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

manualskeleton · 27-02-2021 11:10am

Discodog wrote: »

It was when I tried to buy an Amazon UK that I got the security message. So I tried Amazon.de & got the same.

I emailed CS & got a message to use a different payment method. They also said that they couldn't discuss security issues.

I got it an order work with Amazon.de, but I haven't been able to complete the actual payment part because the block hasn't lifted yet. I think it's luck of the draw if an order works or not.

Discodog · 02-03-2021 1:47pm

Just got Dundle to work for Amazon Germany. €19 for a €10 voucher. Long winded & expensive but better than nothing.

DrZeuss · 04-03-2021 1:28pm

Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »

And are we sure it doesn't fupp our being able to keep, and then spend credit if we avail of these offers?

I had the same concerns but it looks to be safe, found a thread on 3's community saying if it shows as available on your plan then it won't affect your plan.

Ref: https://community.three.ie/t5/The-Living-Room/Pssst-I-heard-a-rumour/td-p/769840

I signed up there a few minutes ago and my plan has stayed the same, at least so far anyway.

Tom Mann Centuria · 04-03-2021 3:20pm

DrZeuss wrote: »

I had the same concerns but it looks to be safe, found a thread on 3's community saying if it shows as available on your plan then it won't affect your plan.

Ref: https://community.three.ie/t5/The-Living-Room/Pssst-I-heard-a-rumour/td-p/769840

I signed up there a few minutes ago and my plan has stayed the same, at least so far anyway.

Thanks, might give it a go then.

Discodog · 04-03-2021 5:41pm

Dundle seems to work ok. Just bought a second Amazon.de voucher. €15 gift card was €27 in Three credit.

2lazytogetup · 05-03-2021 8:17pm

anyone manage to get google stradia monthly subscription paid with 3 credit?

Paul Tergat · 17-03-2021 9:49pm

How do I get into the vodafone store to spend my credit?

RossieMan · 17-03-2021 9:53pm

Paul Tergat wrote:

How do I get into the vodafone store to spend my credit?

What?

You spend it in the Google play store, if that's your question.

Paul Tergat · 17-03-2021 9:57pm

RossieMan wrote: »

What?

You spend it in the Google play store, if that's your question.

That was my question, can see my credit but didn't know where to spend it. Cheers.

Is it synced up or something? I dunno where my credit amount would show up in my Google play store

mrcheez · 17-03-2021 10:09pm

Paul Tergat wrote: »

That was my question, can see my credit but didn't know where to spend it. Cheers.

Is it synced up or something? I dunno where my credit amount would show up in my Google play store

You need to access the Play Store on your phone, and then choose the payment method in your account settings.

From there you should see your mobile provider listed and you can select that as the default payment source.

Paul Tergat · 17-03-2021 10:17pm

mrcheez wrote: »

You need to access the Play Store on your phone, and then choose the payment method in your account settings.

From there you should see your mobile provider listed and you can select that as the default payment source.

Yeah see I don't have any option for mobile provider or anything. I think my phone was bought from Amazon uk so wonder is that having an impact?

SCOOP 64 · 17-03-2021 10:34pm

Will this work with App store?

dmn22 · 17-03-2021 10:51pm

Loads of good movies on sale on iTunes this week.

Reservoir Dogs €4
2001: A Space Odyssey €4
Maradona documentary €4
Dunkirk €5
The Green Mile €4
The Shining €4

And loads more. A lot of them in 4K too.

justtrying312 · 20-03-2021 9:29pm

epicgames allows purchases with 3 credit, if that's of any use to people..

Mr Crispy · 20-03-2021 9:35pm

justtrying312 wrote: »

epicgames allows purchases with 3 credit, if that's of any use to people..

Have you tried recently? I spent loads there at Christmas, but then the option was removed as far as I knew. If you can do it again, great!

tv3tg4 · 21-03-2021 1:19pm

When will we see the EU regulations with regards the refund of call credit?

