Help with Vodafone Contract

shellster72

Hi everyone, wondering if anyone out there has had same problem. I have two phone contracts, one is mine and one is my sons and currently paying £80 in total for both. I contacted vodafone to inform them that I could not afford my current contract due to a change in my financial situation - basically reduction of earnings approx £250 per month. Both contracts are only about 6 months old with 18 months remaining. The customer service advisor told me it would cost £606 and £566 to buy myself out of contracts (hard to do when your experiencing financial hardship). Or should could reduce my contract by £5 each- which would drop the price plans to £30 per month each (I cancelled the phone insurance too) and the deal would drop from 600 mins unlimited texts to 200 mins and 1000 texts - which nowhere matches any deals they have out there currently!!
I said surely there should be another way given the current climate... the answer NO NO NO!!!!
Has anyone else been successful in negotiating a contract that still has alot of life on it? If so I would be grateful for any help!!
Regards
A skint Shellster!

macman

Unfortunately this is the peril of taking out 24 month contracts-who can see that far ahead? There's no point in early termination, as you pay the same amount you would have paid to the end of the contract anyway, so you may as well have the airtime you are paying for. I would have thought that you might get them down to £25 per month, but bear in mind that they are under no obligation to reduce it at all, as you signed up to £40pm for 24 months. A change in your financial circumstances does not void the contract.
If the phone are expensive models, why not sell them on ebay and swap your SIM's into cheap phones for a tenner each, that should pay for a couple of months airtime.

Garz

Each month you can drop down another notch of montly charge however you will get real crappy airtime and text usage. I dropped down my wifes number from £35pm to £20 over successive months you just have to watch your usage.

macs suggestion is also good if you can part with your handsets, use a cheap brick until your contract is up and sell them while the value for £ is higher.