Cancelling a mobile - mid contract with Tesco

Italianemma

So I want to move to another provider, but Tesco have told me that if I want to move I'll have to pay £233 which is just ridiculous. I'm a poor student, so really not within my budget but I need to get out of the family contract. I've found another I like.

Can I pay the upgrade fee of £80, which then starts a new contract and then cancel it in the 14 day cooling off period? Has anyone managed this successfully? Thanks

TadleyBaggie

I think you will find there is no cooling off period for upgrades, only new contracts.

Browntoa

You signed a contract.

You buy it out to leave early.

Not unfair in the slightest

Italianemma

I did not sign the contract, I am not the contract holder as its a family account.

Have checked with Tesco and if I upgrade I still get the 14 day cool off period so this might work

Browntoa

You misunderstand , 14 day cooling off on the new upgrade contract , not the existing one

JJ_Egan

2019 a contract does not need to be signed to be valid .
Be carefull you or your family have a lawful contract that needs paying .
Poor student ( they all say that ) does not want to end up with debt recovery chasing and credit record trashed for six years .
You may well not be the one on the contract but someone is going to have to pay .

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Italianemma wrote: »

I did not sign the contract, I am not the contract holder as its a family account.

Have checked with Tesco and if I upgrade I still get the 14 day cool off period so this might work

It really, really won't.

20aday

Does the value of the phone you've got on contract cover the cost of the Early Termination Fee?

d123

Italianemma wrote: »

I did not sign the contract, I am not the contract holder as its a family account.

Have checked with Tesco and if I upgrade I still get the 14 day cool off period so this might work

It won’t. When you cancel the new upgrade contract they will simply put you back onto the old existing contract.

You will trash the credit file of whoever in your family is the contract holder if you try and be too clever, you agreed to a 12 month contract and the only way out in this instance is to pay the early termination charge.

stripeyfox

You can't "cancel" a mobile contract halfway through (generally speaking).

If you want out you need to pay up the contract.

Or wait until the contract ends.

stripeyfox

Italianemma wrote: »

So I want to move to another provider, but Tesco have told me that if I want to move I'll have to pay £233 which is just ridiculous. I'm a poor student, so really not within my budget but I need to get out of the family contract. I've found another I like.

Can I pay the upgrade fee of £80, which then starts a new contract and then cancel it in the 14 day cooling off period? Has anyone managed this successfully? Thanks

Found another contract you like, or another phone you like?