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Skype - FREE Unlimited Calls, Group Video, Group Screen Sharing for 1 Month

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accessdenied on 31/10/2013 - 12:38 skype.com (3819 clicks)
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FREE - Everytime I hear this word, I get goosebumps.

Try the best of Skype for FREE
Unlimited calls, group video, group screen sharing — free for a month

Yes you would have to make an account and yes you would have to give your personal details but hey.. who wouldn't have a skype account? Probably someone from MARS. And if you're from mars and you dont have a skype account, please trust me and make one.. it comes in pretty handy .. (atleast on earth).. might be useless when you go back to Mars.

Whats included & T&Cs(Blah blah blah):- Go for it its FREE…!!!

Calls to landlines in these countries/regions: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Chile, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia (Moscow and St. Petersburg only), Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom and Venezuela.

Calls to landlines and mobiles in these countries/regions: Canada, Guam, Hong Kong S.A.R., Puerto Rico, Singapore, Thailand and United States.

  1. A fair use policy applies. Excludes special, premium and non-geographic numbers. Mobile calls to select countries/regions only.

  2. Offer available while supplies last. To qualify for the offer, you must have or create a Skype account and provide valid payment details. After the first month, your subscription will automatically continue and payments will be taken monthly unless you cancel subscription within 27 days from the start of your trial (free trial runs one month despite cancellation of recurring subscription). Only one Skype Premium with Unlimited World subscription can be claimed per customer. Offer not available in China, South Korea or Taiwan. Skype reserves the right to withdraw this offer at any time.

    You will be charged the recurring amount in the currency you have selected to maintain your account.

  3. Group video calls can be between three or more people (up to a maximum of 10), and at least one person on the call needs to have a Premium account. For the best quality, we recommend calls with up to five people.

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  • kwaker on 31/10/2013 - 12:44
    +3

    Not including mobiles in australia.

    • accessdenied on 31/10/2013 - 12:47

      ofcourse.. Skype is more useful if you need to call overseas..

  • A3Australia on 31/10/2013 - 12:45

    Any SKYPE guaranty regarding privacy?

    • accessdenied on 31/10/2013 - 12:48
      -5

      not sure.. but considering skype, i wouldnot worry about privacy.. I think they are a pretty genuine company.. plus they are not like facebook that tracks your day to day info.. :)

      • ozhunter on 31/10/2013 - 13:01
        +5

        Skype is owned by Microsoft…., not saying Google/Facebook is any better.

      • rompastompa on 31/10/2013 - 13:05
        +4

        http://www.zdnet.com/is-microsoft-reading-your-skype-instant…

        Microsoft is a pretty genuine company. I trust them.

        • accessdenied on 31/10/2013 - 13:09
          +4

          I'm sure they are reading them.. they have billions of employees just employed to read our messages..

        • rompastompa on 31/10/2013 - 13:12
          +2

          Yea, you're right. I shouldn't worry about my privacy. :D

        • accessdenied on 31/10/2013 - 13:22
          -3

          lol.. I wont argue more.. but I'm sure you wouldnt have some Top secret plans to keep them hidden from the world. unless u work for CIA ofcourse, in that case, you'd be banned from using Skype by CIA :D Agent R :P

        • A3Australia on 31/10/2013 - 14:03
          +2

          I'm sure they are reading them.. they have billions of employees just employed to read our messages..

          The NSA have thousands of employees and tens of thousands of computers. They use the computer power to analyse the data.

        • eug on 31/10/2013 - 14:11

          If you're that worried about your privacy, don't use the internet. :)
          (and your home phone, and your mobile phone, and your credit card, and your bank account…)

        • cashless on 31/10/2013 - 14:31
          +4

          <<Tries to envisage those highly paid NSA spies sitting over there in Virginia watching/listening/reading about a bunch of Aussie bargain hunters fighting over freebies>>

        • mskeggs on 31/10/2013 - 14:55
          +2

          Or, you know, you could campaign for better privacy laws, use free tools to support privacy and be knowledgable about privacy concerns.
          I suppose not caring is easier though.
          Next time you think privacy isn't important, consider buying a car.
          When I walk into a Toyota showroom I don't want the dealer knowing my private opinion that Toyotas are great cars.
          In the USA they are tracking customers who submit enquiry forms to motor dealers across multiple dealers and brands so they can report, for example, that this enquiry is from somebody looking at only Hondas or Toyotas.
          Wouldn't you rather have laws and regulations to place some restraint on these kind of things?

        • Diji1 on 31/10/2013 - 15:11
          +2

          Yep. and I'm sure they dedicate those human resources to reading inane chitchat that has no relevance to the security of the USA.

