Orange Wednesdays 2-for-1 movies

asot

To be eligible for orange wednesdays you have to top up £5 a month irrespective of tariffs as far as I know. Not 100% sure though, could be wrong.

blinky

My dad got used his phone the other day for the Orange cinema ticket and he's lucky if he used £10 a year.

kai666

I have put £30 on my orange phone in the last 12 months, orange wednesday tickets came through ok last week when i tried it

pricefighter

asot wrote:

To be eligible for orange wednesdays you have to top up £5 a month irrespective of tariffs as far as I know. Not 100% sure though, could be wrong.

Yes you are correct you must top up by at least £5 a month to qualify for tickets according to T&C.

See http://www.orange.co.uk/entertainment/film/cma/terms.html

mand1_3

The way I read those T & C's is that "Text tickets are issued on a priority basis to active customers who spend over £5 per month with Orange" - from website, does this not mean that those who spend £5 pm get first dibs on the tickets but if 'any left' they are for anyone with Orange PAYG. I hope so because I have a very old Orange sim and might give it a try, kids are pestering me to go to cinemas.

Edinburghlass_2

I have been with Orange for years and never use anything like £5 a month top up and have always had the cinema text from them but my daughter's sim which hasn't been used was refused.

RadioactiveFrog

my girlfriend stopped using her orange sim in March and yesterday we went to the cinema with friends and i used my phone to get us a 241 and i lent my girlfriends old sim to my friends and they managed to get a ticket too. I wasn't aware of the T&C's just mentioned so i didn't think it wouldn't work, but having read the posts above i thought people might like to know that it does seem to work

knuckledragger

asot and pricefighter,
You don't need to top up the card at all to get the 241 deal on the cinema tickets.
I activated one of the (Free!) Orange PAYG sims two weeks ago purely so that I could use it to get the free cinema tickets. Once I'd registered it, the guy said that the sim came with £1 credit on it and Would I like to top it up now? Would I like to register a debit card to making topping up easier?
Er, NO and NO. Thanks for asking, excuses made...
No sooner had I put the phone down to him, I sent "film" to 241 and received the code back to quote at the cinema.
£1 credit = 10sms = 10 free tickets = £68 saved.

WSO

knuckledragger wrote:

£1 credit = 10sms = 10 free tickets = £68 saved.

Orange PAYG is 12p for a text and has been for a good year or so... so recalcuating your savings...

£1 credit = 8 sms = 8 free tickets = £54.40 (based on the price of your tickets).

Still worth doing if you are into your movies and you have a participating cinema nearby...

knuckledragger

websiteowner,
Thanks for that. 12p/sms? Thankfully I'm not paying for them, lol. Why would anyone want Orange as their PAYG? Apart from the cinema tickets that is!