have they just stopped doing 12 month contracts? (ok, just found them on the site after an hour of searching, bloke on the phone said they didn't tho! - v sneaky!)
HONESTLY what a rip off.
everyone knows that your phone after 10 months either is a> broken or b> so out of date when ur mates are walking around with a mobile the size of a pea, you've still got a brick that looks like something from the 80s.
what a swizz this business is.
to be honest. no phone company is better than another is it? they're all annoying in their own way.
i've had bad experiences with o2, one to no-one/t-mobile, and the only one i haven't tried is vodafone although my work mobile is vodafone and i can't STAND that 121 call back crap. if i could answer the phone when the person origianlly wanted me, then i can hardly answer the 3 ring backs 10 immediately after can i!!!!!
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Phone up T-Mobile, see if they could help me out, or at least do something at a bit of a discount as a long-term customer. And what do they tell me ??
Go and buy an pay as you go from Asda !!!
You couldn't make it up.
I'll try to remember it!
Suze you do know you can change options and get the voicemail alert sent through as a text.
Not sure where I'm going to move to in December, Orange or O2?
Not long changed my contract with o2 and they've shifted me onto an 18mth contract. Gave me a cracking phone & a discount on the monthly line rental so cant complain too much. Is scandalous though, I get bored of a phone after a few months. You should be able to find a 12mth one in most places though Suze. Doubt you'll get as good a deal though.
got a mp3 player for my b'day so not so fussed about that, but never had a flip phone so that is appealing to me a bit.
wanted a chocolate one for a while, but thought it was brown, and as its not, gone off them now.
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have tried to sort out that mess, but not sure if i've done it right!!
I got balcklisted by Vodaphone, They tried to charge me over £100 about 5 years back for a months worth of calls and I hardly used the bleeding thing. Refused to pay and couldnt get credit anywhere. HAD to pay it in the end but vowed never to use them again.
Obviously you have to read the small print and stick rigidly to the terms of the cashback (copies of x number of bills sent in within 14 days to prove you're still paying etc.) but so long as you can be a bit organised, you basically get a phone, line rental and minutes for a year for nothing.
It all works because the networks pay huge commissions to re-sellers for new connections. The re-seller will pay the cashback out of this commission (and some people will not meet the terms and conditions and therefore not get the money back).
If anyone wants, I can dig out the website details of a guy who compares all the cashback deals on the market at the moment....
Orange phoned me yesterday as my contract is due to end. Dont like any of their phones, and the package they're offering me is rubbish. Disgusting seeing I've been with them for about 7 years!
thats what i do every year, they were trying to force me to have an 18 mth contract, i told them to poke it, then i got a free phone (sony ericsson w810i) 200 mins and 500 texts a month for £30. which was slightly better than i was on before.
that money expert geezer was talking about it last week. martin someone
http://www.reestit-mutton.co.uk/MOBILES/index.php?pg=1&query=cheapest
The website is a little clunky and can be a little slow, but it's worth it - has save me over £1k in the last three years!
Did that last time, and got the same deal as you.... and then a couple of days ago found out that they'd taken the 500 texts off a month ago, without telling me, so I'd been paying for each individual text at 10p each.... not impressed. Went through to the retentions 'secret' department and they didnt want to offer me anything close to what I'd previously had....
Looks like I'm heading elsewhere!
It's Martin Lewis. Had a great website and forum at www.moneysavingexpert.com
need to get onto that!!
They credited my bill with £50 after I complained about it yesterday... they said that loads had complained that the text package had been taken away, without them being advised of it
Does this have to be done through this company or can i get it in an O2 store. I'm currently with O2 so would i be elligible
http://www.reestit-mutton.co.uk/MOBILES/detail.php?aid=4518
I used to post a fair bit on that site- it's very good in some respects, but stopped when people started to take the piss as they will.
You can get 12 month contracts- i have used both t-mobile and 3's retention departments and frankly- if you are genuinely prepared to leave them you'll get a 12 month deal, probably a new handset and quite likely, if you haggle well, a reduction on the line rental.
Tell them that you need to keep the number but are considering taking a pay as you go handset- to retain the number- that sounds plausible.
Good Luck
It has to be done through (in this instance) "Buy Mobile Phones". O2 will drip-feed them the commission (for this deal approx £450) for signing-up a new customer, which they then drip-feed to you.
The only problem with these deals is that you have to change network if you want to keep your number.
As I said earlier - the really important thing is that you read all the small print very carefully and adhere exactly to what it says.