Getting out of a contract?

Laura94_2

Hi everyone,

I'm 17 years old (18 in 3 weeks) and I have a mobile phone contract with Virgin. It's a 24 month contract and is due to finish in August 2012. I'm really fed up with this contract and I want a new phone on a different contract! But the details are all in my mum's name!

Is there anyway of getting out of this contract??

MissKeith

No. Just, no.

grumbler

Laura94 wrote: »

I'm 17 years old (18 in 3 weeks)... I'm really fed up with this contract and I want a new phone on a different contract!...

Is this a windup?
Are you not much younger than you say?

Laura94_2

No I'm exactly the age I say I am.

grumbler

At 18 you are supposed to know the meaning of the word 'contract' because you are allowed to get them on your name, not your mother's.

Laura94_2

As i said, I'm 18 in 3 weeks (which means I'm not 18 YET!). I also stated it was a 24 month contract, which finished AUGUST 2012, which means my mum took out the contract for me when i was 16.

As a 17 year old, I do know what the word 'contract' means, as a student who is currently studying contract law.

Thanks for the unneeded comments on my first post in a forum.

D_Mile123

Yes you can leave... If you pay the remaining months left on the contract

gjchester

Laura94 wrote: »

As a 17 year old, I do know what the word 'contract' means, as a student who is currently studying contract law.

If your studying law you know you need to follow the contracts terms.

You can leave by paying the contract off, or possbily getting your mum to take it back on.

Why exactly are you fed up, if it's the phone you could sell it and get another on the same contract. It's hard to understand how you could be fed up with a service agreement.

MissKeith

Think we're being trolled here somehow.

daleski75

You will have to pay off the remaining months in one lump sum however some companies will waive the vat making it cheaper so sell your phone and use that money to put it towards the early termination fee.

Guys_Dad

MissKeith wrote: »

Think we're being trolled here somehow.

Don't think so from the user name. And in the spirit of Christmas, I am going to be nice.

Laura, your Mum signed a 2 year deal with a network for you. You got a new handset for free on the condition that you stayed with them fo 24 months. This gave them an income for 2 years, to cover the cost of the handset, a contribution towards their equipment that is needed to provide a mobile service, to pay for all their staff and a margin for a profit to keep going.

Now they appear to have given you the service as they agreed, so why should they let you cancel your side of the deal without making you pay up your contract?

There are always going to be new handsets on the market that you are going to envy mid way through your contract. So if you think you are going to get fed up with a handset after a few months, then get a sim-only contract and you can then change your handset as often as you like - and can afford.

But as a student, unless you are very rich, you are going to face student loans and tuition fees and you will need a perspective to deal with this.

If your handset works, then hold fire and wait till it ends and then get the right deal for your circumstances then.

Of course, Santa may bring you a new handset for Christmas !
:beer: (in 3 weeks when you are 18, of course)