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Prepaid Mastercard

Banananana — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 05:19:12 GMT

So I recently upgraded to a Samsung S24 Ultra during the £250 prepaid mastercard promotion. I upgraded at the start of February and sent off my claim as soon as it was possible, I completely forgot about it until my sister recently reminded me of it since she received hers having upgraded roughly 2 weeks after me.

I read on the website I should wait 65 days from the date of purchase, we'll it's been roughly 90 days and I've heard nothing and recieved no email or message regarding the prepaid card.

I've reached out to support but unfortunately haven't had a response as the live chat instructed me to email a specific address made to deal with this. It's been 2 weeks and I haven't heard a peep from them.

Wondering if anybody else has had similar issues or if anybody knows a way to go about getting support regarding the matter?

Cheers in advance.

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

pgn — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 05:53:06 GMT

There is a guide that deals with how to claim the various gifts that come along with certain phones sold by O2, @Banananana - - 2 of the MasterCard offers are in there, down the page a way. Hopefully that helps?

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Banananana — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 06:10:21 GMT

Thanks for the reply, unfortunately the guide doesn't help with the issue I'm facing. I've claimed the Mastercard I just simply haven't received it.

When I spoke to O2 Support about it, they told me to message help@o2redeem.co.uk in order to get it rectified. I emailed them 17 days ago and have had no reply and unfortunately support seems to be unable to do anything for me.

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

gmarkj — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:34:32 GMT

Is this one you can help with @Dave-O2 ?

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Dave-O2 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 13:24:50 GMT

@Banananana Have you also tried reaching out and chasing this via 03456002098?

You can find more in the FAQs below

Frequently Asked Questions (o2claim.co.uk)

Thanks for the tag @gmarkj

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Denis3 — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 22:37:24 GMT

I have the same situation: 2 months passed, the card didn't arrive. O2 claims support team created a tickets and "is working on it" without any resolution ETA. This whole situation starts looking like a scam to me...

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Polly5678 — Wed, 01 May 2024 10:27:44 GMT

I’ve been contacting them since I got my sim only deal as I wanted it also for the master card and it also had Disney for 6 months ( that was set up easy ) this was 20th Feb and I was told in January my data plan ended and went through a whole hour of an agent blasting t&c at a speed nobody would understand and then she pressed submit and said oh it says here it’s too early and your leave date isn’t til the 20feb ! I said well you can document this and compensate and get someone to call and nobody called of course and I’d found the different deal and said how it would help me a lot and it went through fine but then no texts for the application to redeem and so I’ve been calling them about that every week or so and I’ve been told everytime it’s gone through but I have nothing to say it has .

when I got the text I did the redeem and pressing submit it kept refreshing back to the first page so I was like I’m not going to get to after the redeem date and be told I didn’t redeem it

i phoned them also as I’d applied for another device and they said it would go to the credit risk team and I’d get a call I wasn’t worried as I’d seen on here if you apply for more they sometimes do it to make can afford more contracts and they never called ( typically as I’d been praising 02 on social media in December ! Saying never had an issue now its not stop issues ) then they put it through manually asking me questions and then I never got nothing to say your contract details so I rang back the next day and was told it would need to be submitted as a new contract but I explained everything and the agent on the phone couldn’t understated me , I kept saying no it’s been accepted you just need to go back on the application and do whatever it is but they put it a

through again … TWICE and when I rang back to find out what was going on they were clueless and actually rude in the phone and it kept cutting off which is convenient as they just kept saying they didn’t know or that becuase it went through 3 times they wouldn’t be sending me the watch and I was prepared to get the contract and thought it would be easier to have one bill hence getting the sim only also .

so now it looks like I’ve applied for 3 Apple Watches so very suspicious and my credit file is marked and I said I wanted the watch as I’ve been critically ill and it was as good idea and I could afford it as I’d sorted my finances and just thought as I’d got the device amd the sim only I’d get the Apple Watch with them but it was just a huge mistake

I’ve got no further today when I spent about an hour and half on the phone as I was requesting they compensate for all the time I’ve wasted and the stress and misinforming me and she said the ticket is live and the credit team are going to call me and they are requesting the 2 extra ones to come off and then they can send the 1st one and I said no way I don’t even want my contracts I’ve got with you let alone a new one .

thry told me I would need to contact Mastercard team and I said well you should actually I’m your customer and I’m paying to do a job but apparently is against their regulations so I said well they won’t exactly send it to me without nothing to say I was receiving it from 02 or everyone would just do that !

she basically said there’s nothing else she. Can do so I said to her you can add all this to my complaint as you’ve wasted more time and stressed me out which makes my nerve pain a lot worse .

im not going to just not get the gift card and they sell compensate for this I’ve said if they don’t resolve this I’ll get advice from the citizen’s advice as they know I’m disabled also and when I was calling to try sort these issues I was unwell with a germ and could hardly talk but I had to deal with it and it’s likely a breech or the equality act 2010 as they need to make things accessible and I was also told I’d get a 20% discount for the sim only and at first she tried to say it was either. 20% discount or the Disney and Mastercard then I read the stuff online and turn out I was given wrong info .

she said to me also someone has another account in this address and I said no they don’t as it’s me and my dad who’s with Vodafone ( they’re even worse than 02 tbh)

I said to the agent you wouldn’t want to go get a food shop and thry say you didn’t do it right or you can get the food in a moth

theyre a joke and they talk to me like I’m a child and I used to let things go but surviving a nde has given me my voice and this even goes for my family

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Oxonian — Wed, 01 May 2024 18:57:49 GMT

I don't think it is a scam @Denis3, as O2 would suffer reputational damage if such a scam got into the media.

