After my previous horrible experience with GlobalYo I decided to try them again. I'm in New Zealand for a few day, and esimdb showed GlobalYo as cheapest with their 1 day/500MB plan for 59 cents! I had Firsty ready to go as a backup in case it didn't work, and at least this time if it didn't work I wouldn't need to worry about doing another chargeback as it was only 59 cents!

And it worked fine! Their app is still.. well... I don't know what it is, and I still don't understand what their business or their business model is, but if you limit yourself to the two esim buttons on the main page then things make sense. Payment went through fine with Google Pay, esim installed easily, and whilst it did take about 2 minutes to start working, when it did it worked well. It's using Plus in Poland, so latency is fairly high, but phone/whatsapp calls over it still worked fine, although with the occasional bit of overtalk.

My only real complaint was that there was no notification as to when the plan was going to expire - even in the app it would show an expiry date, but no time. Of course if you'd been buying a single plan to cover the entire trip that wouldn't have been a problem - but buying "1 day" (which did mean 24 hours after first connecting to the network as I'd expected) plans it would have been nice to have a warning, or at least have it show the time it was going to expire. On one occasion I did get caught out and had to fire up Firsty to buy and install a new GlobalYo plan/esim, but that did work fine. They do have longer plans, but for a 3 day trip the longer equivalent option would have been the 7 day/2GB plan for US$8, so over 4x the US$1.77 I paid for 3 days.

I'm still not sure that I'd use them in most situations. My primary issue with them before wasn't that the eesim itself didn't work, but that their support had been so atrocious when it didn't work. This trip has shown that at least when it works it's fine, but I still have doubts about their support.