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3 to start paying people to recieve calls (merged)

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kai666
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Just heard on fivelive that 3 will start paying people to recieve calls and texts. Don't know how it works, it is not on their website yet.

Might be worth keeping an eye on
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  • ka7e
    ka7e Posts: 3,130 Forumite
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    "Cheap", "Fast", "Right" -- pick two.
  • kai666
    kai666 Posts: 1,431 Forumite
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    This looks good on the surface but its a price rise by stealth!!
    From 3's Press release:

    "WePay prices

    The new WePay top-ups are easy to understand, all-cash vouchers available in £10, £15 and £20 denominations, with no expiry date.

    5p per minute cash credit for each minute of calls received
    2p per text for texts received
    10p a minute to call a 3 mobile anytime
    30p a minute to other networks anytime
    15p a minute to landlines and non-geographic numbers anytime
    10p per text to any network
    25p for a picture message to any network
    50p per video message to any network"

    From 3's Price Guide - Previous cash Top-Up Rates

    10p a minute to call a 3 mobile anytime
    10p a minute to landlines numbers anytime
    20p a minute to other UK Mobile Networks
    10p per text to any network
    25p for a picture message to any network
    50p per video message to any network

    So they have increased the cost of MAKING calls on Wepay by 50% compared to the previous cash top-up prices. 15p/min to landlines and 30p/min to other networks. So it looks like take with one hand and give a little back with the other.

    Is WePay a good deal?

    You get £6.00 credit back if you receive 100 minutes of inbound calls and receive 50 texts. OK But if you make a similar amount of outbound calls to other networks and landlines it will have cost you 10p/min more for the calls to x/net mobiles and 5p/min more to landlines. Split it 50/50 and that means that you would be paying £5.00 more for calls to mobiles and £2.50 for calls to landlines.

    Total extra cost £7.50

    Amount of WePay Credit £6.00

    More Expensive by £1.50!!

    Not a good deal at all!
  • redux
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    I think they are taking the mickey out of the fact that they receive more than the other networks for received calls.

    What if the other networks decided to pass on these higher costs to their customers? It might be time for a boycott of your friends on it - would you let them earn money for your call charges to them being too high?

    Commercial suicide
  • carole.uk
    carole.uk Posts: 1,774 Forumite
    mobile companys say they will pay us to use their phones
    but i have read on here that 3 pay as you go are rubbish
    see todays sun
    sorry can't do links
    http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006040038,00.html

    or maybe i can do links
    IT'S ALL ABOUT ME!!!:j:money:
  • Would this work?

    I am on orange 400 minute a month contact. I only usually use about 300 minutes, So I could use my remaining 100 minutes to phone my son on his 3 phone giving him 500 minutes credit.

    Sounds to good to be true!
  • Steve_xx
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    Also, the cash credits are only valid for 30 days. No doubt that the topups are only valid for 30 days too?
  • redux
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    iwantitnow wrote:
    Would this work?

    I am on orange 400 minute a month contact. I only usually use about 300 minutes, So I could use my remaining 100 minutes to phone my son on his 3 phone giving him 500 minutes credit.

    Sounds to good to be true!
    It is - you mean 100 x 5p credit; he can call you for 33 min 20 s


    It might be interesting if the rates are the same all the time, as you could call it at the weekend for 2p/min from a landline via 18185, thus getting a 60% discount - somehow I don't think the rates to 3 would stay the same for very long

    Ofcom should view this as an abuse of 3's higher termination charges, and cut them to the same level as the other networks
  • redux
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    Steve_xx wrote:
    Also, the cash credits are only valid for 30 days. No doubt that the topups are only valid for 30 days too?
    This is no longer true (since Nov or Dec). The call bundles are valid for 30 days, but cash top-ups have no life limit
  • Steve_xx
    Steve_xx Posts: 6,979 Forumite
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    ............so if I had a Vodafone PAYG SIM on the Stop the Clock tariff, I could call my 3 phone, spend an hour on that call at a cost £1.05, then I would be credited with £3. Is that so??
  • redux
    redux Posts: 22,976 Forumite
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    you could then call back in the other direction for 20 minutes - that's about the same ratio as my calling from 18185 at the weekend

    ........ until other companies react and have special tariffs to 3

    but I still think it's daft, anti-social, and an abuse of the higher termination charges that were supposed to subsidise their start-up costs

    - so ordinary punters will love it, then start to wonder why their friends don't call them as much any more
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