ORANGE Playing Hardball with my upgrade options...

neilied

i am currently on panther £55 up'd from an old orange premier tariff. anyhow i upgrade and as i am band 5 all handsets are free but i upgrade early and pay £50 fee. month 1 bill incs £50 fee, then pay month 2 and 3 bill. once i've payed month 3 bill the fee drops to £50 again. then pop into the shop for a free upto the minute handset and re box the old one and ebay it as nearly new for on ave £160. then repeat the process. bills average about £65/month for me tops. so £65 x 3 + fee = £245. sale of handset £160 = monthly fee of £28 for 800 mins(rolled) 200 texts and unlimited weekend landlines plus the bonus of a new handset ecery 3 months. just got my nephew on the same as he was on a mixture of deals and spending over £100 per month.

current LG Viewty < samsungG600 < LG Prada < SE M600i < SE K800i < LG P7200 < SE W800i < Nokia 6810i and so on for the last 2 years!!

neilied

i frequently use in excess of 600-700 mins a month so need a tariff that offers this. i pay talk plan £55 per month per bill and every 3 mnths upgrade for £50 fee with a free handset, i sell a handset every 3 mnths. just sold the G600 for £170ish and in march will sell the viewty too. as long as i sell the previous handset i claw back about £650 a year.

my talk plan is £55 so annually thats £660 so thats about evens, all i pay is £200 in upgrade fees per year. for that i get a new handset every 3 months!!

diamonds

neilied can you do this direct via premier care on 150 or is it instore only ? might jump up to panther £55 if this is the case might save me pi$ing about with other networks contracts I never use to get basically get a discounted handset on 0% finance, last one was K800i T-Mobile for £7.50 on 18 month deal in sep 06 - still paying it off ( & what a waste of money for a sh it handset ! I used it rarely )