Cheapest mobile phones - just a handset?

suljka

Hi all,

Looking for a replacement phone for an elderly relative abroad, so need a very basic handset only. Now all the phones I have found so far are on PAYG and as such you have to buy top up at the same time as handset.
DOes anyone know of websites where I can just buy basic phone, without the need for SIM topup?

Many thanks

proactive

The cost of the Pay As You Go handsets from shops are almost always supplemented with the requirement to buy a tenner or something credit as well - £50 plus £10 topup or words to that effect.

grumbler

£4.90+£10 at e2save/osps.
Go through TCB, convert £10 into £6 at Getpoundsback and the phone will cost you £6ish.

mrschaucer

Depending how much you want to pay, there are lots on Amazon - search for "unlocked mobile phones". Then all she needs is a local sim card.

im-lost

Argos ebay outlet

VODAFONE VF345 MOBILE PHONE - WHITE

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/VODAFONE-VF345-MOBILE-PHONE-WHITE-/330650744955?pt=UK_Mobile_Phones&hash=item4cfc51f87b

suljka

Thank you all for suggestions, much appreciated, Moneysavingexpert forum really rocks!!!!
Thank you also for bringing to my attention Getpoundsback, very useful!! :T

In the end I came across a really good deal for the phone on Tesco direct - it is unlocked phone for under £15, which with the Tesco voucher exchange (£5=£10) worked out at less then £10 and no worries about getting it unlocked either