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Posted 29 June 2017
O2 Refresh iPhone SE 16gb £102 or 64gb £192 (RECONDITIONED)
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About this deal
This deal is expired. Here are some options that might interest you:
O2 have dropped the price of their iPhone SE on refresh
Means you can get the following:
16gb (perfectly fine) £101.99
£29.99 plus £3 x 24
64gb (perfectly fine) £192
£0 plus £8 x 24
Those of you who are familiar with these refresh deal will know how to obtain these prices
1. Purchase phone and plan
2. Activate phone with SIM (just use on network to receive a call or text) or call 202 for free
3. Request unlock code
4. Pay off device in full
5. Cancel contract (line rental part) with o2 within 14 days
You then have the phone for the above prices.
Just a note that a credit search will be done on you so it may effect your credit rating.
ENDS 26th JULY
Means you can get the following:
16gb (perfectly fine) £101.99
£29.99 plus £3 x 24
64gb (perfectly fine) £192
£0 plus £8 x 24
Those of you who are familiar with these refresh deal will know how to obtain these prices
1. Purchase phone and plan
2. Activate phone with SIM (just use on network to receive a call or text) or call 202 for free
3. Request unlock code
4. Pay off device in full
5. Cancel contract (line rental part) with o2 within 14 days
You then have the phone for the above prices.
Just a note that a credit search will be done on you so it may effect your credit rating.
ENDS 26th JULY
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364 Comments
sorted bybut wouldn't touch the O2 Refresh order and cancel faff with a bargepole.
How will it have a "negative" impact? Amazes me that it's 2017 and people still don't understand how credit works.
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Yeah 2017, online storage and fast internet for streaming/downloading means disposable storage is not an issue.
The comment on screen size is totally naive too. Personally love a phone which I can run with and use at night with one hand.
There's no such thing as a 'credit score', it's a made up number by credit agencies to sell extra add-ons to mugs who panic about it going down by 10 points.
Noddle says I've got an average credit score this month, was good last month. I can get cheapest deals on market if I did ever need credit. I pay zero attention to whatever their made up rating is.
Lenders only see your history, having a phone contract which you pay off early, or something like a VT in car finance won't negatively affect you.
16GB Perfectly Fine is £102
16GB Almost Perfect is £106
16GB Perfect is £120.
I cant see a plan which is SE 16gb (perfectly fine) £101.99
£29.99 plus £3 x 24 not on site that above link goes to.
Edit, 30th June, despite viewing this 'deal' within a short time of posting I can't find
any tariffs that are £29 initial payment followed by 24 months at £3 a month
anywhere on the O2 site accessed from the link here.
For me this is the most frustrating deal ever posted as I want the SE but
the tariff isn't listed, possibly because it sold out within seconds of
posting?
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Faster, better battery life & camera +supports Apple Pay
trustedreviews.com/opi…-5s
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Perfectly fine fine
This Credit history nonsense is just that nonsense.
YouTube se v iPhone 7
They are the exact same in real life performance
I phoned O2 to complain last night and they said I would need to call back in the morning for a door swap. But they did give me £10 account credit for my troubles.
So I phoned them today to be told that they no longer have the 16GB gold iPhone SE in stock. So they have decided to send me a 64GB instead, at the same cost (£102 for device plan).
Amaze balls
I know - I was on the final screen of ordering after the credit check. They are £&"" useless as a company!
It doesn't have SD so no point even discussing - iPhones don't, Android do if it is important to you. 16gb is £101.99 (£3 per month x24 plus £29.99). on the £22 per month tariff.
I recently switched energy suppliers through uSwitch, and shortly after I received a text from Clearscore informing me that my credit rating had changed. When I checked, I found it had gone down by 11 points simply as a result of the hard search performed by my new supplier (E.on).
It might not seem like a big deal, but for people whose credit ratings are a bit marginal it could mean the difference between success and failure when applying for a loan.
Personally I wouldn't use the O2 "like new" scheme again because I'm stuck with this phone now.
And in case O2 screw up the payments, your credit file is completely damaged.
Half of us have below average intelligence, that's why.
It will have a negative impact because O2 will conduct a full credit check when you buy it. Whilst having credit available to you is good for your credit score the check itself is seen as a negative, and will normally take a few points off your score. Not necessarily a problem but for some it can mean the difference between getting a mortgage and not.
Telecommunications are also looked at differently to other outgoings by lenders and those with higher monthly telecoms bills are seen as higher risk by lenders. Not necessarily applicable here, but it will still show as a large payment to a telecoms company which isn't good for a credit score.
As I said, whilst it will impact the score of everyone who takes one of these deals, it's only an issue for those who already have low scores or have had a lot of searches in a small space of time.
It definitely will.
I bought the SE last time from O2 Refresh and both credit report sites I use alert me that my score had dropped afterwards.
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For example on the 16gb version it will be the £29.99 upfront tariff and £22 per month (£3 for phone, £19 for tariff) as instructed above once you pay off the device (£72) then cancel line rental you end up with the phone for £101.99
Its a bit of a faff but worth it if you can be bothered.
You are correct. But its not such a fun thing to have to do. I had an awful experience and I was just trying to make a point that the 1 year O2 warranty is hard hard work. Whereas a new phone is covered by Apple, who are excellent to deal with. Clearly the difference in cost of a brand new phone is a huge factor.
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Leave the DD in place until the account is completely closed down and the final bill cleared.
Expect in some instances they will try charging you the first month.
Expect in some cases they will charge some of us the full contract amount despite them saying they won't, the didn't, they haven't or they wouldn't (so leave that amount in your account to avoid going overdrawn or the payment being rejected - a pain but they will refund).
It has been going on for years since they launched Refresh - their staff are not all clear on how the contract works, their system still reflects old style contracts and not Refresh, so it sometimes processes incorrectly if the staff member is not familiar.
Strangely the only really competent department is complaints X)
Maybe because some people don't want their devices to lag?
That is high risk because if they mess up (they have form!) then a cancelled DD will leave a report of a missed payment as they cannot collect payment. I know they should not be collecting payment, I know in your mind you owe them nothing - but their system doesn't always see that and it then takes longer to clear up. I would always advise leaving the DD running until all sorted.
In which case I am not sure if there is anything to lose if you pay upfront, it saves one stage of the cancellation on the phone.
Just ordered one 5 mins ago went through no probs
You talk as if Credit Reports are intrinsically linked to your personal ID. They aren't. They are linked to a name and an address. There is absolutely no link to you using something like National Insurance or a tax ID. Its a rough guess when you get to the bones of how it works.... and this is how you can manipulate it.
Yes that is my understanding as it has to appear on the O2 network and lock to O2 before they can unlock it. Easy enough to do - insert SM, phone home (don't answer!) or 202 on the handset.
The Apple Warranty may be, the O2 warranty is still for 12 month and is repair or replace.
Some are some aren't, in some ways its better it arrives locked, more chance of it being an immediate return, rather than unlocked and messed about with