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MakeitgoRIGHT

1) The initial offer from CPW for SIM-only worked out at £11.66/month.....£35/m 18months, w/Cashback £420, 600min/500txt, UnLtd Internet, UnLtd calls to Landlines. ie £11.66/month.

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2) I decided to try Cancellations Dept at CPW and bartered it down to something similar to my current deal of about £5/month.

Here are the details so others can maybe use it as a benchmark in SIM-only dealing:

£35/m (inclVat), 18months; Cashback £540 => just £5/month
SIM-only
600mins, 500txts
unLtd Internet

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3) Of interest, might be a Blackberry deal offered, which works out at £19.44/month:

£35/month with Blackberry phone (didn't catch which one)
18month contract
600 mins, 500 txt
UnLtd Blackberry Data
£280 cashback => £19.44

Hope that helps.

Main thing for me is that I contract the mobile from my company (which CPW are very happy to do), rather than a personal contract which disturbs the taxman's ideas of expenses. So alls' well again.

Well, that's that mobile-stress off the lines for another 18months. Phew!

Kijoki

Called CPW twice now. Got the following:

BB 8520 on 24m contract with:
800mins / 1000 txt / unlimited internet (no cap) for 19 / month

Prob is it is a cash-back. They are doing credits but hard to get.

Supposed to get the phone today but don't want it as after taking it out I felt 24m is ridiculous!

18m is really my limit. I'll prob get it down to that price anyways on the 18month. BTW MakeitgoRIGHT my friend got the same deal offered today.

But I really want the n900, just they are being bit of a nag about it.... We'll see what happens, I'll post back soon hopefully

sir_smooch

Been reading the last few pages and it seems as though there is a bit of a pattern forming with o2 and wanting to retaining custom or not as the case may be. I phoned today realising due to the rise in my bill that i was a month over my contract renewal. Every other year i have either had a msg on my bill telling me im due for upgrade or a phonecall from o2 personally. Ive been with them 5yrs plus now and usually get a good offer but this time noway
, even retentions couldn't do me a deal, i was happy to pay upto £25a mth for a se w995 with 600mins & ultd txts but wanted a 18mth contract instead of 24 mths . so i asked to disconnect and he said fine i will be disconnected on the 13th of march. Just wondering if anybody knows a good place to go for new cust. deals and is it better to do it online or instore? Any suggestions are most welcome

tegen

I decided to give it a go even though my contract isn't up for three months it work extemely well!! I'm on orange so i dialled 150 from my moblie and when i got to the options: 'for upgrading press 1 or think about leaving orange press 2' I went for the leaving orange option even though I have no intention of leaving!! A little bit cheeky but it worked! :j I got them to half my bill to £20 and add on 200mins so i ended up with 400mins and unlimited texts for £20 a month :rotfl:. I also got a phone that you usually have to pay extra for.

All you have to do is make them think you're leaving which isn't hard :A

andy.m_2

well its that time of year again, mobile renewals.
I have 2 phones on the 3 network and I thought I was doing ok with them to be honest, £15pcm each with generic SE mobiles and a selection of minutes and texts that we very rarely bust through.
The phones this time did prove to be a bit crappy in that they sometimes froze or cut off, and we got different signal strengths with the same mobile, same network, side by side.

Now its time to start negotiating and I'm looking for tips....
We are both light users, 100 minutes or so and maybe 200 texts seems to be ample.
I bought a w890i on ebay cheap so am looking at the sim only deals.
Now here's the rub, if I go to a cashback site and use e2save or similar then I can get a mid range phone with 300 minutes and unlimited texts for about £6 pcm, aware that they rely on a percentage not following the rules and getting full cashback surely this means that essentially this is how much they value the minutes and texts? there might actually be a time where everybody on these plans follows the rules and gets a full payout!
I'd like to switch to vodafone and wondered if they were specific voda techniques to haggling success???

Iskan

sir_smooch wrote: »

Been reading the last few pages and it seems as though there is a bit of a pattern forming with o2 and wanting to retaining custom or not as the case may be. I phoned today realising due to the rise in my bill that i was a month over my contract renewal. Every other year i have either had a msg on my bill telling me im due for upgrade or a phonecall from o2 personally. Ive been with them 5yrs plus now and usually get a good offer but this time noway
, even retentions couldn't do me a deal, i was happy to pay upto £25a mth for a se w995 with 600mins & ultd txts but wanted a 18mth contract instead of 24 mths . so i asked to disconnect and he said fine i will be disconnected on the 13th of march. Just wondering if anybody knows a good place to go for new cust. deals and is it better to do it online or instore? Any suggestions are most welcome

I too got no joy from O2. I wanted a Blackberry 9700 and was due an upgrade and they could not improve on what was offered on their website. Spoke to the cancellations girl who said you either accept the standard upgrade deal or they had no problem with me cancelling.

glynn78

Just been reading this thread and me and my partner spend £55 a month on our mobiles. I have been taking keen interest in the E2save website and was wondering if the deals with cashback redemtions work and how they work. Would somebody who has used this site and purchased phones from them give me a quick insight into how it all works so we can save some money. Many thanks.

Glynn

monkeyspank11

I have been an O2 customer for about 8 years, initially as a PAYG then moved on to simplicity sim as it suited my needs at the time.

I'd been looking at the Iphone deals available on the three main networks and found Vodafone offered a better deal for the £35 a month tariff ie unlimited texts as opposed to 500 a month with Orange and O2.

I hadn't actually read this thread before this but thought I'd be cheeky and phoned O2 to hear the best deal they could offer.....so glad I did!!!

First I played the loyal customer card and explained that I had been with them for some time and was considering moving networks but didn't really want to. I explained that I was looking into the Iphone contacts and explained that Vodafone offered a better deal, this was soon matched by the very helpful salesperson.

He then explained about Iphones that had been sent out to customers but had been returned within the 14 day happiness guarantee, they weren't damaged and had been checked and approved by Apple and basically the only difference is that they come in an O2 box not an Apple one. The warranty is still for the full year as standard. Better still the handset should be £189 on an 18 month contract....they were giving me it for free......yes I did say that!

So I got a 16gb 3Gs Iphone in white ( the one I wanted)
600 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited internet for 35.50 a month

It would have been rude not to have accepted and it arrived the next day!!

Good luck everyone:rotfl:

PS on O2 customer services go to the automated option " IF [EMAIL="YOU@RE"]YOU'RE[/EMAIL] THINKING OF LEAVING US"

GingerWarrior

monkeyspank11 wrote: »

Better still the handset should be £189 on an 18 month contract....they were giving me it for free......yes I did say that!

So I got a 16gb 3Gs Iphone in white ( the one I wanted)
600 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited internet for 35.50 a month

It would have been rude not to have accepted and it arrived the next day!!

Good luck everyone:rotfl:

PS on O2 customer services go to the automated option " IF YOU'RE THINKING OF LEAVING US"

I was offered the same phone today for £99, and the same package for £32 a month - but I declined it, as I've seen/read of so many people getting a refurb for nothing. Am moving away from the iPhone idea anyway, as have been introduced to the HTC series of phones :-)

thriftyspender

My recent experience of O2 Retentions was that they did not seem at all bothered when I pointed out other providers with better deals. All they could offer was their standard contract deals.