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Telstra $30 Pre-Paid Starter Packs $15 at Dick Smith

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Telstra $30 Pre-Paid Starter Packs $15 at Dick Smith
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xyron on 12/02/2015 - 10:49 catalogues.dicksmith.com.au (586 clicks)

Hi all

Dick Smith are doing half-price $30 Telstra pre-paid starter packs until 23 February ($15).

Not sure if they are the new magenta SIMs or the older orange ones (which will expire sooner).

I noticed this deal on Whirlpool when looking for a cheap way to port out of Vaya before they charge me for next month (and their horrible Security Deposit).

It's not the cheapest they've ever been ($10) but at $15 for a $30 starter pack (which you can use to go straight on to Telstra Freedom straight away), looks like a good deal.

Time is of the essence, as they say (by the time another $10 deal comes around for these starter packs, Vaya will have already charged you their deposit fee!)

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  • frysie on 12/02/2015 - 10:52

    can i buy these to add credit to my ipad account? as in +creditme2u or whatever it is

    • INFIDEL on 12/02/2015 - 11:14

      See OzBargain Telstra Starter Pack Wiki covering almost all aspects of phone & data using these packs.

      I had an issue doing that. It added credit, takes your access period to 14 days if it is less than that, but Telstra applied the credit at payg rate of 5c/MB, not the 1.5c you get now with these packs. ipad data used to be 0.98c/MB - which is the rate I lost. So Telstra charged me 5 times the price, which was against their own published guidelines on CreditMe2u.

      Maximum top up $10/day with CreditMe2u with 25c charge. If you want a bigger top up, try asking customer service.

      Good luck, as I spent 14 days arguing with cs over their unusual interpretation of a topup being a payg recharge. I'm off to the TIO to resolve the issue.

  • xyron on 12/02/2015 - 11:06
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    yeah you can, but you can only transfer $10 per month and theres a 25c fee for each transfer, so it'd take you 3 months to transfer $29 out of the pack :)

    • Turd on 12/02/2015 - 11:08
      +3

      I thought it was $10 every 24hours. Did they change it?

    • klaw81 on 12/02/2015 - 11:09
      +1

      Not 100% sure, but I'm pretty sure it's a maximum of:
      a) $10 per day.
      b) $100 per month.

      • INFIDEL on 12/02/2015 - 11:39

        There's different rules for prepaid & post paid CreditMe2u use.

  • frysie on 12/02/2015 - 11:08

    oh bugger… they changed it from daily to monthly… meh!

  • sween64 on 12/02/2015 - 11:13

    Wait for a DSE discount code. These are usually included. Eg yesterday's code of $10 off spend of $50 would mean 4 kits for $50 plus post.

  • INFIDEL on 12/02/2015 - 11:24

    I've suggested cheap call plans using these packs for low & higher call volume users in the OzBargain Wiki. As the rules & offerings are constantly changing, check first. You are free to update the Wiki.

    As an example of that ultra budget plan using the now expired $1 Telstra Starter Packs I set up 2 years phone access with 800 minutes of calls for under $4. Add another pack for more calls. But by the negs no one thought much of that budget idea :-(

  • spychiatrist on 12/02/2015 - 11:52

    Too bad Telstra doesn't allow anymore re-charging your prepaid number with a Starter SIM.

    • DJ on 12/02/2015 - 12:05

      Really ? :( Will have to keep changing my google credit tricks then. It's a pain to change the phone number for subscription services like Play Music :(

    • Punkboy on 12/02/2015 - 12:21

      What? Can't you creditme2u from one starter sim (freedom) to another sim (simplicity) as per the wiki or are you just talking about data and it being charged at "standard" rates?

      • spychiatrist on 12/02/2015 - 12:25

        I'm talking about the $30 value/credit of the SIM Starter being used as recharge (like actual money), not as creditme2u. I am on a Cap Encore, so using a SIM Starter $30 value/credit on my existing prepaid number, I get full benefit of $30 Cap Encore recharge which is $30 credit + $220 funny money + 400mb data all to be used in 30 days

        • Punkboy on 12/02/2015 - 12:27
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          Ah ok, thanks for the clarification.

        • DJ on 12/02/2015 - 13:28

          ah thanks. All these different terminologies and plans make it so hard to work out whats what

  • bonky on 12/02/2015 - 12:04

    but theres a $5.95 postage charge?

  • bonky on 12/02/2015 - 12:05

    too late with vaya!… the slugged me the $20 security deposit already!

    • thedriver on 12/02/2015 - 13:45

      To @bonky and @xyron
      What was your reason for leaving vaya? They seem to offer some good deals.

      • xyron on 12/02/2015 - 15:43

        go have a look at the whirlpool thread. basically theyre withholding my $200 roaming deposit 'indefinitely' and trying to charge me (and thousands of other customers) a $20 'security deposit' which will be just as difficult to get back at the end of the service relationship.

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