Cheapest iPhone discussion

Spendless_Dosh

I got one today at the Horwich store (near Bolton). Was advised that they received 70 units (mix of colours and specs). It was a complete mess, arrrived at 8:15am and was advised they couldn't sell me one until 9:00am. Went back at 9 to find 2 people being served already.

Customer service staff couldn't process the orders and didn't seem to know the tarriffs, I ended up going back again at lunchtime to see if things had improved. From the stressed look on the faces of the mobile sales team, it looked like they were having a bad day.

Finally got the phone at just before 2pm and to top it all their tills weren't processing cards and so everything was being done manually.

Might be worth giving them a day or so to works out the bugs.

Really disappointing buying experience.

Goodison999

Bought today in Chorley. They were pretty quiet when I got there but the staff said that they had been overrun all morning. Even so, they had all the models available so I went for the 12 month £20 p.m. contract. Lots of people looking (mainly staff on lunchtime) although nobody else bought during the 20 minutes I was there.

I asked about the tethering option which might be of use to me in the future but was told it's not available with Tesco mobile even though O2 offer it.

johng_uk

Just got a decent deal on an iPhone here:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=27857213#post27857213

PandaPants_2

Cashbackkings are doing an Orange offer with £80 cashback for pay monthly contracts. Depending on the tarriff you choose the phone could cost as little as £7.
http://www.cashbackkings.com/orange/bargains/m2625

hnisc

Spendless_Dosh wrote: »

I got one today at the Horwich store (near Bolton). Was advised that they received 70 units (mix of colours and specs). It was a complete mess, arrrived at 8:15am and was advised they couldn't sell me one until 9:00am. Went back at 9 to find 2 people being served already.

Customer service staff couldn't process the orders and didn't seem to know the tarriffs, I ended up going back again at lunchtime to see if things had improved. From the stressed look on the faces of the mobile sales team, it looked like they were having a bad day.

Finally got the phone at just before 2pm and to top it all their tills weren't processing cards and so everything was being done manually.

Might be worth giving them a day or so to works out the bugs.

Really disappointing buying experience.

yes not great from them at all when i spoke to them but at least your store has them!

butterbeanmash

Does anyone know the best/cheapest way to get an unlocked/sim free iphone?

moneysavingmaniac

So we have 3G S, 3G and 2G, was there ever a 1G?

Im thinking of getting a 2G from ebay what do you think? Is the only different the download speeds?

wotsthat

Remember the much hyped Tesco Iphone with the 'revolutionary' 12 month contract?

Well a day late you can now buy Iphones on the Tesco site - that is if you are willing to buy PAYG because they are not offering Iphones with contracts after all. Their PAYG price is a whole 40p cheaper than O2!

They'll probably hope that there'll be some sort of feeding frenzy and people will buy PAYG ignoring the fact that they've been lied to.

ckerrd

Still an indication of pay monthly phones here http://phone-shop.tesco.com/iphonelanding/?eml=eml2_dec09

However when you click buy now you get to the PAYG options only

wotsthat

ckerrd wrote: »

Still an indication of pay monthly phones here http://phone-shop.tesco.com/iphonelanding/?eml=eml2_dec09

However when you click buy now you get to the PAYG options only

I've just bought one direct from O2. I can't be bothered to play Tesco's games - life's too short.