I feel like a bit of a tit...

tripled

I'm a Vodafone contract customer and a few months ago lost my phone, so I bought a £30 Payt nokia from Tesco, only to find I couldn't use my contract sim as it was locked to prepay only (GID lock), and Vodafone refused to unlock it for me! Grrrrrrr.

A couple of weeks ago I decided I wanted a better phone, and bought the Sagem my600v of the Vodafone website. Before I did, I phoned up and they confirmed a contract sim would work in it.

Received the phone a few days ago.... sim didn't worked. Needless to say I was not impressed. After queuing, the first agent said they needed to check my sim was registered (?) and as I was calling off my mobile I had to redial. This time the signal went just after I got through. So on my 3rd attempt and after nearly half an hour trying to sort this out, I was tamping. The 3rd agent I spoke to was a lovely lass, apologised and said I must be 'one of the unlucky ones' (?) and would try to get my phone unlocked. After a few minutes she came back and said they would have to send off for an unlock code, it would take up to 14 days. I made it pretty clear I was unhappy with this but as there was nothing further they could do, I left it at that.

Well, last night I put a payt sim into the phone to play around with it and it was still saying 'sim not present'. Tried a different payt sim, same problem. Turned the sim the other way round... worked a treat. Had a sudden thought, put my contract sim in the other way round... hey presto, worked like a charm! What a muppet.

I feel a bit guilty because I gave them merry hell on the phone (particularly as I work in a call centre too!) but on the bright side I should be getting a free unlock code shortly.

SaraSeahorse

had to smile!

gaming_guy

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

tinkerbell1978

pmsl!!! sorta thing i would do

maniac886

tripled wrote:

I'm a Vodafone contract customer and a few months ago lost my phone, so I bought a £30 Payt nokia from Tesco, only to find I couldn't use my contract sim as it was locked to prepay only (GID lock), and Vodafone refused to unlock it for me! Grrrrrrr.

A couple of weeks ago I decided I wanted a better phone, and bought the Sagem my600v of the Vodafone website. Before I did, I phoned up and they confirmed a contract sim would work in it.

Received the phone a few days ago.... sim didn't worked. Needless to say I was not impressed. After queuing, the first agent said they needed to check my sim was registered (?) and as I was calling off my mobile I had to redial. This time the signal went just after I got through. So on my 3rd attempt and after nearly half an hour trying to sort this out, I was tamping. The 3rd agent I spoke to was a lovely lass, apologised and said I must be 'one of the unlucky ones' (?) and would try to get my phone unlocked. After a few minutes she came back and said they would have to send off for an unlock code, it would take up to 14 days. I made it pretty clear I was unhappy with this but as there was nothing further they could do, I left it at that.

Well, last night I put a payt sim into the phone to play around with it and it was still saying 'sim not present'. Tried a different payt sim, same problem. Turned the sim the other way round... worked a treat. Had a sudden thought, put my contract sim in the other way round... hey presto, worked like a charm! What a muppet.

I feel a bit guilty because I gave them merry hell on the phone (particularly as I work in a call centre too!) but on the bright side I should be getting a free unlock code shortly.

Were you sober or a bit drunk? :rotfl:

crispeater

made me chuckle

HugoSP

I've thanked the OP because at least he was completely honest!

We've all done similar with one thing or another in the past.

RS2000

done something very similar, how stupid ya feel wen u realise.

angelatgraceland

I did something similar-I put the nokia battery in wrong side facing. We have all made mistakes. Made me smile-nice to know I'm not alone.