Multiple SIM purchases need to be made as separate transactions. Adding more than one SIM to an order will result in an untracked purchase.
SIM must be activated within 30 days of ordering.
Cashback is ineligible on prepaid phones, recharges, and any plans or products not specifically listed in the cashback table of rates.
You must return and click through Cashrewards for each new transaction.
$10 for referee and $10 for referrer, after referee makes $20 purchase within 14 days.
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I read someone else's comment on another similar post about using incognito mode in your browser.
Tried incognito and didn't track… Anyone had issues with incognito browser?
Someone else still answer, but so you at least have one… I've never used incognito myself. I just see others mention it all the time. Instead I have Firefox and Chrome installed. So I just open the other one, clear its cookies/cache and all logins - basically tick every box (just in case I've been to that site before so it doesn't recognise me as a previous purchaser). Then log into Cashrewards, go to the other site (or click the CR link in the description here if we're told to do it that way) and make the purchase (plus change email/house address if needed).
Cashback account needs to be logged in the same incognito browser.
Was able to make 8 orders before it stopped working again.
Incognito + diff name, address, phone, card
Did yours track with incognito?
@Koipanda: Yes I did sign in but both never tracked. I'm using brave browser, which browser did you use?
I could get it to work after 2 orders last time.
Tried all sorts of stuff like new card, new phone number, new email, new ip, new address (slight variation), new name (slight name change) and even new device too.
And it still rejected rest orders after 2 orders
Why go to so much trouble for a $3.33 profit?
Surely OB time and wisdom is worth much more than that?
And to have to change again in not even 30 days…seriously????????????????
45gb of data is good
My last purchase didn't track and I can't manually add it via the claim page
Same. The claim button doesn't work. I had to send a general enquiry email and they manually added the transaction to my rewards. I wonder if I will get the cashback though.
Same, even ordered through the CR app
Missing transactions are only allowed to be added after a week of the order
Lucky for you
Such a waste of time unless you want to stay with Boost (doubt it)
The question is, what's the incentive for boost to give out all these cashback?
With these deals literally every few days, I'm guessing it's to ramp their subscriber base, possibly for an imminent sale.
There is no benefit for this level of burn and churn sims
Multiple benefits. Tax deductions as losses, increase customer base indicates growth on surface increasing investors confidence, instant revenue generation with refunds delayed by a few months allowing utilisation of the capital generated and lastly, making money off a virtual thing (they are piggybacking on telstra network and very likely have paid for an X number of users so why not sell it for cheap or free and get all the above benefits).
The mistake is to look at 'Boost' as a singular entity, striving for it's only it's own benefit.
Boost is a company, just a collection of people, each with its own personal agenda. While normally that personal agenda will align with Boost's interests, in this case the evidence (selling products at a loss) would suggest otherwise.
My guess, given the timing, is that somebody has a contract that involves a large bonus payment if subscriptions exceed X amount.
There have been cashback offers with profit for months now, so some marketing manager was planning ahead for their bonus! At least until somebody asks why the number of new services that expired is much higher than previously?
Also why do they keep randomly changing the net cashback to $1, $2, $3.33 or $4 sometimes. Weird
No, the question is…
What is the incentive for a $3.33 profit and then change all over again in only 28 days
And thats if you qualify
Total waste of time for 28 days
It’s for those sim sluts. It’s still free money for a month’s work without doing much effort mate
I find it painful changing every month or 2.
Its only worth it for a 6 or 12 month plan
Can someone explain to me how you make this work from month to month to "churn and burn"? Do you purchase 2 at a time or something and activate the 2nd one just before the 30 day cut off or something and do this every 2 months?
Don't wait until you've completely run out of data. If you've got at least 1GB to go then activate a new one. If activating the new service doesn't work you've got a few days to find a new service before running out of data.
Well yeah. There are two main groups of us. Some port from one cheap SIM deal/telco to the other every month to whatever cheap deal comes up and use it for calls.
Others like me don't port, just activate whatever new number is on each new SIM pack, and use it for data (internet that isn't tied to the house, can be used in the car, put in a modem and shared to others' devices, etc) instead of paying $70+ for NBN, having an ugly box on the wall wasting power, losing internet access in power outages, visitors toddlers hitting it with a dump truck, etc.
You get to know how much data you need. I've found I use about 40GB every 20 days. But I always have movies lined up in qBittorrent ready to download. So if a SIM deal comes up that has 40GB data, and it's a Cashrewards/Shopback one, I know it's probably only going to be available for a couple of days. So I'd buy 2x, activate SIM 1, then about 2 weeks later before the data on SIM 1 runs out - or on the last day before activation expires (set a notification on your phone)… I activate the SIM 2. Then I turn on a bunch of downloads to use up the remaining data on SIM 1. Then I put SIM 2 into the modem instead and start watching for the next deal.
So yes I activate SIM 2 later than SIM 1 to get a new block of data and 28/30/31 days.
Or as many as needed for 1x SIM each family member, modem, phone, car stereo for internet radio/GPS maps…
Oh and incoming calls go to a SIM that never gets ported. Amaysim has a $15 per year "As You Go" plan. People phone me on that number. Outgoing calls are made on the SIMs with no data left, so I don't have this problem where people can't port into the same telco within xx days.
wow sounds like a nice strategy.
do you not have NBN/landline at all? how do use a 4g modem/pocket wifi for your computers and home devices?
4g modem works similar to using 'hotspot' on a mobile phone.
Cheap 4g modems tend to be WiFi-only, so if you need LAN connections you will have to look for something pricier.
