Where to spend excess Credit [Vodafone&Three on Android + iOS]

One More Toy · 20-09-2020 10:43pm

The Ayatolla wrote: »

Just found this thread. Have around €90 free credit with Vodafone

Pay for Spotify premium right now. Prob makes sense to move to YT Music / Google Music?

You could buy some crypto too with it

Raoul · 21-09-2020 12:13am

One More Toy wrote: »

You could buy some crypto too with it

You only get 50% of the value or something though do you?

One More Toy · 21-09-2020 12:26am

Raoul wrote: »

You only get 50% of the value or something though do you?

Well for me on 3 for a €35 phone call I get €15 in ethereum

2lazytogetup · 24-09-2020 10:39am

anyone know if you can pay for google stradia with excess credit?

Asus X540L · 24-09-2020 11:05am

Hey peeps, Rocket League is free on Epic Games Store and you also get a ten euro voucher.

I used the voucher to buy brand new release "Hades" for only 6.79 with credit.

Boxfresh · 28-09-2020 1:24pm

One More Toy wrote: »

You could buy some crypto too with it

How do you go about this? Have a Coinbase account.

One More Toy · 28-09-2020 2:13pm

Boxfresh wrote: »

How do you go about this? Have a Coinbase account.

Coingate

Boxfresh · 28-09-2020 2:44pm

One More Toy wrote: »

Coingate

Have you bought bitcoin with phone credit before?

One More Toy · 28-09-2020 3:43pm

Boxfresh wrote: »

Have you bought bitcoin with phone credit before?

Ethereum

Boxfresh · 28-09-2020 5:19pm

One More Toy wrote: »

Ethereum

So let's I have 40 euro credit in mobile credit balance. I could then buy Ethereum with coingate and then transfer it into my Coinbase account and withdraw it from there?? Sounds interesting.

One More Toy · 28-09-2020 5:37pm

Boxfresh wrote: »

So let's I have 40 euro credit in mobile credit balance. I could then buy Ethereum with coingate and then transfer it into my Coinbase account and withdraw it from there?? Sounds interesting.

Not exactly,

If you're on 3 the phone call costs €35 and for that you get about €15 ethereum. Add the coinbase fees into it it's not worthwhile

I was an early investor in ethereum 3 years ago. I buy and hold ethereum in my ledger hardware wallet

Korvanica · 13-10-2020 9:21am

I am subbed to brain.fm.

If you sign up with the app you can pay through the Google Store and pay your subscription with 3 credit.

Its 6.99 a month.

Very good service if you need to concentrate.
:cool:

Normal link is above - however:
Referral Link if you're feeling frisky

EoinMcLovin · 15-10-2020 9:52am

This could be interesting
https://www.mobileindustryeye.com/eye-network/fortumo-connects-three-ireland-to-its-direct-carrier-billing-platform/

Ten Pin · 15-10-2020 10:34am

This could be interesting
https://www.mobileindustryeye.com/eye-network/fortumo-connects-three-ireland-to-its-direct-carrier-billing-platform/

Hopefully not the same kind of interesting as Zamano were in the past...

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/zamano-signs-deal-with-three-mobile-to-become-billing-partner-1.2179940

https://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?sort=newest&date_to=&date_from=&query=Zamano+three

EoinMcLovin · 15-10-2020 10:38am

Ten Pin wrote: »

Hopefully not the same kind of interesting as Zamano were in the past...

https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/zamano-signs-deal-with-three-mobile-to-become-billing-partner-1.2179940

https://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?sort=newest&date_to=&date_from=&query=Zamano+three

Oh wow, never heard about this. I'd say better off having a wait and see approach with this

Ten Pin · 15-10-2020 11:23am

Red27 are the latest company giving consumers similar headaches with unsolicited premium SMS....
https://www.boards.ie/search/submit/?sort=newest&date_to=&date_from=&query=Red27

AFAIK a billing partner provides a back end platform that anyone can sign up to and start charging mobile accounts for a service (via PAYG credit or bill charge). The main difficulty is the confirmation from the consumer that they agree to the charges is not strictly enforced.

Fortumo might not be in the same game but these words from the article are too familiar from previous providers...

Fortumo’s merchants can now collect payments for games, in-app content and digital services

...which could include clickable ads through which the merchant gets your number from Three and starts charging without you even knowing about it until your credit is gone or the phone bill arrives.

EoinMcLovin · 15-10-2020 11:45pm

Fortumo are doing the carrier billing for epic games hopefully they do the same with PSN or even Spotify

Discodog · 17-10-2020 8:55pm

I used to buy music from Google Play using 3 Credit. I see that Google Play is now YouTube music & you can't buy tracks.

