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

lucast2007us · 01-12-2018 9:36am

Was able to subscribe to the ""Headspace"" meditation and relaxation app for 12.99 per month.

ccarr · 01-12-2018 9:51am

Has anyone else notice that you can no longer pay for parking in Dublin city by text

BKWDR · 01-12-2018 2:17pm

ccarr wrote: »

Has anyone else notice that you can no longer pay for parking in Dublin city by text

I did it yesterday in Fingal. Had always done it in Dublin

Wheety · 07-12-2018 4:04pm

Thinking of signing up for Office 365. €10 a month for up to 6 people. It's currently €69.30 to buy it outright but the credit seems like wasted money if I don't spend it.

Should I pay up front and just enter premium competitions with my credit or pay for Office?

07-12-2018 4:25pm

Wheety wrote: »

Thinking of signing up for Office 365. €10 a month for up to 6 people. It's currently €69.30 to buy it outright but the credit seems like wasted money if I don't spend it.

Should I pay up front and just enter premium competitions with my credit or pay for Office?

what do you mean by premium competitions?

Wheety · 07-12-2018 4:40pm

glasso wrote: »

what do you mean by premium competitions?

Sorry, text message competitions like on RTÉ. usually €2 to enter. Usually spend a few quid on them if I've had credit building up for a few months.

Can't set up the Office 365 through Three billing. telling me that option is not eligible. Looked at other apps and I can buy them.

mrcheez · 07-12-2018 5:08pm

Wheety wrote: »

Sorry, text message competitions like on RTÉ. usually €2 to enter. Usually spend a few quid on them if I've had credit building up for a few months.

Can't set up the Office 365 through Three billing. telling me that option is not eligible. Looked at other apps and I can buy them.

You have to sign up via the OneDrive app

I pay €7 per month and it includes the Office 365 sub + 1TB OneDrive

Wheety · 07-12-2018 5:29pm

mrcheez wrote: »

You have to sign up via the OneDrive app

I pay €7 per month and it includes the Office 365 sub + 1TB OneDrive

I downloaded the app and the subscription initialised but it told me that, although the first month is free the authorisation didn't happen. That was with my Three payment. It won't let me select now and only gives credit card as an option.

mrcheez · 07-12-2018 5:33pm

Wheety wrote: »

I downloaded the app and the subscription initialised but it told me that, although the first month is free the authorisation didn't happen. That was with my Three payment. It won't let me select now and only gives credit card as an option.

Is this Three or Vodafone?

Sounds like an issue with Google Play payment methods ... open Play Store and select "Payment methods" from the menu and under payment settings (I believe) is the area you select to be billed by the carrier.

Wheety · 07-12-2018 5:55pm

It's Three.

Mobile billing is definitely set up as it comes up for other apps.

But when I go to pay for OneDrive, I'm not getting that option.

Not sure how I had it selected initially, set as default maybe? But it had an error and was marked as ineligible for this subscription. Then I tried to update the payment method and that's where I am now.

I read somewhere that Netflix had stopped mobile billing so maybe Microsoft have too? I'm sure Google take a cut.

mrcheez · 07-12-2018 6:22pm

Wheety wrote: »

I read somewhere that Netflix had stopped mobile billing so maybe Microsoft have too? I'm sure Google take a cut.

No as I just renewed my subscription via Three billing yesterday for another month. €7 deducted from my credit.

The only payment option I have is Three, I never added any other payment methods so perhaps you need to delete the other options?

I don't recall if there was anything in particular I had to do to select 3 as the payment for the sub. I believe it worked just fine as is.

07-12-2018 6:25pm

mrcheez wrote: »

No as I just renewed my subscription via Three billing yesterday for another month. €7 deducted from my credit.

The only payment option I have is Three, I never added any other payment methods so perhaps you need to delete the other options?

I don't recall if there was anything in particular I had to do to select 3 as the payment for the sub. I believe it worked just fine as is.

Yup, don't need to do anything special. Just select 3 as payment method and away you go. Have been paying for office 365 for the last year or so with my credit.

Wheety · 07-12-2018 6:39pm

The Netflix update was posted on this site somewhere, I'll have a look later.

But they said it's only for new subscriptions, and if you're currently using carrier billing, it would continue until you cancelled.

I'll try deleting my cards later but can't imagine it'll make a difference. As I said option shows on other apps.

07-12-2018 6:40pm

sometimes you have to remove the three payment method and re-add it.

this has worked for me in the past when I've had issues.

Vision123456 · 07-12-2018 6:56pm

I sure this has been asked and answered previously but can you pay for Netflix with 3 credit

Wheety · 07-12-2018 7:06pm

glasso wrote: »

sometimes you have to remove the three payment method and re-add it.

this has worked for me in the past when I've had issues.

