Ovivo gone forever

[Orcvader]

Well, seems like my brother is going back to PAYG (before moving to Ovivo £10 easily lasted him 3 months with Virgin). But the £15 credit is gone now and seems like a waste.

 

[Kelt]

Lucky escape for me, was about to sign up. I recommended it to one of my nephews yesterday as well!

 

[Sunbed]

What about Lebara? I keep seeing adverts on billboards but I know nothing about them!

http://www.lebara.co.uk/

 

[McBain]

For those looking for a Sim only, Virgin VIP is £15 unlimited everything (doesn't mention tethering but i've used a a lot).

 

[lsg1r]

wtf.... I literally just transferred my pac yesterday...

 

[AzZ]

Only came across them a week ago from a thread here. It looked interesting and there were even comments in the thread with people saying "I wonder if they'll go bust" and "How long will it last?", and it's happened. Unfortunate as it was totally different to your usual mobile companies.

 

[Lazy]

Not really surprised they're gone just the way it has suddenly happened without notice. I've been wondering for the past few months of seeing them mentioned how long they'll be around and if they went would you lose your number, so decided to wait till the coming weeks to transfer my parents over to a different network as they don't use much.

 

[philip2009]

Good grief, only been using them for about 4 months. Submitted my PAC request tonight, hope they sort it out.

 

[Jamesbcd]

Was using this until today obviously.

Looking for a new long term sim only plan. Don't use many minutes/texts at all and 500mb data is enough for me as I use wifi most of the time.

Thinking getting one of these 2
Virgin Mobile Tariff 30-day rolling £7 a month
150 minutes, unlimited texts, 500MB data

Three Essential Internet SIM 200 12-months £6.90 a month
200 minutes, 5000 texts, 500MB data

or might even try the Three-321 pay as you go sim for now.

Any idea which network has the better internet speeds? Don't mind going on a 12 months contract if the speeds are better.

 

[muon]

A bit shady they've been taking on new customers, this must have been coming for a while.

Sounds a bit Ponzi scheme-esque.

Definitely a ponzi scheme. Otherwise they would still have assets to return money to the most recent buyers of credit.

They have probably been insolvent for quite some time surviving on the cashflow from new customers.

 

[cainer]

damn them, i only joined last month and i got another sim for my flat mate 2 weeks ago, i got them on a mastercard so il try a chargeback.

ive just signed back up with Vodafone (sim only), 300 mins for £5.77 a month
Vodafone charge £9 a month but i got £25.25 cashback through topcashback and using the code MSIM3HP i got 3 months at 1/2 price

 

[FartInferno]

Ouch, transferred to them last week. No issues whatsoever until last night! Hopefully PAC comes through ASAP as really need my old number. Will probably go with Three today..

 

[XeNoN89]

Annoying they they suddenly shut down without warning, I got both my mum and nan Ovivo SIMS a few months ago

 

[Nymins]

Well thats a bit ****. My dad bought a sim for his iPad only a month ago.

 

[Baplad]

Well this is a bit

I got plenty of use out of mine, switched my mum & dad to them not so long ago so now have to find the next best deal!

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

Was wondering how long it would be before they shut up shop, surely everyone knew is wasnt a sustainable business.

 

[Sho]

My Mrs got 2 years out of Ovivo for the price of £5

Not bad eh.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

damn them, i only joined last month and i got another sim for my flat mate 2 weeks ago, i got them on a mastercard so il try a chargeback.

i bought 2 a couple of days back

they have not arrived. i phoned the bank to do a chargeback on one of them (paid by credit card) only to be told I need to wait 30 days.

the other was bought using paypal funds so I am raising a case through paypal for that.

how does chargeback work if the company goes bust? do the credit card company still give you your money back out of their own pocket?

also how good will paypal be in this situation would they pay out their own pockets? if not i'll stop using paypal for any future transactions where possible.

 

[bulb66]

Reports of people getting their PAC codes are coming through.

 

[smsmasters]

Luckily I didn't order another sim last night.

Oh well got 7 months use for £15, not bad.