Re: Orange PAYG online

"Anthony R. Gold" <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> wrote in
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> The Orange online service to monitor balances and make
> top-ups with a registered credit card appears to have
> gone tits-up. Can anyone confirm that this is a general
> problem and not just one with my account?
>
> What useful alternatives exist - does Orange offer an
> auto-topup system to charge a card when the phone's
> prepaid balance falls below a set value? I'm intent on
> preventing a child's phone from becoming starved of funds
> but I do not want to put that phone's service onto a
> monthly contract.

How about letting said child manage their own credit?
That way, when they've run out for the umpteenth time,
they might just learn the value of money.

Orange PAYG has the facility to make a short (<30 seconds?)
call if totally out of credit, so they could still phone
home in an emergency.

KF

Having been an O customer for almost 10 years now I can safely say that the
words "Website" , "Orange" and "Working" have NEVER gone together ESP when
accessing acct info (even just trying to log-in even)

They direct you to a 50p a min phone no.

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
George Orwell <nobody@mixmaster.it> wrote:

>
> How about letting said child manage their own credit?
> That way, when they've run out for the umpteenth time,
> they might just learn the value of money.
>

Indeed. I would have thought that dialling 453 would have been within the
capabilities of any child who had the necessary skills to use the phone for
'normal' purposes.
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Cheers,
Roger
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"Anthony R. Gold" <not-for-mail@ahjg.co.uk> wrote in
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> On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 17:13:05 -0000, "Roger Mills"
> <watt.tyler@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> > George Orwell <nobody@mixmaster.it> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > How about letting said child manage their own credit?
> > > That way, when they've run out for the umpteenth time,
> > > they might just learn the value of money.
> > >
> >
> > Indeed. I would have thought that dialling 453 would
> > have been within the capabilities of any child who had
> > the necessary skills to use the phone for 'normal'
> > purposes.
>
> That will disclose the account's balance but I don't know
> that it can be used to add credit, as I had been doing
> via the now broken web service.

You can do that in several ways, such as with a swipe card in any Orange
shop, also many other locations such as supermarkets. The local O shop
round here is always full of kids crediting their phones. I used to know
the previous manager there, he once told me that some of them were
practically daily visitors, putting a fiver on one day and then coming
back the next day to do the same..!

Ivor

>
> Tony

On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 19:51:30 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
<ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:

>You can do that in several ways, such as with a swipe card in any Orange
>shop, also many other locations such as supermarkets.

I think you still need to phone Orange to use it, though. My
daughter's PAYG phone was low on credit, but I recently changed my
credit card so needed to register the new card with Orange. It took
several days to get through: I usually give up after 15 minutes in a
call queue.

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<hairydog@despammed.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 19:51:30 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
> <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:
>
> > You can do that in several ways, such as with a swipe
> > card in any Orange shop, also many other locations such
> > as supermarkets.
>
> I think you still need to phone Orange to use it, though.
> My daughter's PAYG phone was low on credit, but I
> recently changed my credit card so needed to register the
> new card with Orange. It took several days to get
> through: I usually give up after 15 minutes in a call
> queue.

No, a swipe card can be activated by calling 450 I think and going through
the menu options. Once that's done, it can be used in lots of places. A
swipe card isn't like a credit/debit card.

Ivor

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
Ivor Jones <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:

> <hairydog@despammed.com> wrote in message
> newst1jp2pqv47a0ae6f630h7dnomn885af94@4ax.com
>> On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 19:51:30 -0000, "Ivor Jones"
>> <ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:
>>
>>> You can do that in several ways, such as with a swipe
>>> card in any Orange shop, also many other locations such
>>> as supermarkets.
>>
>> I think you still need to phone Orange to use it, though.
>> My daughter's PAYG phone was low on credit, but I
>> recently changed my credit card so needed to register the
>> new card with Orange. It took several days to get
>> through: I usually give up after 15 minutes in a call
>> queue.
>
> No, a swipe card can be activated by calling 450 I think and going
> through the menu options. Once that's done, it can be used in lots of
> places. A swipe card isn't like a credit/debit card.
>
> Ivor

Indeed. It's a card supplied by Orange, which has to be registered to your
phone - which you do by ringing the appropriate number from the phone
itself, and keying in the card's number. Once you have done that, you simply
have to trog along to Wollies - or almost any supermarket - and they will
swipe the card, relieve you of a fiver or whatever, and the credit is
instantly added to your phone.
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Cheers,
Roger
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