Usually are ink rewards paid out on the same day as regular rewards? If I don’t chat will the ink rewards for July come later or will I just lose them?
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RE: Double Ink Recycling at Staples B&M starts 8/9 ENDS 9/19!!
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RE: Double Ink Recycling at Staples B&M starts 8/9 ENDS 9/19!!
@mistercheap said in Double Ink Recycling at Staples B&M starts 8/9:
Can someone post the actual screenshot of this offer with all the fine print? Would be helpful for those who encounter problems getting proper credit if Staples CS has to be contacted when the checks drop in Sept.
@MrVietnam I can’t remember how they did it last year with this offer, if $80 shows up as the amount or its just a bonus amount that shows up in the check itself. I just turned my ink carts in yesterday, so won’t know my status for a few days, but I’m in that Staples Plus program (whatever it’s called) where you pay $49 a year ($24 in my case on a 1/2 price offer) and get 20 a month.
But why would it say as I posted “Limit 10 a month”? What I am thinking is that although my account says PREMIER they are treating me as a NON-PREMIER customer with the 10 a month limit. That is the way it should be as I have not qualified for Premier for years but have been enjoying Premier status. If they took me off Premier though why does it still say I am Premier on my account online?
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RE: Double Ink Recycling at Staples B&M starts 8/9 ENDS 9/19!!
Also, I bought toner on 7/29 anticipating the double reward promo starting 8/9 and on 7/30 I recycled 20 cartridges, but today when got the rewards earned from last month I only got $5 for regular rewards but nothing for ink rewards. Why would that be? In my purchase activity it said I earned $40 for that 7/30 20 cartridge recycling but I did not get rewards for it today, just the $5 regular rewards.
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RE: Double Ink Recycling at Staples B&M starts 8/9 ENDS 9/19!!
That’s interesting. I recycled 20 cartridges on 8/9, but in purchase details it says I only earned $40 from that and not $80:
725137 725137 - INK RECYCLING LIMIT 10/MONTH 20 $0.01 -$0.20 $0.00 $40.00
For the rest of you who recycled during double recycling rewards, did you get the full $80 in rewards? Maybe Staples finally caught up with me. I haven’t qualified for Premier for years, but they still gave me the Premier benefits. Now it looks like that may have changed, even though at the top of the rewards page it still identifies me as a PREMIER customer.
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RE: Tello Wireless Awesome Back To School Sale! thru 8/20
I found this article very interesting and informative about Tello: https://www.threethriftyguys.com/2020/05/tello-review-no-fee-cell-phone-provider/
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RE: Tello Wireless Awesome Back To School Sale! thru 8/20
Excellent idea, juicer. I can put $20 in the PayGo balance and then once every 3 months I can buy their cheapest plan, which is $6, and that way I could still use my PayGo balance for two out of the three months and still be a current customer under their new terms. Thanks for the idea. It’s nice Tello gives you a one week warning via email before closing down an account.
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RE: Tello Wireless Awesome Back To School Sale! thru 8/20
Kind of makes me wonder if I should stick with AT&T Prepaid. I can get AT&T Customer Service extend my credit validity time by 6 to 12 months by just calling in to customer service and asking. Last time I called in they extended my airtime by an entire year. They charge 10 cents a minute, but I don’t call much. The only downside with the per minute plans with AT&T Prepaid they don’t let you use Pay as You Go data. In order to have data with AT&T Prepaid I have to buy an expensive monthly plan. They also don’t allow me to use Google Voice with AT&T Prepaid.
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RE: Tello Wireless Awesome Back To School Sale! thru 8/20
@juicer said in Tello Wireless Awesome Back To School Sale! thru 8/20:
@mrvietnam said in Tello Wireless Awesome Back To School Sale! thru 8/20:
@juicer said in Tello Wireless Awesome Back To School Sale! thru 8/20:
Also their data is not a hard stop but throttled down.
It is fast enough even throttled down to use for Google Voice calling.
I have the cheapest plan with 100 minutes/unlimited text and 500 mb data for $6 plus tax = $6.70
I mostly use text and Google Voice so I rarely even approach the 100 call limit.
I am definitely a lite user and a cheapskate to boot.You may want not to have a calling plan at all and just fill your PAY AS YOU GO sub-account if you don’t call that much. It is only a penny a minute for domestic calls and a penny for domestic texts. That is what I plan to do is scrap the plan anf just pay pennies here and there when I use it.
I think the minimum add to Paygo is $20 and by the book, they require you to make an addition every so often but I can’t recall what that time frame is right now.
