I am due an upgrade, or is it just the end of the contract

gfplux

vulnerable
[vuhl-ner-uh-buh l]
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adjective
1.
capable of or susceptible to being wounded or hurt, as by a weapon:
a vulnerable part of the body.
2.
open to moral attack, criticism, temptation, etc.:
an argument vulnerable to refutation; He is vulnerable to bribery.
3.
(of a place) open to assault; difficult to defend:
a vulnerable bridge.
4.
Bridge. having won one of the games of a rubber.

How about in 2 above,
Vulnerable to being conned!

mobilejunkie

Everyone is that. The difference is that some of us like the freedom to make bad decisions and learn from them. Apparently some people believe that by removing choice the "vulnerable" can't be "conned". They are mistaken; all of us will then get "conned" by the few who make all our decisions for us.

Timalay

gfplux wrote: »

If you sign a contract for 24 months at the end of the contract period surely you are due nothing. Perhaps as an existing customer there may be some sense of loyalty (ha ha) but surely you are not "due an upgrade"

Can anyone cast some light on this.

I'm on an Anytime contract (where I pay for the phone and usage). So when my contract ends my bill is only the usage part).

grumbler

Timalay wrote: »

I'm on an Anytime contract (where I pay for the phone and usage). So when my contract ends my bill is only the usage part).

So, you aren't "due" anything - like with any other contract - as the OP suggested.
What's your point then?

Timalay

Sorry I thought they where saying nothing changes when your contract ends.

Mrs_Ryan

I've just upgraded- I was paying £35 a month for an iPhone 5. I'm now paying £45 a month for an iPhone 5S. Yes all that is wrong with my iPhone 5 was it needed the battery sorting and I know the 5S is basically the same phone. But I'm happy with my upgrade. My new contract includes calls to 08 numbers which I didn't previously have and is where the money I spend over my unlimited minutes goes. I need unlimited minutes as I make a lot of long calls so a cheap SIM only with a piddly amount of minutes is no good to me and EE is one of the few companies with decent coverage here. There's no 02 coverage at all, Vodafone has hefty black spots around the village and I had such an awful experience with 3 I wouldn't touch them anyway. Call me gullible if you want but I wanted another iPhone and I wasn't prepared to pay £65 a month for the privilege of an iPhone 6 which I'm not even that keen on.

cklass

Mrs_Ryan wrote: »

Call me gullible if you want but I wanted another iPhone and I wasn't prepared to pay £65 a month for the privilege of an iPhone 6 which I'm not even that keen on.

But could you have afforded to buy the 5S outright and gotten a SIM only plan? Virgin Media - which uses EE's network - offers a plan with unlimited minutes and calls to 08 numbers for £12 per month, so if you could have afforded to pay £459 for the phone, you would have saved at least £333. Even buying the phone outright and staying with EE on a SIM only plan would have been cheaper than upgrading.

I don't think a lot of people realise that they're essentially taking out a loan with a ridiculous interest rate when they buy a phone contract. If you can afford to buy the phone outright - which a lot of people who have contracts can - it's always the cheapest option.

Frozen_up_north

I've just upgraded- I was paying £35 a month for an iPhone 5. I'm now paying £45 a month for an iPhone 5S. Yes all that is wrong with my iPhone 5 was it needed the battery sorting and I know the 5S is basically the same phone.

£50 or so to have Apple replace the iPhone 5 battery, go to SIM only for much less per month and call 0800 numbers out of your existing minutes via 0800 Buster (0333 555 8800) -save yourself a significant sum of money...

robbies_gal

ee do sim only unlimited minutes u could have switched to that

grumbler

Mrs_Ryan wrote: »

.... I'm now paying £45 a month for an iPhone 5S. Yes all that is wrong with my iPhone 5 was it needed the battery sorting and I know the 5S is basically the same phone. But I'm happy with my upgrade. ...

Frozen_up_north wrote: »

£50 or so to have Apple replace the iPhone 5 battery, go to SIM only for much less per month ... -save yourself a significant sum of money...

robbies_gal wrote: »

ee do sim only unlimited minutes u could have switched to that

Stop pi55ing on her parade.