Eir GoMo - €9.99/month SIM only (unlimited calls, texts and 80GB data, 10Gb EU Roam

pat1981 · 22-10-2019 01:11PM

Ordered 2 sims, received.
Started the porting process at 1pm yesterday still showing in progress, was with virgin previously. gomo chat now is unavailable, looks like i'll have to send a email and wait.

punisher5112 · 22-10-2019 01:14PM

pat1981 wrote: »

Ordered 2 sims, received.
Started the porting process at 1pm yesterday still showing in progress, was with virgin previously. gomo chat now is unavailable, looks like i'll have to send a email and wait.

Keep checking it comes and goes.

physioman · 22-10-2019 01:16PM

Ordered last Tuesday. Spoke to chat yesterday who assured me I'd get the SIM today. No sign of it. Ridiculous at this stage.

um7y1h83ge06nx · 22-10-2019 01:19PM

I get a bit of a 90's vibe from those ads, not sure if it is the bright, garish colours or the clothing the actors wear.

Still I don't buy a service because of their ads!

editorsean · 22-10-2019 01:36PM

Suckit wrote: »

Talking about the pros and cons and what the actual catch may be "There's always a catch"
On radio one right now
https://www.rte.ie/radio1/

The podcast clip for anyone interested:
https://podcast.rasset.ie/podcasts/audio/2019/1022/20191022_rteradio1-seanorourke-newnofrill_c21640956_21640965_232_.mp3

The Cush · 22-10-2019 01:40PM

Lamar Skinny Mill wrote: »

I get a bit of a 90's vibe from those ads, not sure if it is the bright, garish colours or the clothing the actors wear.

Still I don't buy a service because of their ads!

A piece here on The Tenth Man advertising agency that put together the campaign - https://www.adworld.ie/2019/10/18/the-tenth-man-rolls-out-game-changing-campaign-for-new-mobile-service-gomo/

AlmightyCushion · 22-10-2019 01:57PM

The ads are shít just like the website. It's just a bunch of pictures young people doing stupid poses in front of a solid colour background. It's so generic. They could be advertising anything. Just look at this image with the tag line 'Simplicity':

How does a picture of some gimp with a terrible tracksuit and constipation convey simplicity?

Regardless, the price is still great.

jakdublin · 22-10-2019 01:58PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

One thing that's terrible is the ads as it doesn't look like there is one Irish person in it....

What would you expect? Leprechauns? Comly maidens? Freckles? Red heads?

Somedaythefire wrote: »

They all "look Irish" to me.

Me too. Punisher must be living in a cave the last few decades.

ErinGoBrath · 22-10-2019 02:01PM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

The ads are shít just like the website. It's just a bunch of pictures young people doing stupid poses in front of a solid colour background. It's so generic. They could be advertising anything. Just look at this image with the tag line 'Simplicity':

How does a picture of some gimp with a terrible tracksuit and constipation convey simplicity?

Regardless, the price is still great.

Looks like the result of middle age marketers trying to be 'hip' and 'cool'

It's terrible

Creamy Goodness · 22-10-2019 02:04PM

Same **** happens in all advertising, look at shaving/shampoo etc. I need those products and couldn't give a rats ass what the ads do, same for my mobile network provider.

fletch · 22-10-2019 02:05PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

One thing that's terrible is the ads as it doesn't look like there is one Irish person in it....

Why is it terrible?

Pen Rua · 22-10-2019 02:07PM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

The ads are shít just like the website. It's just a bunch of pictures young people doing stupid poses in front of a solid colour background. It's so generic. They could be advertising anything. Just look at this image with the tag line 'Simplicity':

How does a picture of some gimp with a terrible tracksuit and constipation convey simplicity?

Regardless, the price is still great.

And yet here we are, all swayed by the marketing (which encompases the 9.99 price tag) with a significant chunk of posters going for it. I would suggest the marketing is working. People are aware of the brand, and they have a very specific demo. Are the people in this thread that are giving out about the campaign part of this demo they're targeting? i.e. twenty somethings looking for "subscription" pricing (note how bill pay is almost absent from their marketing... it's "9.99 a month..." just like Spotify / Netflix...).

_feedback_ · 22-10-2019 02:13PM

Three's promo text this afternoon wouldn't exactly make you re-consider!

AlmightyCushion · 22-10-2019 02:19PM

Pen Rua wrote: »

And yet here we are, all swayed by the marketing (which encompases the 9.99 price tag) with a significant chunk of posters going for it. I would suggest the marketing is working. People are aware of the brand, and they have a very specific demo. Are the people in this thread that are giving out about the campaign part of this demo they're targeting? i.e. twenty somethings looking for "subscription" pricing (note how bill pay is almost absent from their marketing... it's "9.99 a month..." just like Spotify / Netflix...).

People aren't signing up because they seen some eejit pulling a stupid pose. They're signing up because it's a tenner a month. A lot of the interest was from the initial post on this thread which had none of those marketing images.

If this was €30 a month, nobody would be interested in it. The marketing images are shíte, that doesn't change whether the offering is good value or not. If they had some other marketing images people would still be aware of it and they would still be signing up for it.

punisher5112 · 22-10-2019 02:19PM

fletch wrote: »

Why is it terrible?

