Submit: Great giffgaff Ideas

I think that people who are with giffgaff for extended periods, (e.g, 3+years) should start to see some discounts. For example, for each year you are with gg you will recieve 1% discount. I just think because you see people leaving in forums and it seems only the people that are helping are getting payback, when in fact some people are not technically gifted therefore have not got the capaabilities to help on the community, even though they value gg as much as the VIP's?

I had completely appalling service from UK Mail, wasting three whole days sitting in waiting for my phone. I got no support from their phone centre, despite dozens of calls. In the end I had to get a lift and drive the 40-min round-trip to the depot and collect it myself.

I was raving about GiffGaff to my family when I told them I was getting a new phone through you, and they were thinking of doing the same. But now my frustrating experience has scared them off, because they don't want to deal with UK Mail. The review websites and their Twitter feed (and that of "UK Fail") shows my experience wasn't isolated.

I suggest GiffGaff move to a different courier asap - while they're delivering to GG customers then they are part of the face of GG, and we don't want any part of such a poor reputation.

why can we not have a giffgaff top up card along with our ordered sims or have the ability to register an O2 top up card to top up our accounts?<br>Not everyone likes to use cards, but the only current way to top up via cash is to faff about with a voucher, baring in mind that O2 vouchers only come in £10, £15, £20, £25. No good if your goodybag is £12 Or £18

it would be a great idea to be able to divert calls from a blocked phone if you have lost or had a phone stolen. when i lost my phone i missed some very important calls and feel it would a great service to offer as it keeps people connected when the worst happens.

OK this idea is very simple.

Having just helped someone on the help forum who didn't know that to get there 4g data working they had to turn there data of and back on again. I propose that everyone who buys a 4G goodybag for the first time, gets sent a text message saying something along the lines of:

 

Wahoo! you've just bought a 4G goodybag!

Just so you know, it can take up to 24 hours for the data to come live.

You will also need to turn your data off and back on again before it kicks in.

Then you will be able to enjoy all the benefits of 4G

 

Obviously the text of this message needs finessing, but the basic idea would save a lot of frustration for those who haven't read all the information before they purchase the 4G goodybag (I'm sure many don't).

 

Please support (kudo) this idea if you think its worthwhile.

i think we should receive our voicemails free with or without credit as long as you have topped up in the last 3 months, there is nothing more frustrating than missing a call and you have used up all your mins, i think this could give giffgaff another edge again in the market.

Please bear with me:-

 

 A child has a Giff Gaff sim paid for by us & receives a text to inform them that the recurring Goodybag is about to "recur" but because the date on the payment card had expired it did not happen. The text was shown to another adult who did not understand & said it's a recurring Goodybag so don't worry! It consequentailly ran out & caused major problems & the phone now no longer has unlimited data as the old Goodybag is no longer available! Disappointing!

 

The Card & the e-mail address are mine so can ALL messages sent to the phone also be sent out to the stored e-mail address too so this problem can be overcome. Perhaps it could be an option box within the  "My Account" Tab that indicates whether you want ALL messages be sent to your phone only or to both phone & e-mail.

 

Thank you in advance for reading this message. x

 

Okay so this idea is one I've taken from a phone network that I was with in New Zealand (if it works there, then why shouldn't it here?).<br>Basically you can always connect to the network providers app using 3G, even if you haven't got any data. Which is great as it means you can- top up, check remaining credit, and use all the other services that they have to offer, any time that you have 3G coverage. It would be great to see this implemented on my favourite network.<br><br>So just a quick recap:<br>Using mobile internet you can, browse and use the services of the GiffGaff web site, even if you have no data roaming on your plan/you've run out of credit.<br>Which is mostly useful for topping up when you're out and about. And also being able to check your remaining balance.<br><br>I look forward to hearing back from you guys (hopefully this idea hasn't already been posted a million time, like my last brain wave…whoops).<br><br>

Olay so i recently came back from a great holiday to mexico. My allowance ran out 2 days into the holiday. When i got back i tried to top up at the airport but i could only access the giffgaff home page. If I'm truly the boss i should be able to log in and buy my goody or credit via my phone even when there is no credit.

I know this idea been posted before HOWEVER this idea spelled out how to make it work.

