Mega-Cheap Nokia 1100 on Virgin PAYG

wendytiggermad

rabialiones wrote:

did u part exchange some old phones?
can u do that?

Nope lol

Welsh_John

Got mine yesterday & what a bargain!! Thanks to Mr Green for unlocking it.Im chuffed to bits :-)

pinkonion

shazziere wrote:

sorry to be really thick but what actually i "unlocking the phone"?I thought you just put a sim in from any phone and it works.

Mobiles sold with sim cards for a specific network are usually subsidised by that network (your average Nokia would cost a couple of hundred pounds without the subsidy). Therefore you'll be unable to use any sim for another network in that phone, unless you unlock it!

pinkonion

BNU wrote:

If any of you are feeling charitable, Virgin run a scheme whereby they donate £5 to the Red Cross for each phone they receive back through their 'Foneback' scheme.

Not quite - I got one of the bags to send one to them when I bought the 1100 offer but it states thy only donate the fiver "For every re-useable phone received". As the one I was going to send was of the brick variety I didn't bother!

timmo65

gdalby wrote:

I've tried many times to order the phone online, from 2 different PCs. Each time when I review the order, in the section marked Delivery, I get the message
No times available, press Amend and choose another date.
This happens even if I choose another date. Any idea what's going wrong?
:wall:

I think as you ordered this over a bank holiday you needed to go further ahead for the delivery day. I did this on Sat and had to out out to 1st June to get a date with a time available. The deliverymen are obviously a bit busy !!

Rebob

Can I order another using the same details? It would make a good pressie.

BNU_2

Yes

pinkonion wrote:

Not quite - I got one of the bags to send one to them when I bought the 1100 offer but it states thy only donate the fiver "For every re-useable phone received". As the one I was going to send was of the brick variety I didn't bother!

It may still be worth sending it off if it still works because a lot of these older phones still have a use as they can be reconditioned and sent to the Third World where the look of the phone is unimportant. Just a thought if it was otherwise going to languish in a drawer!

BNU_2

Yes

Rebob wrote:

Can I order another using the same details? It would make a good pressie.

T & Cs say 2 per person (See bottom of Original Post)

timmo65

Rebob wrote:

Can I order another using the same details? It would make a good pressie.

I have ordered 3 so far all with the same contact/payment/delivery details etc and had no problems. So I don't see why not.

gdalby

gdalby wrote:

I've tried many times to order the phone online, from 2 different PCs. Each time when I review the order, in the section marked Delivery, I get the message
No times available, press Amend and choose another date.
This happens even if I choose another date. Any idea what's going wrong?
:wall:

Problem solved! It turned out that the site didn't recognise my home post code (it was newly generated 3 years ago) but it didn't say that that was the problem. When I entered a work address for delivery, all was ok. It does annoy me that some sites use obsolete post code databases.
Looking forward to my new phone - my Nokia 3330 was ok but the lack of an auto key lock has cost me a fair bit over the years in accidentally dialled numbers.