          Not that I think it's a great thing that this level of monitoring occurs (although speaking for myself I highly doubt a human is reading any of my communications) but I think it's rather odd that Australians are bleating about NSA surveillance given the situation in this country regarding it's intelligence services.

          Specifically the ASD (formally DSD) is not restricted by any legislation at all regarding metadata collection and further does not need a warrant to listen on the content of anyone's communication. I would be more concerned about this rather than a foreign intelligence service if I was so inclined (it is legitimate to have concerns in my eyes).

          Perhaps a case of people not really holding an interest in the topic except for the fact that it's in the news says cynical old me.

        • Diji1 on 31/10/2013 - 15:15

          "They" is not the NSA and frankly if you don't like it don't use the dealer enquiry form. It's not a very good example because you have the option of not participating very easily.

        • Gnostikos on 31/10/2013 - 15:21

          I'm sure they are reading them.. they have billions of employees just employed to read our messages..

          Don't be naive.

          Data-mining software and packet-sniffing supercomputers do in a few months what thousands of sleep-deprived desk jockies do in a year.

          A single NarusInsight machine can monitor traffic equal to the maximum capacity (10 Gbit/s) of around 39,000 256k DSL lines or 195,000 56k telephone modems. But, in practical terms, since individual internet connections are not continually filled to capacity, the 10 Gbit/s capacity of one NarusInsight installation enables it to monitor the combined traffic of several million broadband users.
          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narus_%28company%29

          ^ And that's 2006 technology. The NSA's server farms are the world's largest databases; and they're just building a 1.5 million square foot Utah Data Center that will have a storage capacity of 12 exabytes (12,000,000 terabytes): http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/al…

          And don't forget these little gems from the FBI: FBI Wants Backdoors in Facebook, Skype and Instant Messaging
          http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/05/fbi-seeks-internet-…

          FBI Drive for Encryption Backdoors Is Déjà Vu for Security Experts
          http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/09/fbi-backdoors/

        • accessdenied on 31/10/2013 - 15:26
          +1

          Well. yea.. but FBI wont be much interested if you're sending love messages to your GF or threatening a guy in USA to kick his butt.. Come on they are there to detect potential national hazards or threats from Terrorists. They are not interested in knowing what you ate and when you pooped.

          What is with this private stuff?? even your emails are being scanned. your msgs too may be. you should then leave all these electronic life and start living primitive life

        • eug on 31/10/2013 - 15:35

          Don't be naive.

          And don't be obsessively paranoid.

        • Gnostikos on 31/10/2013 - 15:40
          -1

          Well. yea.. but FBI wont be much interested if you're sending love messages to your GF or threatening a guy in USA to kick his butt.. They are not interested in knowing what you ate and when you pooped.

          Actually they are, as former US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski said in his 1970 book, Between Two Ages:
          "The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities."

          But don't let that stop anyone from leading a normal and incredibly exposed lifestyle that is wholly dependent on telecommunications technology for modern man's very existence; said technology which is monopolised in the hands of very few people who would have no interest whatsoever in peering into the lives of millions of citizens they desperately need to convince they still have the illusion of choice and freedom in the world.

        • eug on 31/10/2013 - 15:42
          +2

          in his 1970 book,

          Are you 100% certain a prediction written 43 years ago is correct today?

          People did write future predictions saying we would have flying cars today too.

        • accessdenied on 31/10/2013 - 15:46

          dude. they are.. Didn't u watch harry potter?? Flew right above me..

        • Gnostikos on 31/10/2013 - 15:51

          Are you 100% certain a prediction written 43 years ago is correct today?

          The point of that quote isn't to gauge whether Zbigniew Brzezinski was Nostradamus but to highlight how long-standing such long-term goals have been within the halls of power in the Western World.

          Anyway, deflect and mitigate all you like; there's plenty of bread and circuses to keep yourself pacified with while the noose on society tightens gradually.

        • eug on 31/10/2013 - 15:59

          I think some people here need to chill a bit. Go out and breathe in some fresh air.

        • Diji1 on 31/10/2013 - 17:15

          Dupe post removed

        • Diji1 on 31/10/2013 - 17:27
          -1

          That doesn't really justify the statement "Actually they are …" LOL.

          You're really sounding a bit over the top and using silly amounts of hyperbole.

          No one is wholly dependent on modern communications technology for their very existence. I assure you I can throw away my phone, computer and anything else electronic today and I'll live a good long life. I won't die or vanish in a puff of smoke.

