3 Retention Deals

waynedance

I have 2 contracts that just ended and have been offered the following.

250mins
50 text
2000 3 to 3
2 gb internet

£7.24 inc vat 12 months sim only (bought myself Galaxy last year)

300 mins
unlimited text
2000 3 to 3
2gb internet

£10 month or £15 month with 500 mins 12 month again sim only.

I really want unlimited internet on the 1st deal for the same price and 500+ mins on the 2nd for £10

Am i being unrealistic?

Kyle_2

waynedance wrote: »

I have 2 contracts that just ended and have been offered the following.

250mins
50 text
2000 3 to 3
2 gb internet

£7.24 inc vat 12 months sim only (bought myself Galaxy last year)

300 mins
unlimited text
2000 3 to 3
2gb internet

£10 month or £15 month with 500 mins 12 month again sim only.

I really want unlimited internet on the 1st deal for the same price and 500+ mins on the 2nd for £10

Am i being unrealistic?

Not unrealistic at all! Thats what i got for my daughter from Tesco's sim only before xmas (500mins + unltd text + unltd int 1gb)
It looks like Three this year are not offering the offers they were last year....
In the past when talking to Three about upgrade i have always just kept talking and talking saying i want more and more and eventually got a good offer.

shinydoc

waynedance wrote: »

I have 2 contracts that just ended and have been offered the following.

250mins
50 text
2000 3 to 3
2 gb internet

£7.24 inc vat 12 months sim only (bought myself Galaxy last year)

300 mins
unlimited text
2000 3 to 3
2gb internet

£10 month or £15 month with 500 mins 12 month again sim only.

I really want unlimited internet on the 1st deal for the same price and 500+ mins on the 2nd for £10

Am i being unrealistic?

I don't know what you are intending to use your mobile internet on your phone for, but do you really believe that you will actually use more than 1GB, let alone 2GB internet per month:eek:?

I assume that you aren't intending to tether your phone to a PC and use the internet like that, as most providers will ask you to pay extra for that.

danz1234

shinydoc wrote: »

I don't know what you are intending to use your mobile internet on your phone for, but do you really believe that you will actually use more than 1GB, let alone 2GB internet per month:eek:?

I assume that you aren't intending to tether your phone to a PC and use the internet like that, as most providers will ask you to pay extra for that.

I use well over 2gb on my desire hd each month and that's without tethering. So thankful for the unlimited internet.

shinydoc

danz1234 wrote: »

I use well over 2gb on my desire hd each month and that's without tethering. So thankful for the unlimited internet.

WOW! that is impressive!!! I don't know anyone that uses anywhere near that much! I guess you use it for video loads?

danz1234

shinydoc wrote: »

WOW! that is impressive!!! I don't know anyone that uses anywhere near that much! I guess you use it for video loads?

Yes lots of video ( BBC iplayer etc ).

shinydoc

danz1234 wrote: »

Yes lots of video ( BBC iplayer etc ).

Ahh, yes, well that would do it, and with a nice big screen I can see the attraction!! (I have an HTC HD2 for work , but with the extended battery! You get a nice little 'prop' stand with that battery too, as I'm sure you know)

I would be interested to hear what you get out of 3. In my experience they keep pestering you more frequently as you get nearer to expiry. I requested my PAC and on one of the many calls I said I was actually going to order that night from my alternative supplier, and then had about 4 calls from them in about 2 hours! I had actually ordered from the other one when they finally gave me what I wanted!

From some of the comments on here, they may not seem so 'desperate' now; their loss I guess.

danz1234

shinydoc wrote: »

Ahh, yes, well that would do it, and with a nice big screen I can see the attraction!! (I have an HTC HD2 for work , but with the extended battery! You get a nice little 'prop' stand with that battery too, as I'm sure you know)

I would be interested to hear what you get out of 3. In my experience they keep pestering you more frequently as you get nearer to expiry. I requested my PAC and on one of the many calls I said I was actually going to order that night from my alternative supplier, and then had about 4 calls from them in about 2 hours! I had actually ordered from the other one when they finally gave me what I wanted!

From some of the comments on here, they may not seem so 'desperate' now; their loss I guess.

I had to ring them several times as wanted the one plan with the free £10 international calls that I had seen other people getting a while ago. Finally got offered it on 24 month contract for £29 but opted for £34 for 18 month (hate the idea of a 24 month contract ). I upgraded a month before my contract expired so never received any calls from them and wasn't really offered any deals until I rang up asking for my PAC and told them I was going to move to tmobile. I get the impression at the moment that they don't seem to be offering deals as much.
Where did you get the battery from?

shinydoc

danz1234 wrote: »

I had to ring them several times as wanted the one plan with the free £10 international calls that I had seen other people getting a while ago. Finally got offered it on 24 month contract for £29 but opted for £34 for 18 month (hate the idea of a 24 month contract ). I upgraded a month before my contract expired so never received any calls from them and wasn't really offered any deals until I rang up asking for my PAC and told them I was going to move to tmobile. I get the impression at the moment that they don't seem to be offering deals as much.
Where did you get the battery from?

You really have to threaten to leave, get the PAC etc and then they chase you at the very last moment in my experience. Yes, 24mths is long, and with technology moving the way it does, a new phone is calling long before then!

I got a '2600mAh' one from ebay for £5.94 delivered. (A genuine HTC one, probably made in the same place, is about £25ish) It's bulky, as you would expect, but lasts twice as long as the standard one, so that is longer than a day!!! You really pay the price with a big screen. I have a Nokia N8 too but get nearly a week out of that

HTC really need to beef up their battery capacity, commensurate with the screen size/power consumption.

waynedance

Will update when i decide what I am doing.

Got the pacs and had the calls but nothing good offered yet.