HTC Desire - best deals I've found

loser40

Jon_01 wrote: »

You spend all this time thinking about getting a Desire and the DAY you order it the whispers start about the Desire HD !!!! I could never do timing !!

http://www.itproportal.com/portal/news/article/2010/7/16/uk-retailer-leaks-htc-desire-hd/

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I've know about this for a few weeks now - if the Desire stock remains iffy in August I might postpone my upgrade for one of these.

... but IMHO it wont cheap.

M.

styla

Got this on quidco:

Dear member,

As you know we do our best to help you earn as much cashback as you can. The cashback you make is passed to us from the merchant you purchased from via an affiliate network provider, we then pass 100% of this on to you. It is therefore with great regret that I have to advise you the Deal Group Media UK Ltd affiliate network (DGM) has ceased trading with immediate effect and all payments made to the network by the retailer will now become a debt to the retailer.

What does this mean for me?
As you have recently purchased from one or more of the merchants below we will not be able to pass on the cashback as we ourselves have not received, nor are we likely to receive payment from the DGM network.

We‘re shocked and disappointed that this has happened to a network. We have only found this news out today and will do all we can to reclaim your cashback, unfortunately on this occasion we don’t think we’ll have much joy.

We are now working with the appointed administrators of the network to see what monies may be forthcoming and will keep you informed.

The retailer’s that are effected by this are:
192.com, Aabro, Accountz, AFA Systems, Ambrose Wilson, Babysecurity.co.uk, BE Broadband, Beauty Expert, Ben 10 Online, Bingo on the Box, Bluestone, Book Direct Rooms,
British Red Cross, Bump to 3, BuyMobilePhones, Car Audio Centre, Cho-Yung, Club Med, Condor Ferries, Costbiter, Decode Car Hire, Demon Internet, Dobbies, Eclipse Internet, Engage Mutual Assurance - Health Cash Plan, engage Mutual Assurance Child Trust,
Engage Mutual Assurance Easy Save, Engage Mutual Assurance Junior Easy Save, engage Mutual over 50\'s Life Insurance,Equifax,Equifax Free Credit Report,Fashion World,Fifty Plus,Forest Holidays, Forthill Home,Free Orange SIM,Fussie,Gaming Club, Garmin,GIZOO, Gray & Osbourn, Helpucover Income Protection, Helpucover Mortgage Payment Protection,
HelpuCover Pet Insurance, Home Shopping Direct,Hotter Shoes, House of Bath, ITV online shop, Jacamo, JackpotCity Casino, Jacobs Digital, JD Williams, Julipa, Jurys Inn, Lakeland Leather,Lebara Mobile, Machine Mart, Mankind, Marisota, Mazuma Mobile, Merchant 4577, Microwarehouse, MO-Call, National Trust, Naturally Close, New Now, Nickshop, Orange Home & Mobile Broadband, Orange Home Broadband, Orange Mobile Broadband, Parkdean Holidays, PC World Business, PDSA, Perfect Pizza,Petplan, Petplan Equine,
Please&thankyou, Pontins, Premier Man, Red5, RU Books, RU Craft, SeaFrance Ferries,
Siblu Holiday Parcs, Simply Be, Simply Yours, Sleeping Solutions, Snow+Rock, So Bathrooms,
Soletrader, Talkmobile ,Terrys Fabric,The Adventure Company, The Dog House, Toystore.co.uk, Tracesmart, Viking Airlines, Virgin Bingo, Virgin Poker,Viva La Diva,
Vodafone, Vonage, Warner Leisure Hotels, Washbag.com, Webfusion, Whatafind.com,
Whats About Town, WHSmith Mobiles, Wilkinson Plus, Winegifts4U.co.uk

We never like to hide behind terms and conditions but in circumstances like this, we do have to quote from our account holder agreement as follows:

“The Quidco Service allows Account Holders to earn referral fees cashback on tracked purchases from Retailers. To qualify for cashback, the Retailer must confirm that the Account Holders purchase is tracked, genuine and successful (constituting a \"Qualifying Transaction\"), and your resulting referral fee must be received by us (becoming \'Cashback\' as a result).”

You may see the retailers above remaining on the Quidco site. This is because affected retailers may switch immediately to a new affiliate network and continue with their affiliate business. However, this will not be related in any way to existing transactions and enquiries.

I am very sorry to deliver such bad news to you, but we did want to make you aware of this situation as quickly as possible.

Kind regards,

Dom Butterell,
Head of QuidCare

So it means buymobilephones.net no cashback expected anymore?

Wh05apk

Styla, When did you get this? I ordered with Vodafone which was declined a while ago, and I had appealed it which is still showing as being processed, I see Vodafone are on the list, so assume that will be £100 lost!

styla

Same here ordered of vodafone and buymobilephones both seem lost not happy at all:S

styla

Any stock or order updates then?

daindian

Nope i switched to tje galaxy s instead of a replacement desire dont want to wait till mid august through buymobilephones.net for another faulty desire

Libra1975

jackswan wrote: »

Also put an order in yesterday with Mobilephonesdirect for the 18 month 300 minutes unlimited texts £25 per month deal. Asked if they could do the unlimited internet rather than the unlimited texts, said no problem and will sort it with the connections team. Will still have 300 texts a month which is ample.
Told that it will only be a change of the flexible booster and the data limit will be 3GB.

Been given a delivery date of up to 14 days, so very happy with this deal.

Thanks for this, have now got same deal the only thing is the bloke said it would oly be 1G internet and when I queried this he sa id it was because it was thru a reseller. Still a good deal. I got told beginning of August.

daindian

Libra1975 wrote: »

Thanks for this, have now got same deal the only thing is the bloke said it would oly be 1G internet and when I queried this he sa id it was because it was thru a reseller. Still a good deal. I got told beginning of August.

Hi all you do then is phone t mobile and say you have a desire they wil change it to 3gb and give you another booster! I managed to get a reciept from t mobile that i bought a phone from them which they didnt ever sell when i bought it from dialaphone so t mobile will change just be persistant

trogit

Any hints as to what to say to T-Mobile to get the 3GB internet FUP? I upgraded my existing T-Mobile contract a few days ago through https://www.chitter-chatter.co.uk (free Desire, £25pm / 24 mth for 600 min / 500 txt) and despite being pretty persistent with the twitter team, they wouldn't budge on giving me the 3GB allowance. I'm actually more annoyed about the fact that, if what I've seen is correct, the 1GB FUP allowance is also speed-throttled to ~350kb/s, rather than 'true' HSDPA speeds of ~1.5Mb/s.

Thanks,
trogit

daindian

Phone them up and say you have an android phone and there website states that all android phones come with a 3gb fup also if u upgraded ghrough chitter chatter they shouldnt of added the net for free as its an upgrade thats what i did with buymobilesphone.net and my desire which now a galaxy same deal as you but 3gb net and unltd landline hope that helps