Simcards on eBay - 99p Gives You £5 Pre-Topped Up?

Marv02

Hi,

2 months ago I purchased two simcards of ebay, which came pre-activated with £5 credit on them. (yes, I popped them in and viola! No need to register etc.) I went back to buy some more, but they seem to have disappeared. They where crawling all over ebay from a bunch of users for a few months before I thought I'd try it out... But now they've all gone. I have found one, its on vodaphone but the user only limits 1 per customer.

Any ideas where I can find them outside of ebay? Thanks!

forgotmyname

Direct from the phone companies themselves, Why people buy them on ebay is a mystery.

I remember everyone buying O2 sims, Signup online and they post upto 4 out for free. Offers vary
though.

Inigo_Montoya

Lebara give £5 credit when you port a number to them - they seem to apply it without any "topup first" requirement (although lebara sales reps may say diffirent incorrectly)

So (if you can be bothered) you can order a free tesco SIM then order a free lebara SIM & port the number over to lebara

It has to be a tesco SIM as the seem (for me) to be the only company that will give you a PAC code without having actually used their SIM

Marv02

forgotmyname wrote: »

Direct from the phone companies themselves, Why people buy them on ebay is a mystery.

I remember everyone buying O2 sims, Signup online and they post upto 4 out for free. Offers vary
though.

OK, I don't think you understand. This was a mystery thing that obviously came and went without much people noticing it. What the offer was, was you purchase a simcard that CAME with £5 pre-topped up. (unlike the others which forced you to purchase topup in order to get it - or even registering the sim.)

Again... You purchased the sim for 99p and all you did was pop it into your phone dial 150 to check and yup... £5 top-up was there.

Marv02

Inigo_Montoya wrote: »

Lebara give £5 credit when you port a number to them - they seem to apply it without any "topup first" requirement (although lebara sales reps may say diffirent incorrectly)

So (if you can be bothered) you can order a free tesco SIM then order a free lebara SIM & port the number over to lebara

It has to be a tesco SIM as the seem (for me) to be the only company that will give you a PAC code without having actually used their SIM

Thanks, I'll give this a try, but the problem with this would be, wouldn't Lebera ask for a name/address etc for every transfer? If this is the case, then you would only probbally be able to pull this off once.

Dicky2K

go to topcashback.. get them for free on there and also get paid

Not sure if you get any free credit mind you, but getting paid for free cards is always good

Inigo_Montoya

Marv02 wrote: »

Thanks, I'll give this a try, but the problem with this would be, wouldn't Lebera ask for a name/address etc for every transfer? If this is the case, then you would only probbally be able to pull this off once.

I have done it about 5 or 6 times - I dont recall giving name and address details being compulsory when doing the number transfer ( I dont even think theres a limit ) - the main issue is there appears to be a limit on the number of sims you can order but obviously having had about 5 or 6 lebara sims myself then its not strictly enforced

Free sim links
https://www.tescomobile-freesim.co.uk/ (max of 4)
https://www.lebara-mobile.co.uk/FreeSIM (max of 2)

Links with cashback
http://www.topcashback.co.uk/tesco_free_sims/
http://www.topcashback.co.uk/lebara-mobile/

The tesco SIM will arrive with 20p credit so you can activate it by making a call or sending a text using this 20p (so you should be able get the £4.20 cashback without topping up - will only work once for a given topcashback account though)

As soon as the tesco SIM is activated you can phone tesco up to ask for a PAC code which you can then give to lebara to port the number over - be sure to mention to lebara that you are porting the number because of their £5 free offer i.e.
http://www.lebara-mobile.co.uk/shop/offers (scroll down)

It is quite a bit of messing about just for £5 free credit (& some potential cashback) so I guess most peple can't be bothered