Does anyone know another site where you can buy music with 3 credit?

at9qu5vp0wcix7 · 23-10-2020 4:08pm

Does anybody know if you can use credit to purchase ppv events on BT Sport?

From the link it seems you can use carrier billing
https://www.ufc.com/news/ways-watch-ufc-254-ukie

RossieMan · 23-10-2020 6:50pm

That's UK.

okidoki987 · 24-10-2020 12:54pm

Son is on 3 at €20 a month and had built up credit of over €100.
He checked yesterday and it had all disappeared.
He contacted Live Chat who told him there was 180 day expiry on it.
That true?
I thought it there no expiry on the plan he is on with credit?
Also if there was 180 day expiry on the credit, the payments from 5 months up todate should all still be there?

Ten Pin · 24-10-2020 1:03pm

It wouldn't all expire on the same day. Each 20e top up would expire 180 days after it was applied.

Having said that, the 180 day expiry is supposed to only apply to customers who moved to the newer prepay plans since June 2020.

Were there any out of bundle charges? 3s data is a euro per MB when plan expires.

Not a good idea to build up that amount of credit. Three are always waiting to pounce on it whenever they can. Data addons and play store are ways to spend it.

okidoki987 · 24-10-2020 1:55pm

Ten Pin wrote: »

It wouldn't all expire on the same day. Each 20e top up would expire 180 days after it was applied.

Having said that, the 180 day expiry is supposed to only apply to customers who moved to the newer prepay plans since June 2020.

Were there any out of bundle charges? 3s data is a euro per MB when plan expires.

Not a good idea to build up that amount of credit. Three are always waiting to pounce on it whenever they can. Data addons and play store are ways to spend it.

That's what I assumed.
He's on unlimited data now so nothing extra to come off there, sounds like a load of bull to me.
Even if it was 180 days, why would they wipe the last 5 months off it?
I feel a small complaint coming their way

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Tx.

Quackster · 24-10-2020 2:32pm

Ten Pin wrote: »

Having said that, the 180 day expiry is supposed to only apply to customers who moved to the newer prepay plans since June 2020.

No, the 180 day expiry has always been there, as least for the many years I've had a Three SIM on the legacy 3Pay plan.

Also, it's only top-up credit that's 'in the queue' that expires after 180 days of non-use. The top-up credit that you're actively using never expires as long as there is a credit-reducing event at least every 180 days.

Quackster · 24-10-2020 2:37pm

okidoki987 wrote: »

That's what I assumed.
He's on unlimited data now so nothing extra to come off there, sounds like a load of bull to me.
Even if it was 180 days, why would they wipe the last 5 months off it?
I feel a small complaint coming their way .
Tx.

No way that credit expired. It sounds like data was used when the plan wasn't active and that would clear out any credit balance in minutes.

Raoul · 24-10-2020 3:18pm

I wish you luck with your complaint. But realistically they will just bs you. See if you can get a usage charge.

BobbyMalone · 25-10-2020 11:55am

Raoul wrote: »

I wish you luck with your complaint. But realistically they will just bs you. See if you can get a usage charge.

Keep on at them. They will absolutely feed you the bs, and tell you that they don't hold usage reports for top up accounts beyond a certain period of time, but it just depends on how persistent you are.

okidoki987 · 25-10-2020 7:02pm

Cheers.
Having recently had the "pleasure" of a Vodafone Live Chat rep for an hour over a mobile offer problem, I'm looking forward to wasting another hour of my life with Three when I eventually get all the details :rolleyes:.

DrZeuss · 25-10-2020 7:12pm

Might be worth opening a thread on their community, I have found that to be the best place to get help and from someone that appears to be a level or two higher support than their chat or on the phone.

https://community.three.ie/t5/Prepay/bd-p/Prepay

Damien360 · 25-10-2020 7:17pm

okidoki987 wrote: »

Cheers.
Having recently had the "pleasure" of a Vodafone Live Chat rep for an hour over a mobile offer problem, I'm looking forward to wasting another hour of my life with Three when I eventually get all the details :rolleyes:.

You won’t just be an hour. Three are atrocious to deal with. Live chat crawls along. They will after many hours agree and you may think that’s the end of it. But it will not be resolved and you won’t get money back. I took screen shots of the entire conversation I had and it might as well have never occurred. They don’t allow upload of images to live chat and will deny all. Still with them as nothing else compares for the price of €20 per month.

Varik · 26-10-2020 2:05am

If you go onto the website it'll show how long until credit you currently have expires.

If you'd a balance from before change it'll note the balance but won't give a time.

jelutong · 26-10-2020 8:40pm

Maybe it’s been mentioned before but it seems you can use excess credit on GAAGO.