I did remove it and add it but will try again

Vision123456 wrote: »

I sure this has been asked and answered previously but can you pay for Netflix with 3 credit

Nope. Netflix stopped it a while ago.

odyssey06 · 08-12-2018 6:08pm

If you're not doing anything else with it, via Christmas FM you can donate to Temple Street.
Details here:
https://christmasfm.com/contact-us/

Stylesclash07 · 08-12-2018 6:23pm

Does anyone know can you sign up to Wwe network with it.

Wheety · 08-12-2018 10:40pm

Stylesclash07 wrote: »

Does anyone know can you sign up to Wwe network with it.

Is there an app with in-app purchases? That's your best bet.

sweetie · 12-12-2018 10:24am

Text street lights to 50300 to support Irish homeless charities. â‚¬4 taken of which 3.60 goes to the charities.

sweetie · 12-12-2018 10:24am

Text street lights to 50300 to support Irish homeless charities. â‚¬4 taken of which 3.60 goes to the charities.

23-12-2018 11:38am

Viber have brought out a plan with unlimited international calls (landline and mobile) for €9.49/month. Great value.

Included countries:

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Faroe Islands, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States Virgin Islands, USA

BKWDR · 26-12-2018 10:29pm

I thought it was on here have gone pages back and can't find it.

Changed my #1 sim network on my dual sim and now my 3 network isn't showing up in the play store options to pay for stuff

Any suggestions?

RossieMan · 26-12-2018 10:54pm

Change it back to your no 1 SIM? Why break something that was working?

Not sure Google play registers 2 SIM cards. Fairly certain from experience it's just the main SIM in the phone.

BKWDR · 26-12-2018 10:58pm

RossieMan wrote: »

Change it back to your no 1 SIM? Why break something that was working?

Not sure Google play registers 2 SIM cards. Fairly certain from experience it's just the main SIM in the phone.

Ah ok I'll test that out.
It was initially 2x Three sims
I'll swap them and check

Phoenix Wright · 29-01-2019 1:57pm

I take it that it's not possible to pay for Express VPN with credit anymore given that it's not in the OP? I've tried paying through the app but the option is not appearing for me

Phoenix Wright · 29-01-2019 6:42pm

For other people's reference, I'm going to respond to my own query. I used Express VPN's live chat and apparently it is not possible to pay by credit anymore. However, I have now purchased PIA VPN using my credit which will cost €7.52 a month - it seems to be working well so far on my laptop.

Wheety · 29-01-2019 6:47pm

Just to update the problem I was having with paying for an Office365 subscription. I let my free month's trial finish and then tried to sign up again and I was able to use my 3 credit to pay for it. Paying €10 a month for 6 users of Office365. Each user can install office apps on multiple devices. I think they can only use 1 at a time though. But the big thing is 1TB storage x 6.

DrZeuss · 30-01-2019 12:10am

Phoenix Wright wrote: »

For other people's reference, I'm going to respond to my own query. I used Express VPN's live chat and apparently it is not possible to pay by credit anymore. However, I have now purchased PIA VPN using my credit which will cost €7.52 a month - it seems to be working well so far on my laptop.

You can also pay for PIA's yearly one using credit, $39.99 or whatever it translates to in € at the time, it totalled €43.30 for me for the year.

mrcheez · 30-01-2019 12:56am

Wheety wrote: »

Just to update the problem I was having with paying for an Office365 subscription. I let my free month's trial finish and then tried to sign up again and I was able to use my 3 credit to pay for it. Paying €10 a month for 6 users of Office365. Each user can install office apps on multiple devices. I think they can only use 1 at a time though. But the big thing is 1TB storage x 6.

I've been meaning to use my storage... wonder if they have issues me storing Blu Ray rips on it

vargoo · 30-01-2019 1:12am

mrcheez wrote: »

I've been meaning to use my storage... wonder if they have issues me storing Blu Ray rips on it

Just buy a hdd

mrcheez · 30-01-2019 1:18am

vargoo wrote: »

Just buy a hdd

Just did, filled it up already! :pac:

but I do feel the 1TB is a bit wasted if I'm paying for it and not using it. Would rather store stuff there I'm not worried about losing, so no photos or personal files, but yes to downloaded files.

Wheety · 30-01-2019 12:50pm

mrcheez wrote: »

Just did, filled it up already! :pac:

but I do feel the 1TB is a bit wasted if I'm paying for it and not using it. Would rather store stuff there I'm not worried about losing, so no photos or personal files, but yes to downloaded files.

