Can i escape a contract?

withabix

Just get a £10 handset and ask your provider to swap your micro sim for a standard one.

Voila, you have a usable mobile phone again.

Harald

withabix wrote: »

Just get a £10 handset and ask your provider to swap your micro sim for a standard one.

Voila, you have a usable mobile phone again.

Not to mention the easiest option: just install iphone home button properly, which apparently is the root of the problem.
Or - if it's broken (it's possible when digitizer replaced by poor qualified person), just install new one, parts should cost less than £20.

There's plenty of instructables on Youtube.

_Andy_

kattykins65 wrote: »

Do i have to just accept that i cant do a thing?

Yes, you do have to

JimmyTheWig

The two year contract is, basically, paying for the phone.
So you can't cancel it.

But as has been said, you don't have to use the contract with that phone. Assuming that you still want to have a phone you can buy a PAYG phone (new or second hand) and put your sim into it and you will still get all your minutes, etc, just on that different phone.
How much you want to spend on a new phone is up to you.

Obviously if you can get your fixed for a better price than paying out for a new one then this would seem to be the obvious thing to do.

dealer_wins

If this episode teaches you to consider carefully the full implications of entering into contracts, then you will go through life a lot richer and happier than many people who live on borrowed money and buy things on credit over many years without thinking about the horrific costs of it.

ZhugeEX

dealer_wins wrote: »

If this episode teaches you to consider carefully the full implications of entering into contracts, then you will go through life a lot richer and happier than many people who live on borrowed money and buy things on credit over many years without thinking about the horrific costs of it.

Good post. I've never bought anything on credit in my life and plan not to.

The only things i've bought on credit would be things like contracts (phone/BB) or whatever, OR only if the credit plan works out much cheaper than buying it today. But obviously i plan ahead to work out which option works out best and is viable.

macman

kattykins65 wrote: »

No i did not say i was unaware, i understand what a 2 year contract is, i asked if there was any way you can get out of them, as in pay extra or something

'Paying extra' means that you must compensate the provider for your breach of contract. Which means putting them back in the same position that they would have been in had you seen out the minimum term. Which means paying an ETC equivalent to that amount. The advice given was perfectly constructive. It just wasn't what you wanted to hear.

jb66

Can I get out my contract, I fancy a new phone?

JimmyTheWig

Saw an advert on TV for O2 where they were saying you can change phones mid-contract. They were making out if was a great new deal for people who wanted to keep up with the latest phones.
Didn't read the small-print fully, but I believe it said that you had to pay up what was remaining on the contract in order to do it!!

robbies_gal

i noticed that jimmy right at the bottom of the ad wots the point then!