Vodacom explains Power Hour price hike

Easy to explain, the shareholders are the customers not the people using the promotion.
 
Using the same logic the prices for even longer hours would be as follows:
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[td]hrs[/td]
[td]R[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]12[/td]
[td]5[/td]
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[tr]
[td]14[/td]
[td]10[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]16[/td]
[td]20[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]18[/td]
[td]40[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]20[/td]
[td]80[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]22[/td]
[td]160[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]24[/td]
[td]320[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
 
Lame... really lame Vodacom. Optimal price point = optimal profits...

Reading between the lines of BS... R5 was not profitable enough!
 
jes said:
Vodacom explained that customer feedback and promotional changes are behind their Power Hour promotion price hike
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Yeah, like any customer is going to say .. 'Hey we really liked it, but next time please can we pay more?'

Vodacom is the fast becoming the Zuma of communications.
 
Initial comments from consumers about this change from Vodacom was not positive. “For double your money in six months, you get an extra 2 hours….Epic fail,” said one consumer.

“Clearly there are many retarded people in this country if Vodacom can greenlight something this retarded,” said another commentator.
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I can't believe you decided to include those comments in the article. At least snip out the 'retarded' and 'epic fail' parts. Hire an editor.
 
Munch said:
Why? It's a quote.
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It's still a quote when the 'kindergarten lingo' is excluded. It's just not professional in its current form and reflects the quality of the editors and article writers.
 
aquadog said:
It's still a quote when the 'kindergarten lingo' is excluded. It's just not professional in its current form and reflects the quality of the editors and article writers.
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Lot more unproffesional to claim a quote and edit it. Leave it as it is.
 
vodacom should just ignore this negative comments on this one,it seems some trolls are hired to trash every good promotion that vodacom initiates,R10 for 60min is a bargain compared to the current mobile rates,comparatively is there any better deal than this from competitors...other providers can only offer this kind of a deal only during off peak
 
aquadog said:
It's still a quote when the 'kindergarten lingo' is excluded. It's just not professional in its current form and reflects the quality of the editors and article writers.
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Geesh... who rattled your cage... grumpy?
 
Love the logic on this one.. its brilliant..

Our customers told us they wanted to give us more money so we obliged... I would love to meet these customers who told them that.
 
Kgabogk said:
vodacom should just ignore this negative comments on this one,it seems some trolls are hired to trash every good promotion that vodacom initiates,R10 for 60min is a bargain compared to the current mobile rates,comparatively is there any better deal than this from competitors...other providers can only offer this kind of a deal only during off peak
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I made that quote and was certainly not paid to make it. It is my opinion that only stupid people would choose to be on Vodacom. The only sane, intelligent reason to be with them is lack of other service providers in your area or you are locked into a contract.

Lets analyse:
* Promotion is only Vodacom to Vodacom = retarded because all of your smart friends have ported to Cell C so this is useless
* Promotion is pointless for contract customers = retarded
* Promotional airtime only lasts a few hours = retarded
* Promotions in general = retarded (this might be the lowest effective rate per minute but my rates on Cell C are low all the time. I guarantee that over a month I still spend less per minute and less per MB than you do)

Can't you see that they are using smoke and mirrors to get you to spend more, more often?

E.g. to get this low rate everyday for a week you will need to spend R70. Currently I am paying R30-R40 per month on Cell C and that covers my needs. I have no desperate need to seek short term promotions due to exhorbitant non-promotional rates which results in me spending less overall that someone with my useage behavior on Vodacom.
 
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aquadog said:
It's still a quote when the 'kindergarten lingo' is excluded. It's just not professional in its current form and reflects the quality of the editors and article writers.
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I kind of agree with you. Was pretty shocked to see what I'd said quoted verbatim. I would not have used a different quote as mine was indeed not the most eloquent... :o
 
BGE said:
Lame... really lame Vodacom. Optimal price point = optimal profits...

Reading between the lines of BS... R5 was not profitable enough!
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I am so sick of Vodacom (with their inherent 1990's Telkom mentality) and all their BS! I currently have 4 contracts with them and have threatened for years to leave them. I think the time has come. Vodacom is #$@%@! evil - they care not about customers. Considering the number of dropped-calls, invoicing issues, their forever non-functioning website and useless call center.... enough is enough FFS.

Vodacom is the one company I (have to) deal with (and probably spend the most money with) that I truly and honestly hate (and this includes Telkom, the Tshwane Municipality and MultiChoice...).

I recently enquired about dual-sim phones via the Vodacom online call center and after getting no reply I read an article about them not promoting dual-sim phones due to these handsets "not promoting brand loyalty". Brand loyalty?! Serious?!. I am so far away from that emotion - brand hatred rather - how do you maintain brand hatred? - keep doing business the way you do...
 
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