For new customers My Prepaid Daily Plus is gone.
http://www.optus.com.au/shop/mobile/prepaid/plans
Prepaid Daily Maximiser
$10 recharge only gets you 1 week (not 30 days)
$30 recharge only gets you 3 weeks (not 6 months)
$2 now gets you 1 GB but only for a limited time. It reverts to 500 MB in October
Originally $10 recharge got you 6 months. It was then changed to 30 days. Now its just 7 days.
Doh! Yeah, this new plan must be designed to "maximise" profit for Optus yet Internet searches indicate this change for the worse does not appear to have caused much reaction from customers. I got a few $10 kits I was saving for when I need extra data for a day or two but now the $10 credit will only last 7 days max [argh], thanks for alerting us OP.
They are getting rid of this on the 5th. Wonder what they'll come up with next. It is pretty crap, was using it for data every now and then over 6 month or 1 month as needed. Now you essentially have to use it, can't leave it for a rainy day so to speak.
So Optus has now gone back to offering My Prepaid Daily Plus
http://www.optus.com.au/shop/mobile/prepaid/plans#datatab3
Get 500MB of data daily for just $2, including unlimited standard national talk and text plus data free music streaming on Google Play Music, iHeartRadio & Spotify.
$10 recharge lasts 30 days
$30 recharge lasts 186 days
I'm not seeing a lot on this on forums. I don't know if people haven't noticed?
I got screwed because their web form wasn't working and the chat consultant that activated me didn't inform me. So my first inkling that I only had 7 days left was when i hadn't turned on data or used the thing and I got an SMS informing me there's only 2 days left.
They've basically just made their $10 cards worthless. it's not worth the time and hassle of activating them. I've got a ton to burn through then I'm not touching Optus again!