on 01-03-2013 22:48
on 01-03-2013 22:48
I am on Txt & Web paying £10 a month normally to get 300 Txt & 500 Mb of data for a month. On 29th Jan I got a Txt from O2 saying that if I topped up £15 I would get an extra £15 allowance. As I was due to top up anyway I decided to go mad and increase my normal top up and put £15 on my phone which gave me 500 Txt & 500 Mb to use for a month.
I thought that this additional £15 allowance would be added to my balance, how wrong I was!
The extra £15 is "virtual" money only and as I never use-up my 300 Txt & 500 Mb of data anyway I now feel "ripped-off" by O2.
I phoned customer care to complain on Wednesday 27th Feb as I now have another Txt from O2 "offering" an extra £15 for a £20 top up.
I feel this is very missleading as a low user like me will never get anything extra. "J" at customer care assured me that an O2 manager would call me the next day to address my complaint. There has been no call, so I guess that customer care, .... don't care!
on 02-03-2013 00:11
on 02-03-2013 00:11
The virtual top up get used before your actual money.
SO what is the problem or did you not understand how it worked?
on 02-03-2013 00:15
on 02-03-2013 00:15
I'm puzzled you are a low user but you're topping up for higher amounts, it's not compulsory and only designed for higher rate users.
on 02-03-2013 08:20
on 02-03-2013 10:33
on 02-03-2013 12:00
A free virtual £10, I wouldn't mind that myself, it doesn't matter how much a user you are, just you are one of the lucky people
on 02-03-2013 16:31
on 02-03-2013 16:31
@Anonymous wrote:
I'm puzzled you are a low user but you're topping up for higher amounts, it's not compulsory and only designed for higher rate users.
That is exactly my point! Where in the O2 Txt does it say "designed for higher rate users". Like I say, misleading and a rip-off. Yes the "virtual" credit is used first making it even more unlikely that the Text and Web allowance is going to be used for a low user.
You don't need the extra, yet you have chosen to pay for and take the extra, now you're not happy???????
Sorry I'm puzzled, O2 have given you exactly what you paid for.
on 03-03-2013 17:15
The definition of being misled is that it appeared that O2 were offering £15 extra for a £15 top up. Their offer did NOT explain that the £15 extra was "virtual" money only and would never be available as an addition to your balance. So I was duped into topping up £15 when I did not need to! I call that misleading and a total rip-off!
I want my £15 back and the call back from "customer care"that was promised last Thursday. Lets face it, they have had my money, now they don't "care".
on 03-03-2013 20:05
@Anonymous wrote:The definition of being misled is that it appeared that O2 were offering £15 extra for a £15 top up. Their offer did NOT explain that the £15 extra was "virtual" money only and would never be available as an addition to your balance. So I was duped into topping up £15 when I did not need to! I call that misleading and a total rip-off!
I want my £15 back and the call back from "customer care"that was promised last Thursday. Lets face it, they have had my money, now they don't "care".
It's only virtual because it doesn't appear in the balance but you still get that £15 to spend & the top up stays on your phone