Panic over... it turns out when you pop the SIM in the phone, there is the £5 credit on there :-)

Mine has no indication of the £5 credit either.

Bought one of these SIMs (followed the deal link to buy from eBay seller 'ee-uk-shop' who are just a company pretending to be EE by the way). SIM arrived today but there is no mention of the £5 free credit on the packaging etc (just says £1 talk and text pack). Have I been conned? Or will I find £5 credit if I shove this in a phone? Didn't want to break out the SIM card and try it in a phone just in case I need to send back.

Just wondered if anyone else has bought one of these from the same seller?

I thought they were free to text? Although i could be wrong.

Thanks I don't think they're free too text though, I bought 10 sims and the most I've been able to donate is £4 and £1 extra with giftaid

Still good but annoying it's not the full amount and that random 70p's etc are being left on the sims

Thanks for that, am I right in thinking I can only £4 because the text to the charity costs me 10p?

Text stop pack to 150, but be sure to put the data on the phone off before inserting the sim.

Finally got one of these sims thanks, put it in my phone to donate to charity and they've taken £1 for some **** pack thing that I didn't want... Do you happen to know how to stop this from happening?

Not really the case....I bought a few of these well over a year ago, only activated today & still had £5 credit on it

When you buy from a high street shop.....unless marked with an expiry date who knows how long they have had them in stock ?

What if I buy one today & the shop has had it for 170 days.....by your logic if I did not use it in 10 days it would stop working.....EE have no idea when each sim is sold through a normal high street shop .....

When you buy the SIM you have to use it at least once within 180 days or EE assume it's a dead number and will cancel the SIM and remove any credit.

That is once activated though....the sim cards carry an expiry date

EE T's and C's for these SIMs

6.3 You must make a Connection Action at least once every 180 days. If You do not, Your SIM Card w ill be
disconnected from the Netw ork and You w ill not be able to use the Services. You will lose Your mobile phone number
and any Credit on Your Account at the time of such disconnection will be forfeited.

Any other wallet like websites or accounts you can use the credits on these sims?

I've used countless number of these sims (from different sources) over the last couple of years on Google Play and used the £5 on there every time. No problems as yet.

Thanks for your help mate, I will have a look in the B&M near work tomorrow

Rare for O2 to offer decent sim deals....although if they did I'd probably miss them as there is no O2 (or even Vodaphone) reception where I live

just a quick tip. if any of u do international calls den just get any plan removed and it will work like international sim. eg 2p/min call to india

shame you didnt find any O2 ones :-( lol

Local Poundstretcher also had some in stock same price......worth a rummage through the sims on display at the tills as the ones I found were mixed in amongst the others without the stickers on

I bought a lot of them more than a year ago and was blocked
still blocked since :disappointed:

Thanks for that unfortunately saw it after I just got back, I saw them sim packeta but I don't think it had that sticker on so my store must not have them

I can confirm there is no 10p charge for using phone top up
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkL0-cMu8N8

I think EE offer a £1 minimum topup so you can still get £5 of credit & leave 90p on the phone ;-)

Just insert into the phone.....well worked for me anyway

Thanks.

do you have to top up first to get this £5credit or can you just put it phone and use straight away...

Yep, missed that, sorry! Still won't work for these sims because of the minimum spend though, unless they've removed the text charge.

Does anybody know if you can tether the data that the £5 credit would provide?

If so, any idea of the amount of data that £5 would provide?

Cheers in advance :-)

As EE is orange/Tmobile I cannot see why not.....just choose Orange

I don't think so (though it has been a while since I tried as I don't have a PS3 any more).

AFAIK, as there is a charge for the top-up text (10p or something) you then don't have enough credit left for the £5 top-up so it fails. Also, looks like EE aren't currently supported.




You can use these sims for charity donations though eg. JustGiving

You can put them in a data device but the data limit is around 100Mb a week....you need to either stop the phone pack via text or online first

You simply ensure Data is switched off on your device & text Stop Pack to 150......all £5 should then be available as credit for any purpose

Do these have an expiry date if not activated ?.

Anyone know if these can be used to top up my PSN Wallet?

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Thanks for that, I will be made up if they have them at my local. Currently raising money for MEN united with work and these will go a long way to helping

Yes, make sure you pick up the correct packet. The have others that do not have the £5 sticker on it.

Same sim card is 75p with £5 credit at B&M

Good find

Wont let me purchase...on sellers blocked list ... ?? never purchased before

Can this be used as a data sim only ?

Really?

That's the main reason these deals get hot!

I was able to buy 4 of these from Amazon as a single purchase,good value imo when visiting the UK for a short while.

Good idea! Never actually thought of that. I'll add it the thread.

Google play credit :wink: heat added.

Sometimes this goes hot, sometimes this goes cold.