Grumpy about not being able to (easily) change goodbag date

gomess101

I have my whole family on giffgaff SIMs now, but of course, they’re all on a motley collection of goodybag dates.

Looking into this, seems there’s no sane way to align these to, say, the 1st of the month.

It’s wait a month, change to small goodybag, run it down to 0, pay for PAYG data and PAYG voice for the intervening days, then buy new goodybag on the 1st.

All currently with different dates, and on multiple SIMs.

Surely I should just be able to say “yeah, I know, it’ll waste a few quid, just let my buy a goodybag on the 1st and run from there”.

It’s one of the most frustrating things about giffgaff to me now.

Rant over, sorry :/
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endorphin

gomess101 sorry but it’s always been that way. Instead of running PAYG you could buy a smaller goodybag so that it will run out of data near the date you want to start the next usual size goodybag which you can then start early on your desired date.

Of course once you’ve got them all aligned you probably won’t need to change their start dates again. So it will be a seldom used function.

sloz

gomess101
Hi, what you could do is, contact an agent via each account,
Explain your intention, and ask for the live goodybag be removed so the recurring goodybag takes over
https://support2.giffgaff.com/app/ask/Top-up-balances-and-goodybags/Cancelling-a-goodybag-or-top-up-purchase/form

Replies are found here
Http://giffgaff.com/support/questions

You would need to message an agent on the last day of the month and ask for the goodybag to be switched over the next day,

A few things to point out,
When a goodybag is set to recur, it will actually switch over between 9pm and midnight the evening before,. So payment will be taken in the evening of the last day,

If you run out of data in a month in the future, and start a goodybag early,
That would of course, chsnge the day of recur

And, if you do contact an agent to bring the recur forward
It may be very wasteful, particular if you have a large goodybag and you’ve only had a a week or so usage from the goodybag

In that situation, it may be wise to switch to a smaller goodybag first as you mentioned

harrrrrry

gomess101 Looking into this, seems there’s no sane way to align these to, say, the 1st of the month.

I agree it would make sense to be able to choose your goodybag start date. But at least with giffgaff, a recurring goodybag will always start on the same day of the month, provided you never choose start it early.

Believe it or not, there are other networks that only allow their bundles to run for 30 days. Not only does that mean that you get only 360 days for 12 payments, but it also means that you can end up having to make two payments from the same month’s salary and then end up having to pay for your subsequent bundles several days before your monthly pay packet.

giffgaff’s method is a lot more intelligent. It may be difficult to synchronise in the first place, but once you get your goodybag to start recurring on the day that you want, it will not keep needlessly drifting a day forward on approximately alternate months like some of the others.

That said, it probably ought to be possible to devise a system where you’re allowed to occasionally by a goodybag for an arbitrary (32 to 61) number of days, paying proportionally extra for the extra days and getting extra data in the same ratio, That may sound complicated, but computers are like rabbits (they multiply rapidly) so it’s not a problem for software to work out the correct cost.