http://www.carphonewarehouse.com/com...M&NODE_ID=7888

It says Free for the Fresh sim card plus £10 credit but when you pick it and go to checkout they want to charge you £10

Utter crap.

No - to the right it says £10. The card is free and the airtime costs £10. Not a problem as far as I can see

i can see his point tho, as the way it is worded, for some people that MIGHT be misleading

If they can't read what is written may be

No, I have to admit when I first read it, it appeared to be a free simcard with £10 free credit, they could definitely have worded it better.

but it says in black and white


Sim......................................Credit......Price
FREE sim plus £10 airtime....N/A.........From £10.00

It says the price right next to the "select" button.

I think its the + that is misleading, that should read FREE sim (& if it included £10 of credit) including £10 of airtime, and it wouldnt have thrown you. £10 is the charge for the credit so the sim is free.?

But it didn't throw me - It makes perfect sense how it is written. If it was written

FREE sim plus £10 airtime - £10
or
FREE sim and £10 airtime - £10
or
FREE sim with $10 airtime - £10
or
FREE sim including £10 airtime - £10

its all the same to me. The sim is free and the air time costs £10 - simple.

It says free sim plus £10 credit infering that the £10 credit is also free.

So it is very misleading,a lawyer would have a feel day with this if it was worth while to bring the case to court.

If it was free you would not pay for it.

I rest my case

If you do not understand adult conversations i suggest you get a parent to help you

Your not paying for it - you are paying for the air time.

Its like buy one get one free- you don't expect to walk away with the free one on its own do you

You seem to be doing a very good impression of an idiot. One day if you practice, you may become a fully fledged one.

It all seems pretty self explanatory to me, you pay the £10 for the airtime, effectively making the SIM card free.

It is deliberately worded slightly misleading. What they apparently should say is Free SIM card when you buy £10 credit. No?

Heres when it can be misleading :

FREE sim plus £10 airtime

If you make the 'plus' into a + it makes this

FREE sim + £10 airtime

Then + ussually stands for and so then it this :

FREE sim and £10 airtime

which some people think it mean

FREE sim and FREE £10 airtime

as it says Free 1 + 2, get it?

Buy one get one free is as it says the website is misleading.

So it is not free if you have to buy somthing.

The airtime will not cost the company anything.
So you are basically paying £10 for the sim.

LOL it is not me who has problems grasping the facts.

ps how long did it take you to become master idiot?

Who thinks it is missleading,yah or Nae

Vote now

I vote yes of course

This thread will be closed by an upper God if the personal insults continue.

RE: Paying £10 for the airtime

You pay Fresh £10, which they then put on a SIM card and send out to you. The SIM card is then credited with £10 which YOU can use right until the last penny, therefore meaning YOU have gotten the most out of the £10 you have spent, meaning your SIM card was free.

Like somebody has already said, it's a good marketing tool that the CPW/Fresh have used on the mentioned website - it's been used by many companies before and certainly isn't misleading.

No, its not misleading (for your silly little vote)

Without sounding cruel or patronizing:

I think its down to the reader's intelligence when seeing and interpreting pricing strategies like this - we should all just agree to disagree.

No - you are paying £10 for the air time and the sim if free.

You dont get anything for nothing in this world - you may realise that once you have left school, grown up and left home. Maybe got a job, a house, a wife/husband and have kids.

Maybe you will realise that an advert that says

Free sim plus £10 airtime from £10 means something costs at least £10

You will then realise that expecting a sim card to come with £10 credit and you not paying a penny is not going to happen. You will also realize that if something says FREE, it is not talking about competely free of cost but means free as part of a package.

ie Free x when you purchase Y

Come back when you have some grasp of commerce and then we can discuss what is and isn't a valid advert

Although I agree with you, Munta, that was a very patronizing post and it wasn't necessary.



I stand by my post (the above)

It may be patronising but it appears to be the OPs prefered language



Ok - perhaps I should never have gotten involved in a thread where the OP asks for peoples opinions and then gets irate because someone disagrees with their views. But hay ho - this is DS after all.

PS. I also agree with your post but just wanted to set the record straight.