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Vodafone SIM cards
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no one laughs no one even chuckles. Duh. "Martin" a écrit dans le message de ... On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 14:54:25 +0100, "Tim C." wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:41:12 +0100, Martin wrote in post : : On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:55:35 +0100, "Tim C." wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:48:20 +0100, Martin wrote in post : om : with great difficulty, on Vodafone's website. which vodafone site? .com, .de, .co.uk. ....? almost certainly ) It was the site offering a Vodafone CALL HOME prepaid SIM card that you can use almost anywhere in the world and be charged at the local rate/minute. That's why I said the conditions applied everywhere. http://www.vodafone.nl/english/prepa...=14182_exp_ldb I AM NOT RECOMMENDING THIS CARD!!!! Afaict that product isn't offered in Germany: although you can top it up there of course. So I suspect conditions my well be different for the "equivalent German product" ie CallYa. http://www.vodafone.de/privat/callya.html CallYa is only 5 cents a minute! I am only guessing as I still can't find any info on cancelling the cards on the .de site. I couldn't find the T&C on the German site They're as bad as RyanAir at information dissemination. I'm thinking of complaining to the Dutch Telecoms watchdog OPTA, if I can find out how to do it ) -- Martin |
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Vodafone SIM cards
Tim C. wrote:
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:26:38 +0100, Wolfgang Schwanke wrote in post : : Martin wrote in : Vodafone expires after 6 months. Pocketing the credit is theft IMO. I think it varies among countries because different regulations apply. According to a court ruling some time ago in Germany, they may not pocket the credit, but they may still expire the SIM if there is no activity for some amount of time. How does that work? Does the credit just evaporate? Or can the customer reclaim it when they reactivate/buy a new card? Googling around, there appear to be several references to a series of high court decisions going back to 2006 ruling that pocketing the prepaid credit is in breach of German law, and T&C clauses to the opposite effect are invalid. In the case of Vodafone, the customer should send his CallYa SIMcard together with a letter of notice and his bank account number to service centre. Reference: http://preview.tinyurl.com/bhlsw5 T. |
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Vodafone SIM cards
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:27:13 +0100, Tom P wrote in post :
: Tim C. wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:26:38 +0100, Wolfgang Schwanke wrote in post : : Martin wrote in : Vodafone expires after 6 months. Pocketing the credit is theft IMO. I think it varies among countries because different regulations apply. According to a court ruling some time ago in Germany, they may not pocket the credit, but they may still expire the SIM if there is no activity for some amount of time. How does that work? Does the credit just evaporate? Or can the customer reclaim it when they reactivate/buy a new card? Googling around, there appear to be several references to a series of high court decisions going back to 2006 ruling that pocketing the prepaid credit is in breach of German law, and T&C clauses to the opposite effect are invalid. In the case of Vodafone, the customer should send his CallYa SIMcard together with a letter of notice and his bank account number to service centre. Reference: http://preview.tinyurl.com/bhlsw5 T. Make it awkward, so no-one does it. Nice trick -- Tim C. |
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Vodafone SIM cards
Martin wrote:
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:37:30 +0100, "Tim C." wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:27:13 +0100, Tom P wrote in post : : Tim C. wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:26:38 +0100, Wolfgang Schwanke wrote in post : : Martin wrote in : Vodafone expires after 6 months. Pocketing the credit is theft IMO. I think it varies among countries because different regulations apply. According to a court ruling some time ago in Germany, they may not pocket the credit, but they may still expire the SIM if there is no activity for some amount of time. How does that work? Does the credit just evaporate? Or can the customer reclaim it when they reactivate/buy a new card? Googling around, there appear to be several references to a series of high court decisions going back to 2006 ruling that pocketing the prepaid credit is in breach of German law, and T&C clauses to the opposite effect are invalid. In the case of Vodafone, the customer should send his CallYa SIMcard together with a letter of notice and his bank account number to service centre. Reference: http://preview.tinyurl.com/bhlsw5 T. Make it awkward, so no-one does it. Nice trick Vodafone pockets evidence and you never hear any more from them? Maybe Vodafone needs a good hard slap from the EU. Maybe they should money into customer service and forget about subsidising F1 racing. What right have they to terminate a SIM card that you have paid for, without compensation, and which still has credit on it? I guess you should send the SIMcard and the notice letter as registered mail, and insure it. If Vodafone claims they never got it, firstly you can trace the mail and secondly you claim on the insurance. T. |
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Vodafone SIM cards : martin tries the Guinness for the longest useless OT thread
"Martin" a écrit dans le message de ... On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:26:38 +0100, Wolfgang Schwanke wrote: Martin wrote in m: Vodafone expires after 6 months. Pocketing the credit is theft IMO. I think it varies among countries because different regulations apply. According to a court ruling some time ago in Germany, they may not pocket the credit, but they may still expire the SIM if there is no activity for some amount of time. Vodafone changes terms and conditions retroactively. When I bought the first Vodafone SIM cards there was no condition that the cards had to be kept active. Some other SIM cards do not expire. We have a Virgin SIM card that wasn't used for more than 2 years and it is still active. We mislaid the phone that it was in and found it recently. O2 SIM cards haven't expired so far either. -- Martin |
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