I have no idea where I am supposed to stick this, so I'll just go ahead and stick it here.
I bought Mennies via mobile, and every time I've done this I've obtained 250 Mennies :S And yet, I did it just a minute ago, and now have only 227 Mennies, which isn't enough to get the Pingu that I wanted.
Is this a bug? or is this something that could of occurred anyway, of which I couldn't find it having been said anywhere o.o?
Please unfazzle my brain.
Nighty is a very confused Menewshan v.v

Do you have the code that the system gave you still?

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I'd love to help you out, just waiting on a response :)

Yeah I still have the code :]

Could you send it to me so I can look it up for you please?

Ah, I see the problem. You're simply a victim of currency fluctuation. Mennies are calculated based on USD, and since your phone bill is paid in GBP there needs to be a conversion. The conversion rate is manually updated once ever few months or so, and was updated about a month ago. The latest conversion rate for 1.5 GBP to USD can be seen here Google

So the system currently values 1.5 pound at $2.27 which works out to be 227 mennies. Hopefully that makes sense to you, sucks to be bitten by large currency fluctuations =/

The Great British pound, biting it's loyal citizens on the arse yet again... Sucks to live in this country I tell you :illgetu:

Sadly Night, this is a price you have to pay if you can only donate via text, it's shitty I know, but we're all at the mercy of currency values :(

You could look at it from an alternate angle though, which is that Mennies are cheaper for Brits at £1.50 than they are for Americans are $2.50, even if UK people end up losing a bit of the full amount of Mennies. Look at that as their travelling expenses to get to England, maybe? Actually no, look at it as TAX! Go complain to Gordon Brown and demand a refund >_>

Do you have enough funds/credit to buy more Mennies so you have enough for the item you wanted? The spare Mennies won't go anywhere, they'll sit patiently on your account waiting to pad out your next purchase :)

SMS payments aren't really the boon for UK users that they are for those in other countries with a weaker currency though, if you want to/have the means to set up a Paypal account and transfer directly from your bank account then you won't end up losing out like you do via mobile payments.

Nope I do not have the credit to be able to do it again :] But it's no worry when I next get paid I may think of doing it again. But shame I couldn't get the Pingu yet