Registering many phones ?

tuxy

Hi I was just wondering. I'm with vodafone pay as you go and when you register a new phone you have purchased from them you get €10 of credit for 6 months.
If I buy another phone after 3 months and register that will I get €20 of credit for a few months?

bennyx_o

The registration is done by sim card, not phone, IIRC, so each sim will get €10 credit a month.

tuxy

I know that.
But what I want to know is if I register two phones in a short space of time
will I get €20 a month for a while?
Or should I wait for 6 months then register the second phone.

wba88

yes AFAIK you can register every 30 days

tallus

In my experience it treats each registration seperately, if you logon to the voda site you can check each registration and how many payments of €10 you have left. I had three running at one stage all connected to the same number.

yapyap

tuxy wrote:

I know that.
But what I want to know is if I register two phones in a short space of time
will I get €20 a month for a while?
Or should I wait for 6 months then register the second phone.

Wait until the original registration credit is complete. They wont give you double credit.

flodis79

The credits will be put in pending status, you can register every 30 days, but can never get more than 1 upgrade credit per month, ie never more than a tenner per month.

Random

yapyap wrote:

Wait until the original registration credit is complete. They wont give you double credit.

I thought the same and then I did it and was recieving 20eur per month for 4 or 5 months. This would have been around Christmas - unless they've changed it now.

Pansy Potter

They will not start giving you the credit on the new upgrade until the credit on the earlier phone has all been applied. You will never receive €20 in a single month.

tuxy

Sooo many conflicting posts

yapyap

On Vodafone, I went about registering a second handset and it didn't allow me. Like what kind of idiots do you think Vodafone are? Some people would like to register a bag of handsets and never pay for any top-up. Vodafone have to make a living too!

With O2, they stack up the credits

flodis79

yapyap wrote:

On Vodafone, I went about registering a second handset and it didn't allow me. Like what kind of idiots do you think Vodafone are? Some people would like to register a bag of handsets and never pay for any top-up. Vodafone have to make a living too!

You have already decided to buy a phone from Vodafone and also decided to stay with them, by using the upgrade credits on their network, so it's not like Vodafone is losing out here... Not letting you register your second handset is just blatant customer-hostility.

Meteor is even worse: if you register a new handset before the old credits are applied, you lose out on the remaining credits fromt the first phone. Once again an example of Irish daylight robbery.

Urban Weigl

I hope the Irish networks soon do SIM-only deals like some of the networks in Germany, where you get a significant discount if you provide your own handset.

That would stop this argument once and for all.

sparkulicous

flodis79 wrote:

You have already decided to buy a phone from Vodafone and also decided to stay with them, by using the upgrade credits on their network, so it's not like Vodafone is losing out here... Not letting you register your second handset is just blatant customer-hostility.

Of course Vodafone are losing out here. Their losing the price of the handset. The handsets are heavily subsidised by Vodafone and if the customer is not spending any money on the network then the company is making a loss!!

parsi

Pansy Potter wrote:

They will not start giving you the credit on the new upgrade until the credit on the earlier phone has all been applied. You will never receive €20 in a single month.

I received credit on 4 June and 30 june from two upgrades and this has been happening on a monthly basis since january.

flodis79

sparkulicous wrote:

Of course Vodafone are losing out here. Their losing the price of the handset. The handsets are heavily subsidised by Vodafone and if the customer is not spending any money on the network then the company is making a loss!!

They lose out on the handset price alright, but the phones are heavily subsidised when bought in bulk by Voda, o2, Meteor etc. The revenue they get when you are spending money on their network compensates for the handset loss more than well. By giving alot of creit phased out over several months, they make sure you stay with the network and spend even more money with them. This brings real revenue for the network.

How come Vodafone, which is bigger than o2, restricts the credits, but not o2? There is something else behind it = Irish rip-off culture.

wasim21k

yes i had experience with o2 and they said yes you can register as many as you like with not time limit but we can give you only 10€ each month and once first 80€ finish then we'll start next and so on and so far. but you can not get 20€ for two update or 30€ for three upgrade at same time.

whisht

tuxy wrote:

Sooo many conflicting posts

Reminds me of "ask the audience"

For what its worth, I had 4 vodafone upgrades all dropping in €10 per month into my account for a while, but I know for a fact that O2 do not allow it. With O2 you can register as many as you want, but it just drops in €10 per month regardless of how many upgrades you register, so in theory if you have 4 phones with €10 a month for 8 months, it will run for 32 months where Vodafone will add the credit 4 times a month to your sim card.

Only thing is, each registration on Vodafone has to be 30 days apart, so if you did 4, you would have

Month 1: €10
Month 2: €20
Month 3: €30
Month 4: €40
Month 5: €40
Month 6: €40
Month 7: €40
Month 8: €40
Month 9: €30
Month 10: €20
Month 11: €10