Would you not be better off storing stuff you are worried about losing? Hard drives fail all the time. Even if you have several copies of photos/personal files, online is another option which won't suffer from hard drive failures or other damage.

mrcheez · 30-01-2019 4:01pm

Wheety wrote: »

Would you not be better off storing stuff you are worried about losing? Hard drives fail all the time. Even if you have several copies of photos/personal files, online is another option which won't suffer from hard drive failures or other damage.

Because once you stop paying for OneDrive you don't have access to them any longer.

I've looked it up and apparently it's fine to upload to OneDrive as long as you don't share the content.

vargoo · 30-01-2019 4:38pm

mrcheez wrote: »

Because once you stop paying for OneDrive you don't have access to them any longer.

I've looked it up and apparently it's fine to upload to OneDrive as long as you don't share the content.

Wrong.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/onedrive-storage-plan-and-billing-questions-989fce19-ade6-4e2f-81fb-941eabefee28

Dont know what to make of wasting time uploading something you don't give a fig about either, stop wasting electricity, data, time, storage etc!

mrcheez · 30-01-2019 5:54pm

vargoo wrote: »

Wrong.

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/onedrive-storage-plan-and-billing-questions-989fce19-ade6-4e2f-81fb-941eabefee28

If you continue to exceed your storage limit for an extended period of time, your account will be frozen.

so yeah.. seems data will be inaccessible if you leave it indefinitely once over 5GB if you decide not to resubscribe for whatever reason.

vargoo wrote: »

Dont know what to make of wasting time uploading something you don't give a fig about either, stop wasting electricity, data, time, storage etc!

It's not that I don't care about losing it... it's that I won't be AS bothered about losing it should I neglect to get it down for whatever reason, as I can just redownload.

The point is to use the OneDrive as a spacer to clear up storage space so I can store more files locally.

anyway this is off topic, take it to PM if you want to discuss

DopeTech · 03-02-2019 9:24am

Is anyone using a VPN paid for by carrier billing for €10 or less a month?

vargoo · 03-02-2019 12:13pm

Sir Dosser wrote: »

Is anyone using a VPN paid for by carrier billing for €10 or less a month?

Read back a page

DopeTech · 03-02-2019 12:23pm

vargoo wrote: »

Read back a page

My bad, I missed that when it was posted. Thanks.

TallGlass · 04-02-2019 12:55am

Three the stingey bastards have deactivated One Drive. Thought I was getting away with it. Payment went in last month.

TallGlass · 04-02-2019 1:01am

Sorry Three!

Can't idiot proof myself. Be good if I checked my balance before complaining. Assume my balance was too low. Whoops !

RossieMan · 04-02-2019 1:09am

They've deactivated everything else so wouldn't surprise me! Can't use Boku payment anymore with three for the last few months.

roper1664 · 04-02-2019 2:39pm

DrZeuss wrote: »

You can also pay for PIA's yearly one using credit, $39.99 or whatever it translates to in € at the time, it totalled €43.30 for me for the year.

How do you actually perform the transaction using your phone credit, as in the site gives you a list of payment options: Paypal, credit card, bitcoin etc., but which one do you select, please?

thebo · 04-02-2019 3:24pm

roper1664 wrote: »

How do you actually perform the transaction using your phone credit, as in the site gives you a list of payment options: Paypal, credit card, bitcoin etc., but which one do you select, please?

Use the pia phone app to purchase with credit

mrcheez · 04-02-2019 4:53pm

TallGlass wrote: »

Three the stingey bastards have deactivated One Drive. Thought I was getting away with it. Payment went in last month.

I just got a notification that my Office / One Drive sub was renewed for another month today via Google Pay (using Three credit)?

TallGlass · 04-02-2019 9:32pm

mrcheez wrote: »

I just got a notification that my Office / One Drive sub was renewed for another month today via Google Pay (using Three credit)?

Yeah, I think there sub works on monthly, while 3's is 28 days so they can go out of sync, literally just topped up today so if it tried today would have been fine

mrcheez · 04-02-2019 9:42pm

Oh right. Thought u were saying you couldn't pay for OneDrive any longer...phew

manualskeleton · 07-02-2019 10:47am

RossieMan wrote: »

They've deactivated everything else so wouldn't surprise me! Can't use Boku payment anymore with three for the last few months.

Their customer service has been trying for the last 3 and a half weeks to find out for me what Boku can actually be used for

RossieMan · 07-02-2019 1:18pm

Boku used to be the only thing I used it for on g2a. Twitch is what I spend my credit on now.

manualskeleton · 07-02-2019 2:25pm

RossieMan wrote: »

Boku used to be the only thing I used it for on g2a. Twitch is what I spend my credit on now.

I don't see Boku in the payment methods there now

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

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