26-10-2020 9:09pm

I had a bunch of credit disappear a while ago, they promised itemised billing showing where it went, but it never happened. In the end I took it as an opportunity to move my number to 48, it's amazing being able to call people again without having to use some kind of VOIP, or worry about chewing through credit.

I still have another legacy 3 SIM that I've moved all my subs across to, and I'm just going to make sure I never let it build up too much.

Asus X540L · 27-10-2020 1:25am

Basil3 wrote: »

I had a bunch of credit disappear a while ago, they promised itemised billing showing where it went, but it never happened. In the end I took it as an opportunity to move my number to 48, it's amazing being able to call people again without having to use some kind of VOIP, or worry about chewing through credit.

I still have another legacy 3 SIM that I've moved all my subs across to, and I'm just going to make sure I never let it build up too much.

48 are owned by Three if you weren't aware.

27-10-2020 6:33am

Asus X540L wrote: »

48 are owned by Three if you weren't aware.

I am, but thanks for checking.

I'm not salty over it, like I'm sure a lot of people would be. I just felt like my accumulated credit was always keeping me tied to that plan, and I really missed being able to make a phone call without having to think about it.

Darby_321 · 28-10-2020 6:22pm

Hi guys, i went on to spend some of my 3 credit on the play store and it was saying my 3 billing was unavailable so i removed it from my payment methods and then went to add it again but now there is nothing showing up to allow me to select 3 billing. Its only shows the option of adding another credit card. Does anybody know what is going on here?

Discodog · 28-10-2020 7:55pm

Darby_321 wrote: »

Hi guys, i went on to spend some of my 3 credit on the play store and it was saying my 3 billing was unavailable so i removed it from my payment methods and then went to add it again but now there is nothing showing up to allow me to select 3 billing. Its only shows the option of adding another credit card. Does anybody know what is going on here?

No idea but I just spent 3 credit on iTunes.

lisij · 28-10-2020 9:43pm

Does any one were able to set up their apple payment option as a mobile phone? I cant get past the verification code, once i entered the verification code the message pops out unable to verify the code. Im kinda stuck

And if some one did managed to set it up, does it uses your three credit?

Discodog · 28-10-2020 10:10pm

lisij wrote: »

Does any one were able to set up their apple payment option as a mobile phone? I cant get past the verification code, once i entered the verification code the message pops out unable to verify the code. Im kinda stuck

And if some one did managed to set it up, does it uses your three credit?

I have bought music on iTunes with 3 phone credit

lisij · 28-10-2020 10:17pm

lisij wrote: »

Does any one were able to set up their apple payment option as a mobile phone? I cant get past the verification code, once i entered the verification code the message pops out unable to verify the code. Im kinda stuck

And if some one did managed to set it up, does it uses your three credit?

Never mind, sorted. Was some sort of a bug or something.
And yes tested it with app store all works fine, finally can spend my credit

lisij · 28-10-2020 10:18pm

Discodog wrote: »

I have bought music on iTunes with 3 phone credit

Yes works fine now

thebo · 06-11-2020 12:36am

Might be mentioned already but can pay for twitch subscriptions with credit.

NinetyForNone · 06-11-2020 1:05pm

thebo wrote: »

Might be mentioned already but can pay for twitch subscriptions with credit.

Cost €6.99 pm instead of €4.99 pm. Guess twitch add on the commission taken.

sunny2004 · 15-11-2020 9:00am

Is there any post with a list what o3 credit can be used for ? Or do I have to read through 130+ pages ?

15-11-2020 9:08am

sunny2004 wrote: »

Is there any post with a list what o3 credit can be used for ? Or do I have to read through 130+ pages ?

There's a list in the OP which covers most stuff.

DopeTech · 15-11-2020 9:12am

sunny2004 wrote: »

Is there any post with a list what o3 credit can be used for ? Or do I have to read through 130+ pages ?

You mean 3 credit? The sticky in post 1 has the main ones but it needs updating. For the rest you will need to have scan of the thread.

One More Toy · 15-11-2020 10:43am

sunny2004 wrote: »

Is there any post with a list what o3 credit can be used for ? Or do I have to read through 130+ pages ?

Yes I can't edit the original post unfortunately

jeffk · 15-11-2020 10:47am

Cloud Storage
VPN

Then random apps that pop up as useful
Tapet, changes wallpaper, cant set the colours it uses
Hermit, make lite versions of apps or turn webpages into app (like boards for one)

mrcheez · 15-11-2020 11:22am

Then streaming options like Shudder and Disney+ ...I'm chuffed with both of these

at9qu5vp0wcix7 · 15-11-2020 11:40pm

You can use text numbers to donate to a lot of charities, ultimately a better use of the credit than leaving it expire!

Where to spend excess Credit [Vodafone&Three on Android + iOS]

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