Just received a mailer stating the deal. Clicking on the link doesn't mention that it has airtime of $5 but that must be in built.
Good deal
Warehouse Mobile Multi SIM Red for $1 Contains Airtime of $5 at Warehouse Stationery
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airtime of $5??
Still 4 dollars?
Is it true? The website still says $4
at warehouse stationary, and not a multi swap sim
Guys what do you mean by airtime
Credit
You can get these at the Warehouse too (although you have to ask for it, usually at the Entertainment desk). Great deals on their prepay, probably best in the country.
Really? How much talk time do you get for this amount and data?
2c per text
4c per min
6c per MB
Or my favorite, $4 for 500MB for 31 days (rollover 90 days)Fantastic. it rolld over only if you renew for the next month right?
@upbeat: Yes:
"31 Day Roll Over Data — At the end of 31 days any unused data can roll over for up to 90 days. Just purchase another data pack prior to expiry"
What's their coverage like?
@Didntknowya: They use the 2 Degrees microwave tower infrastructure, appears to be pretty good but not as good as Telecom or Vodafone coverage it seems.
@Didntknowya: I was on 2 degrees before i switched over to the warehouse mobile. The coverage is very average, I find that i had better signal with 2 degrees even though they supposedly use the same 2 degrees infrastructure. I'm in Auckland and I don't find the loss of 1-2 bars to be a big issue as my calls and texts messages seems to do alright. What annoyed me the most is their 4G data speeds SUCK! Its around 8mbps down whereas I used to get around 40mbps+. If data speeds don't matter to you then its probably not an issue. I'm only sticking to them at the moment as their plans are decently cheap. Also for some reason, sometimes their data suddenly stops and says you don't have any data left when I clearly do. Then you have to restart your phone again to get the data working which is also an annoyance. I've read that a few people get that problem sometimes as well. I've used the warehouse mobile for nearly a year now so thats just my experience.
@Tomo: If the data stops you can just turn Airplane Mode on and off to recover it, no need to restart phone.
Yeah, their prepay data is easily the cheapest in NZ and (unsure if it applies to new accounts) they're currently doubling data in packs and combos until 14th Jan 2019!. So you can get 1 GB for $4 or even 10 GB for $30.
I grabbed 5 sims today from WS and plan on helping some friends and family change providers and transfer their numbers.
I checked the site and it still shows 4$
https://www.thewarehouse.co.nz/p/warehouse-mobile-multi-sim-…
Probably works like price matching? $1 is offered by WHS (appears to be in store only)
Guys, did anyone try price matching this with them
@Senior Mouse: Probably just clearing stock when they shut down those stand alone warehouse stationery stores.
@Senior Mouse: If they're clearing stock Warehouse could deny price match. Actually I suspect they could anyway since they could say it comes under "phone cards".
Got some at warehouse stationary today. They barely had any left, so I'm assuming its clearing stock. Sim cards do have $5 loaded on to them already but the credit expires 1 month after activation.
The person who served me seemed a bit suspect when I asked for multiple. Because of that I only asked for 5 although I wasn't really planning to get that many. He asked me why I wanted them after paying. (He also said if I don't mind or something I.E. it didn't seem to be the case he was going to refuse to sell them to me. Maybe he was just curious but I sort of got the feeling he was wondering if I was up to anything suspect. Which I'm not, I've never even tried the Uber crap and stuff like that but hey it's cheap data :-P I just said because they're cheap.)
@upbeat: you might have to do a master reset of the phone, but i havent tried it on uBer, just an assumption. Worked on another app i tried.
@upbeat: While I've never personally used Uber, worth remembering that Uber was the company which developed sophisiticated measures to try and detect regulators. (They're also supposedly trying to detect drunk customers.)
Uber is also highly geolocation reliant, maybe slightly less so than Uber Eats. But still unless you're getting picked up from random different locations and going to random different houses, there's likely to be significant geolocation similarities. Uber theoretically has to comply with NZ privacy legislation but while better than much of the US, it can be quite weak in the modern era. And frankly I wouldn't trust Uber's compliance to be very high anyway. Plus I'm not sure whether even EU legislation is actually a barrier to them being able to record and store enough.
Also assuming you need to enter payment details, what are these? I believe in some places you can pay with cash but from what I can tell this doesn't apply to Uber, I think it's credit and debit card only. I believe storing the first 6 and last 4 digits of the PAN is still compliant with the latest PCI-DSS. Again I don't know how specific NZ regulation and legislation interacts with this, but frankly, especially when combined with geolocation details and everything else they can gleam particularly on Android (resetting your phone isn't going to change the phone model etc) even the last 2 digits is probably enough.
Point being, that while I have no idea how Uber detects those doing multiple first ride frees or whatever, it could easily be quite sophisticated if they wanted it to, and difficult to defeat. And remember besides abuse of promotions, Uber also would likely want to detect bad riders who abuse their drivers etc and want to get around poor feedback or bans by making new accounts. (Drivers too of course, but I presume they're collecting a lot more on them.)
Also such systems don't have to be perfect, simply catch enough people with a low enough false positive rate that they're worth it. (And in NZ at least, the likely risks from false positives are the small amount lost from that individual and any possible bad PR if it goes viral. There's not likely to be any real legal risk for an incorrect bans unless done on race etc grounds.)
P.S. If we're talking Android, it looks like the app requests "read phone status and identity". I think this permission still allows access to the IMEI etc? Does Uber work if you deny that permission? If it refuses, well the above level of sophistication is unnecessary. Uber specifically notes they use it for "fraud prevention" https://www.uber.com/legal/other/android-permissions/ . I also see they request USB storage so when resetting your phone you'll need to make sure you also clean out any SD card etc unless you're allowed to deny this permission and do so. (I.E. The device needs to be completely clean. Given this is Uber, I'd even be wary of any cloud storage, at least make sure Uber doesn't have access any how.)
@Nil Einne: Yes makes sense. I wonder how people manage to do the multiple first ride frees with different sim cards, as my app always asks for my email address after entering a new mobile number for a new account
@Nil Einne: Criminals like using burner phones, so a random guy buying a ton of SIM cards via retail will likely raise suspicions.
As for Uber, well since they're still losing a crazy ton of money to gain market share they obviously needed to prevent fraud whichever way possible. Free first rides are very costly for them and many people (esp. in poorer nations) try to game the system as much as possible.
does the $5 credit rollover if you top up before 1 month?
site is $1 now
Word of warning if buying in store especially if buying more than one. Make sure they give you the right thing. There are SIM swap (i.e. without airtime or number) and the proper SIMs with numbers and I assume $5 airtime. And staff seem to just randomly mix them up in the drawers. The packet does say what it is and they have different barcodes. But if the staff don't know or don't look and just scan one and put it through as multiple quantity or scan the same one multiple times, you may end up with some SIM swaps.
went to upper hutt warehouse last night and no staff including the team leaders knew of this and they all scanned at $4
Just order online. I ordered 12 and they were delivered today without issue.
Did you go to warehouse stationary or the warehouse as they are different stores… The deal is for warehouse stationary and its nation wide as they also have it on the mailers which they put on a stand at the entrance of the store. I had a look through it and it says $1.
If you were at the warehouse, you could have price matched it and gotten a 10% off aswell if you showed them the link.
https://www.warehousestationery.co.nz/product/W2057860.html
Can you just pop this in a phone and be good to go? I thought you had to register cell phone numbers to a person to stop people having burner phone for suspect activities.
at…the warehouse? warehouse stationary?