O2 PAYG cheap top up?

Patr100

I've got an O2  PAYG mobile. Anyone know any deals to save on the cost of topping it up.

I'm not a heavy user. About £20 or so a year does me as I tend to just use it as an answerphone for messages but I see lot of places that seem to sell top up cards or calling cards with a reduction but are these OK  or is there anything dodgy about them?

derrick

Not sure if O2 charge for you receiving answerphone messages,but if they do you may be better using Virgin Mobile or T-Mobile as non of these charge for voice retrieval in the UK, and you don`t have to top up your phone on a regular basis,just use it once every 180 days,and this can be to 780 free auto system

Saint_Chris

Not sure if anybody has hard of this but i read it today, If you've run up more that £50 from Oct 04 on a o2 p-a-y-g just text 313 and listen. I have heard that you can get 10% back of the money you have put on in credit.

Enjoy

Not sure if anybody has hard of this but i read it today, If you've run up more that £50 from Oct 04 on a o2 p-a-y-g just text 313 and listen. I have heard that you can get 10% back of the money you have put on in credit.

When I dialled 313 said you had to spend £50 between Oct till 31st Dec to qualify

jaimeo

Err...top up at boots for the adv points.

E-top up all in one go and you will get extra credit free.

E-top up means with a swipe card i think. Check out the website (https://www.o2.co.uk)

advantage_card

The lowest amount you can put on an O2 phone using E-Top Up is £10 i think. If you topu up a lot it is wise to get your top-ups from somewhere like Boots that will give you loyalty card points on top, i think if i remember rightly WHSmith's don't count top-ups towards their Clubcard points. Sometimes Boots have *triple points* days,k although i dont know when the next one is and apparently the staff don't get told in advance either, so could be wise waiting till one of those to top up if you can.

Patr100

Thanks for the replies. I hardly use Boots so not enough spend to make any useful vouchers really and as a low user I don't want to spend much so will just top up a tenner or so in the usual way.

surfnlurk

I sometimes get cheap top-ups via virgin. It's a little long winded but worth it, if only to get one over on the phone companies.

If you haven't got one, buy a virgin sim for £5 inc £5 worth of calls (search the net).

When registered, call virgin "glue" number and buy another sim @£10 for "someone else" (son/daughter/wife/lodger/dog!~). This sim comes with £5 credit.

"You" now receive a £10 bonus to your origional sim for your recommendation of a "new" customer.

You have now spent £10 on a new sim, got your £10 back in air time and got your new sim with £5 free credit........ Half price credit........ except you have to swap sims around in order to use the free £5 credit.

You can use this 8 times each year for any sim. £10 each time with £5 free= £40 free air time. You can sell or give away the sims when spent or do the same again on them ie swap sim and start sequence again. (haven't got that far yet).

All info available on virgin mobile site.

Patr100: The other alternative is to get people to text you instead, it doesn't cost you anything to read and still costs the other person about the same.