Have OVIVO gone bust?

dealer_wins

thop wrote: »

Some of you may be interested to know that the small mobile provider "Kontakt" are trying to entice ex-Ovivo customers with a "free SIM" with £20 credit a free monthly allowance for 12 months. It's only sufficient for light use and it's worth reading their terms (some details only come out in the small print) but their rates are quite reasonable even if you go over the free allowance and the risk is low with the nil up-front cost. Not quite as good a deal as Ovivo but probably more sustainable!

You need to like them on Facebook, share a post on your page and fill in a simple form.

Not got any experience so can't comment yet, but I have ordered a free SIM.

I want to provide a link but not allowed as a new user, so here it is if you want to piece it together (replace square bracketed parts):
https[colon, slash, slash]a.pgtb.me[slash]32CXpD

I would rather attempt to mount a python thanks!!

lisaluvz

I can't believe it I don't change my phone for 10+ f***ing years. I go and buy a new darn smartphone (I say me, my boyfriend does 'cos i'm broke) so I can sign up for this Ovivo crap and it goes bust just few days after I started using it and ported my number over as well so probably lost that now as well as £20 I can't afford to lose after forking out so much for everything else! Just seems everyone out to get you in life! Majorly hacked off with moneysaving expert for reccomending this pile of crap and probably forcing them to go bust with all the publicity! Yeah it seemed too good to be true but just can't be bothered with the hassle of it all. Gahh it's just one thing after another - technology sucks!!! Modern life sucks I want to go and live in a cave (I realise this is one big rant and probably not helpful to others) but what is going to help us "Know your rights" erm we have none!??! The small man loses out again. It's like Tesco with their bleedin hudls - I got one for christmas as a gift from my partner - doesn't work - phone tesco they say tough s**t you can't have your money back because "we're updating the software" and "will be with you soon" how soon? "we can't tell you that" why not "because we're a**holes that's why!!!! Gaaah it's been since christmas now and get this they said they'd send me another, they did and the courier left it with the neighbour down the road forgetting they had to pick up the other broken hudl from us - stoopid! So now we have two hudls that don't work and can't get our money back! Yes maybe if I phoned trading standards or whatever i'd get somewhere (but highly doubt it) because no one gives a s**t. But it's more hassle in this never-ending cycle of doomed technology and what we call modern life! And they know that and they profit from it great huh! :mad:
OK rant over. (probably went off topic slightly and nobody will bother to read this anyway lol but need to get it out my system) sure there might be a different thread about how rubbish hudls are but I can't be arsed to find it as i'm so tired of trying to find another network etc etc goodnight

canterswest

http://www.itv.com/daybreak/money/a-railcard-for-couples


The clip where Martin Lewis says what the Ovivo deal is and what actually happened would be a good lesson to use in schools.


Far too many worthless sales messages in life these days, lisaluvz

Netwizard

lisaluvz wrote: »

STUFF

If you are that skint, sell your smartphone, you don't need it and can't afford it. Buy one of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00871NHSG/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_3?pf_rd_p=103612307&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0068ZAPB0&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=15JWW4SA33AC76MYC164

and put a Three 3-2-1 Pay as you go sim in it and it will cost you peanuts.

Job done for just over £20 including £10 credit

pdoherty76

Well, according to an article I read earlier, Ovivo have NOT gone bust.


They were cut off by the MVNO they were using due to a software dispute that caused Ovivo to refuse to pay them.


They have simply closed down due to not having a network, they haven't gone bust.


That means they should be paying us our credit back. Their CEO said that they were in a black a couple of weeks ago.

Kernel_Sanders

canterswest wrote: »

Unfortunately you are wrong, I thought Topcashback had offered to pay the cashback it had offered...
you can thank each others posts and gang up to bully but as I have said, you are wrong in this case.

No, you are inviting more criticism by the half-truths (and worse ) that you are posting. MSE is no more liable than I am when I recommend an offer I spot in a shop.

canterswest wrote: »

Topcashback has apparently said it will refund customers. I would say this is a commercial decision to avoid bad publicity and based on checking how many deals were outstanding. It probably has a small amount to refund.
As Topcashback is refunding customers you agree MSE should too?

Topcashback is a cashback company. It doesn't take in any money from the public to refund. Therefore you must have thought they were offering to refund the £20.
So, you couldn't have thought
that it meant anything else, could you.

redux

Netwizard wrote: »

If you are that skint, sell your smartphone, you don't need it and can't afford it. Buy one of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00871NHSG/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_3?pf_rd_p=103612307&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0068ZAPB0&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=15JWW4SA33AC76MYC164

and put a Three 3-2-1 Pay as you go sim in it and it will cost you peanuts.

Job done for just over £20 including £10 credit

The Three network is 3g based with no 2g, so someone would need a 3g enabled phone to use it.

That phone is not a 3g phone. It will not work with a Three SIM

I really don't understand why people keep giving incomplete advice like this

pdoherty76

Netwizard wrote: »

If you are that skint, sell your smartphone, you don't need it and can't afford it. Buy one of these: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00871NHSG/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_3?pf_rd_p=103612307&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B0068ZAPB0&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=15JWW4SA33AC76MYC164

and put a Three 3-2-1 Pay as you go sim in it and it will cost you peanuts.

Job done for just over £20 including £10 credit

Pssst....


A three sim won't work in that 2G phone.

powerful_Rogue

pdoherty76 wrote: »

Pssst....


A three sim won't work in that 2G phone.

Pssst......

Someone pointed that out 7 minutes before you - infact, in the post right above yours!

Netwizard

pdoherty76 wrote: »

Pssst....


A three sim won't work in that 2G phone.

My Mistake but the principle remains the same. Either swap the phone for a 3G compatible one, or change network to something like Tesco/Giffgaff PAYG with equally low rates