Go back and look.... I couldn't have made it any clearerer.....

TheDriver · 22-10-2019 02:19PM

There's an advertising forum around somewhere but this ain't it. This is a bargain forum with some discussion about the quality of the bargain which ultimately relates to the reason to go with the bargain.

punisher5112 · 22-10-2019 02:20PM

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

People aren't signing up because they seen some eejit pulling a stupid pose. They're signing up because it's a tenner a month. A lot of the interest was from the initial post on this thread which had none of those marketing images.

If this was €30 a month, nobody would be interested in it. The marketing images are shíte, that doesn't change whether the offering is good value or not. If they had some other marketing images people would still be aware of it and they would still be signing up for it.

The price and the data threw it for me....

Best deal I've ever seen and I just hope the signal will be up to it for me.

Somedaythefire · 22-10-2019 02:21PM

Getting absolutely atrocious download speeds. 0.12 download with 25Mb upload.

.BrianJM · 22-10-2019 02:23PM

frosty123 wrote: »

Can anyone confirm this?.. please

Worked okay for me.

AlmightyCushion · 22-10-2019 02:25PM

punisher5112 wrote: »

The price and the data threw it for me....

Best deal I've ever seen and I just hope the signal will be up to it for me.

The price is great. I've been on €15 a month for unlimited or close to unlimited since iD first started and I've always considered that a very good deal. So, I was pleasantly surprised when I seen this come out.

_Godot_ · 22-10-2019 02:25PM

Got an email this morning, came home to find the package put through the door with no need to sign, just waiting for my number to port over, hopefully, at four.

Gadgetman496 · 22-10-2019 02:32PM

Just chanced CHAT there and they confirmed that you can hold off on a port for as long as you like, the option will be left there in your account.

Ush1 · 22-10-2019 02:35PM

Got the missus ported over finally, I'm sure you'll be delighted to hear lads

darrent065 · 22-10-2019 02:38PM

I ordered Last Wednesday at 10am still no sign of it and no tracking number. Contacted them numerous times all i have got is 2-3 days delivery time, after that they said up to 5 days now they telling me 5-7 days delivery time. They are a bit of a joke to be honest no support what so ever and cannot tell me if sim is sent or not. My wife ordered hers same day as me but at 9pm and guess what it was delivered this morning. Also both parents ordered on Thursday evening around 9pm and they have numbers assigned to their accounts and will be with them tomorrow. I'm first to order out of the 4 of us and last to get anything lol pure joke. Equality and all that jazz.

Gadgetman496 · 22-10-2019 02:40PM

darrent065 wrote: »

I ordered Last Wednesday at 10am still no sign of it and no tracking number. Contacted them numerous times all i have got is 2-3 days delivery time, after that they said up to 5 days now they telling me 5-7 days delivery time. They are a bit of a joke to be honest no support what so ever and cannot tell me if sim is sent or not. My wife ordered hers same day as me but at 9pm and guess what it was delivered this morning. Also both parents ordered on Thursday evening around 9pm also and they have numbers assigned to their accounts and will be with them tomorrow. I'm first to order out of the 4 of us and last to get anything lol pure joke. Equality and all that jazz.

The complainer is always left till last

darrent065 · 22-10-2019 02:42PM

looks that way.

Thargor · 22-10-2019 02:44PM

Where the feck are people seeing the option to change port times in their accounts? Need to change mine now because the sim never arrived...

Gadgetman496 · 22-10-2019 02:46PM

Thargor wrote: »

Where the feck are people seeing the option to change port times in their accounts? Need to change mine now because the sim never arrived...

You can only do it when the sim arrives

Basq · 22-10-2019 02:46PM

Thargor wrote: »

Where the feck are people seeing the option to change port times in their accounts? Need to change mine now because the sim never arrived...

Account Details -> Move My Number

https://my.gomo.ie/portIn

Gadgetman496 wrote: »

You can only do it when the sim arrives

I was able to change it before it arrived, but it was not long after despatch.

The Cush · 22-10-2019 02:47PM

Article on GoMo and its sister company Iliad in Italy - https://www.telecomtv.com/content/mobile/ireland-starting-to-feel-the-niel-effect-36667/

In Italy Iliad launched into a market covering a population of around 60 million, that had recently stabilised after a period of price aggression, with a plan costing just €5.99 per month. It signed up 635,000 customers in the period between its 29 May launch and the end of financial Q2 – thus about a week for 100,000 customers is a reasonable assumption – and reached the 1 million mark within 50 days; it now has 4 million customers and has captured 4.7% of the market, again excluding M2M, regulator Agcom reports. Its €5.99 offer has disappeared, but its 50 GB plan costs just €7.99 per month.

It is a stretch to suggest that GoMo will have as dramatic an impact in Ireland. The population is significantly smaller at under 5 million and while GoMo is offering a cheaper plan than those currently on the market, €9.99 is a more measured price level. However, it is a highly attractive plan that will find strong favour and will doubtless trigger a response from the rest of the market.

Ireland is getting the Niel treatment and there's not a lot its existing telcos can do about it.

Eir GoMo - €9.99/month SIM only (unlimited calls, texts and 80GB data, 10Gb EU Roam

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