Will my PAYG15 show me an updated balance, should a portion of it ever get used?
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If you check balances you will see what is left in any portion of your credit. This will include your PAYG credit. If you mean will you get a running balance, e.g, âYou have just used 60 cents of your PAYG balanceâ, no you wonât get that sort of notification. You may get the mandatory 50%, 80%, and 100% used warnings though.
To check balances see the following from ALDImobile
ALDImobile makes it easy to keep track of your balance.
- The quickest and easiest way to check on the go, is by using the ALDImobile app.
- SMS the word balance to 590 from your ALDImobile handset.
- You can also log into your My ALDImobileaccount online.
Example of response to SMS enquiry using the balance word, I removed my data allowance balances from the response.
The SMS for balances is a free SMS, it does not affect limits or credit.
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If you currently would like to subscribe to Aldiâs 1 Year Super Pack, you are in bad luck because they do not offer it any more to new customers. Only existing 1 Year Super Pack customers are offered access.
It wasnât so cheap anyway, $249 it cost at the time. You donât miss out on too much⊠or not? This customer updated his existing 1 Year Super Pack in August this year for $119âŠ
It would appear that consumers are being played with. Competition comes with deception, including consumer deception.
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Welcome to the Community @Freestro
That pack has been a limited time offer whereby new customers usually had to buy the âboxâ in-store. It was a special 2 or 3 times a year for a few weeks at a time. Once one had it, it could be renewed indefinitely but to get it you had to get it during one of the promotional periods.
It was originally called a âValue Packâ but was later renamed to the â$119 Super Packâ as part of their branding changes vis a vis the $249 Super Pack. The operative words are âonlineâ but it was rarely offered to new customers online, usually just as a special in store.
The ALDImobile $119 1 Year Super Pack is a limited-time promotional plan, and no longer available online to new customers.
Do you have additional information that the $119 pack has been permanently removed from market?
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There are a variety of Superpacks, the cheapest now is $169, then there is the $229, then $249 and finally $499
They are only available on special in Stores, they are not usually an online deal. Once a user has one of the Superpacks, they can maintain it by recharging it annually, or they can recharge to one of the higher value packs.
If a user had the $119 pack, I am unsure if they would be required to pay the new lowest level one or if it has been âgrandfatheredâ so that as long as a user maintains it they keep it. Perhaps someone who has such a plan can advise of the continuation or not.
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I had the then $99 Value Pack. At the first renewal after the change, the plan and price was the $119 Super Pack. If the $119 plan is âretiredâ my expectation is the renewal will be the then lowest price offer IF the $119 Superpack is removed from the periodic specials program, otherwise it will renew âas isâ.
edit: As an aside Aldi did not advertise their special promotional packs excepting when on special in-store, so whether they appear on the Aldi web site or not is not conclusive. If they are not offered for renewals, or more than a year it is probably a good indication it is âgoneâ.
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It might be worth a mention that if one sends a video file via SMS attachment using Aldi Mobile, it will cost you $1 each time, deducted from your PAYG credit. I discovered this by accident when I sent a funny Christmas video clip to a few friends and suddenly received a message from Aldi Mobile advising that my PAYG credit was dangerously low. I rang Aldi mobile to query this and was informed that video clips are billed at $1 each deducted from your PAYG account. Itâs written in the terms and conditions.
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Standard MMS (including video MMS) cost $0.35 each if using PAYG credit to pay for it according to their Critical Information Summary (CIS). Previously it may have been $1 each but I have included a screenshot of the current CIS which shows the current rate.
If you have a monthly plan, then 2,000 standard MMS (including video MMS) are included. Once the 2,000 MMS are used, PAYG credit is used at the rate outlined in the CIS for PAYG.
A standard MMS at ALDImobile has a size limit of 2 MB. International standard MMS (including video MMS) are charged $0.75 per MMS, if there is no inclusion in a monthly plan for the destination being sent to or if using PAYG credit.
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At the time I sent those video MMSâs I was on the Aldi 365 days super pack, but the $1 per MMS was deducted from my PAYG credit anyway.
Perhaps the rules have changed?
When I spoke with Aldi support about the matter, it was the fact that I sent a âvideo fileâ via MMS that resulted in the $1 per message being deducted from my PAYG credit. Others types of attachments such as photos and jpeg images and memes did not incur the $1 charge.
