Couple of weeks ago I took up an offer from Coles to buy a $30 Telstra recharge voucher in return for which I was able to buy a Telstra Roamer mobile (full price $29) for just $5.
Seemed a good deal. And no paperwork at all.
Today I went to Kmart and bought a Telstra T96 mobile ($49), which has the rural Blue Tick and accepts an external antenna. Not flash, but a good travelling phone.
Had to fill in an A4-size form with personal details, verify the details with a driver's licence and declare how many other "active Sims" I had.
Now, if we have to have security checks on mobiles, and maybe we do, why don't such checks apply to all phone purchases? Seems pointless otherwise.
Cheers, Tony
-- Edited by tonyd on Friday 5th of April 2013 12:17:21 AM
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I bought a kogan sim recently, and when I had used the 100m of data, as I was trying it out to see how it went, they turned off access, so I couldn,t make any calls, even though I still had plenty of time left. Just watch them- I don,t trust any of them. Bill
-- Edited by bill12 on Friday 5th of April 2013 06:10:54 AM
Couple of weeks ago I took up an offer from Coles to buy a $30 Telstra recharge voucher in return for which I was able to buy a Telstra Roamer mobile (full price $29) for just $5.
Seemed a good deal. And no paperwork at all.
Today I went to Kmart and bought a Telstra T96 mobile ($49), which has the rural Blue Tick and accepts an external antenna. Not flash, but a good travelling phone.
Had to fill in an A4-size form with personal details, verify the details with a driver's licence and declare how many other "active Sims" I had.
Now, if we have to have security checks on mobiles, and maybe we do, why don't such checks apply to all phone purchases? Seems pointless otherwise.
Cheers, Tony
-- Edited by tonyd on Friday 5th of April 2013 12:17:21 AM
Hi Tony
I just purchased a Huawei media pad from Coles. It came with a bonus WI-FI pre paid modem. I (the shop assistant) had to fill out the form with all my details, including licence no. to get the modem. I thought this was the case with all mobile devices. Maybe you slipped through the net with the original purchase.
I just bought an Amaysim $2.00 starter card and had to show my licence which the cashier took down the details from it.......
Two weeks ago we went to the Post Office to buy an Amaysim card ($2 starter) and after waiting for ten minutes was asked to fill out a form. We walked out and walked into KMart (or might have been Big W), paid for the $2 Amaysim card and that was it, all over and done with in less than 5 minutes and didn't have to fill any forms out.
