Buy £20 worth of Orange PAYG credit and get a free phone!

pkempc

We've just got the £20 PAYG & free Motorola F3 deal for our son to use as a basic introduction to mobiles & then for emergency use only. He goes up to big school this September and we need to know if he is going to be late home, etc.

Both my wife & myself are already Orange PAYG customers, as are my parents, so it makes sense to stick with them.

The F3 phone itself is extremely basic and is worth every single penny it didn't cost!!!!! It really doesn't matter if it gets broken or lost after a year or so.

We went for the PAYG option so that he knows how much all his calls & texts will cost - when the £20 airtime runs out its up to him to buy more.

winalot

i went in and got the alcatel today at victoria station london branch - they said it's not in the 14 day refund thing whatever that is so you can't return if you don't like the phone - anyway left the shop and they/d given me the moto by mistake - i actually prefer that but as the phone is for OH and she wants a clam had to go back and get it changed- was a a bit problematic but they relented as id paid by visa. looks ok. the credit is loaded on the phone. does anyone know if there is a time limit in whcih the credit has to be used usually on these things - i'm not normally a heavy user.

Edinburghlass_2

skibster wrote: »

I like the pink phone! But as I don't need one right now, here's an FYI if you want a "granny phone" (meaning you won't make many calls on it): Tesco doesn't require you to keep topping up to stay active. I bought £30 of airtime a year ago and got a free phone from Tesco. I still have probably £20 or so of airtime left. I think the sim card will stay active no matter how long I take to use that time up.

I've used an Orange sim after more than a year and the credit was still on it. Of course the best use of an Orange sim is the Orange Wednesday 2 for 1 at the cinema, text 241 with cinema and you'll get a text back with a code (the reply text will cost you 35p) then show your code at the cinema.

http://orangewednesdays.orange.co.uk/

snailsontour

We have just got the Alcatel phone for a £20 top up on our existing PAYG. For an existing Orange customer the deal is they give you a new SIM card and transfer your existing number and balance on to it, otherwise you just get the phone with SIM card and a new number.

clare2007

Here are the 2 phones

Alcatel OT-E230
Motarola F3

satrianez

You can see a video review of the Motorola F3 here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwHPK1LMXtk

It seems to be quite sturdy.

Phones4U sells it for £4.95 when you take a £10 Virgin Mobile Top-Up with it:
http://www.phones4u.co.uk/shop/shop_payg_details.asp?ItemKey=164685

So, unless you want to be on Orange like your friends and family or you want to use it for movies, the Virgin mobile is a better deal. :T

TheOne

On the orange link in the first post it says, you can buy the phone for £9.99 + topup as little as £10, making the cheapest deal £19.99

thepearce

Rias wrote: »

Are these sellers legitimate?
Where do they get top up vouchers to sell at below face value?
We had £380 of top ups illegally taken from our credit card last year, I wondered at the time why someone would top up by that much and on 4 different companies. Seeing this has made me think maybe that's what they did, top ups were free to them so whatever they sell them for is profit?

I guess there's all sorts of things bought with stolen cards and sold on ebay.

In the case of these vouchers there is likely a large number of legitimate reasons. I myself have had £30 of tesco top-up vouchers sitting in a draw doing nothing for some months. This came from an offer where I got two phones at a very reduced price when buying top up cards.

Moomscene

Thanks for the tip, but I've just been to my local Orange shop and the deal seems to be a replacement to my current pay as you go, rather than what I naively believed to be a free handset...

hogshead

My phone is very old & DD wants a mobile too so may be a good deal for 'granny' calls = me ( not a reg user )