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Posted 6 May 2013
Samsung Galaxy S4 £429 @ O2
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Right I didn't explain myself properly the other day so I apologise and it caused quite a big debate on whether the contract I got was true after all. And I suppose I can't blame people for voting it cold as I didn't understand how it worked myself at first and it seems too good to be true. But It has been confirmed by many people now who have took out this contract I have and I will explain again how it works for people who don't know about this deal or who don't understand
You can get this contract in store or online, its up to you, but if you want to have a look on there website first you can see the pricing for yourself
O2 have brilliantly now brought out a contract which allows us to stop the contract at ANY time and only pay the for the phone cost, not for your airtime (if it doesn't make sense yet, hopefully it will by the end!)
"Unlike other contracts O2 Refresh splits your contract into two parts. So when you're ready for a new phone, you just pay off the balance of your Phone Plan, not the remaining months of your Airtime Plan that you won't use"
Try to remember the difference between the "Airtime Plan" and "Phone Plan" then you will see later..
click the link above and follow the instructions carefully below to get the price I did.
1) First select "Samsung" then "Galaxy S4"
2) Secondly choose "Airtime Plan" (I chose Unlimited Minutes, Unlimited Txts, 2GB Data
3)Then choose "Phone Plan" and click on £69.99
And then you should get the overall costs of the contract on the right hand side
Total phone cost over 24 months
£429.99
So what happens is you pay for two bills which come out at the same time
£22.00 Monthly airtime payment + £15.00 Monthly phone payment = £37.00 Total monthly bill
So here's the best part, if you want to CANCEL, you ONLY pay the £15.00 Monthly phone payment TIMES by how many months you have left during the 24 months contract. You are not tied into this contract, you can stop it whenever you like, you may have to pay a remaining months "Airtime" bill off, but thats it! That means you DO NOT have to pay the remaining airtime contract off.
Which would usually mean you have to pay £37 by how many months you have left which if it was 12 months for example would come to £444
With this O2 refresh contract, if you were to cancel in a year it will only cost you £180 to leave (£15 Monthly phone payment X by 12 months = £180)
If you were to to take out this contract tomorrow and leave after a few days you would only pay £360! Also don't forget you paid £69.99 upfront making the total cost £429.99! If you were clever you could sell this on and make abit of profit ^_^
It does seem particularly weird why its cheap to pull out of a contract earlier and to be able to pay for a phone which is has got a retail price of around £600. This may be a mistake on O2 side so if your interested in getting this contract then do because myself and other people have and they may soon realise they have made a mistake
Hopefully I've made it abit clearer for people to understand now, if you don't msg me as I have this contract myself and will try to help you to understand
You can get this contract in store or online, its up to you, but if you want to have a look on there website first you can see the pricing for yourself
O2 have brilliantly now brought out a contract which allows us to stop the contract at ANY time and only pay the for the phone cost, not for your airtime (if it doesn't make sense yet, hopefully it will by the end!)
"Unlike other contracts O2 Refresh splits your contract into two parts. So when you're ready for a new phone, you just pay off the balance of your Phone Plan, not the remaining months of your Airtime Plan that you won't use"
Try to remember the difference between the "Airtime Plan" and "Phone Plan" then you will see later..
click the link above and follow the instructions carefully below to get the price I did.
1) First select "Samsung" then "Galaxy S4"
2) Secondly choose "Airtime Plan" (I chose Unlimited Minutes, Unlimited Txts, 2GB Data
3)Then choose "Phone Plan" and click on £69.99
And then you should get the overall costs of the contract on the right hand side
Total phone cost over 24 months
£429.99
So what happens is you pay for two bills which come out at the same time
£22.00 Monthly airtime payment + £15.00 Monthly phone payment = £37.00 Total monthly bill
So here's the best part, if you want to CANCEL, you ONLY pay the £15.00 Monthly phone payment TIMES by how many months you have left during the 24 months contract. You are not tied into this contract, you can stop it whenever you like, you may have to pay a remaining months "Airtime" bill off, but thats it! That means you DO NOT have to pay the remaining airtime contract off.
Which would usually mean you have to pay £37 by how many months you have left which if it was 12 months for example would come to £444
With this O2 refresh contract, if you were to cancel in a year it will only cost you £180 to leave (£15 Monthly phone payment X by 12 months = £180)
If you were to to take out this contract tomorrow and leave after a few days you would only pay £360! Also don't forget you paid £69.99 upfront making the total cost £429.99! If you were clever you could sell this on and make abit of profit ^_^
It does seem particularly weird why its cheap to pull out of a contract earlier and to be able to pay for a phone which is has got a retail price of around £600. This may be a mistake on O2 side so if your interested in getting this contract then do because myself and other people have and they may soon realise they have made a mistake
Hopefully I've made it abit clearer for people to understand now, if you don't msg me as I have this contract myself and will try to help you to understand
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sorted byCancelled on the first day and paid phone off on first day.
