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Mobile Top Up Charges Question

  • 16-12-2005 5:15pm
    #1
    jonny68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,531 ✭✭✭


    Thankfully most shops now don't charge a top up but walked into a shop earlier to buy €10 credit and the bloke tried charging me €10.40 so said no thanks and walked up the road and got it for a tenner,my question being why do some shops continue to charge a surcharge?Is this legal,i was under the impression that this surcharge was supposed to be done away with?:confused:


Comments

  • #2
    Random
    Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    I don't see any reason (legally) why they shouldn't be allowed to charge what they like. In my experience 10.40 is cheap aswell ...


  • #3
    Fajitas!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,624 ✭✭✭✭Fajitas!


    It's legal.

    The reason shops do it is the tiny mark up shops get off phone credit. If they didn't charge the extra 40c, there'd be no point in having the service, other than to get 1c per €10. It would actually cost the shop keeper to run the service, buying rolls of paper like.

    The reason big stores don't have to do it is they don't need the mark up.


  • #4
    jonny68
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,531 ✭✭✭jonny68


    ciaranfo wrote:
    I don't see any reason (legally) why they shouldn't be allowed to charge what they like. In my experience 10.40 is cheap aswell ...

    why pay the extra when a shop a few seconds up the road is cheaper eh


  • #5
    angeldelight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭angeldelight


    jonny68 wrote:
    why pay the extra when a shop a few seconds up the road is cheaper eh

    Cause some people will pay it. I know when I finish college at 5 and am heading for my bus at 20 past, I go into the newsagent at the top of Grafton St which charges 10.40 but I don't care cause it's handy and it's only 40c after all.


  • #6
    Piste
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,440 ✭✭✭✭Piste


    In my day 40c bought you a cherry pie and a liver and onion dinner...


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  • #7
    Atrocity
    Closed Accounts Posts: 806 ✭✭✭Atrocity


    at the end of the day, people will just pay it out of laziness.


  • #8
    vector
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭vector


    Atrocity wrote:
    at the end of the day, people will just pay it out of laziness.

    I'd never pay it*, prepay calls are already too expensive, paying extra at the topup stage is simply out of the question.

    *I use AIB text topup (the text message I send to get the topup is free itself)


  • #9
    Sam Vimes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,611 ✭✭✭✭Sam Vimes


    top up at an atm or better yet get text top up if your with aib (or boi i believe). you can do it with a credit card too. i haven't bought a top up in a shop in years and its dead handy to be able to top up in bed :)


  • #10
    billy the squid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    Post office do not charge, neither do the banks or the phone company outlets.

    personaly I don't see why these shops should be allowed to charge extra for credit. if I want €10 worth of calls i expect to only pay €10 for it.

    anyways i have a bill mobile so it doesnt affect me anymore.


  • #11
    kc66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,269 ✭✭✭kc66


    vector wrote:
    *I use AIB text topup (the text message I send to get the topup is free itself)
    I registered for the AIB 24 hr banking which allows the text topup yesterday. They said there is a 20c charge for it. The text is free.


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  • #12
    vector
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,756 ✭✭✭vector


    kc66 wrote:
    I registered for the AIB 24 hr banking which allows the text topup yesterday. They said there is a 20c charge for it. The text is free.

    Excellent point, if you are a fee paying customer (and not a student as most here are) then it is possible/probable that the usual AIB withdrawl fee (in this case the lower electronic one) would be imposed as the funds leave your bank account (regardless of what they are for, be it a mobile topup or otherwise)


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