Advice on 3rd Party Mobile Contract Sellers

anotheruser · 9 July 2016 at 5:51PM

I have generally ALWAYS gone direct to the mobile company.

Although I am thinking of changing my deal at the moment to Vodafone, through mobiles.co.uk - but it's a funny cashback deal, which I don't know if I can be bothered to do. It's only 50p less a month, but gives us 10GB of data instead of our 1,250GB (I get an extra 250MB a month for having two contracts - Tesco).

We don't really use that much data anyway but I'd be a lot happier with loads more. But then we'd be messing about again when the 12 months is up - another sim card, another PAC code, blah blah blah. Hmm.

Although technically, we'd be a bit better off as Santander 123 pay cashback on mobile contracts, so they'd pay the cashback on the whole £23.50 a month for the contract. But then looking at the complaints with Vodafone... - all swings and roundabouts I guess.

Are 3rd party sellers reliable?

mobilejunkie · 9 July 2016 at 6:19PM

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/558661

I've had scores of contracts and never buy direct. As for Vodafone - check page one of this forum on any day in any month and come to your own conclusions.

anotheruser · 9 July 2016 at 7:36PM

mobilejunkie wrote: »

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/558661

This post doesn't really apply to me.
The fact you seem to think nearly everyone is out to be scammed is such a large sweep. Granted, there are many people out there that struggle - I work in an industry and see people overspend on a daily basis.

mobilejunkie · 9 July 2016 at 8:00PM

Really? Then you should be perfectly capable of deciding without help.

anotheruser · 10 July 2016 at 2:37PM

It's not about deciding.
It's about other people's opinions, so I see it from a different point of view. You gave your opinion already "I've had scores of contracts and never buy direct"