Yay! I didn't get this marketing message... yet.

SirHumphreyAppleby:

Yay! I didn't get this marketing message... yet.

andrewNZ:
I'd class this one as a service message.

Someone will decide they don't like the new plans when they let the old one lapse and go to renew. There'll be no end of moaning that they didn't notify the change.

Skinny has told me I won't be receiving those either (except via e-mail, as per my preferences and which never happens). I'm taking not receiving this as a win. It's taken 15 months to get off their spam list.

I'm on the $16 plan and didn't get it, assume its the higher up plans.

old3eyes: Disagree and there's a few others do here as well especially if you're on a salary when you get paid on say the 15th of the month. 28 days makes no sense. If I got paid every 28 days then I would get 13 pay days a month rather than 12.

@old3eyes agree the 28 day plans are a rip and only designed so customers have to buy 13 packs per year instead of 12

2degrees is the only carrier that does calendar month across it's postpaid and Prepaid plans (I think)

old3eyes: Wish they would drop the 28 day plans and go back to 30 day or calendar months like parent company.

That is one of their biggest selling points for most people, meaning that it always ties in with pay week/fortnight payday once started. Otherwise might have no money for the topup and it doesnt go thru.

Linux:

 

old3eyes: Disagree and there's a few others do here as well especially if you're on a salary when you get paid on say the 15th of the month. 28 days makes no sense. If I got paid every 28 days then I would get 13 pay days a month rather than 12.

 

@old3eyes agree the 28 day plans are a rip and only designed so customers have to buy 13 packs per year instead of 12

 

2degrees is the only carrier that does calendar month across it's postpaid and Prepaid plans (I think)

 

It's only a ripoff if they charge the same as monthly plans do. Comparing 2degrees $19 plan to skinny $16 plan you pay $20 less per year on skinny, get 1.25gb a year more data and get the best mobile network in NZ instead of the worst.

richms:

 

old3eyes: Wish they would drop the 28 day plans and go back to 30 day or calendar months like parent company.

 

That is one of their biggest selling points for most people, meaning that it always ties in with pay week/fortnight payday once started. Otherwise might have no money for the topup and it doesnt go thru.

 

 

 

Skinny wasn't always 28 days however, It was a couple of years back when more data got added I think they changed from 30 to 28

In fact, here's the thread about it

Yabanize:

 

Skinny wasn't always 28 days however, It was a couple of years back when more data got added I think they changed from 30 to 28

 

In fact, here's the thread about it

 

Yeah, they must have spent a fortune on focus groups, consultants and mining their statistics to realize that there is a need for a plan that renews when people have money, rather than at arbitary times during the week when they do not have money.

Probably the same reason that afterpay etc do things weekly/fortnightly, its when people have money.

old3eyes: Wish they would drop the 28 day plans and go back to 30 day or calendar months like parent company.

Not sure what you mean by "like parent company" - Spark's current prepaid plans still renew every 28 days.