phone credit

murray


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 71

Message Posted:
19/10/2008 14:15

anybody had a problem topping up their phone. while at LEMAR we already had 390 units left and added another 400 units, or so we thought. BUT on coming to use it later we only had a total of 433, can anyone explain where the rest went??

Oilman


Joined: 19/09/2008
Posts: 225

Message Posted:
19/10/2008 22:37

I topped up with 200 credit on Telsim made one call locally and maybe 4 texts and the credit was finished. Surely not an accident? I have noticed that credits don't last like they used to.

fire starter


Joined: 19/06/2008
Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
20/10/2008 15:54

sometimes if you run out of credits they give you some until the next time you top up.

this does sound like a lot though.

did you have it in your pocket and it dialled unknown to you?

our friend has 2 small grandsons/ the terrible twins, sometimes they call me up on his phone unknown to him!

which net work is it on?

murray


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 71

Message Posted:
20/10/2008 17:30

we are on TURKCELL, we used it in the morning and were aware of the units left,once the slider is down the phone is locked ,cannot dial out accidently.

murray


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 71

Message Posted:
21/10/2008 15:21

have now found out what went wrong, I t appears that we paid for 400 units(20ytls) but only 100 unts (5ytls) was added to the phone. They can actually tell the amount that was added, by checking with Turkcell,

genuine mistake or whatever!!!!



finally restored our missing units



it pays to be on the ball,

mitsi


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 345

Message Posted:
21/10/2008 15:57

Mobiles, the biggest rip-off in history. The only product i can think of that DID'NT get cheaper as sales of same expanded. PC'S so cheap nowadays, landline deals in Uk cheap as chips yet the Mobile industry continue to make billions from us all. Don't use the damn thing unless emergency. Use Skype.

breezyboy


Joined: 14/05/2007
Posts: 1179

Message Posted:
21/10/2008 16:02

When I bought my turkcell sim card ( for 20ytl) it said it came with 100 units. These lasted for 5 short calls. Now topped up at a little supermarket and will be interested to see what we get.

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
21/10/2008 16:04

mitsi



You obviously don't remember the lovely motorolla "brick" as it was affectionately known and the relative costs of making calls in the early days... 1985 onwards



The phone would now cost about £1,200 to buy and the rate perminute would be well over a pound per minute or part thereof (no per-second billing in those days) for a mobile to mobile call on the same network.....



If may not be as cheap as you want but it has gone down....

Groucho



Joined: 26/04/2008
Posts: 7993

Message Posted:
21/10/2008 16:05

Murray was it an electronic top-up in Lemar or using a scratch card?

murray


Joined: 14/08/2008
Posts: 71

Message Posted:
21/10/2008 16:25

it was an electronic top up.

Oilman


Joined: 19/09/2008
Posts: 225

Message Posted:
21/10/2008 20:36

Fire starter I have done that in the past this time definitely not.