How the **** did you get that for a tenner reids? arguing on the phone? That is pretty much exactly the deal I want. Did you have the phone already or get it with the contract?
I'm with orange, here's how I did it , although Ive held off for a while waiting for the desire or legend, but in the meantime out of contract for 4 months and forking out £35 a month, so i pointed out that they have been getting a good deal from me since december.
go through to the 'i'm thinkiing of leaving orange dept.'
say that you are thinking of flicking them off, (i said cos signal is pish)
they tried to get me to have a blackberry that is uma and connects to your wireless router to get a signal (still comes off your plan though unlike dylans in the u.s).
I said i didnt like them and then showed an interest in the hero........but it's not uma sir !!
i can live with that tbh as i have for the last 6 years, so how much.
we can do that for £15 (still very good deal)
I held out and then on the next call the guy offered it for a tenner. I didnt take it cos I had rang about the desire or legend (although I know it's gonna be £30 at least for that)
yesterday I rang and they wouldnt play, they wanted £15, I said no.
today I rang back and got through to a lovely geordie lass who was willing to give me what I wanted i.e.for £10.
I reckon the 1 yesterday was a ladder climber who wanted to extract as much as poss to kiss some bosses arse, whereas the 1 today didnt really give a flying, they tell me that what they can offer changes daily, so basically it pays to put the phone down and ring back next day, everyone gets loyalty points as well so it depends where you are with them, the 1st guy to offer it for a tenner reckoned I wouldnt ever have to pay for a handset cos of my points rating, it would just be the oprice of the plan that would alter.
I didnt have internet on my other phone so they are giving me that for free, cos i'm kind of a new customer on that score (it's £5 otherwise).
All in all a top deal really, I mean £10 ffs.. It's worth that just for the unlimited landlines.
like I say, if i still have signal issues at home then I'll grab a voda sim to use for diverting to in another phone, as most of my calls go through my landline, I just leave it turned on divert cos I forget to turn it on when I go out and it cant be done remotely, apparently I can have it where it will divert after 6 rings or however many I set, so i'm gonna try that for a while, that way when I'm in I can pick it up and save running that bill up with calls to my mobile.
I might feck virgin off now and just get broadband off them for a tenner, as they get about £48 off me, I dont need a landline and i fancy 1 of those starview jobbies, and I saw a Hd one for £150, so if I save 36 a month on that I can have a 'box' and a hd telly (not the best available admittedly) and over a year it'll almost pay for itself.
I could of course sell the hero, buy a sim free desire and still be getting it all for less than they would charge me, but I'm happy as larry with this for £10.