I have alot of call credit with eir

DopeTech · 21-03-2021 2:16pm

tv3tg4 wrote: »

When will we see the EU regulations with regards the refund of call credit?

I have alot of call credit with eir

According to this it came in last year.

https://48.ie/legal/EECC_2020

Nforce · 25-03-2021 2:05am

Anyone having trouble making payments in the Play Store with Vodafone credit? The Vodafone option is "Unavailable" for me.

RossieMan · 25-03-2021 7:52am

Nforce wrote:

Anyone having trouble making payments in the Play Store with Vodafone credit? The Vodafone option is "Unavailable" for me.

Happens from time to time, try again later.

troched · 25-03-2021 6:35pm

Does anybody know if there is a limit on how much credit you can have with 3?

Twice, I went a long time without buying anything, and when I topped up, my credit balance reverted to its pre-top up balance a couple of days later. Think I was at ~€140 after topping up (before it was reduced).

The last time it happened was around March last year. I didn't bother flagging with 3 Customer Service, because there were far more important things happening in the world back then.

thebo · 25-03-2021 6:48pm

troched wrote: »

Does anybody know if there is a limit on how much credit you can have with 3?

Twice, I went a long time without buying anything, and when I topped up, my credit balance reverted to its pre-top up balance a couple of days later. Think I was at ~€140 after topping up (before it was reduced).

The last time it happened was around March last year. I didn't bother flagging with 3 Customer Service, because there were far more important things happening in the world back then.

Some credit expires after a certain amount of time has passed if it isn't used.

You can check on the my3 app when the next €20 date is expiring.

Unfortunately I don't think it uses the oldest credit first when buying. So would have to spend a lot of credit to save the old €20 from expiring.

Quackster · 26-03-2021 3:15am

thebo wrote: »

Some credit expires after a certain amount of time has passed if it isn't used.

You can check on the my3 app when the next €20 date is expiring.

Unfortunately I don't think it uses the oldest credit first when buying. So would have to spend a lot of credit to save the old €20 from expiring.

Exactly this. Top-up credit is queued and expires after six months if you haven't started using the credit from that specific top up yet.

So if I start off with, say, a €5 balance, and top up by €20 a month, after six months of topping up by €20 a month, if you haven't used all of the original €5, you'll have what's left of the €5 as active credit and €120 queued credit.

When you top up for the seventh month, if you still haven't used all of the original €5, it'll be about six months after you topped up for the first month and that €20 expires. So your balance remains unchanged with €120 queued credit.

Each subsequent month, another €20 credit will expire if you haven't started eating into that €20.

Villa05 · 26-03-2021 10:46am

A subscription to Disney plus or Microsoft 365 (includes 1 tb one drive storage) would help in ensuring top ups don't expire

youcancallmeal · 26-03-2021 12:08pm

I'm tried availing of the amazon prime video 3 months free and then €5.99 after that, it looks like I've set it up okay in the my3 app, it's showing as an active add on. But when I log into prime video with my amazon account I linked it says I don't have access

EDIT: Actually I see the status of the subscription is 'pending' in the my3, anyone know how long it usually takes

mrcheez · 26-03-2021 12:29pm

youcancallmeal wrote: »

I'm tried availing of the amazon prime video 3 months free and then €5.99 after that, it looks like I've set it up okay in the my3 app, it's showing as an active add on. But when I log into prime video with my amazon account I linked it says I don't have access

EDIT: Actually I see the status of the subscription is 'pending' in the my3, anyone know how long it usually takes

The €5.99 is taken from Three credit?

youcancallmeal · 26-03-2021 12:54pm

mrcheez wrote: »

The €5.99 is taken from Three credit?

Supposedly so, it's discussed a couple of pages back

justtrying312 · 26-03-2021 6:27pm

Anyone have any good places to use 3 credit? I know only of epicgames, youtube and google play store.. any other places /websites we could buy stuff with credit?

mrcheez · 26-03-2021 7:12pm

youcancallmeal wrote: »

Supposedly so, it's discussed a couple of pages back

Nice! I might swap my monthly Shudder for €4.99 for Prime Video for €5.99 as, while Shudder is great, Prime Video would have far more horror

Asus X540L · 26-03-2021 7:36pm

justtrying312 wrote: »

Anyone have any good places to use 3 credit? I know only of epicgames, youtube and google play store.. any other places /websites we could buy stuff with credit?