          The phrase communications being monopolised in the hand of a few is fairly um … naive considering the recent development called the internet has allowed anyone to make information available in various ways at no cost. I mean how much less like a monopoly can it get? I know you're probably referring to ownership of underlying infrastructure granted - but please, these types of people rarely intervene in the spreading of information as aside from anything else it's to their advantage not to and there's always the other guy who will allow it.

          I assume by "illusion of choice" you mean a campaign to limit the options available to people - well, see earlier in this comment: there really hasn't been another period in history where people have had the ability to go and find out things if they want to so it's hardly a "noose tightening around people's neck" as you put it, if anything it's loosening relative to any other time (and the phrase is again over the top IMO).

        • donga100 on 31/10/2013 - 19:10

          The zdnet article you linked to says:

          There’s no evidence that anyone, human or machine, is reading your confidential messages. There's no evidence that the content of the messages is being examined at all. Automated scanning of some URLs within instant messages isn't the same as "reading everything you write." This is roughly equivalent to what mail servers do when they check the header information on an incoming message to determine whether it's spam. That's a legitimate security function, not an invasion of privacy.

          You can put that tinfoil hat away, at least for now.

          Not saying you shouldn't be concerned about your privacy though.

        • prism on 01/11/2013 - 11:25
          +2

          If you aren't concerned about privacy and you have a business that has American competitors then you definitely should be.
          "Latest Leak Shows NSA Engaging In Economic Espionage — Not Fighting Terrorism" from Techdirt

          If you want to protect yourself its not about removing yourself from digital communications, its about not doing any business with any American based digital company. Search engine ixquick (based in the Netherlands and gives a crap about your privacy)
          Email gmx (based in Germany and SO much better than any of the other free email providers)
          You can find alternatives to any US based company, its not hard.

  • charlie123 on 31/10/2013 - 13:22
    -2

    La India to che j nai ama.

    charlie123 on 31/10/2013 - 13:22 (Collapsed - Offtopic. Show)
    • ltwo on 31/10/2013 - 13:35
      +1

      Cartman, what now?

    • accessdenied on 31/10/2013 - 13:46
      +3

      india mate paisa kharcho.. badhu mafat ma na male

      • hashtagbargain on 31/10/2013 - 14:10

        Thank you for the moving words, Mr. Shah.

        • accessdenied on 31/10/2013 - 14:11

          sorry bro.. not being rude. it was just on a funny note.. :)

      • charlie123 on 31/10/2013 - 14:49

        Be majaak ma kidhu me. Te to naam fervi naikhu taru.

    • userblocked on 31/10/2013 - 14:57

      koik nu Skype ID hack karvu padse.

      • accessdenied on 31/10/2013 - 14:58

        bhai… hu police ma chu.. avu badhu bolso to jail bhego kari dais..

        • userblocked on 31/10/2013 - 15:00

          Bolvamay jail? kya desh no kanoon che aa?

        • charlie123 on 31/10/2013 - 15:04

          A la police ma kyarthi?

        • accessdenied on 31/10/2013 - 15:42

          hehe.. majjak majjak ..

  • gccmelb on 31/10/2013 - 13:25
    +1

    http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/87898
    Is is probably the same deal.
    If you have multiple credit cards, you get a free month per card (and new account) and another free month on the same card with paypal but by making a new account.

    So if you have six cards that is 12 months free (12 accounts). Assuming this promotion is still going.

    • LDS on 31/10/2013 - 13:50

      We all love this kind of thinking :)

      Just make sure you cancel them all or it backfires, lol

  • hashtagbargain on 31/10/2013 - 13:48
    +2

    I get this error:

    Oops - it looks like this trial has either expired or isn’t available for this Skype Name.
    Please ensure you’ve signed in with the Skype Name the free trial was sent to.

    So close!

  • bonezAU on 31/10/2013 - 13:49
    +9

    I wish they'd expand their list of countries that are included in Skype premium. I don't need to call any of those countries but I need to call others. How dare they offer something for free that doesn't suit my needs??!!

    • LDS on 31/10/2013 - 13:51
      +1

      lol

  • DVDGuy on 31/10/2013 - 13:50
    +6

    Well, I still wasn't too convinced about this deal after the first four occurrence of the word "FREE" in the title, but the fifth one clinched it for me :)

  • frostee on 31/10/2013 - 14:21

    Hmmmm this would be good for my holiday in New York next month. Thanks OP.

  • Gnostikos on 31/10/2013 - 15:07
    +1

    Let the Prank Calling Season begin early!

  • Son of Matrix on 31/10/2013 - 15:13

    Skype charged my credit card wrongly TWICE. Seems like someone managed to get my credit card info when I charged my Skype account and used it for themselves on twice.

    After complaint, they disable my account amd think that my account is compromised.

