Posted by Lunion
http://www.e2save.com/payg-mo[....]_WEB10ETOPUP?affiliate=aw20471
W380i on o2
£79.95.... i knew it was somewhere!!
E2Save is a CPW company?
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Posted by Seanyb2
Carphonewarehouse online are selling W890i on O2 Pay and Go for £229.99. Nice price for it being new. I want one. Anyone else seen it cheaper.
Posted by PeterKay
W380i will be in CPW stores tomorrow at £79.99
£10 airtime must be bought
they will give you £10 for a trade-in (an old phone with charger)
Posted by Seanyb2
Carphonewarehouse online are selling W890i on O2 Pay and Go for £229.99. Nice price for it being new. I want one. Anyone else seen it cheaper.
Posted by PeterKay
On 2008-03-06 20:50:00, Seanyb2 wrote:
Carphonewarehouse online are selling W890i on O2 Pay and Go for £229.99. Nice price for it being new. I want one. Anyone else seen it cheaper.
must buy airtime with it i guess £10?
Posted by Seanyb2
Yes thats the only annoying thing about Carphone. If you go into their stores and do a pay as you go upgrade you cant do it on same number you have to still do the bloody 10 quid top up on a new sim which i find stupid. Its only contract customers these places care about really gets to me. So that ten quid goes on a new number you wont use.
Posted by Marly
On 2008-03-06 20:50:00, Seanyb2 wrote:
Carphonewarehouse online are selling W890i on O2 Pay and Go for £229.99. Nice price for it being new. I want one. Anyone else seen it cheaper.
Yes, : 230, no top-up needed
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=166244
Posted by gaming_guy
On 2007-11-30 20:55:17, Miss UK wrote:
Comet are Selling W880i's for £139.99 aswell guys
i thought argos were selling w880is for £100 earlier
Posted by jcwhite_uk
They still are:
Here
Posted by Lunion
K510i Red on Orange
£34.99
http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop[....]510i_red/details/pay_as_you_go
Posted by jcwhite_uk
Dont forget to use Quidco.com when you purchase these phones as well.
You get the following back on payg phones:
Orange: £3.70
O2: £3.50 (and 15p for each free sim)
Vodafone: £5
T-Mobile:£3 (and 50p for free sims)
CPW: £5
E2Save : £2.50
Phones4U: £10
Posted by masseur
Tesco V3 for £29.96
Posted by PeterKay
Are these easy to unlock? any ideas!
Posted by gaming_guy
depends on platform/hardware revision
Posted by Miss UK
Play.com are still selling handsets dirt cheap + they also have alot of the
newbies to pre-order
Posted by PeterKay
i know where to come for help then
That price is not bad delivered!
Posted by Miss UK
What about this £130
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=166278
Posted by MWEB
http://www.comet.co.uk/shopco[....]02834/VIRGIN-MOBILE-NOKIA-6300
NOT a bargain
Posted by PeterKay
On 2008-03-07 17:26:39, Miss UK wrote:
What about this £130
http://www.esato.com/board/viewtopic.php?topic=166278
Now then, thats no bad.
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Posted by Seanyb2
W610 on Vodafone at Argos is now 79.99. Its right this time too.
Posted by PeterKay
not bad on Voda!
Posted by Seanyb2
Oh i forgot that W610 at Argos comes with a free DAB radio. Nice.
Posted by baconnugget
samsung e590 3pmix for £29.99 = £10 topup orange
just bought it as a second handset cpw.co.uk
Posted by fatreg
^ so is that £39.99 inc £10 top up? or £29.99 inc £10 top up?
Posted by baconnugget
£39.99 total but i think u can get money back using quidco and £10 back on trade in, so theoretically even cheaper
Posted by Seanyb2
Thats probably a good idea as a second spare handset. Especially when your phone is in for repair or lost or maybe a knock about phone for work.
Posted by PeterKay
W380i's now in stock at CPW £79.99
Play.com have them for £149.99
Posted by Seanyb2
Even though most pre pay phones at Carphonewarehouse are unlocked is the Samsung E590 unlocked or locked to Orange.
Posted by baconnugget
not sure but im on orange so its ok, ordered it this morning and according to tracking citylink will delivery 2mo sun however i dont think citylink deliver on sun anyways so i presume in be mon. ill check if its unlock when it arrives.
Posted by Lunion
K850i Blue is cheaper at Play.com SIM Free (£269.99) than it is locked to o2 at one stop phone shop (£279.99)
Play: http://www.play.com/Mobiles/M[....]ml?searchtype=genre&P36=7NWCFZ
One Stop Phone Shop: http://www.onestopphoneshop.c[....]ate=buyat|hound&oneTariff=true
Play.com are fast becoming very very good competition for the likes of CPW and such others. Maybe already better. Rock on Play.com
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Posted by Seanyb2
Cheers i may get one as a spare. City Link do not deliver on Sundays most couriers dont except when its a replacement phone like TNT used to deliver a replacement phone to me when i had Orange contract years ago.
Posted by fatreg
City Link do deliver on Sunday..............
Costs an arm and a leg but they do...
you may get it
Posted by PeterKay
Sony Ericsson W200i + free Speakers £36 from Voda!
