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  • You-kip
    You-kip Posts: 499 Forumite
    redux wrote: »
    I reckon iPhone snobbery and its related Stockholm syndrome is still alive and well when someone can have it explicitly pointed out how to save on the contract, on a thread started for that exact purpose, and then say so what.

    I suppose it's true though that it's not quite as dramatic as the case for the higher spec phone on the £52 contract.

    Really don't understand your point regarding snobbery it's a mobile phone not a helicopter.
  • NFH
    NFH Posts: 4,413 Forumite
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    You-kip wrote: »
    Really don't understand your point regarding snobbery it's a mobile phone not a helicopter.
    It's a premium phone, which costs at least £549 for the most basic model (£624 in your case). Premium products can generate snobbery, not with all owners but at least with some.
  • grumbler
    grumbler Posts: 58,629 Forumite
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    edited 24 September 2013 at 3:48PM
    You-kip wrote: »
    Really don't understand your point regarding snobbery it's a mobile phone not a helicopter.
    IMHO it is snobbery to say that £75 possible saving on a mobile phone purchase isn't worth mentioning and discussing.
    For a helicopter an equivalent amount would probably be ~£300K.
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