Hi everyone.
Was thinking maybe we should or could have Giffgaff freebies section
Plenty of us get or have unwanted items
Of all descriptions
Or at times we need something.
As we're a awesome community maybe we could help each other out  ?
Maybe even a little donation to our gg charities once you receive your freebie (optional)
Could be a great asset to the community
Anything could be included subject to giffgaffs approval

An old phone or a spare part .
how many times when we upgrade to new phones or tech /games system and all the kits either binned or stuck in the cupboards.
Pass it on and make someone else happy
What do you think ?
We could have local pick ups or posted to be arranged with recipient of the freebie

posted in of topic discussion originally

Many operator provide Europe Data Roaming package, but not Giffgaff.

i suggest that Giffgaff should come with one as well.

So for the first time ever I've had to get the £5 bag . Due to going away I just didn't need the data so adopted this .
So everything is fine love the way we get minutes back when someone calls you and the data is just enough if you get desperate , but I'd love for the texts to work like the calls do .
So let's say we start with 200 texts , every time someone texts back we get a text back !,,,,,,,,, could this work ??
So in eventuality we have a min and text rate which we receive min and texts if people are constantly calling it texting us . This will end up being a very useful bag and would probably attract a load of customers .
Let us know what you guys think and see

To avoid any confusion, this topic is not about roaming but about outgoing calls and texts while using giffgaff in the UK.

 

The main cost of a telephone call is the termination rate charged by the destination network; distance is irrelevant. In most developed countries, termination rates have fallen significantly with the result for example that the cost of a call from the UK to an Australian fixed line is less than the cost of a call from the UK to a UK mobile.

 

Consequently many telephone companies, both fixed line and mobile, allow inclusive minutes and texts to be used for calls to fixed lines anywhere in the European Union and many other developed countries around the world. Examples are:

• Sky (UK)
• O2 Slovakia (another Telefónica company like giffgaff)
• Free (France)
• B&You (France)
• FreeVoipDeal (international)

After the euro was introduced in 1999, many banks continued to levy unjustified surcharges on cross-border transactions within the Eurozone. Consequently the European Commission legislated to outlaw these surcharges so that a cross-border transaction within the Eurozone must now cost the same as a transaction within the same country. Similarly the European Commission is now proposing in a draft directive to outlaw cross-border surcharges on non-roaming telephone calls within the EU and EEA because the surcharges (together with the exclusion of such calls from bundles) are not objectively justified.

 

Plenty of giffgaff customers post in the help and support forum asking why, when they have an active goodybag but no credit, they cannot make calls or send texts to numbers in other countries. These customers have a reasonable expectation that intra-EU cross-border communications will be covered by their goodybags.

 

Given that there is no justification, economically or otherwise, for many cross-border calls and texts to have a higher price than intra-UK calls and texts, why does giffgaff continue to exclude UK-originated intra-EU telephone calls and texts from goodybags? Why should a giffgaff customer in London have to pay extra to phone a fixed line in Calais whereas calling a fixed line further away in Hull is covered by a goodybag? Giffgaff seems to be following an unhealthily insular British mentality that any cross-border service should be priced at a higher level than the same service within the UK. Giffgaff should be leading the way on this, and not following other networks' bad practices or waiting until the European Commission legislates against such bad practices.

 

Therefore please could giffgaff include, within goodybags' minutes and texts, calls to fixed lines and texts to mobile numbers in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore and any other developed countries with negligible termination rates. The "free" destinations listed here are a good indication of countries with negligible termination rates.

 

I'm not yet suggesting that giffgaff includes calls to mobiles in other countries (except the United States and Canada), because the termination rates for calls to non-UK mobile numbers often exceed the termination rates for calls to UK mobile numbers, and so this would not always be economically viable.

Any chance giffgaff could place an identifying cookie on our SIM order pages?

 

For instance if someone uses my link and then browses the main site and then orders a SIM, the order is not linked to my payback, I would lose out even though it were me who invited them here.

For light use the PAYG call costs on giffgaff for calls & texts (10p/min & 6p each) are not unreasonable. However the PAYG data charges (20p for more or less any data and 20p/MB after 20MB) don't work for a smartphone as it will incur the 20p charge any day it is away from WiFi with mobile data on.

 

A "half size" version of the £5 gigabag with 250MB for £2.50 a month (and access to the 2p/MBfor data over this) would be ideal for light users of smartphones and tablets.

 

 

Hi everyone

 

Today, the 4G goodybags were announced in this blog post: http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Blog/4G-Launch-Update/ba-p/12120896

 

This idea is not about changes to the goodybags, but actually how they'll be marketed.

 

Giffgaff have created 4 goodybags that include 4G internet. These are priced at £10, £10, £12 and £15. These fall in line with the current 3G goodybags also priced at £10, £12 and £15.

