Help withCallYa top up
Anon112111
Smart-Analyzer
Smart-Analyzer

Hello
I topped up my Call-Ya card with 30 euros on March 28, 2025. On March 29, I checked the app and saw that there was still credit. I was abroad and now I've come back, and the app shows that I have no more credit. Where did the 30 euros go? My plan costs 9.99 per month and renews on April 20, 2025, if I have credit. I tried contacting customer service. Tobi sends me to a phone number where I should press 3. I am then billed for the call (why am I being charged for this call?!), and when I press 3, the agent tells me that the number does not exist and that I should call back later. I tried contacting customer service on a different number: 08007114114514. Someone answers, no one speaks English, and I don't speak German. Finally, someone spoke English and said they had solved my problem and I just had to confirm it by email. I have confirmed, still no credit. When I translated the document attached to the email, I realized that I had agreed to a 10 GB contract for 24 euros per month. I simply want the 30 euros that I topped up on March 28, 2025 and shown as credit in the app and that the contract I have now concluded is terminated and not debited.

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reneromann
SuperUser
SuperUser

If you were abroad in or at least next to a non-EU country (e.g. Switzerland), using your mobile phone might have consumed all your credit.

I got the following messages when I landed in the States and then put the phone in Airplane mode for the rest of the trip: Willkommen in den USA. Im Tarif Vodafone World Data kosten 50 KB 49 Ct. www.vodafone.deWillkommen in den USA. Sie nutzen CallYa Roaming und zahlen für Anrufe nach Deutschland und vor Ort 2,18 €/Min, für ankommende Anrufe 0,96 €/Min. SMS senden Sie für 0,84 €/SMS. www.vodafone.de  Welcome to the USA. With the Vodafone World Data plan, 50 KB costs 49 cents. www.vodafone.de. Welcome to the USA. You use CallYa Roaming and pay €2.18/min for calls to Germany and within Germany, €0.96/min for incoming calls. You send texts for €0.84/SMS. www.vodafone.de . You have already spent 3.00 Euro for surfing. Have a look at your current balance status in your app or by calling 22922. Kind regards, your Vodafone teamYour balance is below 1 Euro and you?re currently not able to recharge it? Activate your Emergency Credit now. You can surf, text and make calls for up to 3.00 Euro. This service costs you only 0.49 Euro. The next time you recharge your balance, the Emergency Credit will be paid. You can use your card until a balance of -3.49 Euro. The service is bookable once until your next recharge. To see further details go in your app or directly book at *123#. Kind regards, your Vodafone team. 

reneromann
SuperUser
SuperUser

And there's your explaination:

Roaming usage in the US is NOT included in your tariff plan - so you were charged for the data usage of your phone in those few seconds by a rate of that 0,58 € (=> 0,49 € excluding VAT) per 50 kB. So if your phone used ~2.6 MB of data, your 30 € would've been depleted completely.

 

These prices are clearly stated in the roaming information document InfoDok 397 - and no, the USA is NOT part of the EU roaming rules!

*piep* that makes sense. Apparently this is what I used when I landed. Is there nothing I can do? What a stupid way to burn 30euro. For some reason I thought the 30 euro wouldn't be used for anything but my normal plan. What do I do about this contract I signed up for? How do I get rid of that?

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@Anon112111  schrieb:

*piep* that makes sense. Apparently this is what I used when I landed. Is there nothing I can do? What a stupid way to burn 30euro.  


It might be stupid, but be lucky it were only 30 €.

And there's nothing you can do about it -- you used the roaming service, so you have to pay for it...