You dial 43430

You press:

1 - For credit
2 - For goodybag
3 - For gigabag

Then you press:

1 - To pay by airtime credit (or redeem a voucher if just buying credit)

2 - To pay by a credit/debit card (only if you previously purchased the bag online)

Then you get asked to press:

1 - For "Yes I have a Blackberry"
2 - For "No I do not have a blackberry"

Then you press (option depends on which bag you are buying²):

1 - For "£5 Hokey Cokey"/"£5 gigabag"
2 - For "£7.50 goodybag"/"£7.50 gigabag"
3 - For "£10 goodybag"
4 - For "£12 goodybag"
5 - For "£15 goodybag"
6 - For "£18 goodybag"

Then if you are paying by card you are then asked to enter the 3 digit security code of the stored credit/debit card.

Bingo you then receive a text message confirming purchase of said bag.

² = If answered yes to owning a Blackberry then bags would be correct price for goodybag + BB add on.

There have been a couple of attempts at making giffgaf videos, all revolving around talking heads reading a script spliced together. I have a different concept.

 

One reccuring theme of giffgaff is that members come from all walks of life; places like the top of Scotland to the most densely populated cities. From industrial, scientific, artistic and all other sorts of backgrounds and I finally figured out a way to showcase that diversity in an appealing and interesting way, through user submitted time lapse videos.

 

For the uninitiated here is a time lapse.

 

A Love Letter to Moab - Timelapse from Ron Risman on Vimeo.

 

The concept goes like this. Over a period of time encourage members to shoot time lapse video of anything that they want. Could be their home life, a cityscape, scenic / sky.or crowds moving through a city centre. This will be the basis of showing the lives, locations and experiences of the diverse userbase. Each scene may be accompanied by a caption showing the user and event or location + any specific details.

 

Time lapse can be as simple or as complicated as you want to make it and the staff should have a try beforehand and share best practices as well as make resources (like ways to get HD video to giffgaff) available as well as some tutorials and app suggestions. Mobile phone cameras make it easy to record any kind of media so that's a no-brainer.

 

The cost will be in time predominately as staff should ideally evaluate time lapse solutions and apps that deliver the best results. Getting video to giffgaff can be done in a number of ways, there's Dropbox and copy.com but just a postal address to send a DVD to can be a lot less hassle.

 

The benefit and end result will be a unique snapshot of both UK life and the diverse giffgaff userbase; utilising the crowd and the widespread availability of technology to share the workload and making an unpredictable and unexpected viewing experience. Or at least I think so

What with the surge in customer complaints about data speeds and the like why don't giffgaff import and sell dual we phones?

Not just for data problems but also for when going abroad frequently you can then keep your giffgaff sim for calls from UK and use slot two with a foreign sim for data and cheap calls.

Also if you do have a contract sim and a giffgaff sim bingo in same phone.

If you have a work phone and a personal phone bingo both in one phone.

If you frequently travel to parts of UK without giffgaff coverage have a second sim with coverage in same phone.

Well what you think?

Yesterday I found myself in the situation where I was close to using all my data allowance (£10 goodybag) before the month was up. I don't set my goodybags to recur, so I went about purchasing a new goodybag early through the mygiffgaff app.

 

The newly bought goodybag immediately showed as queued in the mygiffgaff app, but it wasn't due to kick in until November 6th. With the newly introduced option of goodybag repurchases I know it is possible to start queued goodybags early, so I searched around the app for a minute or two trying to find how to do this. After trying several diffrent things it appears it isn't possible, so I logged in to the giffgaff website through my mobile browser and opted to start it from there, which was simple enough, if a little frustrating.

 

I propose that the mygiffgaff app is tweaked slightly to allow the instant start of a queued goodybags dirctly from the My Account page. A simple button underneath a queued goodybag that becomes visible one a users call or data allowance has reached the required threshold would be ideal. Clicking this button would show a confirmation prompt that once clicked would activate the queued goodybag immediately, like the website does.

 

I have mocked up an example of how the button might appear and work below. The screenshot isn't 100% accurate as I don't have a queued goodybag currently, but you get the idea of how it could work. The button would actaully appear below a queued goodybag once the 5MB or 5 minutes threshold has been reached.

 

 

Grateful for kudos and feedback.

 

Joe

Earlier today I was browsing YouTube on my mobile when it started playing up. Like a cat without a fiddle I was tune-less.

So I thought I'll pop on to giffgaff to check the service in my area and after 5 long minutes I realised that it wouldn't possibly work due to the fact of why I was actually checking the service.

So it got me thinking that giffgaff should set-up a service to check the service around you via text by texting the word SERVICE followed by the first part of your post code to 43430 (possibly an additional number to text from a non-giffgaff number).

Comments and Contributions below...

Hi all, I would like to see Live payback earnings each day or week. So it shows each day or week how much you are earning. This would really motivate me to post and help more, sometimes im put off thinking its too much effort to reach the next bracket of earnings for that month.