Optus $10 Sim Starter Kit is $1 at 7-Eleven. It starts tomorrow.
Optus $10 Starter Kit $1 @ 7-Eleven
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yong on 30/08/2016 - 14:15 7eleven.com.au (2825 clicks)
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What plan did you use? I did some ultimate plan and then talked to a lady on Optus chat and she said the long expiry plan will only last 7 days also with the $10 credit
My Prepaid Daily Plus.
@syousef: Cheers. Next time I will ask here before I call Optus. lol. I got a second sim so I will try that plan out. Thanks!
No worries. Good luck. They can change their damn plans any time they like. Which I suppose is why receipt shows "gift card".
@syousef: Cool, Just tried it out and got 30 days with the Daily Plus plan. I'm wondering if the lady at Optus was giving me a bull story about the Long expiry Plan too. That's supposed to be 186 days.
I don't see a long expiry plan for $10. It starts at $30.
http://www.optus.com.au/shop/mobile/prepaid/plans#long-expir…
$10 Ultimate does indeed expire in 7 days.
http://www.optus.com.au/shop/mobile/prepaid/plans#ultimate
So do data sims:
http://www.optus.com.au/shop/mobile/prepaid/plans#dataplans
So My Prepaid Daily Plus is definitely the way to go with the $10 sims. Also looks like the best play if you're going to go for days without using the phone anyway.
As for the lady…who knows what hell she has to live that she works in their call center. Be thankful you're not on the other end I'd say.
@syousef:
The $10 credit lasts for 186 days on the long expiry plan, have set it up and have it confirmed when checking balance.
Cashier said they were still scanning up at $10. Anyone have a webpage or promo I can show him?
Thanks for that will try again tomorrow
Very odd.
I found at one store the old style of these SIM cards scanned at $10.
The old packs will say " the only sim you'll need" on the front and will have a control barcode on the back and another.
The new packs say " $10 Sim + Recharge" and have a long barcode that requires activation thought the gift card system.
I guess he found a very old one. All the ones I got from Coles and this deal are the new packs. I'm not sure what gift card system you mean, unless it's optus.com.au/activate which is in the instructions on the back.
I should mention that my Coles docket also showed Gift Card for my purchase there. This means it wouldn't qualify for any points.
But then calling it gift card says nothing new. If it's a gift card, then so are most of the packs from other providers; no plan is assigned to it until it's activated.
Maybe this is the cause of the clerk's confusion, they thought it was like say a JBHiFi card which is blank and programmed with a value at the terminal.
Yeah I went back today and only the old sims were still up on the shelf but I asked him for news ones and he opened a box and they scanned at $1 each so I'm happy now :) Thanks for the heads up.
Does anyone know if there's a limit to how many of these Optus will let you activate? For example if you had 73 of these in theory you'd be able to get a year's worth of access.
In this comment the poster claims to be able to keep the same number by doing SIM swaps each time. This would keep the active SIM count to 1.
Thanks. I might give that a try.
I would still be interested to know in any case how many before Optus pulled the plug. I have a bunch of these $1 sims now.
Maybe we'll never know because ASIO went and took them away in the van. :)
Can anyone confirm this works? If so, how? I was thinking of doing this last night but instead ported to Kogan (free sim) then back again.
Thanks I got this last night. ;)
Also found $10 Sim for $1 at APCO service stations in Vic. I think it started a few days ago.
Went to officeworks to price match and buy 5 starter packs, more hassle than it was worth - "i don't know if we match seven-eleven… let me check with the manager … would you mind waiting …. can you find the link online for me? … <me finding on slow phone> … zooms into small print, reads everything very carefully … it says limit of one per customer" , so eventually agrees to sell me one and one only for 95 cents (price-match with 5% discount). By this time there's a line over 10 people long, all glaring at me for the hold-up, as there was only one cashier working. Next time I'd much rather have the 10 minutes of my life back, and go to seven-eleven directly, and forgo the 5 cents, and quite possibly be able to buy more than one at a time.
:)
When I got a few from7/11 on the first day, the lady refused to believe they were a dollar even though her colleague told her it's ok and to process the sale. A queue had began to form…. sigh clueless clerks.
