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02 Retentions thread 2

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  • Hi everybody,

    I am on a £40 cash back deal (800 mins 100 texts) with O2/CPW, monthly spending about £70 (on premium text message for international calling) and my contract ends up in a few days.

    What could be the best deal I can get for extending the contract now, is it advisible to stick with the CPW or should I look for somebody else?

    What I am really interested in is at least 800 minutes for minimum cost no matter I get a good phone or not.

    Any suggestion will be highly welcomed

    Best Regards,
    SI
  • kunal_x
    kunal_x Posts: 19 Forumite
    chuckley wrote: »
    thats really awful then!!!!!!!! maybe the person u spoke to couldnt be bothered! do u ever go over ur minutes?? i always do, so they always make xtra money off me.

    I guess he wasnt bothered. Yep always made more money from me, I spend around £40-£65 monthly calling 08 and international numbers.
  • chuckley
    chuckley Posts: 4,405 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    kunal_x wrote: »
    I guess he wasnt bothered. Yep always made more money from me, I spend around £40-£65 monthly calling 08 and international numbers.
    yea man same with me.

    i really think u should go back and try retentions, u really shoulda been offered a proper deal. are u still within 14 days?!
  • bm144
    bm144 Posts: 42 Forumite
    i was woundering if anybody could help me out, i've been with 02 for years (probably about 6) and have had half price line rental of the £35 tarif . anyway about a month ago i wanted to upgrade my phone and so rang o2 to ask what was the best deal they could give and they told me because i was on such a good deal i was probably best just going and buying a phone and staying on the tariff i was on. still wanting a new phone i went into an o2 shop to ask the same thing, there they again told me they couldn't match what i was on but got my account details on screen where he said there was no date in which my half price line rental would end and also said i would be best sticking with the same tariff.

    last week i treated myself to a new phone.

    today i recieved my bill which was over £30 more expensive then normal, thinking it was a simple mistake i rang o2 expecting it to be corrected. there response was that my contract had ended in june and that the system has just caught up with it's self.

    where do i stand when i asked about upgrading early november o2 told me not to bother! now i don't no what to do
    today when i recieved my
  • sak46
    sak46 Posts: 123 Forumite
    dbramley wrote: »
    I've just been offered a Nokia 6600 slide (or £150 credit) with:

    600 any net minutes
    1000 texts
    free 02 to 02 calls
    18 month contract

    £15 a month

    I was on Simplicity at £15.

    Good deal I think and happy with it.

    Now just waiting for an iphone offer for my other contract!

    Hello

    I have been with 02 for about 4 years on pay as you go - do you think that they would offer me the same deal?
    Thank you for any help
  • sak46 wrote: »
    Hello

    I have been with 02 for about 4 years on pay as you go - do you think that they would offer me the same deal?
    Thank you for any help

    I just got the same deal today - so yes - and thanks for the heads-up to the OP!

    d.
  • chuckley
    chuckley Posts: 4,405 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    bm144 wrote: »
    i was woundering if anybody could help me out, i've been with 02 for years (probably about 6) and have had half price line rental of the £35 tarif . anyway about a month ago i wanted to upgrade my phone and so rang o2 to ask what was the best deal they could give and they told me because i was on such a good deal i was probably best just going and buying a phone and staying on the tariff i was on. still wanting a new phone i went into an o2 shop to ask the same thing, there they again told me they couldn't match what i was on but got my account details on screen where he said there was no date in which my half price line rental would end and also said i would be best sticking with the same tariff.

    last week i treated myself to a new phone.

    today i recieved my bill which was over £30 more expensive then normal, thinking it was a simple mistake i rang o2 expecting it to be corrected. there response was that my contract had ended in june and that the system has just caught up with it's self.

    where do i stand when i asked about upgrading early november o2 told me not to bother! now i don't no what to do
    today when i recieved my
    do u still have the invoice/receipt for the last upgrade it should say there. but how the hell all this time they never knew the date?! doesnt make sense...
  • sak46
    sak46 Posts: 123 Forumite
    dynamite wrote: »
    I just got the same deal today - so yes - and thanks for the heads-up to the OP!

    d.
    Hello


    Thanks for the reply, were you on payg and did you ring them and just ask for the deal?

    Thanks for any help
    sak46
  • aylesby
    aylesby Posts: 462 Forumite
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    Originally Posted by dbramley viewpost.gif
    I've just been offered a Nokia 6600 slide (or £150 credit) with:
    600 any net minutes
    1000 texts
    free 02 to 02 calls
    18 month contract
    £15 a month

    I have not been able to get this deal out of O2. My £35pm contact ends soon. All advice welcome as its does not seem to be based on a current tariff.
    Please confirm it is not a CPW O2 deal

    Updated 24.12.2008
    This has taken some working out but I finally got near enough for me.
    6300 refurb over 18 months on Online 30 being 400 min talk and 1000 text
    £30 pm less the £15 loyalty
    Swap the pnone for a £150 credit on the statement
    Average price £6.67 pm
    Job done
  • Its direct from 02.

    I called o2 up and selected the 'thinking of leaving 02' option.

    I spoke to a lass there and told her I wanted a pac code because I now needed a phone, I've seen some good deals on T-Mobile etc. and was looking to move to them.

    Thats when she offered that deal, I didnt have to ask for anything other than the model of the phone I was after.

    I was on £15 simplicity for the previous 12 months and never went over the £15 a month. Previous to that I was on a 18 month 02 rentention deal at only £9 per month! So I'm not exactly a big spender...

    Good luck
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