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Of course, the true test will be next month, when we discover whether there is truly joined up thinking in the new improved Vodafone and the April extra is added on the 6th or 7th.......rather than the 3rd as advertised... Still, another £2 credit is always welcome. 
What a shambles!
I was puzzled by your reference to the 3rd, as the terms of the offer referred to applying the 1GB by the 6th of the month. But I've just done my March top-up with a card via the app, and the acknowledgement says the April 1GB will be applied by the 3rd! There's also a link to the terms, which have been amended retrospectively to give the 8th as the target date. I guess they're trying to avoid having to give us all another £2 compensation when they miss the target of the 6th 
- but why change the latest acknowledgement from the 6th (as last month) to the 3rd??
I confess I was a bit surprised when the offer came along. I'd overlooked the fact that February was a short month, but even so, having the same offer three months running was always going to be a problem, with the difficulty of lining up bonus extras. I assumed that Vodafone had found some way of fixing it, but it looks as though they had no idea that there was a problem. Expressions about parties and breweries spring to mind.
Not very impressive, is it?
My previous free 1GB didn't expire until the end of 5 April, so the promised activation of the new one by 3 April was always fanciful in the extreme. What possessed someone to make that change to the automated acknowledgement? Of course, they have changed the terms of the offer since last month, and now promise activation by the 8th of the month, so they've still got 36+ hours to figure out how to do it.
One aim of the offer was clearly to get more of us using the app for our credit card topups - yes, I've received the message, and rather reluctantly added a card to my account - but presumably there was a secondary aim of impressing us with Vodafone's generosity to its PAYG customers. Hmmm, for me the take-home message is more along the lines that Vodafone doesn't have a clue how its PAYG accounts actually function.
They've done it! 
Just received my SMS: Thanks for topping up using the My Vodafone app. We've added your 1GB of free data and it's now ready to enjoy for 30 days. And don't forget, whenever you need more credit, just open your My Vodafone app. Data for use in the UK and our Europe zone.
I think I prefer this month's message to the one received on 8 March: Just to confirm, we've now added your 1GB of extra data and it's ready to use. It's all thanks to super simple top ups with the My Vodafone app. Which, given the meal that they made of adding the 1GB for March, did seem a rather strange choice of wording.
