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saliwali

My 10yo has had the £6 goody bag for the 1st month and only used a handful of calls, and txts. I think we would get better value atm with PAYG. Can you add on any data to this? Thanks

clikasarus

saliwali

Welcome to giffgaff and the community

giffgaff don’t do a data bolt on so best thing is to buy another goodybag (so it’s queued) and start it early

• Members can now start their next goodybag when they reach either 100mb or 100 minutes on their current goodybag allowance.

• You should see a start button here ⬇️

Dashboard

• But Please note that starting your queued goodybag early will remove any remaining allowance (data, texts, minutes) that you may have left on your active goodybag

(If for what ever reason you can’t start your goodybag try here ⬇️)

Starting A Goodybag Early Form

Hope this has been helpful for you 👍🏻

natty88

saliwali

Unfortunately if not using a lot of calling mins or texts it's still better value getting the 6pounds goody bag just for data as on pay and Go rates ten pounds top up would only give two hundred megabyte data usage

Its your choice

Or increase his goody bag for ten pounds you would get 6gigs data per month

sheppola

saliwali My 10yo has had the £6 goody bag for the 1st month and only used a handful of calls, and txts. I think we would get better value atm with PAYG. Can you add on any data to this? Thanks

The £8 GoodyBag is better value.You get 2 gig of data for approx 50p a week more 🙂

defraybo

saliwali
giffgaff used to do what were called "giggabags" these were the same as goodybags but they only gave you data, there were no calls or texts included, there was just data, any calls or texts you made were then paid from your airtime credit. They were good for people who only wanted to use data with a few calls. Unfortunately they were more expensive than using a goodybags with with all data texts and minutes included, so obviously they were quite useless as far as value went so they were withdrawn from the purchase list of giffgaff services.
I personally would like to see them brought back for people who only want data using a second sim as a WiFi connection using a mifi or or a second phone using "hotspot" or for the younger generation who do everything on line through third party apps. I will put this forward as an idea in the labs section if I can because I know for a fact there is a service available with another network that my grandchildren have moved over to from giffgaff to get unlimited social media minutes and texts for a very good price so I hope giffgaff can help in this area and help me to bring them back to this service that has been the best for a long time but needs to do a little more to stay ahead of the race.

saliwali

Thank you for your replies. I think I might try him on PAYG and keep him off the data!! It's just my daughter at this age had £10 PAYG which would last 2 to 3 months with a little bit of data attached. I know it will escalate soon! Thanks again

bigfra43

I still think the goody bag is best value as calls and texts would be taken from her pay and go balance if no goody bag.