iPhone Activation and Contract sign-up - stolen phone problem!

Bamber19

I know this isn't helpful but i'm just curious, are you the drummer from the rumble strips?

mattrumlbe

Yep! This is true!

dmg24

mattrumlbe wrote: »

Surly this isn't really the place to discus the technical merits of a phone or anything else to that matter but in my opinion, its a pretty amazing device from the small amount of time i spent with it (im not some mac nut btw).
You're right about the subsidised phone though Blacksheep1979. I should really just let it go. Wait till i get some windfall, but it would be nice if o2 could but the account on hold till i can afford a half decent handset.

Butlers1982, you cant inquire about insurance while signing up via iTunes. iTunes is the ONLY way to activate phone when signing up.

But you could have enquired about insurance at the Apple shop, or from other sources where mobile insurance is available (you do not have to get your phone and insurance from the same place).

I would get a cheap PAYG until you can afford a better phone, then at least you are able to use the call plan that you are paying for.

pinkshoes

I'm curious as to why you let it out your sight in the first place?!?! You say you spent ages saving up for it, and it's the first thing you've spend money on outside of travel costs for 4 months, so why be so careless and allow it to get stolen in the first place?!

I guess you'll have to put it down to experience, buy a cheap replacement phone to use during the 18 month contract, and in future when buying things worth £900 (cost of phone plus contract?), you should take out insurance, or guard it with your life!

strud41

did you pay bu a credit card some cover purcahses for first so many days !

mattrumlbe

Nah, Switch card. That was my first thought, the stupid thing is i put a apple power adapter on the credit card and the iphone on the switch for some reason.
Doh!

mattrumlbe

pinkshoes wrote: »

I'm curious as to why you let it out your sight in the first place?!?! You say you spent ages saving up for it, and it's the first thing you've spend money on outside of travel costs for 4 months, so why be so careless and allow it to get stolen in the first place?!

I guess you'll have to put it down to experience, buy a cheap replacement phone to use during the 18 month contract, and in future when buying things worth £900 (cost of phone plus contract?), you should take out insurance, or guard it with your life!

yeah, well i was DJing in a club, it was busy and the whiskey was flowing, i guess guy took a liking to it and half inched it from my pocket, or maybe it was that girl i was with, hmmm...

mattrumlbe

Hmmm, things are looking up. i just got a call from o2 saying they're current iPhone contract practice is very fluid and is in the process of changing(changed there tune somewhat) and would be willing to either change the contract to a 12 month standard contract and give me a lower end handset or if i buy another iPhone give me some call credit on the account. I wonder if they're keeping an eye my threads?

Alfie_E

mattrumlbe wrote: »

i just got a call from o2 saying they're current iPhone contract practice is very fluid and is in the process of changing

The iPhone launch in the UK turned out to be a bit of a damp squib.

Tumbleweeds outnumber punters, as iPhone's First Night flops
O2 chief dampens iPhone hype

There’ll be hundreds of people who lose or break their iPhones during the eighteen month contract. O2 must have a contingency. They can’t be planning to tell them all, “Tough. You’ll remain an unhappy customer, until you can finally be free of us. And neither we nor Apple care if you never buy our products again.” You just seem to have been a bit quick off the mark in losing yours. I don’t see why you shouldn’t be allowed a replacement iPhone, at cost price. It’s not like they’re running out of them.

stacey21_2

There are also loads of customers who lose or break normal phones and have to keep the contract ;-)

Anyway, the good news for the OP is that he can move to a 12 or 18 month standard tariff almost like an 'upgrade' with a new handset and no penalty. Just like starting again but £269 lighter.