Lidl

[inquisitor]

What does your statement say? Do those € 5 show up in it at all?

[siskiou]

I just checked the amount on my two Lidl cards, and each one has only received one bonus, so either yours didn't work, or using my number for my daughter's didn't.
Darn, I was hoping not to have to load one up with more money.
I hope this is okay, but if anyone who is setting up a new Lidl/Fonic Sim would like to help me out with a Friendship bonus:
my number is 0176 39526057.

[inquisitor]

If you have omitted the leading zero of the prefix during activation as you've done above, then this is the reason why the referral bonus did not work.

[siskiou]

Originally Posted by inquisitor

If you have omitted the leading zero of the prefix during activation as you've done above, then this is the reason why the referral bonus did not work.

It's possible, though one did work. IIRC, I copied and pasted the number from your page, so maybe it was my own that didn't work.
I guess there is no way to correct this in retrospect? And I can't edit my earlier post to add the missing zero, either.

[andy]

Originally Posted by siskiou

And I can't edit my earlier post to add the missing zero, either.

Done .....

[siskiou]

Originally Posted by andy

Done .....

Thanks!

And I received a reply from Fonic to my query last night: the reason was that there were already 5 Friendship bonuses for the month on the number given during the activation.
Seems they should let the new customer and the know that fact during sign-up.
Now I have to buy a 20 Euro voucher, since they don't offer anything less than that.

[inquisitor]

Try contacting customer care for the missing bonus and the forum admins for correcting your post above.
Since both of your SIMs received the bonus it seems like the referral between your first and second SIM did work. Otherwise your second SIM would not have gotten any bonus as it was not involved in the first referral. So the issue seems to be with the activation of your first SIM. Unfortunately I can't say what's wrong. But as I have neither reached the limit of 5 bonuses this month nor last month, it's not caused by too many referrals on my part.

[inquisitor]

That's strange as I received only two bonuses during October and none in November.

[siskiou]

Very strange! I received another email, saying that I did receive the bonus, but the other person (you) did not, because of the cutoff after 5 bonuses.

This makes no sense, since then the bonus for my daughter's number is missing, and she did receive her bonus. I know for a fact I did not get 5 other people signed up.
I've written them again, and will see what they say.

[inquisitor]

If you provide a German bank account to Lidl/Fonic you can request your remaining credit to be cashed out by bank transfer at any time on their website. So if you are forced to top up more credit than actually required you can get that amount back. Btw after doing this your SIM will still remain active and you can recharge it if you ever need it again.