whats the catch with vodafones stop the clock?

Nephew · 13-05-2006 12:03pm #1

i'm on rtg and saw the ad on vodafone.ie for stop the clock, talk for 60 minutes for the cost of 3, is it worth activating? it sounds too good for a vodafone offer so i am guessing there is some kind of catch

Sam Vimes · 13-05-2006 1:02pm

the catch is that 99.999% of phone calls last less than three minutes. and for those three minutes you pay a lot more than on any other network. also its only to vodafone numbers.

vodafone's peak rate to other networks is 25c a min more than meteor, excluding meteor's 5c call offer

if you're on vodfone there's no reason not to activate it but then that the only reason to be on vodafone ready to go is you don't like having money. if that's the case you can switch to meteor and give me all the money you save

drdre · 13-05-2006 1:12pm

theres always a catch in these promotions.so read into it 1st before you get screwed

kirving · 13-05-2006 1:16pm

Do you have to talk for exactly 60 mins? or more to avail of the offer? Or can you talk for 10 and pay for just 3?

Sam Vimes · 13-05-2006 4:15pm

Kevin Irving wrote:

Do you have to talk for exactly 60 mins? or more to avail of the offer? Or can you talk for 10 and pay for just 3?

you don't have to talk for 60 but if you compare the offer to meteor's 5c call offer,
voda

met
50

5----1 min
100

10---2 mins
150

15-
150

20-
150

25-
150

30-
150

35-
150

40-

etc

you only start to save at the 30 min mark and its very rare to make a 30 min phone call on a mobile

mobileplaza · 13-05-2006 8:23pm

there is one small snag guys. if your were on the old MORE TO SAY tarif that will no longer be availble to you if you opt for stop the clock. other than that theres no worries

JTMan · 14-05-2006 6:38pm

Commander Vimes - Well Said.

It is also worth not mixing up the Vodafone Ireland Stop the Clock promotion with the ads on tele for the Vodafone UK Stop the clock promotion.

The Vodafone UK one is to all mobile networks and landlines while the vodafone Ireland one is just to vodafone numbers. As usual Vodafone offer better conditions to the UK customers.

As Commander Vimes says you are far better off on Meteor anyway.

amp · 16-05-2006 2:13pm

Better competition in the UK I guess.

blue banana · 17-05-2006 4:04pm

The reception is so bad where I live, that there is no way I could stay on the phone for an hour without getting disconnected at least 3 or 4 times, so I could never make the most of Stop the clock!!!!

Hagar · 17-05-2006 4:17pm

I remember something like this before, the catch was that if you exceeded the 60 mins by even 1 second it was priced as a normal call and that got very expensive very quickly.

failsafe · 19-05-2006 1:19am

Hagar wrote:

I remember something like this before, the catch was that if you exceeded the 60 mins by even 1 second it was priced as a normal call and that got very expensive very quickly.

If you talk for 61 mins you pay for a 4 min call. There's no harm in activating it, you'll get charged as standard but if you happen to be on a call to another vf number, that reaches 3 mins, the next 57mins are free.

Also (to CommanderVimes) that's peak rates, off peak it's 45c for an hour long call, so you save on anything after 9mins compared to Meteor. (sorry to be pedantic)

whats the catch with vodafones stop the clock?

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