MSE News: EE unveils portable smartphone chargers to replace 'Orange Wednesdays'

Inigo_Montoya

Im pretty sure they wont be able to enforce the penalty charge terms for EE PAYG customers who have no credit left on their SIM

Even if you are registered online it looks like EE still dont store your home address details so the only way they could charge a PAYG customer is via debiting the amount from any balance available on the SIM

If they had your home address they could invoice you & later refer it to debt collectors but as far as I can see they dont ask PAYG customers for their home address on registration

I havent topped up yet but I guess they could store your billing address when you top up (which I wont be doing myself now)

Even with a home address they still cant actually prove you have the power bar as you could have sold or given the SIM to someone else who later used it to obtain a power bar

Pincher

Just to give a perspective:


Free delivery, but only for the blue one.


http://www.ebuyer.com/620338-patriot-mobile-rechargeable-battery-blue-pcpa20001bl


Different colours have different prices, and delivery is not free.




So if you don't want the uncertainty of £5 penalty, just buy one.
Can't exchange for a charged one, though.

I must say that I have no intention of exchanging it,
and I expect the shop to say they have run out anyway.

wongawonga

Swipe wrote: »

Do you really think EE will ask everyone to return them in 18 months time so they can stockpile worn out and useless chargers? It would cost them more than they'll be worth to dispose of them. The whole "free to hire" thing is just a means to prevent people from putting them on ebay.

Nothing would surprise me with EE, and people are already putting them on ebay.

anotheruser

So free for 18 months; then they'll charge you and hope you don't notice?
EE up to their old tricks again!

sparky93

Swipe wrote: »

Do you really think EE will ask everyone to return them in 18 months time so they can stockpile worn out and useless chargers? It would cost them more than they'll be worth to dispose of them. The whole "free to hire" thing is just a means to prevent people from putting them on ebay.

sadly they are already on ebay, hours later same day.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xee+power+bar.TRS0&_nkw=ee+power+bar&_sacat=0

Swipe

sparky93 wrote: »

sadly they are already on ebay, hours later same day.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xee+power+bar.TRS0&_nkw=ee+power+bar&_sacat=0

I know, just shows how much anyone believes their "free to hire" front

Zebrdee

EE probably won't exist in 18 months.

derrick

sparky93 wrote: »

a old comment of mine somewhere in this thread, i pondered, how long before they start popping up on ebay....
well, i just had look...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_sacat=0&_nkw=ee+power+bar&_sop=10

Wonder what the sellers will do when EE ask them for the £5. in 18 months time.
One on there is asking £20 + £3.20 postage.

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Pincher

sparky93 wrote: »

sadly they are already on ebay, hours later same day.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xee+power+bar.TRS0&_nkw=ee+power+bar&_sacat=0

So, if you are not a EE customer, but you want to exchange for fully charged Power Bars, you can?


If EE shops get swamped by non-EE customers, they will have to impose checks. The most obvious way is to send a text like SWAP to 60005, and get an authorisation code back. Obviously only mobile phones registered using JOIN xxxxxxxxxxx on 60005 will work. 35p per swap?


What kind of usage pattern would actually result in somebody swapping a Power Bar? To actually seek out a shop and swap takes time, and the shop will have to be open.

d123

Pincher wrote: »

So, if you are not a EE customer, but you want to exchange for fully charged Power Bars, you can?

Non-EE customers can qualify for the power bars.

If EE shops get swamped by non-EE customers,

It'll probably make EE happy, all those extra opportunities to churn those customers to EE every time they go into an EE shop and get a sales lecture while the exchange is processed.