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They have changed, some packs changed in 2022, and some in January 2023. I have included a screenshot of the current information about the Super packs MMS inclusions. Not having sent any MMS larger than 2 MB, I canât comment on how much a MMS that exceeds 2 MB would cost or even if it could be sent if larger than the 2 MB limit. International MMS have cost us $0.75 each, for the 2024 period to Kenya and Taiwan. We donât have a Super Pack, but the CIS for all the plans indicate that charges from PAYG are the same regardless of whether a monthly plan or a Super Pack (these PAYG charges would only happen after the included allowances had been used up or if the plans did not cover the type of usage).
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Hi Phil.
After consulting you about the dead period between monthly payments, I took out a PAYG of $15 to care of this. Yesterday was the first time this kicked in and it worked a treat. I used around $2.00 of my PAYG and I didnât have a down time. Having said that, It is a very poor system they run. The AUTO payment was made at 4:00am. If it werenât for the inexpensive monthly fee for the service, I wouldnât even consider staying with them. The fact that you must make another payment to have your service continue without interruption is ludicrous!.
Thanks for your past support on this matter
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You are very welcome. We on the Community are here to help when able.
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I used to subscribe to a Telstra pre-paid mobile plan (until the Covid lockdown) when I had a requirement to phone every member of a day-care club for elderly people on a weekly basis just to cheer them up.
$20 a month, limited voice and data and embarrassing when the dreaded âyour credit has expiredâ message appeared mid call.
So I asked my neighbour (who had two teenage sons) regarding mobile plans and as many teens are data hungry and financially impoverished the answer was "Switch to ALDI mobile, keep your old number and get unlimited calls and txt for $15 a month - itâs also on the Telstra network.
One of the better decisions that I have made recently and saved me a lot of $$$ and enabled me to chat with vulnerable people.
- Regards *
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Yes, or take out the Aldi 365 days super pack for $120 which brings your cost down to $10 per month.
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Thanks BB, I shall check out 365 day super pack next time that I visit Wodonga.
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Donât think it is on sale at the moment. They only come on sale once or twice a year.
As of 13 November they will have at least one special deal for plans. This is a $28 a month (30 days), unlimited Australian text & calls plus 32 GB of data with 20 GB extra on activation. This may not suit but it is an in store deal only.
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Almost all prepaid plans now include unlimited calls and txt and mms Australia wide. So the deciding factors are - does the network give you coverage where you need it most of the time? And how much data do you chew through each month and does unused data roll over into next month.
I have a $15 per 30 days plan with Catch Connect which uses Optus network and gives me 18Gb data per month. No data rollover but I never use it all up. Iâve had no problems with the service or coverage.
If there are better deals out there, Iâm interested.
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ALDImobile as has previously been mentioned uses the Telstra Wholesale network, which reaches more than 98.8% of the population according to the Telstra and ALDImobile sites. Optus shares its network completely with its MVNOs. Optus state that their network reaches 98.5% of the population. About 1/3 of a percent difference in coverage with the Telstra Wholesale network leading. Whether that matters to a user or not depends on where they are or are going.
Cheapest ALDImobile plan now is 4G $19 per month with 10 GB of data and unlimited rollover. 4G $25 gets a user 22 GB of data with unlimited rollover plus unlimited calls and SMS to 20 selected Countries (so if ringing ppl in places like China, India, Hong Kong, NZ, USA, UK this would be useful). 5G $29 plan gets 25 GB data with unlimited rollover plus the 20 selected Countries. There are a further 30 Countries that some plans have set limits of time and number of SMS that are able to be used, some plans or places require PAYG credit.
So choice depends on a userâs needs, what might be the best plan or not. If your plan with your provider suits you then no need to change. As we have friends and family whom we ring in the UK, NZ, and USA, the ALDI plan suits us very well. If we are talking purely the cost of making Australian calls and only SMS needed for Australian numbers, with only minimal to small data needs, there are probably better plans than the ALDImobile ones cost wise.
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There may be, I have a long expiry with everyday (used to be woolies) but they have a similar plan to the one you quote, $25/22GB, calls to 22 countries, not unlimited rollover, rather a 500GB data bank, and the usual unlimited calls and sms locally. The advantage for me (forgetful as I age) is that the rollover occurs exactly when they say, and you get a message to tell you its coming. None of this gap time between the end of one and beginning of the next.
Oh I forgot: theres the 10% off an in store woolies shop, too. Used to be online as well but now you have to pay for that privilege. I donât buy enough as a single to warrant bothering.
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