Best deal on an orange san francisco?

c-m

Since T-mobile rejected messed up and left a load of credit searches on my file, i'm looking at getting an Orange San Francisco.

It's £99 on the orange website, though going through Quidco should get me £12 off

Can anyone tell me what the best deal is out there at the moment?

Thanks

Jon_01

The only way to get it for less would be if you had already got an Orange payg sim (and topped it up). They'll do £30 off for existing payg customer (plus the £10 top up you have to buy)...

watcherman

I bought one last week, phoned up Orange tele-sales, gave them a number of a disused PAYG sim I have, and they did it for £74.99 delivered, no additional top up required. I sold it, tbh I think the Wildfire was slightly nicer, though dearer obviously.

Orrin

I had one and it went back faulty; great spec for the price but dodgy build quality IMO. I got it for £79.95 from e2save but just checked and that promotion is no longer running unfortunately.

If you can't get an existing customer discount I think Orange still do discounts for NHS and local government staff. They also stock it at Argos for £99 + £10 topup if you have any Nectar points or vouchers to spend there.

Biggest_Mint

I think you can get it from Orange online shop with Quidco. It's pretty cheap.

c-m

With the top up it would work out at £97 via quidco. Being a bit greedy and as i plan to unlock it I was hoping to maybe get it for £80inc.

Hmmm, i don't know any NHS or Government staff (how much is their discount?). Doh!

loofer

I've been thinking about getting one of these. It's quite openly available for about £100 brand new from orange (plus £10 top -up) yet there are bids of over £100 on eBay for second hand ones. Don't people shop around??!!

rwalton159

loofer wrote: »

Don't people shop around??!!

Only intelligent people use moneysavingexpert.com

Orrin

loofer wrote: »

I've been thinking about getting one of these. It's quite openly available for about £100 brand new from orange (plus £10 top -up) yet there are bids of over £100 on eBay for second hand ones. Don't people shop around??!!

They originally shipped with OLED screens but apparently the newer ones are TFT so perhaps people are willing to pay a premium based on the screen type.

Cash-Strapped.T32

loofer wrote: »

I've been thinking about getting one of these. It's quite openly available for about £100 brand new from orange (plus £10 top -up) yet there are bids of over £100 on eBay for second hand ones. Don't people shop around??!!

Yeah I've been watching the hoards of idiots too - They're turning up every day & bidding on £130, £150+ handsets, often 2nd-hand & there seems to be no end of them.

I actually intend to pick one up after Christmas to replace my HTC S620 (the one that always seems to cameo as a bomb-component in tv shows), but no way would I pay over 80 quid unless something serious was thrown in too.

Still, the more people that get mugged, the more will turn up cheap in Jan.. :T

c-m

I found a store with the good OLED version of the phone, but the robbing <insert naughty word> want £99+£20 top-up.

The TFT version can of course be had online from the Orange website for £97 all in.

I told them that Online is a £10 top-up but all stores i went to don't care. I called Orange and they don't care either, they told me that they have nothing to do with the stores.

So since the sim card is only going to go in the bin, is the OLED worth £20 more than the TFT?