Unfortunately, O2 seem to have difficulties running promotions efficiently ; have you actually received your card or not ?

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Denis3 — Thu, 02 May 2024 00:01:36 GMT

No, I haven't. Support team keeps "working on my request" almost 3 weeks now...

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Banananana — Thu, 02 May 2024 09:10:18 GMT

Hey, sorry for the late reply I'm currently quite swamped with family stuff.

I have successfully managed to resolve this by speaking directly to the issuing companies customer support and my prepaid card should be with me in the next few days.

It kinda sucks that I basically had to jump through several hoops to get a clear indication of how to resolve the issue, but at the end of the day it is indeed resolved.

They let me know that although I submitted my claim, it wasn't processed until 23 days after leaving the qualifying date to be pushed back.

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Oxonian — Thu, 02 May 2024 20:01:24 GMT

@Denis3

You've got a suggested avenue from @Dave-O2 and another one from @Banananana in this thread. Can I suggest that you consider trying those approaches ?

@Dave-O2 might well come back to you on this, but it won't be until after next week's Bank Holiday as he is currently on annual leave. 👍

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

vickijoy1986 — Mon, 27 May 2024 12:24:42 GMT

how did you manage this as i am currently having the same issue and just had tickets raised with no further reply

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Oxonian — Mon, 27 May 2024 12:41:21 GMT

@vickijoy1986

You need to tag the person that you are asking that question of ; @Denis3 or @Banananana maybe ? ❓

Have you tried the approaches suggested by @Dave-O2 and by @Banananana above ? ❓

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Dave-O2 — Tue, 28 May 2024 12:15:58 GMT

Thanks for the tag @Oxonian

@vickijoy1986, @Denis3, @Polly5678

If you bought a qualifying product within the promotional period and you also submitted your claim to receive this within 30 days of purchase. Please chase your gift by ringing 03456002098

The full terms of the offer can be seen HERE

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Eden2001xy — Tue, 28 May 2024 12:37:19 GMT

Having the exact same issue right now. The delay is on o2’s end as when I keep contacting the o2 rewards team they give me a timescale to wait for o2’s response (apparently to confirm details) which keep running out. I have had to send details repeatedly to the reward team, and received no responses from o2’s customer service. When ringing o2 I have had the phone put down on me after being on hold for 10 minutes to try and get in touch. I rang to make a complaint about o2’s customer service and was offered £50 off my bill. Received an email that this would be confirmed within 2 days and weeks later it is still pending, with no correspondence from o2. Am on the phone now and they are offering to reduce my contract price but very much considering just cancelling the contract. Received an email from o2 on Thursday saying to watch my emails. I should have received the Mastercard on 19/04/24. It is now 28/05/24. I am now being told that despite having not received the promises when i signed up I will still have to pay £470 to leave my sim only contract. Literally just need a response from o2. Awful awful customer service and being told I cannot speak to a manager. Will be visiting in branch soon.

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

madasaf1sh — Tue, 28 May 2024 12:53:00 GMT

@Eden2001xy

No point in going to a store they cant do anything to help you.

Have you spoken to the team at o2claims... as if you want to cancel you will need to pay off the contract it will be required to pay off the device plan.

If you have logged a complaint it can take 8 weeks for them to reply.

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Denis3 — Tue, 28 May 2024 12:58:25 GMT

@Dave-O2,

I did this a more than a month ago. Since then I keep receiving explanations that my request is in progress and they are waiting for the reply from O2.

Really looks like a scam. People are tricked into buying expensive £30 a month contracts and then promised £200 reward never arrived. Or will at best arrive in 6 months when the contract will eat it completely...

Very disappointed with O2. No surprise that their rating on Trustpilot is so low...

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Denis3 — Wed, 29 May 2024 16:17:52 GMT

@Oxonian , to your earlier point about reputational damage for O2 - I recently checked their profile on TrustPilot...

Yes, I get that people are much quicker with complains than with positive reviews. But in case of O2 it is just a nightmare: 84% of 1* reviews! I don't think that O2 can suffer more reputational damage...

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.o2.co.uk

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Oxonian — Thu, 30 May 2024 19:02:58 GMT

I am a little dubious of Trustpilot personally @Denis3.

This shows that of the four UK mobile network operators, there is little difference between O2 and their two main competitors :-

Best And Worst UK Mobile Networks 2024: GiffGaff, EE, Smarty, Lebara and more - Which?

https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/mobile-phone-providers/article/mobile-phone-provider-reviews/best-mobile-networks-overview-amhDx1F0z41t

Based on my knowledge and insight, I think that is a fair reflection ? ❓

Re: Prepaid Mastercard

Denis3 — Fri, 31 May 2024 15:12:48 GMT

My problem was resolved with @Dave-O2 's help! The card arrived today!