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Complete Nonsense

  • 18-05-2014 3:34pm
    #1
    Un Croissant
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,052 ✭✭✭


    My girlfriend just went into Carphone Warehouse to buy a sim card. The guy at the counter asked if she wanted to buy the sim card and get 10e credit free, or did she want to buy the 10e credit to get the sim card free.

    What is this nonsense? Any advertising heads in AH care to explain why these kind of things happen?


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  • #2
    userod
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 327 ✭✭userod


    Un Croissant wrote: »
    My girlfriend just went into Carphone Warehouse to buy a sim card. The guy at the counter asked if she wanted to buy the sim card and get 10e credit free, or did she want to buy the 10e credit to get the sim card free.

    What is this nonsense? Any advertising heads in AH care to explain why these kind of things happen?

    What's the issue?


  • #3
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    I would buy the €10 credit and get the free sim, better deal. :rolleyes:


  • #4
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    How much is the sim card?


  • #5
    ratmouse
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,856 ✭✭✭ratmouse


    userod wrote: »
    What's the issue?

    Obviously the issue the OP has is that the choices being offered are nonsense!


  • #6
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    I would buy the €10 credit and get the free sim, better deal. :rolleyes:

    That's what they want you to think..


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  • #7
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Mint Sauce wrote: »
    How much is the sim card?

    Free if you but the credit.


  • #8
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Free if you but the credit.

    How much is the credit?


  • #9
    Alf. A. Male
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Alf. A. Male


    Are Carphone Warehouse offering a deal on running the gas off the electricity and the electricity off the gas?


  • #10
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭dmc17


    Un Croissant wrote: »
    My girlfriend just went into Carphone Warehouse to buy a sim card. The guy at the counter asked if she wanted to buy the sim card and get 10e credit free, or did she want to buy the 10e credit to get the sim card free.

    What is this nonsense? Any advertising heads in AH care to explain why these kind of things happen?

    Go back in to the fcuker and ask him for a fiver credit and half a sim card!


  • #11
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    dmc17 wrote: »
    How much is the credit?

    €10, the credit is free though if you buy the sim.


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  • #12
    Nino Brown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,507 ✭✭✭Nino Brown


    Ask if you can get E5 worth of sim card, and E5 worth of credit


  • #13
    irishgeo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,604 ✭✭✭irishgeo


    Un Croissant wrote: »
    My girlfriend just went into Carphone Warehouse to buy a sim card. The guy at the counter asked if she wanted to buy the sim card and get 10e credit free, or did she want to buy the 10e credit to get the sim card free.

    What is this nonsense? Any advertising heads in AH care to explain why these kind of things happen?

    He must have been out last night.


  • #14
    theKillerBite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 195 ✭✭theKillerBite


    Obviously the better deal is buy the sim card and get €10 credit. Presuming the sim card costs €1-2


  • #15
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    sugarman wrote: »
    Order them online for free;)

    Then go back to cpw and ask the lad if he wants to buy a sim for 10 eurons. :p


  • #16
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,592 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    How much was the Sim?


  • #17
    Mr. CooL ICE
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,708 ✭✭✭✭Mr. CooL ICE


    Well la-dee-da, too good for two empty yoghurt cartons and a piece of string are we?


  • #18
    darkpagandeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24,465 ✭✭✭✭darkpagandeath


    Buy one get one free ....


  • #19
    theKillerBite
    Closed Accounts Posts: 195 ✭✭theKillerBite


    Wait, why does the gf need a phone anyways? Is she going to start texting other fellas now?


  • #20
    dmc17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,782 ✭✭✭dmc17


    LordChessington wrote: »
    Well la-dee-da, too good for two empty yoghurt cartons and a piece of string are we?

    If you buy the cartons do you get the yoghurt free? Or do you have to buy the yoghurts to get the cartons free? How much is a piece of string these days?


  • #21
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,472 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Were both sims for the same provider?


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  • #22
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    theKillerBite wrote: »
    Obviously the better deal is buy the sim card and get €10 credit. Presuming the sim card costs €1-2

    But if you just buy the credit and get the sim thrown in for free you'll save that €1-2 in the long run.


  • #23
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,581 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    LordChessington wrote: »
    Well la-dee-da, too good for two empty yoghurt cartons and a piece of string are we?
    string eh ?
    no recession in your gaff


    couldn't afford string so we had to make do with a cordless phone


  • #24
    Adamantium
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭Adamantium


    Alf. A. Male wrote: »
    Are Carphone Warehouse offering a deal on running the gas off the electricity and the electricity off the gas?

    Because I can't resist..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxVLaTVBnpg


  • #25
    Wishiwasa Littlebitaller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,337 ✭✭✭Wishiwasa Littlebitaller


    You think that's bad, I asked the barman in the Lighthouse cinema last night what time the bar closed and with a straight face and in a monotone voice he said 'Whenever we stop serving drinks'.


  • #26
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Un Croissant wrote: »
    My girlfriend just went into Carphone Warehouse to buy a sim card. The guy at the counter asked if she wanted to buy the sim card and get 10e credit free, or did she want to buy the 10e credit to get the sim card free.

    What is this nonsense? Any advertising heads in AH care to explain why these kind of things happen?

    I used to work in Carphone Warehouse. This is quite common in the GSM industry. It's the networks who do this NOT Carphone Warehouse.

    Sometimes the €10 credit must go on the new number, but even so, the Sales Consultant won't bother putting it on. That way, you can use the credit elsewhere and not have to use the new number.


  • #27
    Alf. A. Male
    Closed Accounts Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Alf. A. Male


    kneemos wrote: »
    How much was the Sim?

    Free once you paid a tenner for it. Or to look at it another way, if you paid them a tenner for it, it was then free.


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