However, they have different contents. For example, the 3G £10 goodybag curretly has 500 mins, unlimited texts and 1GB data. But the 4G £10 goodybag for non-existing members will have 250 mins, unlimited texts and 500MB data.

My thought was that this could soon become very confusing. As pointed out by @essie112mm the BB Add-On/Blackberry Plan situation has all become a bit complex recently, and it would be ideal to avoid the same problem again.

 

Idea: To market the 4G goodybags with a different name. We would have goodybags, gigabags and '4Gbags' (or something similar).

 

Cost: Not a lot, just a bit of thinking about it really

 

How it would help: It would mean that giffgaff newbies who don't regularly use the website don't get confused. Threads on Help & Support will be clearer making it easier to help those who need it without having to ask more questions.

 

Thanks

 

 

Name suggestions:

'Goodyb4gs' or 'Chattyb4gs' by @stevepritchard 

'Superbag' by @mattsmith100 

'Smartbag' by @essie112mm 

'4Gigabag' or '4Goodybag' by @bonzo123 

'Speedybags' by @root2 

The idea is to have a special type of goodybag that rather than having a fixed bundle of data, text and calls actually contains no allowances BUT an up front £5 worth of special PAYG credit instead and include free calls for each incoming call.

 

 

 Why you ask would anyone want that?  well rather than fixed allowances of mobile use it is a paid up front allowance of credit BUT all at PAYG special rates for the duration of the goodybag (30 days).  The special PAYG rates will apply to not just the amount of special credit in the goodybag but extends to special rates on all further use from normal airtime credit whilst the goodybag is live.

 

This would fit a niche where people at the lower end needs don't fit into the existing goodybag offerings and tend to use PAYG (but keep a very careful eye on use, especially where data is concerned) or some who occasionally buy a goodybag but can't get the allowances that really fits their needs without having to separately use additional airtime credit.  

 

For instance MMS, special numbers (0845, 0870 etc) international calls and roaming charges aren't included in any goodybag and require the additional use of normal airtime credit.  

 

So my suggestion is to have new type of goodybag called a bargain bag which includes £5 worth of special credit and the Hokey Cokey facility of adding minutes for each incoming call.  

 

With these special PAYG bargain rates as an initial suggestion.

 

Calls:  5p per min   (normal PAYG price 10p)

Text:   2p per text.  (normal PAYG price 6p)

Data   First 20mb per day at 20p then 2p per mb.   (normal PAYG price 20p for 20mb then 20p PER mb).

0845/0870 etc numbers   8p (normal PAYG price 12p)

MMS:  8p                (normal price 16p).

 

Other charges including international calls/text and roaming rates could also contain say a 10% discount.

 

Edit: changed image to a much better one courtesy of @jtemplar (thanks) and modified special calls to 8p from 10p

 

So over to you to tell me what you think and as always comments and support welcomed 

hello

 

My idea is for giffgaff to introduce a system that is an emergency SMS service that sends out emergency messages, eg a child has went missing, flood warnings, or other threatening circumstance.

 

This type of service is in use in the US and is beneficial.

 

Thanks for reading!

Not sure if it's right to repost an idea here, but I was hoping we could do the Egg hunt from last Easter again this year.

 

http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Submit-Great-giffgaff-Ideas/The-Great-Giffgaff-Egg-Hunt/idi-p/76739...

 

Here's the original idea, which most of you will probably remember from last year - 

 

In the run up to Easter, there could be some 'Easter Eggs' put around the site, Facebook, Twitter etc.

 

For example, a little picture or phrase that if clicked, means you win something.

 

This could be actual prizes or some payback points, or maybe entry into a raffle for a load of chocolate!

Hi everyone

 

I think that giffgaff should double the amount of data we get with the £7.50 goodybag. This is because 250Mb is nowhere near enough to last a month. Also the jump in data from the £7.50 goodybag to the £10 goodybag is a huge extra 750Mb and i feel that gap should be closed a bit.

 

If you agree please show support and share with your friends.

 

With enough support I hope giffgaff will notice this post

 

Thank you all

Idea: Have the daily digest sent as a PM aswell as/or instead of an email

 

I like to get the daily digest so I can see if ive had a good day Kudos wise, however as I get quite a few emails come through in a day from gg mentions, uni and other assorted things, its very easy to miss the daily digest email in my inbox!

 

So my proposal is that we can chose the option to be sent the digest by and automated PM as well as an e-mail or just the PM if prefered. That way the daily/weekly digest is more easily accessed and noticed by the recipient, rather than it just falling into a pile of unread emails. 

 

This could be done for both mentions and kudos recieved daily or weekly, and also be used every time you get a best answer, as its difficult to notice when you have recieved one. I believe it has recently proposed that the best answers be included in the daily digest too. 

http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Submit-Great-giffgaff-Ideas/Daily-digest-email-to-include-your-late...