Waiting for final bill but rang up yesterday and there were no charges and the the advisor said account was fully closed and no charges pending
£429.99 is what you pay for the phone if you take out their £22 a month deal. This is the £15 a month + the £69.99 up front cost. You HAVE to pay this regardless. No discount, no getting out of it.
Now, on top of this you have the £22 a month tariff which you can put a 30% discount on and cancel at any time with 30 days notice. Meaning the you can potentially get the phone for about £445. It isnt amazing but probably the cheapest way to buy just the phone ( you can buy it pay as you go on Virgin for around £450 i think).
Mind you £15.40 after the discount for the tariff isnt too bad either.
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Reading all of O2's promotional material, i agree with you. If you read the bottom of this:
news.o2.co.uk/?pr…ant
It says "To get a new phone, simply pay any balance due on your Phone Plan and we waive the remaining months of the Airtime Plan."
Note the TO GET A NEW PHONE bit...
Took just under an hour to get to someone who knew what he was talking about.
Although he was surprised as to how it worked out and how cheap i was getting phone.
I can confirm that i paid £69.99 in shop and just paid £360 over phone to customer services and the line will be disconnected within 2 hours and that is the end of it.
I have a Black S4 for a very reasonable price of £429.99 and possibly a days line rental if they send a final bill
Place a Sell order on the CEX website. This reserves the price for 5 working days. Place a new Sell order every day until it's unlocked.
If, when the phone is finally unlocked, CEX hasn't dropped their price: take it into the store to sell it.
If the price has dropped, post it to them online on the most recent order you've made. You'll have to shell out for the £10 odd postage (insured preferably), but if they drop their trade-in price by £50-£100, £10 postage will be insignificant.
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I know how it works, but it does seem like something fishy is going on.
They say in their FAQ:
"Why does your pricing reward paying more upfront?
We want to be responsible lenders. Our pricing encourages customers to pay as much as they can upfront by giving them a discount, which means they're taking less credit on their Phone Plan over the 24 months."
This simply is not the case because if you pay more upfront for the S4 (£300) then it costs £110 more in total compared to paying only £70 up front.
So basically, there is a pricing error somewhere.
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Ditto
30% is taken out from the airtime and not from the phone cost
So £429 which ever way the cat jumps ?
I'm on ovivio and don't use my phone that much.
o2.co.uk/app…orm
you are working it out wrong
if you pay it off early you take off the contracts price (£22 a month) and just pay the phone price.
this saves £22 a month
also you should get 2% off ofcom discount as that is what ofcom say is fair for paying it off early
Cheers I thought I must be but O2 don't give any discount I have tried and failed many a time only vodafone do
The phone costs £69.99 upfront and costs £15 a month 15 x 24 + 69 comes to 429.99
The £22 is for the unlimited talk and text and 2gb data. But can be canceled straight away.
Basically, you are getting two products - a phone on 2 years interest free credit (repayable without penalty at any time) and a SIMO 30 day rolling contract.
The 20% is for Airtime contract
Basically you get two bills
£22 for the Airtime (unlimited calls txt and data)
£15 for the phone
Which will come out at the same time at a total £37
Then after the discount is applied to the AIRTIME PAYMENT it makes it around £30
If I were to cancel I only pay the PHONE cost off NOT the AIRTIME
yes it looks too good to be true, but I had to get the advisor confirm to me on multiple times that this is TRUE, so I can only take her word for it and took the contract out
But we still don't know if you can indeed just cancel the airtime straight away and just leave O2 completely by paying off the phone plan.
Christopher: Don't worry, you will only pay for the phone.
Christopher: As you will not use the Airtime you will not be charged for it.
...and
Christopher: You will have to give 30 days notice to cancel your contract.
But you would have to settle the phone cost as a lump sum, not continue the monthly payment for it.
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Got to love it when company employees dont have a clue how a new product/tariff system works
O2 really need to confirm this.
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My mother always said if it sounds to good to be true it usually is.
But that is the thing CAN you. From all of their examples, they only waiver the remaining air time contract IF you take out another O2 refresh deal ( i.e. upgrade your phone) and you can do this whenever you want, as long as you pay the phone plan off in full.
The only hint on their website that says you can just leave O2 and not pay the airtime contract off is at the bottom of their FAQ but it just all seems weird.
O2 reps clearly do not have a clue either.
did you get one then?
white is a girls colour, be a mannnn dooo the right thing.
Mine reserved for tomorrow. Yeah she kept saying how's she understood the deal to be.
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forum.xda-developers.com/sho…607
Life goes on might find a better deal lol
Are you sure you're doing the Internet to 2gb as that's 429 whereas 1gb is 549
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