Orange is the last network to phase out it's scratch card top up vouchers and replacing them with the printed till vouchers.

At the moment, you will experience difficulties in finding vouchers as the system for orange has not yet been set up.

The scratch card vouchers were only in values of £20 and £50. The new printed vouchers will be in values of £5,£10,£15,£20,£30,£40,£50

For more information call 452 select option 3, then 3 again and then option 5.

No information is available yet on their website and you should contact them if you need to by phone or email.

You can now top up by:

Credit/Debit cards (Including Visa Electron)
Cash Machines (Abbey national and Co-op banks)
E-Top up
Direct Debit (Earn 10% free credit every time a payment is processed)

To set up a direct debit plan, call 450, select option 1, then 4 and then option 1.

To register an e-top up card, call 450, select option 1 and then select option 2.

To register or use a credit/debit card, call 450, select option 1 and then 1 again.

Discounts and Extras from orange:

Orange has launched new orange extra which give you unlimited talktime:

1 days unlimited talktime to call orange phones and landlines: £1

7 days: £15 (Unlimited calls to landlines and orange phones)

30 days(50 Mins only): £12 (Any network, anytime)

30- days(100 mins only): £20 (Any Network, anytime)

1 days unlimited access to orange world: £1

Plus, orange is throwing in free evening and weekend calls for 5 years when you've topped up at least £10 a month. To register for this, send 'EVENING' as a text message to 1133. For more information call 452 and select option 1.

To register for any of the orange extras, call 450 and for free recorded information call 452, to request detailed guides on how to use services such as orange answerphone and orange roaming, just call the Orange Literature line on 650.

You can for now still get Orange Just Talk £20 Vouchers out of Argos. What if you want to top up someones mobile as a brithday or Christmas gift.

Darren

Can you use the free evening calls in conjunction with the 3000 free weekend and evening texts, or will this replace that reward. I cannot see any information for this on orange's website.

That's what I want to know!
Also can you do this in conjuction with Bonus Top-up?
Do you have to top-up EVERY month by £10 to keep the offer or could you not top-up one month and then the month after top-up again by £10 to start receiving the offer again.

Edit: 300th Post lol
Last edited by Tarq : 02-10-2005 at 19:47

I have found information on the website. As far as I understand it the Free Evenings Calls offer can be used in conjuction with Same Rates 24/7 with Bonus Top-up but not with the Free Evening/Weekend Text offer. You must choose either the calls or the texts. Persoally I think the calls offer is much better and you only have to top-up £10 for that rather than £15 like the texts.

Now that Orange have annouced this I'm activating the Evenings offer and switching to Bonus top-up.

Changing the voucher system, I did not know that was still arround, ~I assumed that the topup swipe cards had replaced them

I think everyones getting mixed up here,

Orange scratch card top up vouchers are being replaced with the new printed vouchers, so if you want to buy credit for someones birthday ect.... then go to a retailer and and they will print a voucher with the voucher number located in the middle of the paper.

The new values are in £5 to £50 in multiples of £5. The old vouchers can still be bought until the retailer has gone out of stock. It may take a while before the £50 vouchers stop!

Did you know, it was me that got Orange to introduce the £5 top up value on E-Top up and cheaper calls to orange customer service and cheaper calls to orange phones at evenings and weekends. I wrote a very detailed letter to orange explaining why so many people don't stay long with orange or why they don't choose orange at all and explained that:

Virgin Mobile have introduced £5 vouchers.

Vodafone offer Stop the clock

All other networks offer 'Bundles and value packs'.

Plus cheaper calls to Cross network numbers.

Since that time (August 2004) they have introduced all these plus a very good reply back!

The Promotion is available in conjunction with all other promotions and rewards available prior to 01/10/05, unless otherwise specified. The Promotion will not be available in conjunction with promotions and rewards launched after this date, unless otherwise specified. Free credit received under any other promotion or reward will not count towards the £10 minimum monthly top up.

From this I would say you can use it conjunction with the 3000 free weekend and evening texts??

When Orange took away TalkSaver I e-mailed them and said how they should bring it back because it encourages people to stay on the same network if they can call each other cheaply.

Most of my family has been on Orange at one time or another and at the moment there is only one member of my immediate family that is not Orange and I think that it makes sense to all use the same network because usually for most people they are the one's you call the most. I thought that T-Mobile had the right idea when they introduced MatesRates and Orange have caught onto this, their text offer has never been better than O2's which is very popular with the teen market but this new offer is very good.

With regards to the vouchers, I'm suprised how quickly the nation took to eTop-up. In what seemed like no time at all everybody was using the swipecards and it was much faster. Although I still believe vouchers have a part to play, particulary from a retail point of view because it means that you can purchase credit for people as gifts.
When I got my first Orange phone for my birthday back in 1999, my older brother put a £20 Orange scratch card in my birthday card which is a really good idea if you can't think what to get somebody.

Link to the Orange free evening calls offer

http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/o..._evening_calls

Talk saver and Text saver were withdrawn from sale in 2004 because of a decline in purchases.

Talk Saver was quite outdated as it was rather expensive, the new Orange extras would suit you better such as weekly unlimited talk time.

Plus you could of purchased both Talk and Text saver at the smae time for just £29.99 Buy 1 and get the second service for £10. These two services just didn't seem to interest anyone anymore. However, Text saver was more popular as you got 5 free texts a day for just £19.99 a year plus £5 free credit upon registration.

I will write to Orange again about Text saver and try and get them to re-introduce it for just £15 per year.

Talk Saver had a very small number of users and I won't be contacting orange about this one as other services such as free evenings and weekend calls for 5 years and new orange extras seem better value.

I thought Orange was good value, me and my friend could ring each other for only 4p/min every evening and all weekend/bank holidays and the rest of the time it was only 8p/min. This lasted a whole year and weve definately noticed the difference since it expired, a 20min call that used to cost 80p now costs £2 during the day and a £1 evenings and weekends which can use up a £5 top-up pretty quickly. Only T-Mobile's MatesRates was a better offer since you didn't have to pay to get it but when most of my family are on Orange it wouldn't have made economic sense for us all to switch. The reason I didn't switch to the new Same Rates 24/7 is that I wasn't happy with paying 5p more evenings and weekends to speak to my friend but now we'll be getting these free minutes I am definately switching.

Those Orange Extra's are a rip off I think, especially when they expire after just a month. TalkSaver/TextSaver lasted for 12months. I was under the impression you couldn't activate TalkSaver and TextSaver on the same account.

I remember when Orange ran the tarrif of texts, and calls to other orange users for only 5p each minute/text if you bought a 50 quid voucher, worked out as such a bargain when all my mates were on orange, sadly though they've all jumped ship to other networks....

If someone still had a Sim Card with that deal would Orange honour it still, or would they have forced them over to a newer tarrif??

Orange would still allow the offer if it has been active all these years, however mobiel networks don't seem to throw you off old tariffs but do tempt you with special offers to get you to move! There might be 1 or 2 sim cards in the world with this tariff!