Need T-Mobile UK top-up
 

I need a T-Mobile UK top-up. 5 quid will do, 10 is okay too if that's the minimum.

Will pay you an extra quid for your trouble. I can pay by Paypal.

Alternatively, if you need Canadian or US top-up or a SIM, I can probably help you. (I'm in Canada all the time, and will be in New York City next month.)

Thanks!

Jim

Bump. I still need one. :) Will pay 12 pounds for a 10-pound top-up.

Did you try ebay UK. That's where I usually get mine. Paid 17 pounds for a 20 pound card a couple of weeks ago.

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_t...All-Categories

I'll have a look again, but the few times I have looked lately I've come up empty.

In the ebay UK search results/link I posted above there are a few buy-it-now for about 17 pounds for the 20 pound voucher. Did not see any for the 10 pound one though.

I found a 10-pound one but it doesn't have a buy-it-now price. I bid 10 quid for it (I don't mind paying full fare :) ) so we'll see what happens.

Sorry, I missed the thread for its first couple of weeks. If that eBay bid doesn't win, let me know and I'll get one at the supermarket

By the way, there's a free £5 credit from T-mobile if you register the SIM via their website, then also potentially useful other stuff like call details viewable, webtexts, etc. But do it only just before your next visit, as the £5 lasts only 30 days

My SIM was activated and registered online a year ago in September, alas. :)

Thanks for the offer, Andy. If my auction bid falls through I'll send you a PM.

I'm a newbie with PhotoJim's predicament.

I wonder how easy or hard it is to pick up a UK T-Mobile sim card passing through Heathrow airport. I'll be in terminal 5, and I won't have the time to go out of security.

In NA drugstores sell top up cards, so I wonder whether the Boots in terminal 5 might have them. Too good to be true, I suppose.

I did a lot of checking around a few years ago and found that T-Mobile had the best deal for prepaid use all over Europe, but topping up the account is difficult, since they don't accept foreign credit cards for some reason.

Your questions are already answered by my last two postings in this thread.

Almost There
 

The one post that you linked me to has information regarding the purchase of sim cards in terminal 4. I want to top up my card, and I'll be in terminal 5.

Should I assume that the vending machines that sell the sims also dispense top up cards or vouchers and that if there is one in termial 4, there surely will be one in terminal 5. In that case, problem solved.

There's a second post in the linked thread, which I mentioned.

But why don't you just buy a SIM from eBay.co.uk and let it ship to Canada?

Regarding top ups I remember such being available in newsagencies after security.

I have never had problems purchasing topups for my UK sims from ebay.UK. And it always costs less than the face value. Been doing this for at least 5 years. So, why can't you go that route? If not suitable for you, what about topupforless, that has already been mentioned.

10 TopUp

I found a phone number and called WH Smith, a national chain of newsagents and booksellers. They have shops both air and landside in T5, and they sell SIM cards.

Or I could send one.

Thanks for all the help.

Since I already have a sim card, I don't want to buy another one. Topupforless looks as if it will do just what I need to have done, so I will likely become one of its customers, unless I find someplace in Terminal 5 that will enable me to top up, giving me a little something to do between flights.

In the US, one finds T Mobile top up cards at (what we call) drug stores. But I think I recall from past trips that the chemist Boots doesn't sell such things. I don't think I tried the bookstore.

Why T Mobile won't acknowledge foreign credit cards is beyond me! That would make life simple--but maybe less amusing.

Have you actually read in my linked postings that you can probably top up British T-Mobile SIMs with an AmEx? At least my German AmEx was accepted by T-Mobile UK, allthough my German Visas and Mastercards were refused.

That's pretty common practice with many providers in the world for the simple reason of fraud prevention. There have been many cases of fraudsters topping up prepaid SIMs with stolen credit card information in order to use the credit for calls to offshore premium numbers, which their partners ran. By accepting only local credit cards you can limit this risk significantly. Further operators are not really interested in travellers buying local SIMs. They rather want to rip you off with roaming tariffs, through which they can generate the same profit with way less usage.

i successfully toped up my tmobile uk sim with an american express prepaid card. Apparently tmobile uk accepts amex.

I've purchased Vodafone top up vouchers from the sales clerk at WH Smith. Just ask as they generate them from the register at check-out.