    Asked me to verify whether it's me by asking me to providee details on what I last did with my Skype account.

    I rarely used Skype so I don't bother. Good they dusabled my account. What a pain.

    • m2000 on 31/10/2013 - 15:17

      Yes, happened also to someone I know…
      I use paypal or prepaid vouchers.

  • davedrastic on 31/10/2013 - 15:18
    -1

    A warning to heavy users.

    If Skype decide that you're abusing the system, they will completely ban your account and will not be open to changing that.

    If you have credit on your account, kiss it goodbye.

    I used the service heavily for 1 week and got banned. Made a few hundred calls. Doesn't strike me as excessive for an unlimited account. Oh well.

    • machej on 31/10/2013 - 16:30

      Wow, even my engin VoIP account wouldn't have a problem with that. How many hours were the calls?

      • davedrastic on 31/10/2013 - 17:18

        They were super quick calls. Approx 1 min long.

        • kwaker on 31/10/2013 - 19:23

          1 week a few hundred calls. Who are you calling? I'm not surprised they thought it was excessive I.e they think its business

        • eug on 31/10/2013 - 19:50

          A large number of very short calls could also look like wardialling or an automatic dialer for telemarketers.

        • davedrastic on 06/11/2013 - 11:51

          Yes, it's a business service.

        • davedrastic on 06/11/2013 - 11:51

          It shouldn't matter what it looks like, but what it is.

        • eug on 06/11/2013 - 15:24
          +2

          Wouldn't they have to eavesdrop on your calls to know for sure what it is?

        • machej on 11/11/2013 - 01:57

          They have the legal rights to and they have the private encryption keys so it's not out of their technical scope.

  • brgnhntr on 31/10/2013 - 15:48

    I just tried to make a local call in australia but it says "this is not a skype number". any idea? FYI I have signed up for the full service or whatever it is called. verified the account with paypal but still not able to make calls.

    • ozAzn on 31/10/2013 - 17:23

      have you put in +61(state code) ?

  • triumph on 31/10/2013 - 15:52

    "Oops - it looks like this trial has either expired or isn’t available for this Skype Name."

    what happened to my account?

  • AmericanDad on 31/10/2013 - 16:24

    I suspect this is the same offer as last time? Claimed it last time so I am unable to use the offer again. You can always create a new account to claim the offer though.

  • abh_gup on 31/10/2013 - 16:25

    this may not be ok for everyone! Please note that this Pre-approves itself for monthly $16, starting the following month, unless you log in to your Paypal account and specifically cancel this subscription via your Paypal account, quite a task as never done one before.

    • accessdenied on 31/10/2013 - 16:28

      I did mine for other subscription today. not really a task. but yeah. worth it for a month's free subscription.

  • ozhunter on 31/10/2013 - 17:00
    +2

    Try the best of Skype for FREE
    Unlimited calls, group video, group screen sharing — free for a month

    Is skype calling considered the same as using rebtel

    Hangouts is a good free alternative option for group video calling and screen sharing. I guess it can also do voice calls(just do a video call then disable the camera)

  • tron07 on 31/10/2013 - 17:26

    Nice.

    Skype Premium with Unlimited World, 1 month
    AU$ 9.99
    30 day free trial AU$ -9.99
    0% VAT AU$ 0.00
    Total AU$ 0.00

    Now just have to remember to cancel it before end of Nov.

  • Wally on 31/10/2013 - 19:35

    How is this a bargain - it is always available for anyone creating a Skype account!?

    • ozbarhui on 31/10/2013 - 21:51

      You can call another Skype account for free. But you need credit if you use Skype to call landlines, mobile phones etc.

  • Holysmoke on 31/10/2013 - 20:01

    "Oops - it looks like this trial has either expired or isn’t available for this Skype Name.
    Please ensure you’ve signed in with the Skype Name the free trial was sent to."

    • laoya112 on 31/10/2013 - 22:32

      I got the same as you. What happened???

  • gimme on 01/11/2013 - 07:52

    It means you've used this promo before on that account. Comes around every so often.

  • gccmelb on 01/11/2013 - 12:46

    You can always make a new account with another cc or paypal account.

  • lala1911 on 01/11/2013 - 13:06

    Be careful with Skype. Last time I tried an offer like this they automatically amended the settings on my account so that it changes to a monthly subscription. Next thing I know $16 was deducted from my VISA.

    Good freebie though.

    • gimme on 01/11/2013 - 16:29

      It does that for everyone. That's the point of the 1mth 'trial' offer. It actually says so when you sign up. The idea is to sign up and cancel straight away so you won't get charged in subsequent mths but still get the 1mth free.

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