You'll have to read through this thread m8 lol.

youcancallmeal · 26-03-2021 7:38pm

youcancallmeal wrote: »

I'm tried availing of the amazon prime video 3 months free and then €5.99 after that, it looks like I've set it up okay in the my3 app, it's showing as an active add on. But when I log into prime video with my amazon account I linked it says I don't have access

EDIT: Actually I see the status of the subscription is 'pending' in the my3, anyone know how long it usually takes

I figured out the problem was that I was trying to use Samsung mobile browser to link my three account to my amazon account and the 'activate' button was missing. Doing it in chrome and the activate button appeared

mrcheez · 28-03-2021 8:55pm

mrcheez wrote: »

Nice! I might swap my monthly Shudder for €4.99 for Prime Video for €5.99 as, while Shudder is great, Prime Video would have far more horror

Just on the Prime Video thing... does signing up for this give you Prime on Amazon UK too (free delivery etc) ?

RossieMan · 28-03-2021 10:55pm

mrcheez wrote:

Just on the Prime Video thing... does signing up for this give you Prime on Amazon UK too (free delivery etc) ?

No.

Asus X540L · 28-03-2021 11:13pm

There's a donate for dementia in honour of Jack Charlton.

Text "memory" to 50300. 4 euro donation

MarkY91 · 28-03-2021 11:16pm

Cheers to the people letting us know we can now pay for Disney+. Very handy to have.. especially considering my credit just goes to waste as I always forget to top up again until my internet stops working (after they charged me a ridiculous fee for a few megabytes) so it feels like I'm getting Disney+ for free.

Discodog · 28-03-2021 11:56pm

justtrying312 wrote: »

Anyone have any good places to use 3 credit? I know only of epicgames, youtube and google play store.. any other places /websites we could buy stuff with credit?

Look at my posts on the previous page regarding Dundle

manualskeleton · 29-03-2021 7:51pm

Seconding Dundle here. I got it to work. It's expensive, but better than the credit going to waste.

justtrying312 · 29-03-2021 9:18pm

Thanks for the responses guys, for dundle must I call the number and just let the phone stay on the line for 10 minutes or what ever? much appreciated guys. ta

manualskeleton · 03-04-2021 12:29pm

justtrying312 wrote: »

Thanks for the responses guys, for dundle must I call the number and just let the phone stay on the line for 10 minutes or what ever? much appreciated guys. ta

Kinda yeah, I'm not sure it was ever exactly that long for me. On one of the calls, it rang me back and I had to answer it for another few mins. Probably due to the amount I was trying to process.

timple23 · 13-04-2021 7:24pm

I have a 3 sim in a 4g router, is it possible to use the credit on that sim without taking sim out of the router?

One More Toy · 13-04-2021 10:52pm

timple23 wrote: »

I have a 3 sim in a 4g router, is it possible to use the credit on that sim without taking sim out of the router?

No i don't think so. I'm in the same position and can't

Ten Pin · 14-04-2021 12:00am

I have a 3 sim in a 4g router, is it possible to use the credit on that sim without taking sim out of the router?

Depends what you want to spend it on....SMS can be sent if the router interface has a texting option...although it would probably be just as easy to use webtext in my3.

Calls can be made if the router has a working phone port with a standard landline handset plugged in.

timple23 · 14-04-2021 10:23am

Ten Pin wrote: »

Depends what you want to spend it on

I want to use it on stuff available on the play store, like Disney+ etc.

witnessmenow · 14-04-2021 2:12pm

One More Toy wrote: »

No i don't think so. I'm in the same position and can't

I used to have the setup and I setup the payment in my phone on the play store (android) and I was able to keep using it even when I put it back in the router

One More Toy · 14-04-2021 4:23pm

witnessmenow wrote: »

I used to have the setup and I setup the payment in my phone on the play store (android) and I was able to keep using it even when I put it back in the router

Oh very good, I only use my credit for Coingate & Laura Lynn

Access · 05-05-2021 8:32am

Just a heads up on the dundle Amazon vouchers.

