Orange Retention Offers

Mark22

daggy wrote: »

Utter bolloks. If you get that phone then you'll lose the unlimited internet (not applicable for BB AFAIK), I'd tell them to wave the fee or you'll walk.

Also, £10 for the Nokia.. tell them you wont pay.

Wrong, they cant waive the fee for blackberry internet and if theyre giving all the other phones free, but charging a paltry £10 for the 5800, then its obvious as they are constrained

Mark22

daggy wrote: »

You could probably do that, you could also save £5 by removing the BB net package and then ypu just need unlimited web for the iPhone.

Sorry Daggy, wrong again, the package mentioned is a Panther package, and the blackberry internet is inclusive of the package, looking at the website, its obvious as it doesnt include unlimited landline (Racoon) or unlimited texts (Dolphin) so they wouldnt save the £5, and Blackberry internet is incompatible with iPhones.

Mark22

x12yhp wrote: »

Thanks guys. I am still on the drawing board as to what phone to get - the N97 mini is the perfect phone if only it worked and nothing else seems to offer the same supposed ability as an all rounder. Every year I have this problem - manufacturers faff about and produce endless phones. Yet almost every great phone has an area in which it fails miserably. You'd wonder why someone doesn't just make a phone that does everything well instead of worrying about making it the best in one area!

Motorola Dext has the same look and feel as the N97, but for reliability and all round features get the Nokia 6700, 5mp camera, decent battery, ok for internet, not the most eye catching but at least it works.

latecomer

daggy wrote: »

If it's on the same package, you should have went for the hero... had a go of one the other day and they are great... better IMO.... although camera isnt as good.

But yeah, you should have went for hero, then sold it and bought the 995as the hero is more expensive :P

what deal did you get?

I had a look at some reviews for the Hero and they all seemed to say battery life is pretty poor which swung it for me. I dont like having to cart around a charger or usb lead everywhere I go

the final deal was

400 mins
300 texts
unlimited landlines
unlimited internet
SE W995

18 month contract

£15 per month

Which I'm happy with. New phone arrived at work today so I'll have a play when I get home.

mcclim

I called Orange today my contract ends in May I was offered the following.. is this any good ?

HTC HEro
800 Minutes
Unlimited TXTS
UNlimited INternet

All for £25 per month on an 18month contract ?

spikeyjac

LOL, Some people make me laugh.
Girl in my class comes in today, with a new iPhone 3gs..
Oh is it an upgrade?
Yeah i get 1200 min, ultd texts/ internet all for £27 per month..
Oh you with o2 refurbished?
Nope orange through cpw

Ahh cool ( in my head, SUREEEEE, I beleive you!)

Seanb2uk

HTC Hero
400 Minutes
Unlimited Texts
Unlimited Internet

£30 a month 18 Months. I already accepted, but you get 7 days to cancel it.

I got through to disconnections today and tried to get a better deal on it and the guy just said he'd put the upgrade cancellation through for me. Didn't offer me a thing, despite being an orange customer 3 years+

daggy

x12yhp wrote: »

Thanks guys. I am still on the drawing board as to what phone to get - the N97 mini is the perfect phone if only it worked and nothing else seems to offer the same supposed ability as an all rounder. Every year I have this problem - manufacturers faff about and produce endless phones. Yet almost every great phone has an area in which it fails miserably. You'd wonder why someone doesn't just make a phone that does everything well instead of worrying about making it the best in one area!

Motorola Milestone
video review

It's a much better phone, aside from a smaller keypad....
Runs androi too.
If you want a good keypad... HTC touch pro 2

daggy

Mark22 wrote: »

Wrong, they cant waive the fee for blackberry internet and if theyre giving all the other phones free, but charging a paltry £10 for the 5800, then its obvious as they are constrained

No, I'm not wrong. They can waive the fee for the internet and the phone. This is retentions we're talknig about, their very remit gives them flexibility (within reasons) with what they offer.

You seemed to hyave mised the boat...
The offer that was made available to them is this:
400 mins
300 texts
unlimited landlines
unlimited internet

£15 per month.

However, if they had went for the Blackberry, the unlimited internet would have been no use to them, therefore they could simplu have asked to have BB internet in placeof the unlimited internet, effectively swapping them or waiving the fee so to speak

Mark22 wrote: »

Sorry Daggy, wrong again, the package mentioned is a Panther package, and the blackberry internet is inclusive of the package, looking at the website, its obvious as it doesnt include unlimited landline (Racoon) or unlimited texts (Dolphin) so they wouldnt save the £5, and Blackberry internet is incompatible with iPhones.

No, once again, I'm not.
Here is the original offer:

BB Bold 9700 Free
800mins
300 text + 1000 free
unlimted email and internet
Orange Maps

If you check the orange website, you'll see that they don't currently offer an 800 minute package with 300 texts + 100 texts, plus orange maps and internet and definitely not for £20 p/m

The most likely candidate is the Panther 30 18 month, but heavily modified as a retentions offer...

Original offer is: Racoon 30 18 month £30 (£25 online)

400 minutes
300 texts
unlimited push email
free orange maps
phone cost: £99

Retentions would have heavily modified this package to come to the deal that was quoted.
The best soloution to the problem would be to go on a dolphin package, then have the BB net added as an extra (£5 pm), therefore, when they buy the iPhone, they can remove this and add the standar internet,so they can use it on iPhone.

daggy

latecomer wrote: »

I had a look at some reviews for the Hero and they all seemed to say battery life is pretty poor which swung it for me. I dont like having to cart around a charger or usb lead everywhere I go

the final deal was

400 mins
300 texts
unlimited landlines
unlimited internet
SE W995

18 month contract

£15 per month

Which I'm happy with. New phone arrived at work today so I'll have a play when I get home.

Yeah, all smartphones seem to have sucky batt life

Let me know how the phone is when you get a chance.