@juicer said in Tello Wireless Awesome Back To School Sale! thru 8/20:
@mrvietnam said in Tello Wireless Awesome Back To School Sale! thru 8/20:
@juicer said in Tello Wireless Awesome Back To School Sale! thru 8/20:
Also their data is not a hard stop but throttled down.
It is fast enough even throttled down to use for Google Voice calling.
I have the cheapest plan with 100 minutes/unlimited text and 500 mb data for $6 plus tax = $6.70
I mostly use text and Google Voice so I rarely even approach the 100 call limit.
I am definitely a lite user and a cheapskate to boot.You may want not to have a calling plan at all and just fill your PAY AS YOU GO sub-account if you don’t call that much. It is only a penny a minute for domestic calls and a penny for domestic texts. That is what I plan to do is scrap the plan anf just pay pennies here and there when I use it.
I think the minimum add to Paygo is $20 and by the book, they require you to make an addition every so often but I can’t recall what that time frame is right now.
I called customer service and they said you need to have an order every three months or they may close your account, so I think your approach is the best, that is to order the cheapest monthly plan. I think I will sign up for the special that is the topic of this thread for $5 a month and then after that transfer to a plan similar to yours.
The rep said it used to be if you just placed a call that would be enough to keep your account current with Pay as You Go, but now it has changed ever since late last year and now you actually have to place an order every three months.
I read on another website that a lot of longtime customers of Tello are now getting emails threatening to cancel their service if they don’t place an order:
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6 days ago
On legacy PayGo-only plan, now required to buy monthly service? Is this happening to anyone else?i just got an e-mail from Tello telling me that my number will be expiring soon and I need to buy a service plan to keep it:
We noticed that more than 90 days have passed since your last order. As stated in our Service Agreement your Tello number +X (XXX) XXX XXXX together with your Pay As You Go balance (if any), will automatically expire on 08/13/2020.
To keep this number and avoid service termination you can go ahead and subscribe to a Tello plan in the following days. Regardless of any account activity (call, SMS, data usage), your number will expire if no order is registered by 08/13/2020.
Please note that once deactivated, a Tello number can no longer be retrieved.
Has anyone else gotten an e-mail like this? I don’t necessarily blame them (I haven’t bought anything from them since I originally signed up in 2016) I’m mainly just curious.
Just got the same email. Very annoyed, especially since I’ve had an account with them for years and this is the first I’ve heard of this policy change. How very generous of them to inform me only a week in advance!
I also don’t appreciate their threatening to both take my leftover money and deactivate my cell phone number, which I’ve had for over a decade. Will definitely be switching to another service.
I’m looking for an alternative but it seems companies don’t offer pay as you go service anymore, at least not like they used to. Every company now requires a monthly fee at a minimum, and I’m just looking for something that only charges me if I use it. Bunch of crap.
3 days agoThat correct. The cellphone companies HATE low usage customers. Now they are all in cahoots together to destroy these kinds of plans. Basically they want at least $10 per month out of all of us at a bare minimum.
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RE: Tello Wireless Awesome Back To School Sale! thru 8/20
@juicer said in Tello Wireless Awesome Back To School Sale! thru 8/20:
Also their data is not a hard stop but throttled down.
It is fast enough even throttled down to use for Google Voice calling.
I have the cheapest plan with 100 minutes/unlimited text and 500 mb data for $6 plus tax = $6.70
I mostly use text and Google Voice so I rarely even approach the 100 call limit.
I am definitely a lite user and a cheapskate to boot.You may want not to have a calling plan at all and just fill your PAY AS YOU GO sub-account if you don’t call that much. It is only a penny a minute for domestic calls and a penny for domestic texts. That is what I plan to do is scrap the plan anf just pay pennies here and there when I use it.
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RE: Walmart Family Mobile Apple iPhone 7 Prepaid At Walmart only $199 exp unk
I see on Walmart’s website I can get an AT&T Prepaid iPhone 7 for $199 also, so I will buy that and upgrade from my iPhone 6, AT&T will allow me to unlock my phone after 6 months of service and then I will switch over to Tello when it is unlocked.
I just pulled the trigger. I was able to get a $17.48 discount in free money because I used Fluz to buy 3 Walmart gift cards with the Am Ex promo. The total after tax should have been $214.42, but I only paid $196.94 after my free money. I put the rest of it on my Am Ex credit card so I will get an additional year warranty with their Extended Warranty coverage. That is not bad at all $196.94, which includes tax, for a brand new black iPhone 7. My iPhone 6 is 3 years old and I was in need of a little upgrade and in 6 months I will be able to unlock it with AT&T and go to Tello.
Thanks, MrsGuin, for letting me know the price on the iPhone 7 had dropped.