I've used dundle twice now for Amazon vouchers the first time for Amazon Germany for two €15 vouchers, and recently for Amazon UK for a £20 voucher.

It says it charges 171 percent of the voucher cost making the call but it is way more than this.

I am on the three Ireland network and for the €30 Germany voucher it ended up costing around €69 worth of credit.

For the £20 UK Amazon voucher costing me closer to €44 of credit.

While I'm happy that I got something out of my credit it is way overpriced for what it is, and I honestly don't think I'd use it again I'd rather give my money to one of the charity text numbers on likecharity.

Also a heads up for the UK Amazon vouchers they ask you to submit an id to prove who you are are to me this feels sketchy as f***. Tried using my student ID but wouldn't accept it and in the end had to scan my drivers licence which I'm honestly not happy about otherwise I would have lost the money I put into the phone calls.

Reason why I went ahead and did scan it was the trustpilot reviews for dundle and for the company that handles the ID verification but I don't think I do it again or recommend anyone else does as it's just not worth the long phone calls and the overpriced vouchers in the end.

Access · 05-05-2021 8:36am

BTW, you can pay for a Discovery+ subscription (€5.99 at the moment) using phone credit on Three through Google play store.

Only annoying problem is that I can't get the discovery plus app on any smart TV in Ireland at the moment so have to cast it from my phone.

mrcheez · 05-05-2021 10:55am

Access wrote: »

BTW, you can pay for a Discovery+ subscription (€5.99 at the moment) using phone credit on Three through Google play store.

Only annoying problem is that I can't get the discovery plus app on any smart TV in Ireland at the moment so have to cast it from my phone.

You can probably watch it via a Firestick or similar?

Disney+ has National Geographic so that can scratch that itch, as well as all the Star content, might be worth considering as well

Discodog · 07-05-2021 6:21pm

Access wrote: »

Just a heads up on the dundle Amazon vouchers.

I've used dundle twice now for Amazon vouchers the first time for Amazon Germany for two €15 vouchers, and recently for Amazon UK for a £20 voucher.

It says it charges 171 percent of the voucher cost making the call but it is way more than this.

I am on the three Ireland network and for the €30 Germany voucher it ended up costing around €69 worth of credit.

For the £20 UK Amazon voucher costing me closer to €44 of credit.

While I'm happy that I got something out of my credit it is way overpriced for what it is, and I honestly don't think I'd use it again I'd rather give my money to one of the charity text numbers on likecharity.
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Also a heads up for the UK Amazon vouchers t you to submit an id to prove who you are are to me this feels sketchy as f***. Tried using my student ID but wouldn't accept it and in the end had to scan my drivers licence which I'm honestly not happy about otherwise I would have lost the money I put into the phone calls.

Reason why I went ahead and did scan it was the trustpilot reviews for dundle and for the company that handles the ID verification but I don't think I do it again or recommend anyone else does as it's just not worth the long phone calls and the overpriced vouchers in the end.

I got around this & I can't remember how. I think they sent a text to my phone. Yes it is expensive but better than nothing

dublinman1990 · 08-05-2021 7:33pm

Hi guys. I have enabled the 3 billing on Google Play on my phone just now. I have €40 worth of unused mobile broadband credit left on one number.

Is that credit allowed to be spent on Google Play? TIA.

whowantstwoknow · 29-05-2021 9:26pm

I've used my Vodafone credit on application with monthly subscriptions, but this week when payment has been due, it has failed and Vodafone is showing as unavailable?

Any idea how to fix? Or is it onto Vodafone to see if they know?

Thanks W

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

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