I got a free Iphone 4S

mooandjacko

Just thought i would share with you that I got a FREE Iphone 4S with mobiles.co.uk!

I was with orange who couldn't offer me a free Iphone 4s 16gb i would have had to pay £99.99...... cancelled my contract and got it yesterday!!!!

Just gotta wait for the PUC code to register then i'm off :T

NFH

There's no way you got an iPhone 4S for free. It must be provided to you on condition that you pay a monthly fee over a specified period. This is nothing remarkable.

Buzby

Shame, and the new Apple 5 is supposed to be released in March '12 !

pimento

I_luv_cats

NFH wrote: »

There's no way you got an iPhone 4S for free. It must be provided to you on condition that you pay a monthly fee over a specified period. This is nothing remarkable.

Never such a thing as a free lunch or phone in most cases!!!


Crazy monthly tariffs cost/term these days if you want a top-end phone for nothing up front!!

If you want a free gift then the often the phone spec drops!!

sdduk

NFH wrote: »

There's no way you got an iPhone 4S for free. It must be provided to you on condition that you pay a monthly fee over a specified period. This is nothing remarkable.

I agree nothing remarkable

Voda
Free Apple iPhone 4S 16GB Black
iPhone 600 (24 months)
£36.00 monthly
With 600 mins & 600 texts
PLUS 500MB of data usage

Orange
600 mins Any Network Anytime
+ Unlimited Texts + 500MB data

So you could have kept to Orange same phone free at the same place.

grumbler

Assuming that it's what the OP has got, I'll do the maths for her.

Cost of the airtime: £10 p.m. (chitter-chatter)
Cost of the phone: (£36-£10)x24=£624

Price of the sim-free phone from Apple: £499
Interest over 2 years: £624-£499=£125
Interest rate: 1.95% p.m.; 25% APR :think:

gmang

Looks like an ad for the website mentioned, who incidentally messed up my order with them to the point at which I happily cancelled and paid slightly more to deal directly with my operator.

WelshSun

grumbler wrote: »

Assuming that it's what the OP has got, I'll do the maths for her.

Cost of the airtime: £10 p.m. (chitter-chatter)
Cost of the phone: (£36-£10)x24=£624

Price of the sim-free phone from Apple: £499
Interest over 2 years: £624-£499=£125
Interest rate: 1.95% p.m.; 25% APR :think:

You forget that the phone from mobiles.co.uk will be locked to a network, unlike an unlicked phone direct from Apple. So youre paying 25% APR to have an inferior product. Plus you lose any manouveability. Say if you go on holiday for a month, on PAYG you pay £0 on contract you still pay £36 and use no minutes/ texts.
Sounds like the worse deal ever?!?!?!

boxst

WelshSun wrote: »

You forget that the phone from mobiles.co.uk will be locked to a network, unlike an unlicked phone direct from Apple. So youre paying 25% APR to have an inferior product. Plus you lose any manouveability. Say if you go on holiday for a month, on PAYG you pay £0 on contract you still pay £36 and use no minutes/ texts.
Sounds like the worse deal ever?!?!?!

I don't know -- have you seen some of the people that work in Apple stores? Telephone lickers the lot of them

mooandjacko

Well.... i'm happy with it!!! Orange couldn't offer me the phone for free - even though I had been with them for 6 years and unfortunately I can't afford to pay an upfront for this type of phone - therefore a monthly payment works out better. I'm paying £36 per month - exactly the same as when I was with Orange but a newer phone.

I'm not too bothered about the Iphone 5 - I'll get it free in 18 months!

Shame that trying to do other people a favour (as I was searching for a while for this free phone) comes back to bite you in the bum with criticism!!!