Comments on: Stop stealing my credit, Skype!

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[...] moaned about Skype’s habit of grabbing my credit unless I use its pay-as-you-go service every six months, but this remains an essential tool in my foreign-trip armoury: much as I love my [...]

By: Suri

Suri — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:51:55 +0000

Today i got robbed of my skype credit.. i simply dont understand this!

I think most of their reminder emails should have been rejected as spam / junk by our mail server.

SKPYE = CHAET who can solve this puzzle?

By: LEN

LEN — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:42:05 +0000

Skype are ripoff merchants – taking credit is theft straight and simple – I will be switching to wave when it comes out & Skype can go and die somewhere – thanks for nothing scumbags

By: Charlie Beasley

Charlie Beasley — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:38:24 +0000

It’s not unusual for this to occur with other schemes; it is technically known as Scrip and may not be fair but its just tough s**t

By: Roger Moss

Roger Moss — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:12:12 +0000

Think yourself lucky; here in France pay-as-you-go mobile top-up credits typically expire in a month if you don’t use them. The market doesn’t know any different, so the operators get away with it…

By: Rob Wainwright

Rob Wainwright — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:50:05 +0000

Seems like a great idea to their bean counters…steal money that’s been lent to them interest free…but to a marketing person it spells doom for the brand,
Just like arrogance of BT as their marketshare bleeds away !

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 14:35:15 +0000

Last year I became a massive user of Skype, I have a Skype handset for use at home, and I regularly use large amounts of credit.

I have the complete opposite restriction, Skype imposes credit limits on how much it’ll let me spend each month via different payment systems. In August I once again hit this limit – occasionally they’ll increase the limit if I hit it several times, but it can be exceptionally frustrating when the phone suddenly stops working for outgoing calls (and call forwarding!) because Skype deactivated the auto-recharge via credit-card because I spent “too much”. I then need to top up using PayPal (which I dislike intensely due to dodgy business practices) or a bank transfer that is far from immediate.

I’m also very annoyed about Skype being limited to voice calls only when on wifi via my iPhone – my network (in Belgium) gives me a generous data allowance, and I am free to use it as I like – surely it is up to the operators to lock VoIP calls at the network (as T-Mobile does in the UK) rather than have an arbitary restriction imposed on the consumer’s device, I know this is a restriction put in place by Apple, but it’s still bloody annoying.

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:22:40 +0000

Rather odd – when I call using Skypwe (which I really do not like one bit) I get occasionally static hisses for anything up to five seconds on the line.

Frankly, compared to decent VOIP such as sip Skype is horrific.

By: ravious

ravious — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:20:18 +0000

Storm their offices with a gun, and take your money back by force. An eye for an eye, they steal from you you steal from them.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:24:50 +0000

yes, skype took my credit before too without warning, the email complaint I sent fell on deaf ears. – nice little earner that.