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Upgrading contract with singlepoint

Bob1000
Bob1000 Posts: 140 Forumite
I am due for an upgrade shortly and want to get a new phone purely to make some money on ebay and pay some bills in the process!

Can anyone recommend a good phone to upgrade to and has anyone managed to get any good deals with singlepoint in their upgrade?

Comments

  • marjorie_2
    marjorie_2 Posts: 58 Forumite
    leave singlepoint & go directly via the providers...
    singlepoint are not very obliging
  • Yoshii
    Yoshii Posts: 203 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    i will be leaving singlepoit very shortly because they want to charge you full whack for the upgrade phone and offer you 3 months no line rental.i think i will try 02 next .They dont want to try and retain your business.
    yoshii
  • kinesin_2
    kinesin_2 Posts: 92 Forumite
    My GF got a letter from singlepoint yesterday.. seems that they have been taken over by vodaphone and your bills will come from Voda from now..
  • jbrad
    jbrad Posts: 14 Forumite
    Back in December singlepoint convinced my Wife to stay with them by offering same contract again (100 xnet mins + £12 data/text bundle) at 6 mths half price and a choice of new phone. This was despite the fact that she rarely spent more than a few quid over the line rental cost each month and the original contract was a £100 paid up front deal! (less £50 samsung promotional cashback :)

    We chose the GX30i which back then fetched £245 on ebay, this has more than covered the cost of the new contract.

    Had no intentions of staying with them but it was a no brainer really.

    Best thing to do is ring them to give your notice to cancel and see what handsets they may offer you, then check on ebay for recent completed items to give you an idea of what would be your best option to claw the dosh back.
  • WeirdoMagnet
    WeirdoMagnet Posts: 1,015 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    I revised my tarrif with SinglePoint the other day. The chap I spoke to was excellent, very helpful and knowledgeable.

    Anyway, for a "non-hardware upgrade" (I don't really need a new phone every year), he halfed my line rental for 8 months (100 x net minutes) and data package, and we revised my other halfs package (which is on the same contract) to 30 x net, and he halfed that too (8 months again).

    They've been owned by Vodafone for a while, but carried on operating as SinglePoint.
    "No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich." - Louis Sabin
  • Darren21
    Darren21 Posts: 882 Forumite
    Georgina wrote:
    I revised my tarrif with SinglePoint the other day. The chap I spoke to was excellent, very helpful and knowledgeable.

    Anyway, for a "non-hardware upgrade" (I don't really need a new phone every year), he halfed my line rental for 8 months (100 x net minutes) and data package, and we revised my other halfs package (which is on the same contract) to 30 x net, and he halfed that too (8 months again).

    They've been owned by Vodafone for a while, but carried on operating as SinglePoint.

    You could get that offer & a new phone though through somewhere like e2save or dialaphone!?
  • WeirdoMagnet
    WeirdoMagnet Posts: 1,015 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Darren21 wrote:
    You could get that offer & a new phone though through somewhere like e2save or dialaphone!?

    And keep my numbers? And stay on Vodafone? It works out about £12 a month for x net 100. I don't need anymore minutes - I just don't use them.

    I used to be with dialaphone, but got pretty poor service!

    Edited to say - I just remembered that I'm just not organised enough to be sending all those vouchers back to dialaphone! :rolleyes:
    "No matter how little money and how few possesions you own, having a dog makes you rich." - Louis Sabin
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