Boots Grabbit Bargains part 2

Ayrshire_2

With the contract phones ..... sounds too good to be true but hey .. sometimes i guess these things happen.

Anyways .... it got me thinking .... i already have a contract phone with O2 and it has a fair bit of time to run and to be fair i'm happy enough on O2. However ...... i was thinking that i could get the boots phone ... Sell the handset and use the funds to pay the line rental (hopefully for a few months at least) and then claim back the points. End result would be £300 outlay for line rental, £370 back on boots points ... and £??? for selling the handset.

Has anyone done this? Anyone thinking about it? or have i missed a flaw in my plan somewhere ?

TIA.

hannah2082_2

Ayrshire wrote:

With the contract phones ..... sounds too good to be true but hey .. sometimes i guess these things happen.

Anyways .... it got me thinking .... i already have a contract phone with O2 and it has a fair bit of time to run and to be fair i'm happy enough on O2. However ...... i was thinking that i could get the boots phone ... Sell the handset and use the funds to pay the line rental (hopefully for a few months at least) and then claim back the points. End result would be £300 outlay for line rental, £370 back on boots points ... and £??? for selling the handset.

Has anyone done this? Anyone thinking about it? or have i missed a flaw in my plan somewhere ?

TIA.

It sounds good to me but won't the person who you sell the phone to have the contract as well or can you just change sims?

Ayrshire_2

hannah2082 wrote:

It sounds good to me but won't the person who you sell the phone to have the contract as well or can you just change sims?

I imagine (maybe incorrectly) that they could get another SIM card to put into it ... say PAYG or something. Not sure if the phones could be unlocked easy enough to accept any network.

If nothing esle i guess i could reduce my O2 contract and use the free minutes etc on the new phone.

hannah2082_2

Ayrshire wrote:

I imagine (maybe incorrectly) that they could get another SIM card to put into it ... say PAYG or something. Not sure if the phones could be unlocked easy enough to accept any network.

If nothing esle i guess i could reduce my O2 contract and use the free minutes etc on the new phone.

I hope that it works for you

optimisery

Ayrshire wrote:

I imagine (maybe incorrectly) that they could get another SIM card to put into it ... say PAYG or something. Not sure if the phones could be unlocked easy enough to accept any network.

If nothing esle i guess i could reduce my O2 contract and use the free minutes etc on the new phone.

I think that the 3 network glue the sim cards in, if not then I am sure you could get it unlocked for approx £10-£20 and put a PAYG sim into it.

Obviously you wouldnt want to sell it with the 3 sim in it as the purchaser could run up a whopping phone bill.

For what you would get for the phone, you would be better of keeping it and using the free mins/texts every month.

I ordered one last night

Opti

ishrav

teedy23 wrote:

if its not too late for you folks I have 6 or 7 of these for anyone who wants them. Unfortunately I,m not so good on computer so you,ll have to guide me through the mire of PM:o

hi,
Are all these gone? i'd like one please. havepm'd you.

thanks

anta

Does anyone know - can the triple points instore still work with extra 1000 points on spending £50 or more on shopping event?

Redbedhead

anta wrote:

Does anyone know - can the triple points instore still work with extra 1000 points on spending £50 or more on shopping event?

I think the triple points are only on-line?

Katyag

Just been to a Boots Christmas evening.

Saw no mulled wine or mince pies, place was packed, didnt have the toys i wanted, hardly any tills on (they must have known it would be busy), printed a voucher from ACM for 350 extra points for a £40 spend when scanned it didnt go on and was told cause it was the christmas evening it didnt apply!!! SA serving me was helpful tho, had loads of coupons which she scanned and then made sure came off and 2 gift cards (from refunds) to use which took a £92 bill down to me only having to pay 55p in cash!! Got just under £20 in points back too!

greenishfingers

Katyag wrote:

Just been to a Boots Christmas evening.

Saw no mulled wine or mince pies, place was packed, didnt have the toys i wanted, hardly any tills on (they must have known it would be busy), printed a voucher from ACM for 350 extra points for a £40 spend when scanned it didnt go on and was told cause it was the christmas evening it didnt apply!!! SA serving me was helpful tho, had loads of coupons which she scanned and then made sure came off and 2 gift cards (from refunds) to use which took a £92 bill down to me only having to pay 55p in cash!! Got just under £20 in points back too!

Yeah, I got no wine or mince pie (boo) and as ever the toy selection was rubbish - really impressed by your spending tho. Wish I'd managed that!