Good morning folks. First let me apologise that I was not able to get online yesterday.
Nadz, I have told you before that I value the stimulation of some of your ideas, and I don't want to discourage you from writing in any way. However, Dave took the action that he did for good reason, because on this occasion you have not really done your 'homework' very thoroughly.
I mean by that, that the inventiveness of your thinking has been let down by inadequate research into the facts.
Let's go through things carefully together.
Firstly I see that you stated that:
As you be be aware that the 3 Network Pay As you go, gives their customers 2/3p per minute for any call they receive!
Is that true ? Unfortunately not. The current pre-pay offering from 3, called the Flat 12 tariff, carries no such feature. See
here.
Was it ever true ? Again, unfortunately not. The previous 3 pre-pay tariff, called WePay, offered 2p for all texts received, and 5p per minute for calls received, ( not 2-3p as you stated )
See:-
here.
Most importantly,
the WePay SIM has not been available to buy for around 6 months now, as both A1ia5 and myself know all too well ( as it just happens both of us have been trying to get hold of one for test purposes ).
But there are deeper matters to consider also.
Even if the WePay SIM were still available, it costs you 30p / minute to make calls, so the 5p back for a minute of call received is not really very much, seeing that it has cost you so much to call people yourself. Most people would prefer the current Flat 12 tariff, with its much more reasonable rate of 12p / minute for X-net calls.
A further factor is what I would call the 'parasitic' element.
Another reason that 3 could appear generous in rebating money was because of its high termination charges during the week. In other words, even if getting back 5p / minute per call received looked attractive, who was actually paying that price ? Answer: your friends who were silly enough to call you ! So any benefit you derived was really parasitic on the generosity ( or foolishness ) of your friends. That's not something I should want to advocate myself.
Now it just so happens that I know that pre-dial did once consider such an idea as you proposed, so your idea, in principal, was not so out of the question.
However, the idea was soon dropped, when rates and termination charges changed, and the scheme proved unworkable for economic reasons, not just the moral ones.
There are lots of discussions on the internet about the expenses of the We Pay deal, though I could not find them when I had a quick look just now.
Anyway, to sum up, good thinking
, but let down by inadequate research I'm afraid
.
Don't worry, I am sure that you won't repeat that mistake.
mobaholic.