Subj : luckymobile, anyone? To : Rob Mccart From : August Abolins Date : Sat Aug 10 2024 20:29:00 Hello Rob Mccart! ** On Wednesday 07.08.24 - 00:51, Rob Mccart wrote to AUGUST ABOLINS: RM> They still show the $29 for 20GB so it hasn't suffered too badly. It's not offered for existing users though. So, unless you register as a new user (with another number), $29/20GB is not an option. When I go into Change plan, I only see: $50/100GB $40/75GB $35/10GB $25/500MB On one of my accounts (I have 4 Lucky accounts) I'm grandfathered in at $15/500MB, data only, and I get a 6-payment reward of 250MB, and an autotop-up 250MB bonus, for a total 1GB. The same $15 plan is nolonger available to anyone. RM> Hopefully I won't regret what I changed to after that, RM> although it's always easy enough to change your plan. Which one did you change to? RM> The plan I was working on went through as of the next RM> billing period. I wasn't quite sure what they do if you RM> change your plan in the middle of a billing month, if you RM> lose money or get a credit and a new billing date but I RM> didn't mind waiting a couple of weeks and leaving the RM> dates as they were. I got an eMail from them saying it's RM> now scheduled so it all looks good. Yep.. When adjusted my plans, I always optioned to remain on the same period and wait for the change to kick in according to schedule. AA>> What I mean is that with auto-topup (via credit card or >> qualifying debit card) your existing and banked Lucky >> dollars never get used for payment. The only way to force >> the system to use any of your banked Lucky dollars is to >> disable auto-topup. RM> Okay, I see that. I have about $7.50 Lucky Dollars and I figured the RM> only way to use it was to buy some extras one month but I haven't had RM> a need for anything so far. Nope. That won't work. If you buy extra, and top up your account manually, it will just add to the balance and NOT get used if you have the autotop-up (credit card) option selected. AA>> You can still come in as a new user, and add that account AA>> to your existing login if you want. Luckymobile doesn't AA>> seem to care. RM> That just seems odd. You're either new or not, and if you RM> add on the account doesn't that leave you paying for 2 RM> separate accounts, the bulk of which is for the unlimited RM> phone use so adding more of that is no use. Yup.. they penalize existing users that way. But I suppose you could use up the balance of the original account, or cancel the credit-card topup option for it, and then simply port that number over to the second account before the first account's billing period ends. AA>> I wasn't really aware that NoFrills had a NoName mobile >> offering until few weeks ago. The pricing seems very close >> if not identical. RM> Most of it is fairly close, although I saw it before RM> seeing the new offers from Lucky so it was a bit of a RM> shock. I think on the lower priced plans at NoName you get RM> US calling included which I don't think hits the cheaper RM> plans at Lucky but I could jump from 10 gig at $35 to 80 RM> gig with US calling thrown in at Lucky for another $5 RM> which is tempting at that price even if I'll probably RM> never use the extra data or the US calling.. NoName's base GB values are about 5GB higher than at Lucky, plus they include the US talk and text too. Hmmmm. I might switch/port to NoName for my business phone since the US calling could be handy at times. RM> One thing they said was being cut off as 'incompatible' RM> was the extra 2 gig I was getting on my old plan for RM> having automatic top up. Do you have that set up and did RM> they give you something extra for that on the new plan? I am not sure what you mean. On three of my plans, I changed from $40/mo to the $29/mo offerings at the time. The existing bonuses (6-payment rewards, and 12-payment rewards) all carried over too. -- ../|ug --- OpenXP 5.0.58 * Origin: Stare into this point intently ->.<- (1:153/757.21) .