Unlocked phones £14.95. £5 Quidco and £10 credit = Nothing?

sjpkgp

Great spot OP. My two older kids aged 12 and 11 are always losing phones, so we have a bit of a policy that they are only allowed one of these phones, as they are effectively free. Not trendy, but not the ranting when it is lost. It takes them ages to use up the tenner as usually they are only used so we can locate each other as a family and for sporadic texts between them and mates. They have to put up with the invconvenience of "altering their number" as the deal for losing their phone !

To get back to the questions, yes, I have swapped the SIMS and used in other phones, where they appear to work. The phones from CPW have always been unlocked. Quidco have paid the fiver but for some reason have declined one I have bought two close together. And finally to ccmummy, yes, you could put your old SIM in one of these phones, but then you wouldn't be using the tenner of credit - if you could be bothered, put the SIM that you get with this phone in your bag and when you want to make a longish call, swap them - that way it really has cost you nothing if you are with quidco. You could port your old number to the new provider (e.g. O2 to Virgin) but a) this is a bit of a chew if you are phone=phobic and b) you may have some reason for wanting to stay with O2. HTH Sal x

kazaimee

Cashinmyphone will give you £1.14 for the Samsung and the LG phones. Plus £4.50 from Quidco.

HTH

bamberbamboo

Hi I did a similar deal before xmas, partner a fisheman so phones always getting damp then no good and had two spare sims with £10.00 on each, e-mailed Vodafone yesterday and transferred money on to his sim that he always had, no problem, didn't even have to speak to anyone just did it through the contact page..

ghanagirl

You can get the same deal as posted by OP at E2SAVE who are part of carphone warehouse but get £7.50 from quidco.

http://www.e2save.com/mobile-phone/payg/lg/LG-GB102.html?tariffcode=VIRGN

or £6.95 on orange and use some of your credit for orange wednesdays to get 2 for 1 on cinema or pizza express yum yum. :beer:

emlou2009

jamespir wrote: »

obviously the 5.00 quidco is not 100% guareenteed

you cant sell on the top up either as it has to be registered to the sim/imei number it was brought with as there not real top up vouchers

jamespir wrote: »

yes but it has to be used with the phone other wise they block it if you try using it with other phones

No, sorry, you're wrong. Having been a manager in Phones4u for 4 years I know for a fact its impossible to block a top up in such a way that it will only work with one sim card. I also know for a fact that any sim can be used with any unlocked phone, with the exception of sim cards and handsets belonging to the 3 network.

The only thing I'd be worried about with this, is if they are pre-loading the top up to the sim before they send the phone out, as that would be the only way they could guarantee the top up goes onto the phone.

merdoom

idid something similar when i got other half a new o2 phone, cfw loaded the top up onto the phone sim, but we rang o2 and they moved the £10 credit to Ohs old number and sim, they also forgot to take it off the the new sim, so we now have an emergency sim with £10 on aswell!

sinw

e2save Nokia 1661 £14.95p pay
e2save cash back £7.50p
£5.18p Cash in my phone for recycle
£4.50p Cash in my phon/recycle Quidco

£17.18p bak n £10 Credit

littlemissfavored

Thanks OP ordered mine!

TjW

sinw wrote: »

e2save Nokia 1661 £14.95p pay
e2save cash back £7.50p
£5.18p Cash in my phone for recycle
£4.50p Cash in my phon/recycle Quidco

£17.18p bak n £10 Credit

Thanks. Great deal :beer:

GDB2222

e2save have 3 phones at under £5: LG GB102, Nokia 1661, and Samsung E1100. Does anyone have any views about which one is best?