Had to wait 15min for the other guy to put the sale thru.
thanks got 21 of them
You are on the way to being an ozbargain millionaire.
yeah this and 5 64gb micro sd cards $4 each at kogan im getting there lol.
Knowing kogan they're probably 64MB real capacity
Thanks OP picked up some and a free doughnut.
Is this still running and if so does anyone know how they put them through the checkout as I tried to get one today and the guy couldn't work out how to scan it. He scanned it then tried swiping it but no luck.
Picked up some this morning. They should just scan like any other product. Scan price will come up at $1.
Has anyone tried activating these ?im not getting any luck with mine. It throws some error and refuses to activate…
Same here. Have 5 left and none of them will activate. Rang up Optus and they were clearly not prepared to help. Said too many attempts to activate even though I had only tried to activate one of the cards more than once. The Optus rep said in a very demeaning manner, which I found half amusing and half annoying, to go and return it to the shop where I bought it to get my dollar back!!!
Try using another email and another form of ID. I had this problem when I activated 5+ SIMs with the same ID and email
Mine fails at activation when I enter sim card number?
Same does not activate.
What a gip
I activated one successfully.
Can I ask people who had problems whether this was with ones from 7/11 or also ones from a Coles offer a week or two before? (The Coles ones included both old and new stock; I got new stock.) But buggered if I know which one of mine came from 7/11, they all expire July 2018.
If this is going to be a problem I'm going to take one into an Optus store and ask them to activate.
I went into an optus store and they said there's nothing they can do, either call optus or return it from the store it was purchased from
That's a cop-out. If the problem is widespread, who's to say the replacement SIMs from the store won't suffer the same problem again? And who keeps receipts for a $1 purchase, especially if it was some time ago.
@greenpossum: I agree, but he said because they didn't issue me the sim, they can't do anything about it. Hope you'll have more luck
It looks like a lot of people are having the same problem.
Looks bad, not good for their reputation. Maybe they failed to input the IDs of a whole batch of SIMs out of the factory. Hope they fix it before I use mine.
Given that some of those activations were for not $10 starter kits purchased recently and not at 7/11 (Woolies was mentioned), I'm inclined to think there is an overall IT issue that Optus needs to fix.
I'm having the activation issue as well, went into the optus store and online chat and both said I needed to go back to where i purchased it and swap it over. Except now I don't know where i've put the receipt
I tried activating a sim card that had already been activated to see what message would come up. Recently, I had done this as a sim card I had successfully activated was not working (in terms of data etc) and I wanted to double-check it was actually activated. Back then the website informed me the sim card had already been activated. This time (using an already activated card) I got the same message as I'm getting for inactivated sim cards ie We are having trouble validating the SIM number, please try again or try using another SIM card. Reference: PPACT-SIMVAL-0008. I think something is definitely wrong their end and am inclined to think they have blocked any of these $10 for $1 sim cards from being activated as they did not expect the "abuse" (Which it is not. If they want to sell them cheap then they should expect people to take advantage) from the likes of us!!
Have just tried and succeeded in activating 2 sim cards! Goes to show how useless the reps are as they chose to tell me the sim was bad when in fact it was a fault at their end. However, can't get data to work currently (using other means) even though sending an sms works! Off to try the second sim I activated now.
All good now!
Nice! I'll give it a go too. Yeah my rep told me she tried too many times that it blocked my sim..
I had two woolies sim cards that did the exact same thing. I had No data, but could sms. I tried everything. Turns out it was a bad batch of sims after all.
After much hassle I managed to get the credit transferred to a working sim.
I've had that a few times. Eventually they have worked for me. How did you transfer the credit please?
@englfc: What happened was, I activated my sim and new number and it didn't work. So they told me to get another sim. That one also had the same issues.
Because I previously had a working sim that just ran out of credit, I asked if I could transfer the credit over to my older sim instead. Once they did the change over all worked well again.
It was a hell of a lot hassle to get it done though. I spoke to around 4 different people and had to go through all the trouble shooting and manually doing the settings which none worked.
I wasn't going to give up $30 credit so easily. I got a hand full of those $30 woolies sims for $2 from a previous ozbargain deal.
Thanks pufffdragon. May have to try that it one of the sim cards I activated continues to not provide any service.
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I activated one tonight that I bought for $1 today. My Optus says "MyCredit expires in 30 days $8.00"