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billyboy2468

hi people any ideas how to get round this.want to buy 2 phones .orange sf at 100 pounds and samsung tocco lite at 44.95.problem is they want me to pay 10 pounds top up on each of these.phones are for mrs and son who are on contract so have no payasyougo sim to get upgrade.top up not any good when on contract,so any ideas to get cost down a bit more than welcome.thanks

jayme1

no you won't be able to get it cheeper, but the top ups are just plain vouchers like you would buy if you were not buying a phone so you can always flog them to a mate for something like £7-8 and make some of your money back.

Astec

jayme1 wrote: »

no you won't be able to get it cheeper, but the top ups are just plain vouchers like you would buy if you were not buying a phone so you can always flog them to a mate for something like £7-8 and make some of your money back.

No they are not, it's added to the sim so are not easily sold.

No way round it, the cost inc top up is cheaper than sim free, so just take it as cost of the phone. Donate to charity or use for 0870 etc calls.

WelshPaul

jayme1 wrote: »

the top ups are just plain vouchers like you would buy if you were not buying a phone

Wrong!!!

The credit is applied automatically to the pay go sim, i would not recommend selling the sim with the £10 credit because i think they register the sim in your name at time of purchase.

Sell it on and they abuse it or make duff 999 calls it will be to your address they come too!

NeverEnough

Just view the price of the phones as being a tenner more each....and weigh up if they are still the best deal for you. When I bought a handset this way, I didn't mention any other numbers and just said I'd like a PAYG card, which they supplied me brand new and sealed. The credit was registered to the actual sim card,new in packet. I gave mine to a family member who needed it and it worked perfectly well in their handset. You are entitled to give it away if you like or sell it on - just note who it was given / sold to. Just because you bought a phone with a PAYG card doesn't make you guilty of any dodgy behaviour that someone else may get up to using the PAYG card!!!

The easiest way is just to think of the handset costing a tenner more than the price and the card then becomes a bonus if it is used.

jayme1

Astec wrote: »

No they are not, it's added to the sim so are not easily sold.

No way round it, the cost inc top up is cheaper than sim free, so just take it as cost of the phone. Donate to charity or use for 0870 etc calls.

WelshPaul wrote: »

Wrong!!!

The credit is applied automatically to the pay go sim, i would not recommend selling the sim with the £10 credit because i think they register the sim in your name at time of purchase.

Sell it on and they abuse it or make duff 999 calls it will be to your address they come too!

:eek: they must have changed it, or I was extremely lucky, cause I got one with a voucher (albeit a fair while ago), although it didnt make any difference as I used to voucher myself.

JJ_Egan

Sim Card with phone CPW used in a totally different phone no problem . But individual operators may vary and CPW may set the phone up and register sim to new phone at handover . jje

pink-lady

No way round it, I've tried!!

I bought the samsung tocco lite (new red edition) for £44.95 but I didn't need or want the top-up sim. (although I still had to buy it!)They wouldn't negotiate on price at all.

Still a good price for the phone though and I've kept the sim as a spare.

HTH

billyboy2468 wrote: »

hi people any ideas how to get round this.want to buy 2 phones .orange sf at 100 pounds and samsung tocco lite at 44.95.problem is they want me to pay 10 pounds top up on each of these.phones are for mrs and son who are on contract so have no payasyougo sim to get upgrade.top up not any good when on contract,so any ideas to get cost down a bit more than welcome.thanks

billyboy2468

thanx to all who replied.cheers