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Tesco mobile extra tariff - am i right in thinking?.....
The only requirement for joining the tesco mobile extra tariff is that you have to top up by a minimum of £15 per month. My usual budget that i set my self for top ups is £10 so missing the extra tariff by £5. With the extra tariff you get all texts at 5p and calls at 10p per min thats half the price of the standard tariff so your top ups will go twice as far.
Is it not therefore, a smart move to top up your phone 1 day early each month before the month ends thus topping your phone up by £20 over a two month period (all bar 1 day) and therefore qualifying for the extra tariff? Obviously over the course of the year you may have put an extra £10 on (due to topping up a day earlier each month) if like me you have a monthly budget of £10. Overall it works out at better value and beats putting on £15 in one calender month as the offer makes you think which adds up to an extra £60 per year.
It does depend on you being quite dissaplined to top up on certain dates but i have just set a reminder in my phone to top up before the month ends.
Also if you switch to extra tariff before Dec 31st 2006 you will get 1000 extra clubcard points.
Hope this makes sence and please let me know if my theory is wrong!
Is it not therefore, a smart move to top up your phone 1 day early each month before the month ends thus topping your phone up by £20 over a two month period (all bar 1 day) and therefore qualifying for the extra tariff? Obviously over the course of the year you may have put an extra £10 on (due to topping up a day earlier each month) if like me you have a monthly budget of £10. Overall it works out at better value and beats putting on £15 in one calender month as the offer makes you think which adds up to an extra £60 per year.
It does depend on you being quite dissaplined to top up on certain dates but i have just set a reminder in my phone to top up before the month ends.
Also if you switch to extra tariff before Dec 31st 2006 you will get 1000 extra clubcard points.
Hope this makes sence and please let me know if my theory is wrong!
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If you have a lower budget theirs always the value tariff,which is better then standard tariff.
http://www.tesco.com/mobilenetwork/shop/?page=tariffinfo0 -
Does anyone know what happens when you leave Tesco Mobile? Is all your spare credit refunded?
I don't mind topping up by £15 a month and only using £10 if I know I'll be refunded everything surplus if / when I port away ...
Also to the first poster, not sure I understand. You talk of topping up £20 in a two month period by paying £20 in the first month and presumably nothing in the second month. How does that keep you on the Extra tariff, is there a month's grace period? Are you not paying full price in the 2nd month, or at the latets in the 3rd month?0 -
gwapenut wrote:Does anyone know what happens when you leave Tesco Mobile? Is all your spare credit refunded?
I don't mind topping up by £15 a month and only using £10 if I know I'll be refunded everything surplus if / when I port away ...
As far as i'm aware mobile phone companies don't refund credit when you leave them.
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gwapenut wrote:Does anyone know what happens when you leave Tesco Mobile? Is all your spare credit refunded?
I don't mind topping up by £15 a month and only using £10 if I know I'll be refunded everything surplus if / when I port away ...
Also to the first poster, not sure I understand. You talk of topping up £20 in a two month period by paying £20 in the first month and presumably nothing in the second month. How does that keep you on the Extra tariff, is there a month's grace period? Are you not paying full price in the 2nd month, or at the latets in the 3rd month?
For example
10th July you top up £10
9th August you top up £10
8th September you top up £10
etc etc
you have then been topping £30 over the 3 months rather than £45 as the promotion suggests you have to. Because you have been topping up a day earlier each month you are technically putting on £15 but borrowing £5 from the next month. Does that make sence?0 -
But surely that wont work...
In your example
Month 1 10 July-10 August you top up £20
Month 2 10 August-10 September you top up £10
Month 3 10 September-10 October you top up £10 (presuming you top up on 7th October)
I cannot see how this will keep you on the extra tariff0 -
medic1978 wrote:But surely that wont work...
In your example
Month 1 10 July-10 August you top up £20
Month 2 10 August-10 September you top up £10
Month 3 10 September-10 October you top up £10 (presuming you top up on 7th October)
I cannot see how this will keep you on the extra tariff[/QUOte
You are not topping up on the 10th august you are topping up on the 9th and thereafter a day early (before the end of each month) so then the 8th of september, 7th october etc etc0 -
I do not think this would work because you are trying to use the same £10 topup to be coutned against your £15 allowance for both the preceding month and the current month.
Think about current accounts which require you to pay a certain amount of salary in each month - I couldn't see a bank being happy with the scheme you've proposed for Tesco!0
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