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Ways to spend mobile phone credit

c-m
c-m Posts: 771 Forumite
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I recently bought an Orange San Francisco and as a result had to buy £20 worth of credit.

Since i'm not with Orange the sim and the credit have not left the orange box.

Are there any ways I can spend this credit or exchange it for something useful? i.e not on phone calls

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  • emerald21
    emerald21 Posts: 11,349 Forumite
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    c-m wrote: »
    I recently bought an Orange San Francisco and as a result had to buy £20 worth of credit.

    Since i'm not with Orange the sim and the credit have not left the orange box.

    Are there any ways I can spend this credit or exchange it for something useful? i.e not on phone calls

    Yes ive got an orange sim with over £21 on it and i wish i cud just sell it somehow and get the money back for it but thats only wishful thinking. I have a different fone now on t mobile so im going to have to use the two fones until ive used up this £21. The only other thing would be to buy a cheap orange fone put the sim in and use it for texts or whatever.
  • nicolax
    nicolax Posts: 298 Forumite
    what about if you keep it to use for orange wednesdays at the cinema
  • JJ_Egan
    JJ_Egan Posts: 20,281 Forumite
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    Been a number of posts on the same topic . Might be worth a search to see if an ideas cropped up .

    jje
  • c-m
    c-m Posts: 771 Forumite
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    Yeah it's a difficult one to search for as you get a load of post Orange, Sim, Credit, spend - pretty much covers most threads in this forum.

    I heard that one of the betting shops allowed you to bet using phone credit/txt or something or other, but i can't find any information on it.
  • spondon30
    spondon30 Posts: 120 Forumite
    c-m wrote: »
    Yeah it's a difficult one to search for as you get a load of post Orange, Sim, Credit, spend - pretty much covers most threads in this forum.

    I heard that one of the betting shops allowed you to bet using phone credit/txt or something or other, but i can't find any information on it.

    Think its called Betnow. You can also phone abroad from 3p a minute with the orange sim credit using Dialacode.
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