Considering switch to Skinny for data, any disadvantage in switching to prepay from contract?

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Samwad

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#243078 26-Nov-2018 11:15

I'm currently on the 2degrees $40 carryover plan which is great but I chew through the 3 gigs of data before the month is through. I see that the Skinny prepay plan for $46 offers 12 gigs of data. Is there any disadvantage of switching to prepay other than having to pay upfront if I switch?

thanks in advance.

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#2134325 26-Nov-2018 11:45

None that I can think of. The biggest advantage of prepay is not getting any bill shock if you go over your plans allowances. This is why all my kids are on prepaid plans.

Two things about moving from 2 degrees to Skinny: Skinny plans are 28 days where 2 degrees is a calendar month (28-31 days), and instead of getting a free hour of data each day, you get 2GB of additional data to use during the weekend (5pm Friday - 11:59pm Sunday, both offers end on 3/3/2019)

Samwad

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#2134349 26-Nov-2018 12:09

great thanks. if your skinny plan is 28 days, does that mean your plan gets out of sync with the calendar month?

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#2134361 26-Nov-2018 12:26

Samwad:
great thanks. if your skinny plan is 28 days, does that mean your plan gets out of sync with the calendar month?

Yes, but as I get paid fortnightly it keeps in sync with my payday :) YMMV.

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#2144569 13-Dec-2018 02:03

stinger:
Samwad:

great thanks. if your skinny plan is 28 days, does that mean your plan gets out of sync with the calendar month?

Yes, but as I get paid fortnightly it keeps in sync with my payday :) YMMV.

Does that mean I could get a DD payment arrangement with Skinny.

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#2144591 13-Dec-2018 07:28

It's paid automatically every 28 days, can't remember if it's from credit card or bank. Yes it gets out of sync with pay cycles, but that's not really difficult to cater for.

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#2144594 13-Dec-2018 07:37

Call 2degrees they might help you out with a retention offer of a bit more free data per month

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#2145209 14-Dec-2018 10:03

Samwad:

great thanks. if your skinny plan is 28 days, does that mean your plan gets out of sync with the calendar month?

just pay in advance , on the day that suits you. Its so little $ that paying weeks in advance is no biggie .
Im on prepay, so I just put in $20 or $30 to cover the $16 skinny fee.
Skinny have a Android app that will tell you the current balance

I try and avoid automatic CC payments . Too often the vendor wants control over the payments making it hard to cancel if things turn
to custard .