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Simplicity 600 discount??

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Both my wife and I changed tariffs last weekend from the online 50 at £10.50 per month plus £6.00 for 500mb data bolt on (£16.50 in total each month) to the Simplicity 600 tariff, 600 minutes, unlimited texts, and it currently has the extra 300 O2 to O2 miniutes free included for free, at £15.50 per month and then they're also currently offering the £6.00 data bolt on for free too if you sign up to the simplicity tariff for 12 months which we both have done. Well when I log into 'my O2' it shows the agreed simplicity 600, unlimited texts and the extra 300 O2 to O2 minutes for free as advertised for £15.50, then it shows the data bolt on at £6, then it shows a £6.00 loyalty discount for the bolt on as 'pending authorisation', I ring O2 and they say that it's a 'pending authorisation' as I have to pay one month at full price to 'activate' my 12 month term, and then the 'pending' request will be authorised and I will then only pay£15.50, like I should be paying, but no-where did it say when I/we signed up to the new tariff that I/we would have to pay one month at full price????? Even worse on my wife's "my O2" hers doesn't even show a loyaly bonus or pending request or anything??? O2 say that it is pending on hers too, but why doesn't it show it, when mine does? They were both done on the same phone call to 'O2', infact hers was done first? I bet we both end up paying £21.50 for the first month, and I end up having to ring up yet again!?.

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I think if customer services have advised about the pending authorisation on both accounts - then both accounts should get it. If you've only recently changed tariffs - it can take a bit of time before all the exact details will show up correctly on My O2.
You shouldn't have to pay 1 month at full price if the advertised deal stated it was free. If you end up having to pay bolt-on for 1 month, contact customer services to seek a refund. What's likely to be the case is that at the start of the billing month, your account is marked with the £6 refund to make the bolt-on free, and when the bill is finalised at the end of the month - the refund is completed. Therefore you'll always be charged + refunded the £6 each month, making the bolt-on free as intended.

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I think if customer services have advised about the pending authorisation on both accounts - then both accounts should get it. If you've only recently changed tariffs - it can take a bit of time before all the exact details will show up correctly on My O2.
You shouldn't have to pay 1 month at full price if the advertised deal stated it was free. If you end up having to pay bolt-on for 1 month, contact customer services to seek a refund. What's likely to be the case is that at the start of the billing month, your account is marked with the £6 refund to make the bolt-on free, and when the bill is finalised at the end of the month - the refund is completed. Therefore you'll always be charged + refunded the £6 each month, making the bolt-on free as intended.
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They didn't tell me it was a "loyalty discount" and it only lasts a year.

Very poor show.

Too quick to change people's tariffs and not tell the facts.

 

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