carphone warehouse superlock oddness

sk3

First off, hello MSE :hello:

So I went to carphone warehouse and asked about their payg deals, when asking about changing the network the salesman informed me that carphone warehouse superlock their phones and that attempting to change the network (unlock) the phone is illegal and will get you 5 years??!!! :rotfl:

I laughed at him and told him that it was the dumbest thing I'd ever heard in my entire life, the other customers laughed too. He seemed absolutely adamant though.

Does anyone else have any amusing/ridiculous salesperson anecdotes to share?

drahcir_2

load of crap - the only thing that would get you 5 years is changing the imei
afaik cpw use sim free phones so have never been locked

RS2000

Looks like he should get 5 years for false information? lol

HugoSP

He should get 5 years somewhere - not prison though - maybe primary school!

DDs Samsung from CPW is Locked to T Mobile btw

sk3

Also, do other people get the feeling that some salespeople couldn't give a monkeys about payg customers? The pay monthlies seem to get star treatment in comparison.

K9COOP

most handsets are unlocked from cpw, alot are now coming locked to the network

companies pay more to their consultants for selling contracts in response to the prev post

dazed

drahcir wrote:

load of crap - the only thing that would get you 5 years is changing the imei
afaik cpw use sim free phones so have never been locked

Some are some are not, Best to take a few sims in and try it there and then.

lipsthefish

When I was looking to purchase a phone on o2 from carphone warehouse I was told by the salesman that I couldnt put my existing payg o2 sim in it or the phone would be blocked and unusable! I purchased directly from o2 and never had a problem.

sk3

lipsthefish wrote:

When I was looking to purchase a phone on o2 from carphone warehouse I was told by the salesman that I couldnt put my existing payg o2 sim in it or the phone would be blocked and unusable! I purchased directly from o2 and never had a problem.

This is what makes it incredibly stupid - lying to customers about their phones being unlockable just makes them shop somewhere else. It's almost like cpw don't want to sell payg phones.

sk3

dazed wrote:

Some are some are not, Best to take a few sims in and try it there and then.

Knowing them, they'd probably call the police if you do that.

dazed

sk3 wrote:

Knowing them, they'd probably call the police if you do that.

Nah they wont they are not that bad