I did this last year - why anyone would want to wrap their gift up in O2 advertising is beyond me. Still free is free! heat added

Doesnt look as though it says o2 on the actual wrapping paper.....cant make it out clearly but says something like....."from ---------- favorite person"

It doesn't have any O2 branding on it.

it says 'From your new favourite person' and also 'See I do listen'

Last year had their mangy looking cat all over it!!!

No 02 on the paper
Says "from your new favourite person"

What you see in the ad, is not what you get in-store.

They told me it is blue and does not make any mention of o2.

Then they asked for my number so they could check my account and I backed out hurriedly as I have no idea what the number was of the o2 payg I used to activate the app three years ago...

Picked up mines today. It's the one pictured. No o2 branding. Says "from you'renew ffavourite person" and "see I do listen"

I went in to collect mine yesterday but they've changed the collection process... I thought it was just going to be for the mini-speaker/star-wars stuff, but looks like they're making you fill out forms and surveys for every single freebie!! That involves a text code to your O2 number, a form of your details and a few questions about your contract etc. Oh, and at least a 20min wait at all times it seems!

Bit annoying just for a roll of wrapping paper! Also annoying for everyone who's not really on O2 but do have an O2 number from a old cheeky SIM! :stuck_out_tongue: (I keep the O2 SIM in my wallet just in case there's a freebie that's actually worth the effort!)

Oh my, that's hillarious :wink: When collecting the lightsaber I had to give my phone number but they didn't check it (as I have payg as well). Guess it depends on store... :neutral_face:

Err! that's how advertising works - what's the point of magazine ads or billboards. It's all subliminal - you see the cat wrapping paper, it reminds you to be more dog, O2 phone sold!

This was perhaps the funniest, and definitely the most surreal, moments of 2015 for me.

I'm pretty sure I once applied for a mortgage in Halifax Building Society with less time and hassle.

I was asked to sit down at a desk where someone would be along to see me soon. Some time later, a clerk appeared and insisted on interrogating me about my mobile phone tariff, usage, history of mobile phones, details of my home broadband/phone provider. etc. The 02 priority code on the screen of my phone wasn't enough for him. He wanted to tap away at my phone for 5 minutes to get some kind of IMI (?) number. He then took my phone into the back office, came back, asked me a few more questions, and then a small huddle of staff gathered around my phone, prodding and poking at it for a few more minutes.

Another woman appeared and said "is this your only phone?"; "how often do you send texts?"; "did you originally get this phone on an 02 contract?" (YES!)

Eventually I was given some technical explanation as to why they couldn't process my application for the free wrapping paper. I didn't take it in as I was losing the will to live by this point.

I left the store empty handed.

All that..... for a roll of free wrapping paper..... words fail me.

What is up with O2 today? No signal for most of the day - anyone got a number so I can complain?