So I've had a Telstra Prepaid number that I keep as a backup (for country trips etc) on a Simplicity plan for the last 7 years. My family send me $1 Creditme2u to keep it going and currently have just over $100 credit. In the past I would occasionally port over my main number via a $2 sim, call up and ask them to transfer $30 from Simplicity sim to my newly activated PrePaidPlus etc.
They always said the $30 can't be transferred, but it can be transferred as a virtual $30 recharge credit. I accepted and got all the benefits of whatever promo was running at the time. Done it maybe 3 times, no issue.
Called up today (pre activation) and asked if I could still do this, they said yes. Did my activation over the phone, asked the guy to transfer the $30. He said it's doable, but I would have to wait for the sim to become active. An hr later, sim is active, I call back. They say it can't be done :( Hung up, tried another op, same result.
So
Has anyone else been successful transferring more than $10 credit at once over the phone? Not happy they all said I could, until the last stage and it became a no.
I never received any notification of carrier billing ceasing. Does this have any impact?
Other than just calls n text at 10c on Simplicity, is there anything else I can use the credit on? Sell it on classifieds / ebay?
Is the problem just that you can't transfer more than $10?
(you realise you can do the transfer by SMS yeah?)