Caution: Topping up my mobile at 7/11

[LukDod]

FWIW:

I usually go to 7/11 and buy more time to top up my mobile.

Yesterday was no exception...pay for the time requested and get a printed

receipt with the code numbers needed to add the additional time to your mobile.

I put the receipt in my pocket, intending to add the time later.

It proved a big mistake....as the weather is hot and I sweat.

The receipt got wet and some of the code numbers disappeared

as the print on the 7/11 recipt is _not_ waterproof. So, it was now

impossible to activate the newly purchased time on my nobile.

I later bought more time at 7/11...but this time input the receipt

codes promptly on my mobile.

[johng]

Why not just top up "online" at most 7/11 they have a card swiping machine that you type in your mobile number

after telling the cashier what carrier ( DTAC, True, AIS etc ) you use and the amount you want to top up

usually get the confirmation SMS before you even get out the door.

[luudee]

Most convention way is online banking

Or if you can, change to post-paid, they have better deals that way as well ...

luudee

[boonchu]

I have done this a few times and also lost the slip before putting in the phone. My local 7/11 checks on the computer and then cancels the old one and reissues another for the same amount, no extra charge.

[LukDod]

Thank you boonchu...

I returned to 7/11 and they corrected the problem,

I guess that sometimes there is great customer service in Thailand ;-)

And...thanks to the others who provided alternate remedy suggestions.

Live and learn....

[Tokay]

Do it online in the store and be done with it. The same thing happened to me years back, now I always do it in store and online OR at the ATM.

[poxy one]

I have done this a few times and also lost the slip before putting in the phone. My local 7/11 checks on the computer and then cancels the old one and reissues another for the same amount, no extra charge.

good to know.

[Pattaya Pat]

Well what an amazing and rivitting story that was, I would definitely read again. Glad you got your 'big mistake' rectified.

One could quite easily turn to glue reading some of the stuff on here.

[papa al]

Well what an amazing and rivitting story that was, I would definitely read again. Glad you got your 'big mistake' rectified.

One could quite easily turn to glue reading some of the stuff on here.

Thanks P for the isightful and uplifting comment.

I'll be able to face the rest of the day with a better attitude thanks to having read it.

You are da man!!!

[johng]

One could quite easily turn to glue reading some of the stuff on here.

Do you mean sniffing glue ( not very good for you ) or boiled up bones glue ?

[JB300]

I am rubber, you're glue... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=I%27m%20rubber%20you%27re%20glue