Not bad
Posted by 5nak3
@baconnugget
Looked into that E590 you mentioned, really like the look of it for a second handset, the only issue i have is that it is on orange. Please update with whether it is locked or not when you do recieved it
Posted by baconnugget
according to a post on moneysavingexpert post the e590 is unlocked, if u trade in u can get £10 off. so it be £19.95 plus £10 top i think u can get £5 off quico to so it be even cheaper
Posted by Daedalus85
On 2008-03-06 21:05:00, Seanyb2 wrote:
Yes thats the only annoying thing about Carphone. If you go into their stores and do a pay as you go upgrade you cant do it on same number you have to still do the bloody 10 quid top up on a new sim which i find stupid. Its only contract customers these places care about really gets to me. So that ten quid goes on a new number you wont use.
There's a good reason for them making you buy top up Sean.
It's to try and crack down on box breaking, the act of purchasing one or more (or often several) pay as you go phones from a retailer, unlocking them and selling them abroad.
In order to try and recoup some of the loss, the retailer makes you buy £10 of credit to 1) deter them from trying to buy it and 2) to reclaim some of the lost money.
But hold on, you might be thinking, surely these greedy bastards make a fortune of the phone anyway? Not nessecarily true. Ever wondered why sim free phones always cost more? Pay as you go phones are subsidised by the retailer as they get some money back the more a customer uses the phone with that network. The network pays the retail store commission (not the kind salespeople get, different kind of commission).
However, if the phone is 'box broken' and the network doesn't get any money from the customer, the retailer doesn't get paid and they loose out on money from the handset.
Basically, the make the phones cheaper on pay as you go so you can buy them for less, as they get money back from the networks to counter act that cost.
Posted by Seanyb2
Yes i understand what your saying but why then when i last bought a K800i from Carphone on pay as you go and it was unlocked. Sold at 79.99. The shop staff before have told me they are networke locked but they are not they just sell the phones with a seperate sim. That i dont mind i now have a 6300 from O2 shop on pay as you go and its locked. Wish i had gone to Carphone as i now want to use another sim in it. Oh well.
Posted by Daedalus85
CPW get them cheaper if their unlocked.
Reason being, network stores only have one network to sell, so if they get 10,000 6300's for example locked to O2, their not loosing any money, cause they're all going to be sold on the same network.
CPW on the other hand, have to sell 6 or more networks, so if they bought say, 2,000 of each network, they might run out of one, or have over bought on another. Also bear in mind some networks charge more than others for CPW to buy their phones from them.
So whats cheaper for them to do, is buy 10,000 unlocked phones direct from the manufacturer (or their distributers) and bung a sim card for the relevant network in it.
In turn, CPW control the price of the handset on different networks to push sales towards the network that is offering them the most money/commission that month per handset.
Now, they still need to show the network that their money is being well spent in CPW by making all customers buy the £10 top up.
If you're already with said network, some let you top up your existing phone, so long as an upgrade process is in place to verify to the network that they're already getting money from you.
O2 for example give you an upgrade reward on pay as you go, so CPW can notify them that you're already with them and then the £10 top up can go on the exisiting phone, which helps counter act the price of the phone a bit.
Posted by MWEB
MY CPW insists upon putting top up credits bought with new phones on NEW sims, i spend half my life registering various sims and then getting the network operater to transfer said credit on to my existing sims.
Funny how places like argos, currys, woolworths etc dont FORCE you to pay for a top up when you buy a phone from them.
Posted by PeterKay
@mweb, my CPW does exactly the same but great customer service
any more bargains?
Posted by Daedalus85
mweb: possibly because they might be a little naive when it comes to phones, and as its not their main practice they don't sell them in huge quantities, like dedicated mobile phone shops.
They should enforce it, but it's easier to them not and, as they have an 'in and out again' system when it comes to sales. Same goes for faulty phones, it's a case of 'replace and repair it later'.
Posted by bearcub24
Although paying CPW a £10 premium for the credit on a new sim surely has to be worth it if your getting a vanilla handset?
Posted by Daedalus85
There is that
And their often the cheapest even then.
Posted by bearcub24
Very true, I've found buying sim-free also helps with future OTA firmware updates as they are always the first available.
Posted by faultymonkey
I got myself a BNIB w960i off ebay for £220. I think thats quite a bargain when the RRP is £400! Cant wait for it to come!
Posted by PeterKay
On 2008-03-09 21:39:53, faultymonkey wrote:
I got myself a BNIB w960i off ebay for £220. I think thats quite a bargain when the RRP is £400! Cant wait for it to come!
They seem a bargain at around £200, not bad for a 8gb
Posted by Seanyb2
Sorry people we should stick to bargains on this thread i started something so i should finish it. Enough about top ups now i get everyones point.
Posted by 5nak3
Gonna try and hit the town tomorrow and look for that samsung e590, but just wanted to find out if anyone know about the CPW's trade in policy, can you trade in any phone with its charger and mannual, or do they have a specific list of phones they accept?
Thanks
Posted by PeterKay
Reconditioned P990i £89.99 in stock!!!
Bargain
Plenty of other reconditioned phones from Orange
Posted by Seanyb2
You can trade in any phone. I was told a K800i was 20 quid trade in.