Online Exclusive - Get any phone online on a Rollover Cap 29 plan and we’ll cover three months of your minimum monthly spend of $29 for you4. The Rollover Cap 29 plan gets you $150 worth of included talk & text2 every month.
Not a bad deal combined with the new Rollover Caps:
Any included Talk & Text that you don’t use this month automatically rolls over into your next month
http://www.virginmobile.com.au/rollover/
Hi natluvu,
It basically means that you won't get the first three months free, you will get the 4th, 5th and 6th months free. And, the months free will be up to $29, if you go over your cap ($150 cap), you will need to pay the excess. However, if you stay under the $150 included credit, you will not pay anything for Months 4, 5 and 6.
thanks a lot! it makes more sense now :D
For your information, Virgin is 100% owned by Optus.
…and your point is???
It was a response to "Optus is ripping me off these days with ridiculously high rates."
I am informing the OP that Virgin Mobile is owned by the company the OP claims "is ripping [him] off".
You see, it's all very logical.
@YesPleaseThankYou: Actually your statement isn't logical. Optus clearly have 2 brands for 2 types of consumers. The Optus brand is at a different price point that is too high for natluvu. Virgin isn't, so move to Virgin. I don't think that natluvu has a problem with the Optus group, but more the fact that Optus is charging them too much.
Of course if natluvu does not like the Optus company (e.g. doesn't like their service standards, company ethics etc) then your comment was very valid, but I don't think that is what natluvu meant.
@sickllama: I think that you're thinking too much.
All I did was present the facts. What the OP does with the facts is his or her business.
@YesPleaseThankYou: Nup. The facts of this case are that Natluvu doesn't like the costs of the Optus brand, so going with Virgin is very reasonable. Do you actually have a valid reason for voting negative?
PS: Sorry for reviving such an old deal :p
I just noticed that there is an area for a promo code, does anyone know of one?
I wonder the promo code too!
Been member with them more than 3 years but never receive any code.
Three does the "3 months free" gimmick frequently.
Don't use virgin if you want data. Everybody goes over quota sometimes, and Virgin charges $2/MB, ie $2000/GB.
(compare 10c/MB for '3' or 1.5c for exetel.)
Totally agree, I was a victim before. I shame on this $2000/GB. looks that we life at Jurassic not the 3G age.
Yep, total rort.
Yeah, always important to point out. Even as an experienced user least likely to be caught out, I don't touch high excess usage fee accounts with a barge pole. Who doesn't have enough things to babysit without adding that to their list of worries?
If only the average consumer had the foresight and wisdom of an ozbargain user. There'd be no more outrageous excess fees, caps or insane contract breaking fees.
I think you can pay an extra $5 per month to get 300MB of data, as I don't use the data I am not sure if this is good or not.
Imagine you have a busy month and use 400MB (33% extra).
Now instead of $5, you have to pay $205.
When I clicked on the link provided. then clicked "show me the phone", from the next page it said "$5/mnth on Rollover Cap 29". what is this meaning? it means I need to pay $5/mth extra for this rollover feature?
That $5 is the handset.
Did they remove the $34 + $15 pmt for the iphone 3gs? I was waiting until the end of the year to get one but it doesn't seem to exist anymore :-(
you can still get it, i saw it this weekend @ sydney but it was only available at stores that sell virgin plans and not sure if you can still get it online.
thanks for the heads up iori_terry !
I noticed you ca byo phone on this rollover $29 cap. Does anyone know if there are any hidden fees in doing this or porting your number to virgin? Im not interested in the data usuage since I won't use it. Thanks
The only catch I saw is that you don't get much extra value, compared to the normal handset subsidy. But at least you are not on a 2-year contract. (huge break fee if < 6 months in)
If you don't want data or handset subsidy/payments, you might be a lot better off on prepaid, with lower call rates. e.g. Woolworths or bean-counter.
There was a time when even Telstra had really excellent BYO plans with low call rates. Not any more.
This is not a good deal,
how can this be good?
your much better off going pre-paid, with anyone really.
The Rollover Cap 29 plan gets you $150 worth of included talk & text2 every month - you don't get that with pre-paid
Redtiger did you make that comment because I voted neg on a post of yours? I noticed that you seem to take the neg votes very personal. I only ask because I posted this a few days ago and it I am surprised that this deal would have come to your attention today without you searching for it.
Thanks heaps for this post chloden. I'm kinda interested in low rates of Virgin compared to Optus. Optus is ripping me off these days with ridiculously high rates. But I don't really get what below condition means, can anyone help?
"3 months access credit will be applied as three $29 credits to your 4th, 5th and 6th bills respectively."
Cheers