Okay what happened when I was ordering the FreeUp sim is very weird. While creating the FreeUp account, I entered my email address and the system told me that that email was already in use. So I entered another email address, and the system told me the same thing - that it too was already in use.
Now both those emails have never been used on FreeUp. But I had used one of them on RingPlus, and I am using the other one with FreedomPop.
So... is FreeUp a combination of FreedomPop and RingPlus?!!!?!!
(I finally signed up using a third old hotmail address that hasn't been used on FP or RingPlus. Very weird though!)
Strange, indeed.
I have 2 accounts 'registered' with FreeUp, but only have one SIM on the way. The other 'registered' email was either to investigate, or an enrollment that I started once without ordering a SIM.
Both emails are currently used for Freedompop accounts. One of those emails was a RingPlus account. So I don't see the same issue that you saw.
Maybe you, like me, registered with FreeUP to see more about how it worked?
No, never registered with FreeUp. It must have been a system glitch, like Frasier said.
On the other hand - conspiracy theorist hat is on now - maybe all the free plan providers use a common backend company that maintains one huge database with info on all of us frugal types, LOL.