Free Texts O2 without topping up?

Frugal_Moose

Hi,
Was browsing ebay and saw this link for sale

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=29779&item=6334520114&rd=1

Does anyone know about this? Seems too good to be true hence this post.

Any info appreciated.

barjam_2

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Posted by dazbradbury
Ok, well I just came accross this today, it could be old news, in which case delete it, if not then enjoy. I haven't tested it as I'm too lazy 2, but just thought I'd share it.

"1 Firstly you must have a o2 sim card installed into your mobile phone.(must
be the 300 text per month sim!)

2 Please note that there are different o2 sim cards,the 300 a month means
you have to put £10 in every month to recieve your 300 texts.

3 Once you have topped your sim card up with some credit you will find you
have the following;

£10 worth of talktime,
300 wap minutes,
300 texts.

4 Take notice of what date it is on your mobile phone when you top up.

5 Use your phone as normal for that month or until you run out of texts.

6 Once you have run out of texts,reset the date on your mobile phone to the
date when you first topped up and DONT USE YOUR PHONE THAT DAY!!
(meaning dont make a connection with anyone with your mobile but leave
turned on!!)

7 The next day you can change your date settings back to normal.

8 Now all you have to do is wait for the new month and you will recieve a
message from o2 saying"THANKYOU FOR TOPPING UP,YOU NOW HAVE YOUR FREE 300
TEXT MESSAGES"

9 IMPORTANT!! matter where abouts in that month you run out of texts,You
only(ONLY!)get a max of 300 texts per month so make sure you dont run out
halfway through the month as you will have to wait till the start of the new
month to get your free 300 texts."


hope someone finds this useful...



THIS ABOVE IS NOT MINE but i found this once i couldnt get it to work !
my top up date was yesterday i havent topped up yet but still got text they will pro dissappear 2 morro

Frugal_Moose

Cheers Barjam, don't suppose you know if this actually works?
It seems so straightforward that its daft!!

PhilUK_3

it does not work!

monomer

Yeah, the phenomenon of O2 free texts not expiring does actually happen - I've not topped up for 2 months now, and the texts are still free.

My personal feeling is that it's more of a random event because I didn't touch the date/time settings on my phone at all. In fact, I don't even know how I did it, or if I even did anything at all.

O2 are infamous for their billing errors, so I'm not surprised that these sorts of things happen. I mean when I went to buy the 'International Talk and Text' bolt-on, they forgot to charge me the £4.99 fee.

Oh well.

echo

i tried for months and i couldn't get the texts without topping up either.

wirm

yup the date on your phone!

Have tried this and it does not work!

robbies_gal

ok so its working on some and not others

one-non-blonde

I've not tried this, but I generally don't have to top up £10 a month to keep my free texts. The reminders from O2 are pretty random and I can usually get away with 2-3 months before being forced into it.


My gripe with the 300 free texts is more to do with when O2 took over from BTCellnet several years back and my previously infinite free texts suddenly became restricted to 300 without warning. Still irritates me... >:(