Similar to those from Coles, but directly from Optus.
$30 Prepaid Starter Kit
Limited to 1 per customer.
Activate & recharge on chosen plan within 30 days of purchase.
NSW Concord has like around 20. Expire Feb 2018. Again, just helping others.
"Just helping others"
Question: Are people going around to different stores and stocking up on these SIM starter packs (to activate in consecutive months until expiry)? I have seen them at around six stores for $10 a different times during the last month or two (at various Big Ws, Kmarts, Coles) but only bought one at Big W because I thought once you register your drivers licence and try activate others (especially within a 12 month period) a flag would come up. I don't mind changing numbers every month but would think OPTUS would have a system in place to safeguard against customers registering SIMs one after the other. If you cancelled the old number before activating the next starter pack would it make a difference, is there a way of cancelling your number?
Yes they do now. Loaded value expires 30 days after purchase. Recent starter packs have a sticker saying this.
Yes they do now.
Yea a sticker says that but it's still not confirmed whether it's enforced.
If it went through the gift card system they have all the info they need to enforce it. So you are at the mercy of any goodwill of the CSRs.
@greenpossum: Yes. I'm not doubting whether it's enforceable or not, but whether they will enforce it or not. There is a difference.
@greenpossum: Yea I bought some today from Coles, but I can only report in 31 days. Hoping others who previously purchased them at least a month ago could shed some light.
@greenpossum: Don't forget we're talking about the same guys who (previously) had expiry dates which were more like "Best Before" dates. i.e. if a Optus SIM had an expiry of December 31 2016, it is very possible that you would still be able to activate it today (which is unlike Telstra SIM packs)
@illumination: Well, I have no skin in the game as I have enough other packs so I'll just watch with popcorn.
@greenpossum: Sure - I will be too, but was just pointing out that something being "possible" (as ronnknee pointed out) doesn't mean it's being enforced, and these guys have history of not enforcing their expiry dates on SIM packs so just thought I'd point it out!
Thanks for the info, important to note for anyone considering stocking up.
There will probably be sales into the future so purchase then is the safest option as multiple SIM starter packs purchased today will be made redundant in a months time…
I think Amaysim has been doing this for a while as I stocked three during the Dick Smith liquidation over a year ago and even though there was no sticker and the customer rep didn't mention about time to activate they did not activate when I attempted to a month or two later (so I wasted $20 :/)
BTW redundant isn't the word you want. Redundant means in excess of, like in redundant storage for safety. Useless will do.
some here posted a picture of the starter kit so i know what the sticker says. but read the wording of it: it tells you to do something, but it doesn't tell you what the consequences of not doing so are. now, if on the back of the packaging it states that the expiry date is in 2018, you have one nebulous instruction that contradicts an explicit statement.
it could very well be that they meant to say that the kit expires in 30 days. but my point is: i'd like to see them try to enforce it.
I have tons I have used in last year, never had any issues really. I use it on my pc and send wifi to my phones and tablet. cheap internet and phone on the $2 a day plan (monitor to not go over 500 megs).
Activate & recharge on chosen plan within 30 days of purchase.
NO MORE OPTUS!
Got it at Officeworks today for $10
Got one at Coles, activated on the ultimate plan and got 3GB of data. Then got an SMS not long after and said for a limited time I receive double the data. Now have 6GB !
Went to the Melbourne Central Coles today and they were sold out of the $30 Optus Kits.
In case that helps anyone.