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Originally Posted by snidely
I have bought from them. Very fast and reliable. Their mark up on some cards seems a little high. However, it is sometimes worth a few dollars to know in advance what your number will be when you land overseas.
...mike
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A little high? The marks ups are almost criminally high and take advantage of people...the prices in many cases are almost triple what one would pay if they waited.
Besides which, you don't get a choice of carrier for the most part. I haven't checked recently but when I was considering buying a prepaid for Ireland last year, all they had was meteor which is acknowledged to be the worst of the Irish prepaid sims....don't know which one they are offering now but they were charging close to $40 (and then add on shipping) while I was able to get a vodafone IE sim at the airport for ?10.
As far as knowing the number in advance..in some cases you don't get to know your number until the card registers in the country you are visitng (I think French sims have this feature).
Now if you are a business traveller on expense accounts, who cares. And if it is a one time trip, big deal an extra $30 I suppose but I don't believe they provide a good value and I wouldn't buy from them.