Get paid for free evening and weekend calls

Update 10 October

This offer is now closed, however if you signed up for it originally, it's important to note that now is the time to grab the redemption. The original note is still below for your reference.

Sign up to to either Primus Freetalk Plus 1, 2 or 3 before the end of March through Uswitch* and it'll give new customers a £5 per month rebate in four quarterly instalments. While this is simple to do, new MoneySavers should first read the 'Cheapest UK Home Phones Article'. In summary that will explain that this package should only be used as the main package, but then for calling mobiles (and if you just take option 2 not option 3, landline calls during the day) you need to use an override provider.

What is Uswitch?

Uswitch* is a price comparison company, however its logic stick to just one provider, which means use its solution and you'll pay over the odds for your phone supplier. However these special tariffs are only available through it. Once you've got them you can still use them for the two provider solution (as discussed in the home phone article. To get these tariffs there is no way to do a direct link, you have to go to Uswitch* and through its price comparison questions - just put in some rough answers then select primus from the table.

The Options

• Primus Freetalk Plus 2 Free Evening and Weekend Calls To Landlines. Go direct and get the Primus Saver tariff and there's no monthly fee and you get free evening and weekend calls. Yet sign up through Uswitch and there'd be a £2.99 monthly fee. However in March there's a £5 per month rebate, so they're effectively paying you £2 to take out this package!
  
• Primus Freetalk Plus 1 Free Weekend Calls To Landlines. This package is free plus you get the £5 per month rebate.
  
  
  
• Primus Freetalk Plus 3 Free Calls all-times to Landlines. For people who make calls during the day, Freetalk Plus 3 with the rebate is seriously cheap. With it you get unlimited calls to landlines during at all times for a £8.49 monthly fee. Yet after the rebate this is only £3.49 a month. You would need to make over 90 calls a month to make this worthwhile, or 3 midweek daytime calls per day.

How does it work?

Once signed up you'll be billed monthly by Primus and will receive your rebate as four £15 instalments on your bill. If you don't use the credit up it will be carried forward for an unlimited amount of time. You're not drawn into a 12 month contract but the rebate will stop after 12 months and making the tariffs normal price. You still need to pay your BT (or equivalent line rental every month).