 

There have been quite a few daily digest suggestions as of late so maybe we could have a review on how the messages can be improved and made easier for members?

 

Thanks for reading,

Kung Fu Master Alice Powell 

 

Please leave comments if there is anything you would like to add or suggest 

Giffgaff backpacks for cyclists and other folk wanting straight spines. Free advertising for giffgaff and handy too. They could look like a giant SIM card, maybe with gold on like a SIM card. And silver straps. Or they could be like a phone. Prefer SIM card. Or just the giff gaff heart logo with a real zip where the zip goes now. Also giff gaff literal flyers...pennants you could attach to your handlebars to ' fly the flag' , I think giffgaff is great cos it's cheap and fun and democratic. Even a logo that says ' stop me and buy one! ' not that I would stop downhill. Anything funny.
Giffgaff t shirts and hoodies? Prob exist. Giffgaff phone covers.
Normally I hate branded stuff, but if it s getting a good thing spread then.....

So I only recently became a Giffgaff user and I noted that the short codes/USSD codes are quite extensive and massively useful but if you can't remember the code you want or need and haven't input all of them into your phone then they are quite fiddly to find when you are on the move. So possibly having a directory of these codes on the Giffgaff app would not only mean you have constant access to them at all times but they are right there where you need them.

I have been thinking about this for a while and if, like myself, your a regular to the ideas board then you have to agree that it's in a bit of a mess! 

There's been a couple of threads in 'contribute' about how to sort it out, one created by myself and we've recently had where anyone can report duplicated ideas which is good but it's still a mess. 

There are many ideas that have the status 'were looking into it' or 'working on it' ect and the last update is like 2 years old!  I've found some even older than this! 

The problem is the ideas are coming in faster than ever and there's that many 'new ideas' that have reached the required 20 Kudos but there labels are not changed and they're months old and there pushed back by all these new ideas.  You must see what I mean? 

I've got ideas that are months old with over 50 and 100 Kudos on that are still set as new idea which is frustrating as ideally you would like the idea to go into the meeting while it's 'trending' on the board, in an ideal world. 

So if you agree with me so far then the question is what do we do to sort it out? 

This is why I've posted this idea. I'm gonna add here what I things I think could help but everyone else is invited to do the same and support the idea so ultimately we get our ideas board running smoothly again. 

Right and I know this probably won't be popular but for the time being stop any new ideas been posted which would allow time for all the current ideas and there status to be worked through and sorted appropriately. 

I think in the time new ideas were suspended GG need to use a dedicated team who work on just this forum to do all the work to sort it out. There could be eds or even members given special permissions just to do the task. 

I think the way new ideas are rated needs to be changed. At the moment it only takes one other member to Kudos your idea for it to officially go live. 

I suggest a more rigorous system for new ideas to go through before there submitted to root out duplicates at source and also stop people posting loads of ideas-one liners that nobody really looks at but they bump all the trending ideas that people have put time and effort into nowhere unless you really know how to look! This can be really annoying! 

While I know there are guides out there as to how ideas work but there's nothing that gives you specific advice telling you to do your home work, layout of the idea, what happens after you post your idea like how it 

needs to reach 20 kudo in 3 months to get into the meeting, something that explained what all the status mean ect.  

But put this all together into some kind of guide a member was prompted to read before posting there idea.

Well that's me for now so I hope you will get behind this one and help make the ideas forum a much smoother, better place to use! 

The op will be edited accordingly due to any suggestions that come up so keep an eye out for changes.

Well over to you guys? 

Simple one. Several posts in HELP from people receiving notification that their account details were changed at 4am or goodybag recurrence switched off at 2am. People think their account has been hacked. The reason for the emails is the impending expiry of the credit card. Couldn't the emails be a bit more user friendly and informative?

There was a recent issue with Maestro card suddenly being disabled from GG. This has apparently been quickly resolved now. However, to help avoid anything similar, the more alternative payment methods there are, the better, from everyone's point of view.

Adding Paypal could certainly be useful, though popular as it is, not everyone has a PayPal account.
One of the best payment systems would surely be the option to set up direct debit payments wouldn't it??

Benefits....

*Works with all banks, always.

*No need to possess any kind of cards, Debit or Credit.

*No hassles due to cards being routinely updated with new numbers etc, this then commonly causing failed top up payments. Followed by the hassle of having to change registered card data online etc.

*Totally safe. Many folks are still wary about giving their card details out to anywhere on line.

Seems like a no brainer to me.

Regards

Peter
 
[Edited: Title for Clarity]

Introduce a new goodybag with higher data allowance which allows you to tether with other devices, as the current one which is the £10 goodybag with 1gb data allowance sometimes runs out to quick when you tether.