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Orange contract

purchased a phone today at a Orange Retail store, wanted to know if the have a cooling off period, i could have got the phone for free on the Orange website:(

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  • teamcullen
    teamcullen Posts: 202 Forumite
    There isn't a cooling off period for items purchased in store if you can find them cheaper elsewhere.
  • JAB7
    JAB7 Posts: 2 Newbie
    thanks for the info, i will just have to suck it up, got a good phone anyway.:p
  • rmc86uk
    rmc86uk Posts: 19 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10 Posts Combo Breaker
    I am sure you should get fourteen days to cancel the contract as I have had this problem and it is still on going.
  • teamcullen
    teamcullen Posts: 202 Forumite
    Don't you get 28 days if theres a fault diagnosed within that period? Or 14 days if it's a signal problem that their coverage checker didn't find?

    I'm not 100% though
  • drbesty
    drbesty Posts: 967 Forumite
    Him being able to get the phone for free elsewhere doesn't make the phone he has got faulty, so the 28 day rule doesn't apply, he'd also have to prove there is signal problems at his home address for the 14 day rule to apply
  • drbesty wrote: »
    Him being able to get the phone for free elsewhere doesn't make the phone he has got faulty, so the 28 day rule doesn't apply, he'd also have to prove there is signal problems at his home address for the 14 day rule to apply

    Read Post 2, I said exactly the same thing. I was replying to Post 4.
  • robt_2
    robt_2 Posts: 3,401 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    rmc86uk wrote: »
    I am sure you should get fourteen days to cancel the contract as I have had this problem and it is still on going.

    Where do people learn things like this?

    Bought in store = no legal cooling off period.
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