@rossputin
You are on the $35/3gb plan because it suits your needs are you not? Do you really need 10gb of data every month? A dozen donuts is a lot cheaper per donut then 2 or 3 donuts but do you really want or need to eat a whole dozen? Well at least you can walk around the office and share your donuts with your colleagues you can't really do that with data....so what's the point?
Unless you really need all of that data it's just a marketing ploy to get you to switch and it's for the length of your contract then it will likely increase in price. You don't have the flexibility to change plans as your needs change. If we have another lockdown you're stuck paying that price while you sit at home on WiFi. Meanwhile pm customers can switch down to the $25 or $15 plans supplementing them our free gifts from pm.
You are coming up to two years of loyalty and regularly get at least $1 in community rewards so that's $5 in rewards coming of your bill. With a tiny bit more effort you can easily get a $2 community reward. Even our resident antagonist @barndoor bumped himself up to a $5 community reward this past month!😃 Having said that at $5 in rewards the $35/3gb =$30, $40/5gb=$35 and the $50/10.5gb=$45.....$5 more than that fido $40/10gb plan.
Now we come to that $40/10gb fido plan....its postpaid so you need to pass the credit check, you sign away your credit card with pre-authorization allowing fido unfettered access to charge whatever they like to your card. If you think it's a pain in the hip to get extra charges reversed on your bill just try and get them taken off your credit card every month. That's time well spent every month....and yes it will be every month.
Did you read the small print? All those little bits and pieces that if you don't diligently adhere to the terms and conditions will start to add up to a whole lot? There's the outrageous late payment charges, 30% interest compounded daily and my favourite if you do get cut off you continue to be charged for your plan and pay $35 to be hooked back up again if they inform you. Rather their way of skirting the WCC is to "pause" your data til you pay in full plus the fee! With the 10gb plan you probably wouldn't go over your data but if you do it's $0.15/1mb that's $150/1gb charged in 100mb segments so 1mb to 100mb is $15 you know like how pm rounds up a calls to 1 minute...kinda like that.
And well customer service that's a whole post on its own....just be careful because not all calls to customer service are the same . Some of them they charge you $10. But sure $40/10gb is a pretty good deal just make sure they waive the SIM card cost and connection fee if you switch.
Oh and BTW....it took me 2 months for my $10 account to be free and 1 year for my $15 account. I have lined up 2 more referrals by the end of this month. One is new the other I have been waiting out a two year contract to switch....they will put me at a combined $38 in monthly rewards.
