7:18pm

pissed wrote: »

Its the prepay triple offer I was talking about. I took it you could buy the data bundle from your initial €10 top up and use the bonus €20 for calls and texts?

Yeah. Its €6.99 per Gb. And you can buy extra Gbs that run after each other. But the bundle cost has to come from you cash balance.

Oracle · 02-03-2013 7:34pm

kn wrote: »

Yeah. Its €6.99 per Gb. And you can buy extra Gbs that run after each other. But the bundle cost has to come from you cash balance.

Yeah thats it Kn and (just to confuse you more

) the bundles that run after each other are different to the recurring ones. To buy Once-off bundles Text "Data" to 174211 for 1Gb once-off bundle and Text "Data" to 174210 for 350Mb once-off bundle. If you buy the recurring bundles you can't add another within 30 days ie. you can't stack the bundles, the once-off data bundles are stackable:

If you purchase a new data Add-on before an existing once off data Add-on has expired both the remaining data allowance and expiry date are extended by the new data Add-on purchase e.g. if you have 10 days and 500MB left from your initial 30 day Add-on when you purchase a new 30 day data Add-on you will now have 40 days of data usage with a 1524MB data allowance.

"Pissed" are you sure Tesco Customer Service told you the Prepay Triple Credit offer is back?

groom · 02-03-2013 8:05pm

I've been with Tesco in the past (2011) and had a generally good experience. Thought they were good except the data speeds were throttled very low

But one point to note is that a 1 second call cost the same as a 59 second call while most other networks afaik use per second billing. And you'd be amazed how short your average call duration is. Especially when calls go to voice mail and you just hang up.

Makes a difference and eats into that bonus credit.

pissed · 02-03-2013 8:25pm

Oracle wrote: »

Yeah thats it Kn and (just to confuse you more ) the bundles that run after each other are different to the recurring ones. To buy Once-off bundles Text "Data" to 174211 for 1Gb once-off bundle and Text "Data" to 174210 for 350Mb once-off bundle. If you buy the recurring bundles you can't add another within 30 days ie. you can't stack the bundles, the once-off data bundles are stackable:

"Pissed" are you sure Tesco Customer Service told you the Prepay Triple Credit offer is back?

Yeah the guys name was Tom, he said they had two triple credit offers and I said I would be using data so he said to go for the prepay one. I mentioned that it expired in December but he said it was still running and should be for the next two months or so.

Oracle · 02-03-2013 8:53pm

pissed wrote: »

Yeah the guys name was Tom, he said they had two triple credit offers and I said I would be using data so he said to go for the prepay one. I mentioned that it expired in December but he said it was still running and should be for the next two months or so.

Thats good news. I wonder if they'll put it back on the web site?

Esel · 03-03-2013 1:18am

groom wrote: »

... a 1 second call cost the same as a 59 second call while most other networks afaik use per second billing..

Calls cost a flat 20c for the first minute. Per second billing applies after that.

bazwaldo · 03-03-2013 10:23pm

Yeah, I checked that too after I recently switched to Tesco mobile - not knowing about the triple credit offer at the time :-(. I checked 3 other providers and they weren't any better with the first minute charge and some charged a connection fee per call too.

What I like about Tesco is being able to turn on data for the few minutes I need it when not in a wifi zone and only get charged 2c per MB.

Esel · 03-03-2013 10:43pm

bazwaldo wrote: »

What I like about Tesco is being able to turn on data for the few minutes I need it when not in a wifi zone and only get charged 2c per MB.

Hey, that's a good price! Are you sure it's per MB as opposed to KB though?

How do you 'turn it on'? I've only used their Data Bundles before....

pissed · 03-03-2013 10:59pm

Esel wrote: »

Hey, that's a good price! Are you sure it's per MB as opposed to KB though?

How do you 'turn it on'? I've only used their Data Bundles before....

On my Galaxy ... Wireless and Network - Mobile Networks - Data Roaming - Enable / Disable

kn · 04-03-2013 12:24am

Esel wrote: »

Hey, that's a good price! Are you sure it's per MB as opposed to KB though?

How do you 'turn it on'? I've only used their Data Bundles before....

Yeah. I have tescomobile as well and normal browsing outside of a bundle is 2c/Mb, others charge 2c/Kb!!!!!!

There is no 'turning it on'. If you have no bundle then that is the charge.

bazwaldo · 04-03-2013 9:20am

kn wrote: »

Yeah. I have tescomobile as well and normal browsing outside of a bundle is 2c/Mb, others charge 2c/Kb!!!!!!

There is no 'turning it on'. If you have no bundle then that is the charge.

What I meant by turning it on was turning on mobile data on my phone. Tesco charge 2c if you use 1byte or 1MB in a connection. If my phone keeps trying to check for email etc 24hrs a day, then that could be hundreds of connections multiplied by 2c. So I have a widget to toggle mobile data connections on or off on my home screen. And only click it on when I want to browse or check for new emails. Then check it off when I'm finished.

whowantstwoknow · 15-03-2013 7:21pm

Just on to Tesco CC:

This offer is available only instore. You have 2 options:

1) You have to port a number
2) Buy a phone instore

Their cheapest phone is €20, and you get 1000 club points...

W.

Oracle · 15-03-2013 8:09pm

Great thanks for clearing that up. So looks like you can get triple credit and the €25 Unlimited deal.

whowantstwoknow · 15-03-2013 9:24pm

Oracle wrote: »

Great thanks for clearing that up. So looks like you can get triple credit and the €25 Unlimited deal.

Haven't thought of the combination! Though I don't spend that much per month B-)

I'm sure there is a catch

whowantstwoknow · 16-03-2013 11:32pm

whowantstwoknow wrote: »

Just on to Tesco CC:

This offer is available only instore. You have 2 options:

1) You have to port a number
2) Buy a phone instore

Their cheapest phone is €20, and you get 1000 club points...

W.

So much for Tesco cc! Went in store today to find this offer is over and the shop assistant confirmed via head office. So it's either the capped plan or 25 Topup. Not sure which to plum for,trying to spend as little as possible :-)

W

Tesco Mobile Prepay Triple Credit Offer.

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