New December E2Save contract bargains

Reestit_Mutton

Although One Stop Phone Shop seems to have cornered the market in cheap Orange network deals, there are also some rather interesting deals currently available with Vodafone and 3 tariffs and a range of handsets, courtesy of E2Save. (in addition to the £4.99/month deal with the T610 on BT Mobile that was reported on almost a week ago)

In particular, if I'm not mistaken, they have the first instance of a 12 month 1/2 price deal on Vodafone's new 3G service.

May be not quite as cheap as the OSPS rent-free offer but the handsets here are better specified and, in the case of the 3 deals, the tariffs are much better suited to heavy users.

(Non-affiliate links direct to the product page included below)

VODAFONE DEALS

Note: All quoted Vodafone year 1 costs include £18 for 12 months worth of itemised billing @ £1.50/month - believed to be mandatory

Motorola V980 (3G)
Vodafone 3G Anytime 100 (£22/month)
12 months 1/2 price line rental
30 free video minutes/month until February 2005
Year 1 cost (after cashback) = £150

Nokia 6230
Vodafone Anytime 100 (£22/month) or Anytime 200 (£30/month)
12 months 1/2 price line rental
Year 1 cost (after cashback) = £150 (Anytime 100), £198 (Anytime 200)

Motorola V620
Vodafone Anytime 100 (£22/month) or Anytime 200 (£30/month)
12 months 1/2 price line rental
Year 1 cost (after cashback) = £150 (Anytime 100), £198 (Anytime 200)

Cashback Schedule for Vodafone deals:
Stated discounts are claimable via cashback in 2 parts - half after 6 months and half after 12 months.

HUTCHISON 3G DEALS

NEC E338
3 Talk & Text 900 (£40/month)
reduced to £9.99 per month for the first 12 months
Year 1 cost = £119.88

Motorola E1000
3 Talk & Text 750 (£35/month)
reduced to £11.99 per month for the first 12 months
Year 1 cost = £143.88

Cashback Schedule for 3 deals:
3 charges the customer 1/2 price for the first 3 months.
The remainder of the stated discounts are claimable via cashback in 2 parts - half after 6 months and half after 12 months.

The usual additional notes apply regarding cashback sites and charity/cashback offers from other MSE members using their refer-a-friend links. If you want to get one of these contracts via a cashback site, please use MARTIN'S links to help support this site. If you want to get a little extra cashback while also helping a charity of your choice, for the sake of the charity concerned, I would recommend talking to PAYLESS as his scheme seems to me to be the only truly transparent cashback/gifting scheme currently available on MSE.

HtH
RM

pmcx9

Wow...£120 for a year 750mins xnet +150texts!

Can anyone confirm if the NEC338 is a decent phone as from anecdotal evidence from colleagues it would appear the LG8120 is the only 3 network phone that seems to not drop calls?

Smartasss

I am raising money for MSE charities by using my e2save "refer a friend" £20 cashback link.

I will pass on £15 of the £20 paid by e2save to anyone using my link to get a phone from them. The remaining £5 goes to the MSE charity fund. (And of course nothing for me!).

Please PM me for details.

Towner_2

Looks a good deal for the E1000!! Bit puzzled as the Tariff says T + T 600 is £15.00 for 12 mths while T + T 900 is only £14.99 a month!! That means extra mins and texts for less money!! Not sure if its a mistake or not?? Any one got an E1000, if so are they any good?? Thanks.

jimsam

e2save must have the worst customer services i have ever encountered. I ordered a phone and wished to port my existing number. If you have used e2save you put your pac number in during the checkout process, which i did!
So after two weeks of waiting for my number to port nothing ??? so i ring up orange and e2save and no one has any idea what has happened ???. Now the pac code has expired and they wanted me to get a new pac code, which has to be posted and then go through the process again so the whole process could take up to a month.
at this point i reminded them that i was currently paying 2 contracts, as i could not close my other until my number had been ported, and the reason why i used them was to save money not increase my outgoings.
After an hour of wrangling eventually i cancelled my contract with them.
Alll over a simple number porting