Orange Retention Offers

drbesty

You can get any handset, unlock it and stick an Orange sim in it, most of the generic handsets sold are also unlocked, I'm referring to handsets that are officially being launched by Orange

thebuckets

daggy wrote: »

£449 on the apple store, and no doubt a lotless on eBay

would i be able to unlock the handset from the apple store and use my contract sim from orange in it?
only reason is i know they will offer me a deal for about £20 per month and i could sell the handset they give me to part finance the purchase of the iphone
any ideas of which handset is easiest to sell on/worth the most (couldnt get the bold as i was told that the BB data bundle wouldnt work in an iphone and i would need another bolt on for data)

daggy

thebuckets wrote: »

would i be able to unlock the handset from the apple store and use my contract sim from orange in it?
only reason is i know they will offer me a deal for about £20 per month and i could sell the handset they give me to part finance the purchase of the iphone
any ideas of which handset is easiest to sell on/worth the most (couldnt get the bold as i was told that the BB data bundle wouldnt work in an iphone and i would need another bolt on for data)

You could unlock the phone, but it would make more sense for you to buy an Orange iPhone, possibly PAYG from orange store or from eBay.

Erm, HTC Hero, Sony Ericsson SAtio, Nokia x6... they all go for about £200-£250 on eBay... HTC HD2 is a £400 plus phone, but not on Orange.

mrobbo

I'm due for an upgrade with Orange in March.

Currently paying £35pm, on the God awful Samsung i8530, and I am coming to the end of an 18 month contract.

Wanting a new contract for around the bargain basement price of £10pm (money is tight ). Ideally, I'll like an internet bundle thrown in for that as well. Not bothered about what phone I get, although I want to avoid Samsung.

Am I asking too much?! Has anyone got a deal for around this price? Cheers.

baxgttdi

personally I think you'll struggle unless you get a sim only deal but then obviously you'll be stuck with the same phone that you seem to hate. Also you don't say how many minutesand texts etc you currently have. If you did somehow manage to get within that price range I'd imagine the amount you'd get with the contract would take a huge drop but I could be wrong.

Quackers

mrobbo wrote: »

I'm due for an upgrade with Orange in March.

Currently paying £35pm, on the God awful Samsung i8530, and I am coming to the end of an 18 month contract.

Wanting a new contract for around the bargain basement price of £10pm (money is tight ). Ideally, I'll like an internet bundle thrown in for that as well. Not bothered about what phone I get, although I want to avoid Samsung.

Am I asking too much?! Has anyone got a deal for around this price? Cheers.

I just got 400 minutes, unlimited texts for £10 a month.

18 month contract.

Tried really hard for unlimited internet but no go suprisingly

You can add on internet for £5 a month though when you can afford it??

Phone was a really simple Nokia 6303 classic - I'm really not interested in gadget phones & just wanted a £10 deal with unlimited texts so very pleased

mrobbo

Quackers wrote: »

I just got 400 minutes, unlimited texts for £10 a month.

18 month contract.

Tried really hard for unlimited internet but no go suprisingly

You can add on internet for £5 a month though when you can afford it??

Phone was a really simple Nokia 6303 classic - I'm really not interested in gadget phones & just wanted a £10 deal with unlimited texts so very pleased

Excellent, thanks for the info.

This is the kind of deal that would interest me, as I too am not bothered about the phone (although saying that, I've had Nokias before and they were a lot better than my current phone, which is a Samsung).

TessaW_2

just a question for lucfcgirl....

when I selected the 'thinking of leaving orange' option will that have put me through to the retentions department or can you only be internally transferred to retentions? I think he said 'loyalty department' or something like that when he answered the phone...

thanks

EDIT - I can answer that question myself - you can get through to retentions by choosing this option (I just called again and checked). Apologies!

TessaW_2

just wanted to post the final deal I've taken for other people's info:

18 month contract
Free HTC Hero
600 cross network mins
300 texts
unlimited landline calls
unlimited internet

£22.50 per month

jimmykabs

Hi im new to the forum and just wanted to share my experience with Orange.

Just phoned up today to upgrade my phone and this is what I got offered:
Blackberry Bold 9700
600 mins
1300 texts
unlimited internet
18 month contract
£23.50 per month

Sounds pretty good to me, should I take this or go through to retentions?