Nope, no NBN or landline phone. ;-)
I have a pocket wifi 4G/LTE modem (slips in your pocket and has its own internal battery). Cheap SIMs go in that to serve internet to my Smartphone and laptop over wifi. I don't have any other devices like Android TV, mesh network, etc but someone could because pocket wifis can serve multiple devices. I think mine can serve 10.
I also have 2x magnetic cables with detachable plugs. Plug 1 is always in the smartphone socket, plug 2 is always in the modem socket, and 1x cable is plugged into a 240V fast charger. The other cable is in my car plugged into a 12VDC fast charger.
So when I leave the house I just tilt the pocket wifi modem to break its magnetic connection, slip both the modem and smartphone into my pockets, get in the car, and if the phone or modem needs charging, I wave the car magnetic cable near their sockets and it clicks into place without needing to look and fumble around sliding a normal plug into a device socket.
Later I want to get a stereo with Bluetooth and/or a tablet so I can have internet in the car for radio, Sygic GPS/maps, tyre pressure monitors, reversing camera and driving cam/s, download torrents while driving on the phone via an app called Flud, play music from the phone to the stereo, etc.
With these SIMs deals that keep appearing for free or a profit, no NBN, no paid phone plans (except Amaysim which I only keep so I still have an internet connection in case I run out of data unexpectedly on the cheap SIMs), now I'm getting paid instead of paying.
@[Deactivated]: very nice. didn't think those magnetic charging cables were particularly useful. thought the plug bits would get lost quite easily.
the cost of internet then becomes the time spent managing sim cards. people pay extra for the convenience i guess.
what modem do you have or would recommend?
@hughes: Sent PM. Edit: Oops can't send because you have PMs turned off. Can you send me one, and I might then be able to reply to it.
Churn and burn is generally for people's secondary usage. Most people generally don't churn that often for primary number. It is certainly doable for primary numbers (to do regular churns), but you need to be ready to switch the SIM when the porting finishes. If you want to do churn and burn:
A lot of these "cheap" SIMs are 28 days and these cashbacks take months. I don't mind doing regular churns for my secondary number, but it still gets annoying with these 28 days SIM. Still waiting for cashback from the previous deal on this.
And don't forget to keep an eye on the cashback clause.
"SIM must be activated within 30 days of ordering."
This is why you might only order 2 sims per deal/month.
1st sim activate immediately and use.
2nd sim activate on day 27-28 (from time of Ordering), use to replace 1st sim.
Find a new cashback deal, rinse, repeat, enjoy.
You are not actively looking for jobs or working on something that require you to be contactable most, if not all the time.
Yep that's why I park my permanent number with Amaysim for $15 per year. Sign up to any Amaysim plan (or deal) and either change right away or change in the last month of the deal to their $15 per year "As You Go" plan. Incoming calls on that number, but no outgoing calls which I make on the cheap/free/profit SIMs that have no data left.
I think I've hit the limit. 18 SIM's and now no longer activating immediately. I'm getting most of the way through activating last night entering my Medicare number, getting a phone number and a message to wait up to 4 hours but still no service this morning. After messaging SIMO (Boost's online BOT) it says—-
"A new service can take between 4 and 24 hours to activate. If you request the activation outside of business hours, we'll process it the next business day.
Once it's active, we'll send you an email or SMS to let you know. Just a heads up, you may need to restart the phone to refresh the network connection."
Hmm their agents said there's no limit of activation per month just limit of 4 per 30 mins.
I wonder how truthful they were.
Have yours activated yet? Experiencing same issue…. Been hours still no service. Usually it's instant.
No not yet. We'll have to wait until later tomorrow before progressing the issue with Boost.
I hope it starts by itself tomorrow as today is the last day of internet access on my existing SIM.
Are you using Android? When I put my sim in it just says 'login to network' and redirects me to activation page. Followed up with another rep and they say activation is in progress and to just wait 4-24 hours…
@umoddbro: The SIM is in a mobile broadband modem that I connect to using WiFi.
Hopefully it'll activate tomorrow.
It gave me a new phone number so that's a good sign.
@mysterytal: Just an update mine didn't work it, I just requested sim activation to be cancelled and will try to activate again. Kinda annoying but rep said they had issues over the weekend.
@umoddbro: Thank you for the update. My SIM just activated earlier at 10AM this morning (Wednesday) after starting the activation Saturday evening.
I cant even activate one sim :l
Kogan only allows 4x signups using the same payment method within a xx day period (30 days maybe!? I forget now). I have about 8 bank accounts for this reason. Maybe Boost is the same. So just open a few different bank accounts. Macquarie Bank is incredibly easy to signup online and has a Mastercard debit card with no fees.
No tried different bank accounts like Zip , Westpac, Revolut etc. Doesnt work
Did you see/try this: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/13544779/redir
Could also try another person's address/name. A friend, partner, relative, etc.
Id like to wait for all past ones to confirm now first already bought like 10 this month alone only within like couple weeks
Persistent problems trying to activate (port) yesterday and today. Will try again tomorrow.
Just a heads up. When I tried to do a similar deal back in February I went through the whole order process right up to checkout where I entered CC details. Got a message something went wrong message.
Gave up and though nothing of it. This month I have a $12 charge from Boost accessories.
Been chatting to Boost and they cant see any transaction at their end. Super wierd and now have to go through the dispute process with my bank.
$3 profit now for those who missed this deal yesterday
Still not activated. Asked for help and finished with the following.
"It appears the SIM has not been activated yet. And to be transparent with you, we have an ongoing issue with SIM activation but our team is working to fix it as quicly as possible. We're unable to activate SIM cards as of the moment so can you please try to activate the SIM or contact us back after 24 hours?"
Any tips to avoid the order error after more than 2 purchases?