Samba Mobile Broadband - Is it Really Free?

DrPaul

larry_lurex wrote: »

I do not like to be accused of calling someone a liar when I did not. It would be easy for you to post - say, a screen shot - for example.

I have explained that I tried for four days to get more credit but always get the same ads which are "expired". Which part of that people do not understand I fail to comprehend.

Aah, takes me back to the good old days of the "flame wars" in the newsgroups of the early Internet!

For the record, I managed to build up over 1Gb of allowance in just a few days, so I have no problem in believing that someone could have built up 20Gb or so if they really put the effort in.

It's also obvious that many, many people have been able to build up allowances without the problems you've been having - so as the man said, look to your own setup and work out what's going wrong.

Throwing insults at people (which is how it appears to an essentially disinterested outsider to the discussion) generates such a "flame" and is hardly likely to encourage others to try and find a solution for you - which after all is meant to be the point of posting on a forum like this.

And in a spirit of such cooperation, here's an update to my "cheat sheet" for the adverts:

20 sec ads

Hugo Boss
Vodaphone
Black & Decker
Plenty
Benylin
Nivea
Duplo
Carolina Herrera
Continental
O2 (also 50 sec and 2:07)
Black XS
Next


30 sec ads

Untouchable
Ted
Canada (also 2:00)
Intel
Discovery Channel
Nespresso
Colgate
Waitrose
BT
Rise of the Guardians
Sudafed
Cushelle
Bourne Legacy
Velvet
Tom Cruise - Jack Reacher


40 sec ads

Asda


50 sec ads

O2 (also a 2:07)


1 min ads

Cuervo Gold
Dr Who
Boots
The Beatles
IBIS Hotels (1:15)


1 min 30 sec ads

Johnson & Johnson
Barclaycard
EE
British Airways


2 min + ads

O2 (2:07)
Paper Mario (2:08)
Tesco (2:16)
Red Stripe (2:26)
The Guardian (2:32)
Samsung Galaxy Note (2:44)
Nokia (2:58)
Telegraph (2:15, 2:33, 2:45 and 3:08)
Shell (3:22)
Volvo (3:22)
Samsung (3:39)
Start Rite (4:14)
1Xtra (BBC) (4:16)

larry_lurex

prowla wrote: »

I do not like to be accused in a repeatedly sceptical manner of "claim"ing something and being asked to provide a screenshot as proof.

I will make this statement: My Samba credit is now 20.4 GB; I have earned it all by clicking on adverts, the only time I paid money to Samba was for the SIM to fit the Three dongle I already had. (I don't recall if there was any initial "starter" credit on there, but it would have been a very small amount.)

So, simple question - do you believe that or not?

Yes, or No.

If unequivocally "Yes", then I accept that what you wrote about claims and proof and so on may have been something badly put and open to misinterpretation.

If "No", then you are asserting that what I say is not believable, and thus something you consider to be untrue, or in other words a lie.

I believe you. I have to believe you.

A claim is something which usually has to be proved. I never called you a liar and I still do not understand why you can earn so much credit and I cannot.

Bought my first computer in 1983. So I am not completely illiterate.

larry_lurex

DrPaul wrote: »

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For the record, I managed to build up over 1Gb of allowance in just a few days, so I have no problem in believing that someone could have built up 20Gb or so if they really put the effort in.

...

Thank you for your effort. I cannot click on something I am not presented with.

I tried all Sunday night to earn credit and could not. My finger is still sore from clicking on the same ads since they are the only choices I have.

Once again, my setup is quite simple - I allow any ad.

espresso

larry_lurex wrote: »

Bought my first computer in 1983. So I am not completely illiterate.

What browser are you using?

larry_lurex

espresso wrote: »

What browser are you using?

Chrome. But for Samba purposes I have also used IE (grim, I know. Just to check.)

espresso

larry_lurex wrote: »

Chrome. But for Samba purposes I have also used IE (grim, I know. Just to check.)

You should have tried Firefox here not IE.

prowla

larry_lurex wrote: »

I believe you. I have to believe you.

A claim is something which usually has to be proved. I never called you a liar and I still do not understand why you can earn so much credit and I cannot.

Bought my first computer in 1983. So I am not completely illiterate.

OK.

In the spirit of reconciliation, I can let you know that I click on the icons on my broadband PC, not on the wireless connection.:)

Uplink

larry_lurex wrote: »

Chrome. But for Samba purposes I have also used IE (grim, I know. Just to check.)

I said you should try a real browser right?

In my opinion, Chrome isn't one either, after it leaked incognito JS and cookie exceptions into my not-so-incognito list. I could live with it eating my tabs once in a while, and forgetting to unmap a popup menu that would stick as a stupid blank square on top of all my other windows until I closed Chrome, but not that.

So far, Firefox failed me only when I told it to do so

prowla

I've only used Firefox with Samba.

luci

Unfortunately I am in the same situation as larry lurex.

I only started using it at the beginning of the week and the first 3 days I was able to click on ads for an hour to an hour and a half before it said there were no new ads available.

Since then the only ads showing for me are expired ones. It the Lucky Dip appears I only get 2 ads before it says there are no more ads available.

I am using Firefox on Vista.