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P800 - Yeh baby i've joined the club and how !!!!??? |
Anuj
Joined: Oct 02, 2002
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From: South Buckinghamshire
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Well after sum1 called phones4u posted their 1st post yesterday announcing that phones4u are doing a one day deal on Vodafone with the phone free on a £65 month contract I immediately called my my local phones4u store and they said thats it is free on £65 month and 3 months line rental would be half price effectivly making it £37 including a compulsary text bundle of 100 texts for three months and then i could change my tariff to a lower one, but the geeks said they have no stock left! 
I then proceeded to call all of my nearest stores and finally found one in Watford which is around 30 odd miles away!
I told the rep to hold onto it for me and that I would pick it up l8r in the evening!
I left work all excited about my new P800 so at 5pm after work i drove down to Watford. They did all their checks etc but I was declined 
The reason - I have another connection with singlepoint on 02 and cant have two connections even though my o2 contract runs out in August
So i walked away all depressed and well pissed with em!
But then an idea clicked and i called my wife to drive down to Watford and thought i would take the contract on her name 
She did and I got the P800 ! and i made the manager write on the bill that i can change to a lower tariff in 3 months and also told him that phones4u have a shit reputation all over so thats why i am making him write this !
So I finally got it and I think i just picked up one of the cheapest P800's around !
3x37=£111
9x15=£135
TOTAL= £246 bloody pounds
So whoever you were who posted as phones4u cheeeeeers MATE !!!!!
[ This Message was edited by: Anuj on 2003-06-06 09:24 ] |
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laveenl
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I gotta say that u got a great deal. Btw, aren't contracts supposed to be 24 mths, not 18? |
Anuj
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Contracts are for 12 months. |
wapchimp
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Usually - there are contracs that 'give a discount or free period' for 6 or 12 months - but this free period gets added onto your cotract-so they get their money back
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laveenl
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Alright Anuj, got the numbers mixed up there. At least 12mths are better than the 24mth contracts that we have in Singapore. 
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Anuj
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@orangeman - Dont mean to be rude but that didnt make sense - can u explain? |
wapchimp
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Yep - eg: some uk nets offer 6 months free line rental - in the terms u sign up for an 18 month contract - 12+6=18 mr whatever combo they choose-just check b4 u sign! Its not always the case-u just get good deals from time to time:-D
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Anuj
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its a 12 month contract orangeman so im safe |
al1307
Joined: Mar 14, 2002
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From: Cambridgeshire, England
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Declined for havin 2 contracts?? My mum has 3 contracts in her name on my behalf!! Whats that about?
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haydnw
Joined: May 28, 2003
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I think I got quite a good deal - £50 on the day, and a £50 tariff for 3 months (higher than I usually pay). I'd normally be paying £25 for my standard tariff, so that works out as 50 + (3 x 25) = £125 for the phone but includes all the extra minutes / texts associated with a more expensive tariff! He he he!
And I had 2 contracts going at once on Orange, my girlfriend's mum has 3 on different networks - it's a bit off not to let you sign a new contract based on having one already! |
Anuj
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I know it stinks for them not letting me have 2 contracts but then thats singlepoint for you (haha pun intended !!!)
cool mate if u got the phone for £150 but i suppose for the remainder of the 9 months you would be paying at least £15x9 = £135
So effectively u pay £150+£185=£285.00 haha i still win !
I am getting 500 mins anytime and 100 texts for the 1st three months then its upto me. |
haydnw
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On 2003-06-06 10:23:00, Anuj wrote:
i made the manager write on the bill that i can change to a lower tariff in 3 months
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So you can cancel your contract after 3 months? The quote above makes it sound like you can only downgrade to a lower price tariff, same as me.
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i suppose for the remainder of the 9 months you would be paying at least £15x9 = £135
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So won't you be paying 9 x £x anyway? Maybe I just misunderstand. But it's cool if you can. |
Anuj
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yep after 3 months i would go down to the £15 month tariff. Cant cancel untill one year.
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volvoman
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I had this problem with phones4u as well. Went in and they price matched a price I had seen on the net of £199.99 on Orange 200mins xnet and 120 text mesgs a month. I have two other phones on Orange one is my wifes. They told me I can not have another one on Orange so my wife signed up for it. Now here is the worrying part of it. I first gave them my details name DOB address and so on. It was declined for reason above. Then my wife gave her details nmae DOB address and so on. After 1 1/2 hours in the shop we walked out with the phone. I got home and rang Orange to be told I can have upto 6 phones on my account. So I said I wanted to transfere the handset to my name as this makes it easier when sorting out problems. Now the problems started, they needed to speek to my wife to allow me to do the change over. So they asked her the details and she gave name DOB and here was the problem, they had registered the phone in her name my DOB our address and my password. Now they had to do a credit check on my wife to do the contract. So how did they do a credit check when my DOB was given and not my wifes. Fortunatly we have managed to sort the mess out, but it has taken 4 days of calls to do this. Orange are checking into this as they say a fraudulant act has taken place by phones4u in using incorrect details to get a contract.
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pachy
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@Anuj, its a nice price mate & i hope all goes well. just make sure you read the small print correctly, networks make it VERY difficult to do the reducing after 3 months part of your plan. so please take note;
Some networks want a written request from you a certain amount of time before the change (ie, 30 days notice).
Some networks make out they didn't recieve the letter or say it went to the wrong department.
They also sometimes refuse ( unless you really pressure them) to drop down the tarrif, a manager writing on the contract means NOTHING as its the NETWORKs print that your signing to, not some shop idiots handwriting.
So get it right & remember alot of people get caught out & end up paying more by not aranging the changover early enough.
If you arange the drop down on the phone , get Voda to confirm it to you in writing.
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