Get paid for free evening and weekend calls

Lara

I've just sat here and read the whole of this thread and I'm still not sure what to do.
We're with One-Tel at £10 + per month atm but never realised they were now talktalk!
We phone Malta a few times a month and use a different server - can't remember who :wall: but must check they are still cheapest! :wall: .

Is the general opinion that switching to Primus at £8.49 per month (we make loads of calls at all times) the best option...................or should we wait as a couple of people have said?? Thanks.
Got to get this right before I switch eldery parents - once again! They get easily confused, very easily;) .

Heinz

Lara wrote:

We phone Malta a few times a month and use a different server - can't remember who but must check they are still cheapest!

Indeed you must - http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/intcallchecker/

Lara wrote:

I've just sat here and read the whole of this thread and I'm still not sure what to do.

Is the general opinion that switching to Primus at £8.49 per month (we make loads of calls at all times) the best option...................or should we wait as a couple of people have said?

£8.49 would pay for 283 calls to UK 01/02 numbers between 0800 and 1800 Monday to Friday using 1899 (such calls at other times would be free on Primus Saver Option 2).

If they use just one telephone socket, setting them up with an Orchid V4 might be the best bet.

Lara

Thanks for your help - I was on the international checker site at the same time you were suggesting this! Cheapest has now changed from topupnow to teletop - so that numbers now logged down! Just need to make a phone call and get it up and running. What would I do without this site:money: .


I thought switching to Primus 3 gives unlimited calls - or have I missed something here?
I've tried in the past giving my parents two different servers but it just didn't work - not even with pre programming the blasted telephone! So I just have to have one number for them - easiest and simpliest way. Haven't heard of Orchid V4 but they do have two sockets they use anyway.

Heinz

I think you'll find Martin points out in his footnote that Teletop and Topupnow are really intended for mobile phone users.

[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Cheapestchat[/font], [font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Teletop[/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif], Topupdiscount and [/font][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Topupnow[/font][/font]

[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Topupnow, Teletop work a very different way. They're designed for use of a mobile phone. It involves a payment of £1.50 to start the account, and each call has a 5p connection fee. [/font]

[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]CheapestChat works from both mobiles and landlines and has no connection charge. You top up your account by calling its special charge line.[/font]

Re your parents. That is the only problem with diallers - you really need one for each socket in use (easy if they just used multi-handset cordless phones but not so easy if fixed phones are in use in different parts of the house).

Reading your posts, you may be right that a single 'all inclusive' package with a CPS provider may well be the most sensible option for you to set up for them. Such a package really means paying a fixed amount each month for 'free' calls - but to UK 01 and 02 numbers only.

The benefit of a CPS, of course, is there are no codes to remember - they just dial normally and the call is automatically routed via the CPS company.

OTOH, my 90 year old mother adapted to prefix-dialling 1899 for her 01/02 calls and 18185 for her calls to Germany and weekday 0870 calls with remarkable ease. I may even tell her one day her number's the second on my accounts (so she'll never see either bill) too!

rapido

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utilitybroker

Both the Teletop and the Topupnow sites say in faq.

The TopUp line is only avaiable from land-based phone lines. Unfortunately, you cannot use TeleTop/Topupnow with your mobile phone (yet)

ineedtosavemoney

MSE_Martin wrote:

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).

I don't seem to be able to get uswitch to recommend Primus Saver 2 even though I'm on BT. They only seem to recommend Primus Saver 1, which isn't as good.

Heinz

ineedtosavemoney wrote:

I don't seem to be able to get uswitch to recommend Primus Saver 2 even though I'm on BT. They only seem to recommend Primus Saver 1, which isn't as good.

Be creative with the data you enter! Try:

BT Together Option 1
Direct Debit
5/6 calls per day
Evening
National
Carrier Pre Select

However, please click on the 'HERE' link in my signature below and spend 5 minutes or so reading before you do so (you may decide that, in the longer term, making an 0800 call now - or tomorrow - is better than using uswitch).

Lara

Thanks for your help and comments Heinz. Uswitch suggested Primus 3 for me whioch I shall change to.
Teletop = cheapest calls to Malta from a landline to landline, unless I've read that wrong too!
I've now caught up with Orchid V4 - yes I know rather late!
We tried getting them to dial 18866 (when that weas cheapest) for calls to my brother abroad and they got so muddled (would NOT agree they were muddled I hasten to add) that they were putting all calls via them and consequently there OneTel account was redundant until we realised! So it didn't save them money in the beginning. So now you can see what I mean! Incidentally well done to your Mum - my parents are 11 years younger but exasperating at times!:D

Heinz

Lara wrote:

Uswitch suggested Primus 3 for me whioch I shall change to.

I assume you mean 'shall change my parents to'.

And I'm sure you've realised - but it won't hurt to remind you - that the Primus Freetalk Plus 3 package's £8.49 monthly subscription (effectively £3.49 for the first year) only pays for 'free' UK 01 and 02 calls.