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FrostySnow

brindleyx wrote: »

Hi can anyone see if I am overlooking anything here, I would like to get an 16mb iphone.How I see it there are 2 options:

Option A:
Sign up to a 12m simplicity contract £19.58 online 800 mins and 1600 texts and select the free Unlimited Web bolt on and if you use quidco you get £110 cashback. I have spoken to O2 customer services today and they said you can use simplicity with the iphone. (Although regular O2 upgrade staff dont agree, the iphone department do) You can't use visual voice mail or call merging which allows you to have a 3way conversation. You still have to buy the iphone at £391.27.
Option B:
Sign up to a 24m iphone contract £34.26 600 mins and 500 texts and buy the iphone at £57.74

If you disregard the mins and texts. With option A the iphone costs (£391.27-£110)=£281.27
Option B. £34.26-£19.58= an extra £14.68 x 24months = £352.32+£57.74=£410.06!!! A difference of £128.79 and you only tied to a 12 month contract.

Do all workings stand up? and are you able to follow it?

My question is do you need to be a new O2 customer to recieve the £110 cash back?

Apologies if my info isn't accurate - I'm also looking for a cheap iphone, preferably with O2 (but can't afford to fork out over 300 smackers or pay 35quid each month for long contract).

I just looked at quidco and it said that they don't pay cashback for iphones:

"Please read the following before proceeding:

In order to receive cashback for PAYG Mobile Broadband you must top up with £15 within the first two months to receive your cashback.

Cashback is not paid for iPhones.

In order to receive cashback a PAYG phone handset has to be activated and topped up with credit.

Cashback for this merchant will take at least two days to track into your Quidco account. Your cashback will be validated two months after broadband has been activated."

Having seen that I'm a wee bit confused as to how you worked out the 110 quid (or even the 70 quid someone else mentioned).

Please explain for this rather confused dummy. Cheers:beer:

M4RKM

brindleyx wrote: »

Hi can anyone see if I am overlooking anything here, I would like to get an 16mb iphone.How I see it there are 2 options:

Option A:
Sign up to a 12m simplicity contract £19.58 online 800 mins and 1600 texts and select the free Unlimited Web bolt on and if you use quidco you get £110 cashback. I have spoken to O2 customer services today and they said you can use simplicity with the iphone. (Although regular O2 upgrade staff dont agree, the iphone department do) You can't use visual voice mail or call merging which allows you to have a 3way conversation. You still have to buy the iphone at £391.27.
Option B:
Sign up to a 24m iphone contract £34.26 600 mins and 500 texts and buy the iphone at £57.74

If you disregard the mins and texts. With option A the iphone costs (£391.27-£110)=£281.27
Option B. £34.26-£19.58= an extra £14.68 x 24months = £352.32+£57.74=£410.06!!! A difference of £128.79 and you only tied to a 12 month contract.

Do all workings stand up? and are you able to follow it?

My question is do you need to be a new O2 customer to recieve the £110 cash back?

I don't understand what you're doing in the disregard mins and text bit... Opt A still has a contract, and if you're comparing like for like, you should theoretically work out TCO over the 24 month period. but, you could work it out at 12 months as well, and be left with a phone you can't use on anything but O2..

Option A1 - £281.27 (phone less your quidco cashback), but you forgot to add on £19.58 x 24 = £469.92 + £281.27 = £751.19 (£861.19)
Option A2 - £281.27 (phone less your quidco cashback), but you forgot to add on £19.58 x 12 = £234.96 + £281.27 = £516.23 (£626.23)

Option B = £57.74 + (£34.26*24) = £879.89

(cost in brackets at the end, are the TCO without any quidco cashback!)

so yes, option A is still cheaper whichever way you look at it, but you do have some less features, as you've said..

oh, and you mean a 16gb iphone, not 16mb!!!!

M4RKM

FrostySnow wrote: »

I just looked at quidco and it said that they don't pay cashback for iphones:

Cashback is not paid for iPhones.

You're not buying an iphone via quidco, you'd be buying the simplicity contract with gives the cashback

then walk into an o2 store, and buy a PAYG iphone, and then don't bother using the PAYG element of it, and put in the simplicity sim

Marty_J

markymoo wrote: »

You're not buying an iphone via quidco, you'd be buying the simplicity contract with gives the cashback

then walk into an o2 store, and buy a PAYG iphone, and then don't bother using the PAYG element of it, and put in the simplicity sim

But they "can't afford to fork out over 300 smackers".

An iPod Touch does much the same as an iPhone (apart from the phone part of course, and the camera and GPS), and is less than half the price.

FrostySnow

thanks for clarifying it for me guys! :beer:

I'm seriously thinking about it now that I understand about the cashback being for simplicity.....still getting my head around the figures but will have a chat to o2 in the morning to find out more and if its feasible for me. Cheers again!

M4RKM

don't chat to o2, they'll deny all knowledge of this working, and then you'll just come back confused..

buy PAYG iPhone
buy simplicity sim
bin PAYG sim
put simplicity sim in iPhone - remember to have web bolt on

boom done!!

what is there to speak to o2 about, they'll just tell you no, because it works out better for them to get on on the PAYG, as you'll end up spending more!!

M

FrostySnow

Oh, ok. Cheers for the advice! It makes sense.

TraceyJ_2

£110 cashback has been mentioned for a simplicity sim but it's currently £35 on quidco. I can't find £110 on the cashback maximiser either so has this now finished or have I missed something?

Thanks
Tracey

FrostySnow

was gonna ask that very question Tracy. Couldn't see 110 anywhere (or 70 for that matter) but I miss a lot on a usual basis so it could very well be right in front of my nose and I wouldn't realise.

Would appreciate it markymoo, brindleyx or anyone could clarify this for me. Thanks again!

Edit: Also, is it worth hanging on for the new generation iphone? Any more recent details on when that will be available?