Submit: Great giffgaff Ideas

I live in Northern Ireland and I travel to Ireland quite a lot. I think it would be an awesome idea if giffgaff, for customers in Northern Ireland could get additional coverage or something similar, when we cross the border. I only live roughly 10 minutes away from the border, and when I go into Ireland, I get charged extra for being 5 miles away from where I live. please offer us irelanders something

Hi,

 

I think that calls to the Samaritans should either be free, or covered as part of my minutes plans. This sort of gesture could save lives, my own included.

Thanks.

i was thinking instead off giff gaff paying you back with credit bonuses why wouldnt we be able to have like a fund acount were you can save up and maybe iff you have enough buy a phone with the payback wouldnt this be great also it would make users want to use the comunity more trying to earn back more payback points and also the user would be able to have a new phone compliments from giff gaff 

post your replies what do you think ??

I have tried to spread the word about giffgaff using both Social Media and my own busy blog site. However. What I want to get across is the £10 Goodybag. It's a good deal. And I am sure many would be tempted by the offer of no contract, 500 minutes to landlines and mobiles, unlimited texts, and 1gb of data for £10. Can we have posters to put on our webpages and blogs, and links to put that message across on our social media?

Retired people like me (along with many others on a fixed budget) want good value for their money.

 

A lot of us also have large extended families, who we want to keep in touch with, but the younger ones all lead such busy lives that sometimes it's not easy to find time to talk everyday.

 

When everyone in the group has giffgaff a quickly sent text message - at any time of the day - lets the recipient know they're being thought of, or passes on an update, until we can talk again... and all for free!

You can't get any cheaper than that!

 

If there is to be another campaign targeted at a specific group I would suggest this one would benefit all of us. 

 

We have no shortage of talent.

 

What would advertise any company better than people watching the advert knowing it was entirely people using that company who appeared in the advert & not some paid puppet actors brought in for the shoot?

A new phone is now available.

Called "The Brick" it costs around £30 and is completely sim free.

It looks and feels like the old "brick" phones of the 80's but with modern features:

MP3 player,
SD card slot,
Telephony,
Snake,
Torch

BUT no internet.

Specs include:

14 hours talk time and a whopping 1 month standby.

A cool feature of this phone is that without a sim card inserted you can use it as a Bluetooth hands free headset for any Bluetooth enabled device such as a smart phone.

To see more look http://meetthebrick.com/

I feel this phone "should" be offered for sale in the giffgaff phone shop.

What do you think?

Kudos this idea if you agree and/or comment below.

Keeping calls free between giffgaff to giffgaff and also lowering the standard price of calling and texting to other networks e.g 3 network offering 3p per min and 2p text.

Wearable tech is the future of mobile so I think it's about time GiffGaff seriously considered stocking this kind of kit. For instance, I want an S5, prefereably from GG but I also do a lot of running so want the Gear 2 aswell but if I want a package i'll have to go elsewhere at the moment

Also it won't be long before Google Glass is on the market - I just think it would be great if GG could become the onestop shop for all things mobile, not just phones.

Hi there,

Hope this reaches you all in the best of satisfaction.

 

As community members must be aware, there is a rank system used by the giffgaff Community in which relays the how much you contribute. Each time your rank gets higher the more you contribute to the giffgaff community,

 

However, Taking into consideration the Band numbers and points received for contributing towards the community, I was thinking that  giffgaff should also include a reward system for community ranks,so whenever you are moved up a rank, you should be rewarded an extra 100 points for your contributions. In other words 100 points for each rank.

 

Thanks,

With regards

 

Imagine your current bag ends at the start of April, & the new 4G ones come out a day after. Its a month to wait before you can get a 4G one.

Even now its likely to be someone buying a goodybag will miss out on about the first two weeks of 4G.

 

The £15 bag has unlimited data, but would swap to the 2 gig of 4G

 

The tenner bag seems to be the same for both already anyway, but would avoid a wait.

 

I have not gone into detail, as its an idea to be discussed, so get discussing!

ok ovivo mobile has gone bust and like many companies shut up shop and went into administration. so is life i say.

i don't understand why only introduce a new offer to grab only there customers to gg? why can't they extend the offer for a number of weeks offering if you transfer your number in from any network not just ovivo they get the same offer.

I've been thinking about the free gg-gg allowances that you get when you top up or buy a new goodybag via card.

At the moment you get 3 months free calls, texts and video calls for a minimum of a £10 voucher top up or by buying a £5 goodybag or gigabag via card, great right?

I've got this idea about getting 6 months free gg-gg allowances if you take your payback as credit :

 

 http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Submit-Great-giffgaff-Ideas/payback-taken-as-credit-idea/idi-p/1087...

 

It's been very popular and receives that much support that GG are looking into implementing it so it got me thinking of this idea.

How about the amount of time you get your free allowances be dependant on how much you top up? 

For example :

 

£10-3 months free gg-gg allowances

£20-4 months   ''         ''              ''

£30-5 months   ''         ''              ''

 

And so on if you see what I mean? 

Or they could just have a certain amount like if you top up over £50 or even £100 it gets you 6 months or even 12 months.

These figures are just an example to show what i mean for the purpose of the idea. Obviously it would be up to gg to set the rates if they liked the idea.

 

Benefits for members - more free allowances

Benefits for giffgaff - guaranteed income for up to a year if offered like the £100 deal

 

Or if they are going to implement my idea about payback taken as credit maybe, if this is popular, they could include this at the same time. 

Well thanks for reading and now it's over to you to have your say and if you like it then please show your support .

Times are changing.giffgaff has been running since late 2009 and has grown quite significantly. 

 

Now I think it would be a good move for giffgaff to become a PLC.

 

Think of the advantages: 

• Members could buy a stake in GG
• It would create money for giffgaff
• It would put giffgaff on the map
• Turn giffgaff into the "real deal" in investors eyes. 
• Would increase the reputation of the company as a player and not just a MNVO

It would be a great way for giffgaff to head.

 

What do you think?

 

-Guy

This may be ambitious but you know we get payback through helping people in forums, why not extend it to Facebook.

Hi all recently I have been leaving sim cards in my local phone shop and barbers etc with a good response but the people who are seeing them don't know there getting £5 free credit when there activated what will entice people to taking 1. I think if giffgaff could put on the packaging a message saying 5£ free credit w ould get a lot more activations as people never turn down free money especially now. If anybody has anymore ideas how to recruit people please post and let me know thanks

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 

Should sell dongles and mifi for people that like to travel places (3G 4G dongles) and people like prefer wireless internet instead of (DSL OR CABLE)

As you all may know, giffgaff has finally released their own App. I was wondering if they could make it better by allowing users to set instant notifications for various things, e.g. when someone replies to their subscribed threads, the member gets a Kudo, one of their answers is set the best answer or even when their balance is about to run out?