My magic SIM card!

[autopilot]

As i am self employed, i needed a business line. I plan to get a second business line with my existing T-Mobile one. However, as a tempory measure, i got one of the free O2 SIM's that they give away from time to time for use in an spare handset i had.

When i got it i put £10 on it. I have been using a massive amount (hours and hours of calls) over the last 2-3 months, but my credit has never gone down. Not a penny

So whats the worst that could happen? Could they try and bill me for the uncharged time? (maybe I should i sell it on ebay!) Anyone else ever had this happen, or heard of it?

[TWOTELLYS]

funny you should say that i have an old o2 sim card pay and go original with no free texts but for the past week ive not been charged keep sending them and still got 9.04 left ????

[JOEJOETHEJOEY]

Hmmm....interesting. I've got a few of those O2 sims lying around. I wonder whether it's only for a few number ranges. Any chance you can share the first five digits?

Btw, are you sure you haven't got one which has unlimited calls during certain hours?

[OV3RCLOCK3R]

I got one of these in my spare fone aswell and Same thing, Text or calls, No charge Whatsoever

[SHISH]

One of my daughters was saying something about that but she already gets a load of freebies off O2 but this week she reckons she`s used over a hundred quids worth and she could likely treblle that knowing her.

[TWOTELLYS]

oh well it was good while it lasted

[Merlin4458]

ill buy the sim off you £10-99?

[JOEJOETHEJOEY]

Originally Posted by TWOTELLYS

oh well it was good while it lasted

So they charged you in the end?

[TWOTELLYS]

never got charged for what i used just started off charging as normal got a weeks worth for nothing so cant complain

[JOEJOETHEJOEY]

Originally Posted by TWOTELLYS

never got charged for what i used just started off charging as normal got a weeks worth for nothing so cant complain

Ah ic. I thought you meant that they charged you for all the free calls/texts you made previously.

[tom5640]

I had the same thing happen to me a couple of months ago, but it was the other way round, I had £2 on the sim, but it said I had no credit left. Not so good!

[MadduckUK]

had a Genie infinite free text sim back in the day but lost it would certainy be worth a packet nowadays as well

[Spud1]

cool Maybe O2 are updating a system somewhere...or it could just be O2 doing what they do best - messing up at least this time it's att heir expense eh.

I remember when PAYG mobiles started to make it big (around when i first got one) you could so easily get free calls..lots of the networks had really insecure ways of storing how much credit was on your phone - it was all done locally at first, meaning that if you knew what to do you had unlimited free calls. All could be done via the phones engineer menus normally

[keithJenkins]

Yeah, o2 seem to mess up occasionally... my credit started going up one day as i send texts. They soon noticed and kindly changed it back for me

[kiltie2003]

I wonder if you got one of those sims that o2 tried to recall. I had an email a while back from them saying about a faulty batch of sims. Iwonder if that is what the fault was

[RS2000]

I had Orange contract mess up couple years back, instead of taking the line rental every month. They was crediting my account with the amount they should've been charging me. I did ring them several times and tell them what thwey were doing. Each time they just said thanks, we'll look into it. At the end of the 12 months when i wanted to cancel, my account was like £180.00 in credit. I didn't think for one minute that i was going to get the money. & i had been putting the money aside, for when they wanted their money back...

NOPE, within 2 weeks there's a cheque from orange for £180.00. Aint heard nothing else from them.

Not that i minded.