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After the HP Touchpad... now the HP Pre 3 Smartphone. £49 down from £400! Sim Free!

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  • Tye
    Tye Posts: 32 Forumite
    That's still a lot of money for a phone thats allegedly been discounted down to £49 SIM free and for 24 months you'll end up with a phone seriously outdated in just 12 months!
  • tamalyn
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    Tye wrote: »
    That's still a lot of money for a phone thats allegedly been discounted down to £49 SIM free and for 24 months you'll end up with a phone seriously outdated in just 12 months!


    it is pretty disgusting of cpw to be honest!!

    i ordered one full price sim free thursday night and havent heard anything yet - order is still processing which is wierd - would have thought they would have just cancelled it when they took them off the site to buy sim free
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  • Horizon81
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    Supposing this does become available at £49 - £69 SIM free - will it work on any network? I remember seeing something many posts back that it's no good with o2???
  • azza87
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    Horizon81 wrote: »
    Supposing this does become available at £49 - £69 SIM free - will it work on any network? I remember seeing something many posts back that it's no good with o2???

    I've never bought a phone from CPW that has been locked to a particular network, their stock is usually open to any network and comes with a sim cards separately.

    I can't see why these wouldn't work with o2, unless there is something (a spat?) going on between HP and o2?
  • tamalyn wrote: »
    it is pretty disgusting of cpw to be honest!!

    i ordered one full price sim free thursday night and havent heard anything yet - order is still processing which is wierd - would have thought they would have just cancelled it when they took them off the site to buy sim free

    I did too and got 3 e mails, one for order received, one for order fullfilled, one for sales invoice when the money was taken from my account.
  • tamalyn
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    I did too and got 3 e mails, one for order received, one for order fullfilled, one for sales invoice when the money was taken from my account.


    so the £476 was taken out of your bank and order is fulfilled? mine hasnt moved from processing. so is it on the way? what r you gonna do?
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  • tamalyn wrote: »
    so the £476 was taken out of your bank and order is fulfilled? mine hasnt moved from processing. so is it on the way? what r you gonna do?

    Mine isn't even on processing, its on stage one, your order has been received.

    Im not confident of them reducing now that they have allocated them to cheap contracts thought, trying to maximise their profit through the commission they will earn from the network set up!! Genius business sense, but not on.
  • Oops sorry, mine was from cleverboxes at £199.
  • azza87
    azza87 Posts: 612 Forumite
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    edited 29 August 2011 at 10:36PM
    Nevermind..
  • tamalyn
    tamalyn Posts: 2,110 Forumite
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    edited 29 August 2011 at 10:30PM
    Mine isn't even on processing, its on stage one, your order has been received.

    Im not confident of them reducing now that they have allocated them to cheap contracts thought, trying to maximise their profit through the commission they will earn from the network set up!! Genius business sense, but not on.


    sorry mine is also recieved not processing, havent had any emails since i ordered and no money has been taken out of my bank yet.

    they took it off the site sim free for some reason - and to not email us i am still hoping for the price to discount. otherwise they would have taken our money and despatched by now or cancelled - as the ones who ordered the contract one on saturday have had despatch notices.
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