Who said I have 4mb uncapped? I am on 3G haha
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Who said I have 4mb uncapped? I am on 3G haha
Yes, you keep rubbing it in everyone's faces that you are blatantly stealing from Vodacom, well done.
interesting.
Yes, you keep rubbing it in everyone's faces that you are blatantly stealing from Vodacom, well done.
it's not stealing if the system is fecked.
that's like saying a person who get's extra cheese on his pizza by accident, only because debonairs stuffed up, is a thief.
Ockie
Resident Lead Bender
stealing from Vodacom, well done.
This is impossible! I refuse to believe that anyone can get around it. Just out of curiosity, i tried using the blackberry APN on my 3G modem to see if it would give me uncapped. It did not. Data charges showed up on my proposed invoice the next morning. *cries* lol
RoosTa
Expert Member
And whats to say they don't stop you one day and demand you pay for all that extra cheese you stole from them? Just because you figured out how to steal the cheese from the kitchen, doesn't mean that you won't be held accountable when caught
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And whats to say they don't stop you one day and demand you pay for all that extra cheese you stole from them? Just because you figured out how to steal the cheese from the kitchen, doesn't mean that you won't be held accountable when caught
But it's not stealing if they are GIVING it to you, don't you understand?!
Ockie
Resident Lead Bender
Let's get off the pizza analogy...
Let's say Pick 'n Pay has a special on, every monday you get 2KG's of Boerewors for the price of 1KG.
Now I go to PnP every monday to make use of this special - can they really call me after 6 months and say "Sorry, we fscked up, you now owe us 20Km of Boerewors"
Let's say Pick 'n Pay has a special on, every monday you get 2KG's of Boerewors for the price of 1KG.
Now I go to PnP every monday to make use of this special - can they really call me after 6 months and say "Sorry, we fscked up, you now owe us 20Km of Boerewors"
Ockie
Resident Lead Bender
Keeper. How much are you paying and how much data you getting? This boerewors analogy I find too tempting and distracting. Plain simple english.
YOU PAY? =
YOU GET? =
YOU PAY? =
YOU GET? =
I think i've already said too much, since you guys are scaring me with your "You are stealing" and "What if they come and ask for the money" etc...
All i'm saying is If I buy a 2GB Bundle and get 4GB, on prepaid, they CAN NOT BLAME ME for using it if their own system is stuffed up,
and they CAN NOT ask me to pay R5000 for damages - it's pre-freaken-paid, ie: I don't have to worry about hidden charges / etc /etc !
What would happen if a person buys a 2GB Bundle on prepaid, but he gets 300gb by mistake - and his windows update gets stuck - should that person pay 298,000 MB x R2,00 out of bundle because vodacom stuffed up? I Think not.
Pre-paid is pre-paid, there is no such thing as a "post paid" amount on it.
All i'm saying is If I buy a 2GB Bundle and get 4GB, on prepaid, they CAN NOT BLAME ME for using it if their own system is stuffed up,
and they CAN NOT ask me to pay R5000 for damages - it's pre-freaken-paid, ie: I don't have to worry about hidden charges / etc /etc !
What would happen if a person buys a 2GB Bundle on prepaid, but he gets 300gb by mistake - and his windows update gets stuck - should that person pay 298,000 MB x R2,00 out of bundle because vodacom stuffed up? I Think not.
Pre-paid is pre-paid, there is no such thing as a "post paid" amount on it.
I wonder how you sleep at night? You are knowingly taking advantage of a flaw in someones system. That's considered fraud. If enough people abuse the flaw then Vodacom will have unaccounted data for, which needs to be recovered elsewhere which means the last thing they will do is drop prices. The right thing to do is to report it so it can be fixed.
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Here's a news flash for you - I'm not the only one doing it, bud.
It's not fraud to buy a pre-paid bundle, load it, click "connect" and then use the internet.
I am not doing anything other than that and i'm using the Internet APN. nothing funny - the system is just busted or something.
Anyway, if you think it is illegal to make use of an ISP's service then I don't know what to say.
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I am sure that makes it all ok.
I think it's illegal to knowingly make use of more than you paid for without bringing it to the attention of the ISP.
So if an ADSL user paid for a 1mbps line, but it suddenly goes between 2mbps and 4mbps every night between 12am and 3am, it is illegal for that person to make use of the internet between those times?
or should he just download less, maybe put on a speed limiter to be fair to the ISP?
And lastly, it is his duty to inform the ISP of their Network performance, otherwise it is considered Fraud?
this is nuts, seriously - do you really expect me to even feel "bad" in the slightest bit for a speed boost, in a situation like this? honestly now man, get real
^ Lock this guy up multichoice, him watching that channel is pure FRAUD - We should tell him NOT to watch that channel, and contact Multichoice Imediately, since he KNOWS he is not paying for it.
Poor old Multichoice, getting ripped off like this, with people finding ways to "Bypass the system" - he is clearly accessing that channel illegally, and should be stopped.
This goes to all you guys who sometimes get Premium channel access on the Lite Packages, you all are criminals for watching it if Multichoice's System screws up!!
I am a DSTV Premium subscriber, but since I don't have an SABC license I don't watch any of the SABC channels (does anybody?) as it would be wrong!^ Lock this guy up multichoice, him watching that channel is pure FRAUD - We should tell him NOT to watch that channel, and contact Multichoice Imediately, since he KNOWS he is not paying for it.
Poor old Multichoice, getting ripped off like this, with people finding ways to "Bypass the system" - he is clearly accessing that channel illegally, and should be stopped.
This goes to all you guys who sometimes get Premium channel access on the Lite Packages, you all are criminals for watching it if Multichoice's System screws up!!
Well done on changing the analogy. Lets stick to data allocation. If he's paying for 10GB and getting 100GB and knowingly exploiting that every month then, yes he should be owning up and informing the ISP.
^ Lock this guy up multichoice, him watching that channel is pure FRAUD - We should tell him NOT to watch that channel, and contact Multichoice Imediately, since he KNOWS he is not paying for it.
Poor old Multichoice, getting ripped off like this, with people finding ways to "Bypass the system" - he is clearly accessing that channel illegally, and should be stopped.
This goes to all you guys who sometimes get Premium channel access on the Lite Packages, you all are criminals for watching it if Multichoice's System screws up!!
Just because you feel a service is over-charged for does not justify you stealing from them in turn.
Why do you feel you need to find excuses to justify your actions? It's immoral to take more that what you are entitled to (and paid for). If you did your bit and phoned the provider to inform them of the fault and they do nothing to fix it, then fine. You however seem to take pride in the fact that you have found a flaw and enjoy flaunting it to everyone.
What you and and people like you seem to forget is that all the lost revenue needs to be recovered for somehow. That can mean:
1) If your ADSL company for instance was running a tight margin to get into the market, was offering a great service, but goes under because it could not account for all it's data and pay the upstream provider, then their clients loose out as does the rest of the market.
2) If Vodacom looks at their data spend vs. income and they are not getting the margins they were expecting then the prices are not going to get cheaper. So in actual fact by using more than what you paid for you are a contributing element to pricing staying where it is.
Do the right thing, send your details to Vodacom and get them to fix the flaw.
If I follow this rather warped analogy I must send money to the traffic department every time I exceed the speed limit even though they don't have a Mobile or Fixed Revenue Collection System (speed trap) operating at the specific place...
Answer me this - is there really a difference between speed allocation and data allocation?
what I meant was:
A Person buying 2GB and sometimes getting 4GB - is that really different - to a person buying 1MB Uncapped and sometimes getting 2MB Uncapped ?
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