saw it in post office today, not sure if it's available in all post office
Optus $10 Starter Kit $1 @ Australia Post
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That's what she said.
ill get a few for my burner phones
Don't you need to supply your ID for each sim activated, thus making Burner Phones redundant?
Life isn't a movie, op is buying these phones to fuel his fire place and is stocking up for winter
True, but I wonder how well the current ID verification is handled? A year or two back, Telstra would accept any number that looked like a drivers licence, and the birthdate didn't have to match. Now, it queries a 3rd party verifier to ensure validity of the supplied info, but I bet there are still loopholes…
Loopholes that the bad guys know about but us law abiding citizens who simply want 25 SIMs on the go to drain credit from are inconvenienced by!
(Sure, I have "less than 5 prepaid devices". Today.)
Just use the info of your getaway foreign passports she'll be right
Annnnd at what post office was this?
Annnd, what's the expiry activation date?
It's what. it's short for and which usually sits after comma, but can also be used at the beginning of the sentence.
Are you saying 'annnd' is short for the more commonly accepted 'and'?! The Queen's English is not your plaything.
Might fix your name too then (even though it is grammatically correct, but…), before going on hot pursuit.
How I put it was intentional… just like how you chose your username.This was parody on grimace3 comment with annnnd.
@bargainparker: what's wrong with my name? It's etymologically unrelated to the similarly sounding racial slur. A niggard is a miserly person or one that is stingy. I haven't bastardised the Queen's English in choosing my username.
Perhaps you shouldn't have put a comma after your 'Annnd'. It's like that example where a panda "eats shoots and leaves" versus a panda "eats, shoots and leaves". Did the panda eat something, discharge a firearm and depart the premises, or does the panda merely eat shoots and leaves?
What does queen have to do with it? We are not in Britain and I may be educated but still chose how I comment, and English is a West Germanic language that originated from Anglo-Frisian dialects brought to Britain in the mid 5th to 7th centuries AD by Germanic invaders and settlers from what is now northwest Germany, west Denmark and the Netherlands.
If you want proper educated English… well I can give you a tour of that too. But there are far more real world problems than what is some internet grammar, which in reality will be forgotten as soon as this deal is over.
All made up? Good. Now kiss.
I recently got a $2 sim from an Optus store and on the front it says "activate within 30 days of purchase or by the date advertised on a promotion". On the back, it says Expires 01 Feb 2019, so I'm not really sure which one is to be believed.
The date written will not be disputed.
It was reported recently that they are different expiry dates. The one on the pack is the SIM expiry. 30 days after purchase and before the printed date you can still activate the SIM but no credit.
Here's how this works guys, you check your local Post Office and report back here whether they have the same deal or not.
True, but expiry date would have been useful to know.
It will be gone after that
Getting some for guzman free burrito
Is that deal still running? Link?
Still running tried it last Sunday
Search guzman y gomez
You can only use your phone once though? Regardless whether you use a new number
;)
They are currently $5 on Optus website, if you realllly need one and cant find it at the PO
http://offer.optus.com.au/shop/prepaid/sim-card/69c0r3?_ga=1…
$5 at Kmart as well
Bought one from BP for $5 about a week ago. Not sure if it's still the same price.
Just got the last 3 at moorebank post office. Expiry July 2018
So what does this $10 starter kit include? Does it include data or just $10 credit to use which ever way you want?
Correct. You can actually apply this credit to your existing Optus prepaid account if you have one, via a SIM swap. It carries over your old credit as well
So I can not use this as a new number and get some download. Crappy useless NBN hasn't installed internet since I moved and my lyca sim is about to run out of data. Need to find another cheap data sim.
No of course you can use it as a new number. I'm just saying if you are already with Optus, this is how to use these SIMs as a recharge for your existing service
Don't worry. I just got 2 letters from TPG and IINET saying good news, you are getting nbn soon, so better pre-order with us… even though we are not even in thoughts of nbn overlords, let alone having any information when they will even consider planning for it.
PS. the hard part is to chose which company to go with because by the time nbn is installed in my suburb, 1 or both companies might not exist by that time.
If your ever desperate for data you can always get half price vodafone packs on ebay.
Look for the packs like this one…
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/232299322019?_trksid=p2057872.m27…
…they let you pick the plan, some are combo only. With these ones you can pick pay as you go and then keep buying 2gig for one day at 3 bucks data addons. They actually last two days, the day you bought it and the next day till midnight. They can also stack if you need to down something big. If you buy the addon at midnight (1/2 hour each way) you can get two more days (not one) and keep your remaining data. So thats 26gig for 19.
Main prob would be the waiting for delivery. I bought one of that link I put up and he sent it express and it was there in two days, I have no idea why when he lists standard but maybe if you message them they could do that for you.@PAEz: I have got lebara sim with 6gb on it but is useless because no Vodafone network where I am. Ended up getting telstra sim and tried to use telstra air wifi- turns out that telstra now requires credit before you can use it so ended up recharging $10 and now I can use telstra wifi but the speeds are pathetic. Even emails take long time to open. Hoping NBN pulls out their finger and process the application as this is fourth week since application.
@expertreader: Wow that sux, cant stand having no net. I had to survive on telstra wifi for a while but I was getting 200k a second if I put the phone in just the right height and angle. Use to be able to have more than one device connected aswell. Hope ya get your nbn soon, 4 weeks seems ridiculous.
How is this done? Do I have to call Optus in order to do this or through online portal?
