Rollover data

wazeem2020

People I think as a community we should look into Rollover data. Which would attract more members to our community. What do the rest think of this?

Thank you

mrjeeves

wazeem2020

This is not going to happen anytime soon.

If it was, it would have happened within the past 4 years as about 100 people have suggested it.

bobrobinson

wazeem2020

giffgaff do a wide range of goodybags all with unlimited calls and texts. So if you have loads of data left over then buy a cheaper goodybag .
All the best Bob

isabel1066

wazeem2020 giffgaff recommends buy a smaller goodybag so no rollover.

davidevans0000

wazeem2020 data rollover has been asked loads of times and giffgaff has said no

mcilwraith

wazeem2020 personally i am a liitle fed up reading about the subject

wazeem2020

mrjeeves I am just thinking from a competition point of view i.e likes of sky who are using the same platform. They offer similar services with Rollover data. With other competitors offering sim only plans for 24/36 months. Good opportunity

persco

This has been mentioned so many times and one of the popular ideas in the labs but giffgaff for more are not interested. Maybe in future.

wazeem2020

persco no haram in asking. Failure failure to success

jarzinio

Nah because they would stop the Payback and that would that 75% of the users would drift to a network with better coverage and less problems
Before someone harps in with the network is great you probably don’t travel anywhere near as much as I do
As for problems, if I had a Fiver for every time I saw ’won’t credit’ , eating my data’ ‘stole my money’
‘credit disappeared’
’please help me I’m broke’
, there are more but the more I think about them the angrier I get
I would have bought an Island near Langkawi 10 months ago

bill48er

I do wish people would do just a little bit of research before floating this “new idea”.
Some duplicate ideas are harder to find. But annoyingly this one pops up about every two weeks. 😰
Sorry folks, but roll-over is not part of giffgaff’s DNA.

mrjeeves

wazeem2020 offering sim only plans for 24/36 months

Which giffgaff don’t do…

persco

wazeem2020 absolutely. Who knows, they may be changing their minds 👍🏾

wazeem2020

mrjeeves competitors not giffgaff. If giffgaff were to offer Rollover data it would attract allot more custom

i_am_sy

wazeem2020

It doesn’t matter how many more customers it attracts, if rolling over data costs more to giffgaff (it does) then it eats into the profits or turns them into a loss.

You could have 3m members each averaging £10 profit for giffgaff, and giffgaff will make £30m profit a year. Or you could have 5m members each averaging a £5 profit for giffgaff and that will only make £25m a year profit.

giffgaff constantly review the maths and as it stands giffgaff would make less money not more if that offered data rollover.

wazeem2020

persco don’t ask don’t get

wazeem2020

i_am_sy Rollover data will be something you have not used but paid for so how is the company going to loose money for unused data which can be transferred over

i_am_sy

wazeem2020

That's not how any of it works.

Not everyone uses the full amount of data.

Let's take the £10 goodybag. It offers 6GB data. However if you averaged out all the members using it you would probably find the average data use is 3GB.

I do t have the exact figures so this is a hypothetical example: giffgaff data costs them money. So at an average of 3GB giffgaff make money, if that average drops to 2GB giffgaff make more, if it goes up to 4GB then giffgaff break even, and anything above that amount would be a loss.

So now if you allow data rollover and ensure all movers use that full 6GB, the cost will now outstrip revenue giffgaff makes and hence they will lose money.

harrrrrry

wazeem2020 Rollover data will be something you have not used but paid for

Incorrect. Rollover data would be using data that you have paid for to use uo in no more than one month. The price you paid is calculated on the basis that everybody uses on average maybe about two thirds of their goodybag, If you were able to continue using the data after the expiry date, then giffgaff’s income would have to pay o2 for 50% more data than it currently does. So, giffgaff would either have to charge you more for your goodybag, or would have to put less data in the goodybags in the first place.

As an example, giffgaff increased the data in the £20 goodybag from 40 to 80GB in February. It probably could have kept the data at 40GB and allowed it to roll over.

The economics wouldn’t have made it possible to do both. So perhaps you would like the £20 goodybag to go back to 40GB and roll over. But I’m sure the decision it took is the one that most members would prefer.