Merged Ideas of the Week 12/03

hazel22

Hey folks, welcome to the new edition of our Merged Ideas from this week. These are Ideas that need highlighting in light of a limitation from the platform to allow to bump them.

Please support any you like that you haven't already - there's some great diamonds here. All these links open in a new window, so free feel to go crazy.

Get your voicemails sent to your email address. (22)

The ability to make calls and texts over Wifi. (206)

Being able to delete you goodybag, and/or start a new one early. (269)

Call Catcher - for when you miss a call because you're out of service. (230)

Being able to transfer credti to another account to top it up. (162)

It's be nice to receive our payback quicker. (166)

Special thanks to all members who help keep the Board clean including but not limited to,@blackfive460 (who also co-created this thread)

brulaw

Thanks Hazel , another great round up .

zack1975

Nice one for this information

blackfive460

Some ideas there well worth more support.

Thanks for keeping this going Hazel!

nois

Good idea for those of us with less time to browse around. Thanks.

suppers_ready

Just wondering about the mechanics of this one.

I've just added a kudos to the voicemail by email, which makes 6 added to a 'Not for us' idea.

Is there a mechanism or trigger in place to push these ideas back to the ideas meeting?

PS. Good work in pulling this thread together, would like to see a tangible result for one of the ideas that gets featured 🙂

silemairin

I think it's great Hazel for those who can make use of such wonderful ideas , If I was young and into all this cyber malarky , I would be up for using most of what you have ,

andreww

One downside of this approach though, is where I've supported a good idea and given then given the obligatory kudos.

And then a less practical variant of the original is proposed and I comment why the idea won't work or isn't a desirable development.

But once the threads have been merged it gives the impression that the less favourable comments relate to the OP rather than the weaker later idea. Which all looks a bit confusing to read one comment supporting an idea followed by another appearing not to support it! :S

ma2013

Thanks for the round-up Hazel. I've seen a few ideas here which I like and given them my support! 🙂

hazel22

@suppers_ready, thanks for your comment, seems that your question is about how we're handling 'Not for Us' ideas that gain new support? As all the other ideas on this thread that aren't 'Not for Us' will be in the system and work through as normal. I'll have to talk to Timo about that one and get back to you but good shout.

@andreww - Thanks for the comment, I've got a few thoughts on it but could you give me a recent example for me to have a look?

Kind regards,

Hazel.

janineryansmummy2

Thanks hazel im happy with how everything is atm i love my goodybag and giffgaff: )

wobblycol

Does giffgaff offer any services to block those pesky texts offering compensation for accidents/PPI and all the other malarky, that the ambulance chasing "no win no fee" brigade keep sending me and some of the gentlefolk of this mighty network?

If not, it would be great to have, possible maybe with a small subscription fee?

hazel22

Hey Wobblycol, we have a blog on spam texts if there's any information in here that helps?

http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Blog/91-of-you-voted-that-you-have-received-a-SPAM-text-at-least-once/ba-p/3966691

andreww

@hazel22

Certainly 🙂 This is a very recent and my latest example, although perhaps not the best one to illustrate the point

http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Submit-Great-giffgaff-Ideas/Calls-amp-texts-from-laptops-amp-tablets-o2-Tu-Go-for-giffgaff/idc-p/12164694/highlight/true#M134386

I felt a bit indifferent to the OP and don't think I supported it. But I didn't like the subsequent idea, mainly I think because the main business case seemed to be Vectone is doing it so giffgaff should do it as well. Hence my comment about the need to prioritise scarce giffgaff resources.

But............having thought about the issue some more, I can see that actually it probably is quite a good idea and I may support it after all......although I have no problem using Skype and Viber when WIFI is a better way to communicate with people, so is it really that necessary??

Never before in the history of giffgaff I have ever spent so long thinking about whether to support an idea, or not!!!!!! 😀

streethaygran

How does one submit ideas?

dartgirl

Thank you Hazel well done.

blackfive460

@suppers_ready, thanks for your comment, seems that your question is about how we're handling 'Not for Us' ideas that gain new support? As all the other ideas on this thread that aren't 'Not for Us' will be in the system and work through as normal. I'll have to talk to Timo about that one and get back to you but good shout.

Do we need the revived ideas thread idea reviving?

blackfive460

@streethaygran wrote:
How does one submit ideas?

Well, you can just dive in http://community.giffgaff.com/t5/Community-information/The-Ideas-Board-How-to-submit-ideas/ta-p/4062075

blackfive460

Two other thoughts on merging with Not for us ideas while I'm here...

First a simple one; don't do it. Rather than merging, mark the new one, not for us. But only if it really is obviously a non-starter.

Alternatively, let it run and reconsider.

I must admit that I don't link not for us ideas when suggesting a merge. Ideas vault ideas, yes but there seems little point in merging with a completely dead idea that may be worth reconsidering.

On the subject of Ideas vault ideas. When a merge takes place, surely these should be re-activated to see if they get enough support for consideration?

janen666

Thank you for making it all easy to access.

Unfortunately I can't be here much.

When I am though I'm amazed at the interest shown by everyone in everything.!

Giffgaff is great.