Go on live chat and just tell them your SIM card broke, but you've got a new SIM and would like to do a SIM swap. Then just give them the info they ask for.
Live chat link http://www.optus.com.au/shop/notices/service-chat
I Googled it before reading this far down, it appears you can use this link too.
http://www.optus.com.au/shop/support/answer/how-to-activate-…
Although not certain it would keep existing credit, I would normally just be swapping from one with no credit anyway.
@Miss B: It certainly does keep existing credit, but also adds any credit from the starter kit used as a recharge.
$10 credit lasts 30 days on Daily Plus
If the old SIM has 10 days left on it and a new $10 Starter kit is used as a SIM swap then what is the expiry date ? 10 days or 30 days or 40 days ?
I have another question. If I have a old SIM with $4 credit on the My Prepaid Daily Plus Plan and there is still 5 months left until expiry and I do a "SIM swap" with a $10 Starter Kit, the new balance is $14. But what is the expiry? 5 months or 30 days?
Ok thanks. Kinda confusing hey lol. I tried to get an answer listed on their website but I couldn't find anything. According to their Chat service they said it would be reset to just 30 days. Seems odd. But I don't trust anything they say lol
I finally found their Terms and Conditions page and it says "Each time credits are added, a fresh call credit validity period begins.". Seems then that it would indeed be 30 days then.
Bloody good deal, will go to a couple of PO's and try to find some stock on Monday.
Just picked 4 from local post office. They don't have any on shelf.you got to ask the staff.
"We are having trouble validating the SIM number, please try again or try using another SIM card. Reference: PPACT-SIMVAL-0008"
for anyone who bought these sim from post office. let us know if you have receive this error message from activation. would be keen to know still happening.
we not buying these sims now since coles $1 deal last year september, not want to dealt with optus call centre or customer service
last time I bought 2 of these from 7-11. one sim worked fine. The other one had this error. It wasn't an expired sim card. I called customer service and they wouldn't refund and told me to return to where I got it. and then I went back to 7-11 and they wouln't let me return the sim card. Then I tried going to an optus store, they wouldn't do antyhing. In the end I threw it in the trash.
$1 wasn't worth all of that hassle, learned my lesson.
Clearly it was ;) given the trouble you went to following it up ;)
You should have filed a TIO complaint against Optus. Then at least Optus would have coped a ~$50 fine (or whatever fee the TIO charges a telco for having to get involved) as a form of asshat tax, plus they would have had to solve it for you (or else the TIO fees start to escalate). True, it would have been more hassle, but I've never not had a TIO complaint result in my problem getting solved.
They'll have to recover their costs somehow. I.e you the consumer will pay in the end.
If you no longer do business with the company you made a complaint about then you wont be paying.
@BargainKen: You're using a zero-sum model (someone gains $1, so someone must loose $1): i.e. Telco gets fined, they neither lose nor gain customers, therefore each customer must indirectly pay a tiny bit more so as to hold returns constant.
Instead, what should happen is this: The business should take a TIO complaint as an indication of a problem with their service, possibly a systematic one (i.e. it is constructive user feedback highlighting product failings), and should fix it. This would lead to more sign-ups (e.g. yoquierotaco could not even sign up!) and/or higher retention, thus increasing the customer base, which leads to lower net overall costs per customer (most especially for the infrastructure telcos of Telstra/Optus/Vodafone, as there have very high fixed costs, so each incremental customer won or lost has a lot of leverage on the bottom line). This is non-zero-sum thinking, and IMHO is the right approach to customer complaints of this nature.
FWIW, the real economy is very much non-zero-sum. If it wasn't, we'd still have the same standard of living as 10,000 years ago. So that's why I disagree on business grounds that there's anything wrong with making a legitimate complaint. I also disagree on moral grounds - yoquierotaco paid fair-and-square for a service and did not receive what was paid for, despite trying to resolve the problem with Optus - therefore he is morally more than entitled to make a complaint to the TIO.
Losing a customer (due to inefficient complaint handling procedures) is also a loss of revenue.
The telco has already lost out by not gaining revenue stream from a "happy" customer.
Am all for the "asshat" tax as so many telcos are inept at dealing with legitimate technical or accounting concerns.
Picked up a couple from Northland, lady got them from out the back
Nice cheap way to reactivate my optus perks account
None at Campsie post office NSW
Anyone tested if they actually expire after 30 days?
Others have reportedly been able to use them without any problems over 30 days after purchase
Don't we lose the credit after 30 days of activation ?
I'm currently using a $30 Optus sim that had the "Activate within 30 days" sticker on it, and I bought it in January, so I think the stickers are just bluff.
I agree there is no 30 days limit to activate as its expiry is as per the date mentioned at the back of sim card.
Even the expiry date on the back is pretty lenient. I've activated multitudes of starter packs that were expired by a year no problem
I just want to get the $12 movie tickets from the perks thing :P
Still in stock at Elizabeth Shopping Center PO - fine print said one per customer
Picked up two from Footscray Vic, lady got them from out the back. expires 01 Aug 2018.
Purchased 4 from Maitland NSW post office late yesterday afternoon. Went in this morning to try my luck (no luck) at getting the Seagate 2tb hard drive deal and they still had at least 8 sims behind the counter.
Anyone still after these ?
I saw about a dozen or so left at the Oaklands Park Post Office at Westfield Marion
Not on special at Upper Coomera Post Office
That's going to last for about 3 seconds. :)