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Why don't the post office/an post sell prepay power vouchers?

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  • 24-02-2020 9:31pm
    #1
    Long_Wave
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    This is a major handicap for prepay power in rural Ireland and most shops in rural Ireland have an post postpoint terminals not payzone.


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    L1011
    Registered Users Posts: 68,123 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Because they don't have a commercial relationship with them

    Nobody is going to be able to give you a better answer.


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    Long_Wave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 136 ✭✭Long_Wave


    L1011 wrote: »
    Because they don't have a commercial relationship with them

    Nobody is going to be able to give you a better answer.

    But why do an post have a commercial relationship with say Lycamobile? How many Lycamobile vouchers would they sell per year?


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    gipi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,904 ✭✭✭gipi


    Long_Wave wrote: »
    But why do an post have a commercial relationship with say Lycamobile? How many Lycamobile vouchers would they sell per year?

    Because Lycamobile entered into a commercial relationship with An Post.


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    L1011
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    Long_Wave wrote: »
    But why do an post have a commercial relationship with say Lycamobile? How many Lycamobile vouchers would they sell per year?

    Because they do

    You need to ask An Post.


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    Slippin Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭Slippin Jimmy


    Ring An Post and ask them. The answers given here seem to be on the money.


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    GerardKeating
    Registered Users Posts: 7,564 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    Long_Wave wrote: »
    But why do an post have a commercial relationship with say Lycamobile? How many Lycamobile vouchers would they sell per year?

    Why assume the issue is with An Post, maybe "Prepay Power" don't want An Post to sell them?


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    Cabaal
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 28,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭Cabaal


    Prepay power company's make money by charging a higher rate to its customers, why would they loose money by having to pay An Post a portion when they know that any prepay power customer's are a captive audiance. They also know a vast, vast majority of its customer's can top-up via app/site etc


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    silver2020
    Registered Users Posts: 2,045 ✭✭✭silver2020


    Long_Wave wrote: »
    This is a major handicap for prepay power in rural Ireland and most shops in rural Ireland have an post postpoint terminals not payzone.

    Can you quantify that?

    I selected a rural town - Cahirciveen
    I choose the product - Prepay power

    I got 5 results. - Approx 1 every 200 metres of the main street.

    Other end of the country, Dungloe in Donegal. 3 results for Prepay power agents.

    Midlands - Mountmellick. 11 results.

    Virtually every village in the country seems to have a Payzone outlet. Maybe yours is the only one without one?


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    corks finest
    Registered Users Posts: 8,665 ✭✭✭corks finest


    They do in UK,and N of IRELAND,ballygo backwards down here as usual


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    L1011
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    corks finest wrote: »
    They do in UK,and N of IRELAND,ballygo backwards down here as usual

    Postpoints sell topups for other prepayment energy suppliers. Prepaypower is a specific brand that they only cover for gas topups.

    This type of payment system was widespread in Ireland well before the UK, and Irish firms have been many of the innovators globally


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    corks finest
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    L1011 wrote: »
    Postpoints sell topups for other prepayment energy suppliers. Prepaypower is a specific brand that they only cover for gas topups.

    This type of payment system was widespread in Ireland well before the UK, and Irish firms have been many of the innovators globally

    I was topping up via post office in Derry 37 years ago


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    L1011
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    corks finest wrote: »
    I was topping up via post office in Derry 37 years ago

    And? You could topup ESB meter cards there that long ago also. They were the only operator in the country then, as in Northern Ireland (NIE) so there was no issue of specific brands not having commercial relationships with the Post Office.

    Prepaypower are a small niche operator and they have chose to go with Payzone only. This is not an implication of anything backwards, except perhaps for someone with a ridiculous chip on their shoulder about something.


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