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Originally Posted by Scooby52
Thanks for your reply, but I am puzzled by why this is called Pay As You Go if you have to pay £10 per month? How is this different from Pay Monthly?
I expect to be a very light user, no-where near £10 per month - more like £1 per month, hence interested in a 'Pay As You Go' tariff, and not a 'Pay a regular amount each month' tariff.
Am I missing something?
Maybe this offer is no good for me, and I just need to buy a standard Virgin PAYG SIM from Carphone Warehouse.
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Never get it from Carphone warehouse, its too expensive!
Either get it online or from a Zavvi store(Virgin Megastore)
The £10 sim offers 200 minutes and 200 texts every month, you need to set up a direct debit to open the account, you can cancel the direct debit after and pay using cash with an e-top up card which can be used for making payments towards your account.
If your order is successful,you will get the sim card on the next working day, when you run out of minutes or texts or both, you will revert to the standard pricing, however, you will go into arrears and you will need to pay it back on the usual billing date.
So if you are on the £10 offer and your bill date is the 10th of every month and you run out of minutes and have run up a bill of call charges of say £12.50, you will need to pay £22.50 to cover the previous months call charges and the £10 monthly rental fee.
I hope this has been a bit more clearer for you.
If you decide to use Pay as You Go instead here are the two tariffs available:
Standard Tariff:
- Calls to UK landlines and other Virgin Mobile phones: 15p per minute for the first 5 minutes of calls each day then 5p per minute after that.
- Calls to 08 numbers: 15p per minute at all times.
- Calls to other UK Mobile networks: 40p per minute.
- Texts to other UK networks: 12p per message.
- Texts to other Virgin Mobiles: 5p.
- Calls to Voicemail: Free.
Daily Bonus Tariff:
- Calls to UK landlines,Other UK networks,other Virgin Mobiles and 08 numbers cost 15p per minute at all times.
- After the first 5 minutes of calls, you will recieve 5 minutes of free calls, send 5 texts and get the next 5 free. This free allowance can be used to call/text any UK network including landlines.
- Texts to other Virgin Mobile phones: 5p per text
- Texts to other UK networks and landlines: 10p per text
- Voicemail: Free
There is a minimum call charge of 15p for all UK calls
Calls to customer services cost 10p per call,listening to recorded info on 789 i free.
If you buy a sim card and find you are on the standard pay as you go tariff and want the Daily Bonus Tariff instead just text the word 'Bonus' to 789050 for free or call 789 and select option 4.