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Totally free nokia 1100 pay as you go

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  • This deal, if used for a granny in a glove box phone, will give you a free phone, and if you dont make any calls, will give you service for over 3 YEARS!!!!!!!!! So to clarify, a phone with over 3 years Granny in a glovebox for £30. Doesnt sound too bad too me???
  • z1000000
    z1000000 Posts: 129 Forumite
    In case people feel the credit will just be used up and that's it, easymobile doesn't work like that. After your free 3 years, you will go into debt with easy mobile, and then the hassle begins. They will add charges quickly for being overdrawn, and will ignore all your attempts to sort out the mess. Some punters are threatened with baliffs to recover the debts.

    It happened to me. I got one of their sims in some free tenners worth of calls deal.
    Great I thought, a free tenners worth of airtime.
    I knew they would charge me for not spending a fiver every three months, and read the T&C's. I uses all but 50p of the airtime. There were even good enough to email me when the credit got low. So I tried to cancel the sim. That's when the fun starts. They didn't cancel the sim, then took 75p off for inactivity, which put me in debt. Then they wanted to charge me a pound or maybe two, for each 48 hours I was in debt. It very soon adds up.
    All the time I was trying to email them, or sort out the mess, and all the time their customer service dept was ignoring my emails/emessages.

    So don't think you are getting something for nothing.
    Put this easymobile Granny in your Glovebox, forget about it, and there will be a price.
  • hurrah
    hurrah Posts: 1,373 Forumite
    Ok just to clarify on some of these scare tactics

    How can telling people the downside of Easy M be a scare tactic?

    Why do you think that people have left the service in droves,and the take up was poor anyway.
  • hurrah wrote:
    How can telling people the downside of Easy M be a scare tactic?

    Why do you think that people have left the service in droves,and the take up was poor anyway.

    I was explaining your one liners that you didnt clarify very well. I believe 30,000 people signed up via the web. Do you have any figures for people that left the service in droves,or are you basing your comment on a few disgruntled users on this forum?
  • z1000000
    z1000000 Posts: 129 Forumite
    Working on the belief that almost everyone has at least one mobile, and using this site's info on unlocking, most must be unlocked. Why get another mobile to clutter up the house. If people really want to try easymobile, dispite some peoples and my own bad experience of them, just grab a free easymobile sim.

    Expires tonight.
    Use Quidco, and get a tenner back, then go to easymobile through Quidco, and they will flog you a 20 pound of airtime sim for a tenner, minus the tenner you get back from Quidco. Bingo, 20 pounds of Easymobile airtime for nothing.
    However, be warned, you may pay later.

    They do these deals all the time, trying to drum up business.
    Even fifty pound of free easymobile airtime wouldn't tempt me to go near them again!
  • ballyblack
    ballyblack Posts: 5,160 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    "they use T mobile. In some areas of the UK reception is very bad
  • JPR
    JPR Posts: 405 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    Has anyone got the phone yet? It looks like they send you the phone and a voucher for £30.00 ? Is that correct?

    No actual mention of a SIM card??

    Usually they give you the chance to choose a number etc. but could the £30 voucher be used on an existing account or is it only valid on a new SIM (which you have to buy separately??)
  • I can confirm that the free Nokia 1100 +£30 airtime is back in stock - I've just bought one. (Network is t.mobile.)
    http://www.easymobilephones.com/index.aspx
    Kateydog
  • I can also confirm it is back in stock as I have also purchased the Nokia 1100, you don't buy the sim card seperatley, that is included in the package!!

    Also easymobile have launched a brilliant offer for mobile calls and text messages today. I have copied the text from there website and it is displayed below.

    To me this seems a fantastic offer, all you need to do to take advantage of the offer is to make a topup paymet.


    1st April, 2006
    easyMobile introduce on-net tariff.

    easyMobile is pleased to introduce our on-net tariff (easyMobile to easyMobile customers) will be reduced to 3p per minute for voice and 1p for texts from 1st April 2006. This will be a promotional rate offer ending on the 31st December 2006.

    Please note:
    To take advantage of the on-net tariff, customers must make a top-up payment following the initial purchase.
  • Looks like it is now back in stock - but I am totally mobile-illiterate. I think I may just go for this though.
    But someone who I know has a mobile which kept receiving calls from companies. When she listened to the calls her credit was burnt up (like spam premium numbers) - who knows how to solve that then? Is it Telephone Preference Services?
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