Lebara - What counts as a new customer?

drphila

Neither the dot or + hacks work with Yahoo, unfortunately

Qew

drphila said:

Neither the dot or + hacks work with Yahoo, unfortunately

Yeah, I should have mentioned that not all email providers support them. Still, a Gmail account is easy to get for such purposes.

HaroldWhistler

RichyRich said:

If you've run out of email addresses this Gmail feature is handy: you can add dots. Let's say your email address is oldagetraveller1@gmail.com. You can give your email address as:

- old.age.traveller.1@gmail.com
- old.age.traveller1@gmail.com
- old.agetraveller1@gmail.com
- oldage.traveller1@gmail.com
- oldagetraveller.1@gmail.com
- o.ldagetraveller1@gmail.com
- ol.dagetraveller1@gmail.com
- old.agetraveller1@gmail.com
- olda.getraveller1@gmail.com

...ad infinitum, thereby obviating the need to sign up to new email addresses. The service provider (Lebara, in this case) will recognise it as a different email address but it will reach your Gmail inbox just fine.

oldagetraveller1 said:

reset1 said:

Go back to MSE search. For simplicity  just use a new email address that is not already used with Lebara to order when signing up. 

That's exactly what I do. Problem is I've run out of e-mail addresses and next time will have to set up one specifically to complete!

Using a previously used e-mail and log in has never worked for me?

Oh nice! Does this only work with Gmail addresses, or is this a universal thing?

Qew said:

Another way is to use the + symbol after the portion of the email address that's before the @ symbol.

So, for instance, if your email address was, let's say, oldagetraveller1@gmail.com, then you could make it oldagetraveller1+lebara@gmail.com, or oldagetraveller1+o2@gmail.com, or oldagetraveller1+1pmobile@gmail.com, etc. The emails will all get sent to your inbox.

This is great if you want to have separate email addresses for particular receivers, like for newsletters, companies, etc. It also enables you to quickly differentiate emails from such companies (also great for knowing who sold your info to spammers, etc).

More info here: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html

Does this work for other e-mai providers, or just Gmail (e.g. Hotmail, Yahoo etc)?
And technically speaking then, in order to fulfil the OP's objective, could you just do the following every time to sign up to the new Lebara deal:

Original e-mail:

oldcustomer@mail.com 

Addresses when resigning up:

oldcustomer+lebara@mail.com
oldcustomer+lebara2@mail.com
oldcustomer+lebara3@mail.com
old.customer@mail.com

flaneurs_lobster

HaroldWhistler said:

Does this work for other e-mai providers, or just Gmail (e.g. Hotmail, Yahoo etc)?

You can use plus-sign email addresses with Hotmail (& Outlook, MSN) but not with Yahoo. Haven't checked other email providers.

Yahoo have "disposable email addresses", useful in that they do not show your actual email address to the addressee but they have to be set up in advance of use. 

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/new-mail-for-desktop/create-edit-delete-disposable-email-addresses-yahoo-mail-sln28815.html

Qew

HaroldWhistler said:

RichyRich said:

If you've run out of email addresses this Gmail feature is handy: you can add dots. Let's say your email address is oldagetraveller1@gmail.com. You can give your email address as:

- old.age.traveller.1@gmail.com
- old.age.traveller1@gmail.com
- old.agetraveller1@gmail.com
- oldage.traveller1@gmail.com
- oldagetraveller.1@gmail.com
- o.ldagetraveller1@gmail.com
- ol.dagetraveller1@gmail.com
- old.agetraveller1@gmail.com
- olda.getraveller1@gmail.com

...ad infinitum, thereby obviating the need to sign up to new email addresses. The service provider (Lebara, in this case) will recognise it as a different email address but it will reach your Gmail inbox just fine.

oldagetraveller1 said:

reset1 said:

Go back to MSE search. For simplicity  just use a new email address that is not already used with Lebara to order when signing up. 

That's exactly what I do. Problem is I've run out of e-mail addresses and next time will have to set up one specifically to complete!

Using a previously used e-mail and log in has never worked for me?

Oh nice! Does this only work with Gmail addresses, or is this a universal thing?

Qew said:

Another way is to use the + symbol after the portion of the email address that's before the @ symbol.

So, for instance, if your email address was, let's say, oldagetraveller1@gmail.com, then you could make it oldagetraveller1+lebara@gmail.com, or oldagetraveller1+o2@gmail.com, or oldagetraveller1+1pmobile@gmail.com, etc. The emails will all get sent to your inbox.

This is great if you want to have separate email addresses for particular receivers, like for newsletters, companies, etc. It also enables you to quickly differentiate emails from such companies (also great for knowing who sold your info to spammers, etc).

More info here: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2008/03/2-hidden-ways-to-get-more-from-your.html

Does this work for other e-mai providers, or just Gmail (e.g. Hotmail, Yahoo etc)?
And technically speaking then, in order to fulfil the OP's objective, could you just do the following every time to sign up to the new Lebara deal:

Original e-mail:

oldcustomer@mail.com 

Addresses when resigning up:

oldcustomer+lebara@mail.com
oldcustomer+lebara2@mail.com
oldcustomer+lebara3@mail.com
old.customer@mail.com

As mentioned, it'll depend on the email service provider.

Still, there's nothing stopping a person from signing up to a Gmail or Outlook address for the purpose of making Lebara, or whoever, believe you're a new customer. It doesn't mean that you have to use Gmail or Outlook for anything else.

Aidanmc

Let me understand this, to continually get Lebara promo period mse deals i need to use a different email address every time?

muffinhead

Aidanmc said:

Let me understand this, to continually get Lebara promo period mse deals i need to use a different email address every time?

Are all the numbers on your Lebara account active and do you plan to continue using them?

If not, Delinking SIMs on my Lebara account allowed me to order the new customer deals. Just make sure to turn off auto-renew if you don't plan to continue using the old sim.

Aidanmc

muffinhead said:

Aidanmc said:

Let me understand this, to continually get Lebara promo period mse deals i need to use a different email address every time?

Are all the numbers on your Lebara account active and do you plan to continue using them?

If not, Delinking SIMs on my Lebara account allowed me to order the new customer deals. Just make sure to turn off auto-renew if you don't plan to continue using the old sim.

I only have 1 Lebara number at present and will continue to use it after the promo period (on payg, wont be used much)

But i wish to get another lebara sim (mse offer) use it until promo period expires and then get another one, i dont plan to keep these numbers

atlantis187

Can this sequence be used?

for the original contract - 
sparesimcontract+lebara@gmail.com

2nd contact 8 months later
sparesimcontract+lebara2@gmail.com

then so on 
sparesimcontract+lebara3@gmail.com

and ca you have 2 sims on the same email if took out together?