Which of these GSII deals would you go for?

Goose · 17 Oct 2011 at 11:28

JAMAL said:
What about

£129.99 phone then 24 months of £17 for 500 mins, 5000 txts & 1gb net?

Plus you get £60 cashback? thats what i went for last week

Thats not bad but i really dont want to be tied to a deal for 2 years.

englishpremier · 17 Oct 2011 at 11:28

Goose said:
Meh. I guess i'll have to wait until a similarly good deal shows up on a better network.

Most people manage to get the 0.35Mbps removed, but then you are still stuck with 2Mbps, which might not be so bad if you don't use masses of data.

Mr Krugga · 17 Oct 2011 at 11:34

Deal 1 of course.

If you have to, you can always finish your contract early and it will still cost you less.

JAMAL · 17 Oct 2011 at 12:10

Goose said:
Thats not bad but i really dont want to be tied to a deal for 2 years.

Thought that but i could pay it off in 12 months and still be better off than my original plan of payg for the next 12 months

Goose · 17 Oct 2011 at 13:09

How much does it cost to cancel a contract early?

Martynt74 · 17 Oct 2011 at 13:41

just the monthly cost x numnber of remaining months usually. Unless you're able to negotiate less.

kona786 · 17 Oct 2011 at 14:16

Mr Krugga said:
Deal 1 of course.

If you have to, you can always finish your contract early and it will still cost you less.

makes the most sense

Goose · 17 Oct 2011 at 14:33

Marvt74 said:
just the monthly cost x numnber of remaining months usually. Unless you're able to negotiate less.

So you dont actually save any money then?

JAMAL · 17 Oct 2011 at 14:43

Goose said:
So you dont actually save any money then?

you may be able to remove VAT as you wont be receiving the service? dunno

Judgeneo · 17 Oct 2011 at 14:45

Deal 2 imo, 12 month contracts are awesome.

Martynt74 · 17 Oct 2011 at 15:26

Judgeneo said:
Deal 2 imo, 12 month contracts are awesome.

But if he's paying an extra £84 over the life of the contract is it quite as good?

Even if he stopped using the 18 month contract after 12 months he'd end up saving £84 and could just leave the sim doing nothing whilst he's on another contract

Goose said:
So you dont actually save any money then?

By going with Deal 1? Yes as said you only pay £396 instead of the £480 of deal 2. Saving you £84 by going with Deal 1 instead of Deal 2. Both technically would only last you for 12 months.

I'm not sure how the cashback process would work when buying yourself out early comes into it though

LiE · 17 Oct 2011 at 16:28

If you get deal 2 here - http://www.mobiles.co.uk/samsung-i9100-galaxy-s-2.html
you can use topcashback for £30 http://www.topcashback.co.uk/mobilespayg-and-accessories/

I got the same deal a few weeks ago but the handset was £100 so total cost for me was £400.

e36Adz · 17 Oct 2011 at 16:44

I'd go for deal 1 from those two, but as mentioned already, deal 2 was £100 for the handset not long ago, that's when I picked it up.

Goose · 17 Oct 2011 at 17:35

Marvt74 said:
By going with Deal 1? Yes as said you only pay £396 instead of the £480 of deal 2. Saving you £84 by going with Deal 1 instead of Deal 2. Both technically would only last you for 12 months.

I meant cancelling a contract early not actually saving money. But as someone said you save the VAT so i guess save 20% on the remaining months.

Mr Krugga · 17 Oct 2011 at 18:13

I don't see how you could avoid paying the VAT on service that have already been fulfilled and includes a product.

Going for the cheaper contract is still a mighty better option:

you will receive your cashback within a few months, usually far earlier than 12 months
you get more allowance with the first deal
you will pay £5 less monthly
paying off the remainder after 12 months will cost you the same as the headset with the contract two so that pretty much cancels out
if you decide not to cancel your contract, you still have an ongoing plan with a good tariff
you get £30 more cashback on top of the savings

EDIT: scrap it, I confused redemption with the Quidco/Topcashback cashback.

You will usually have to carry on with your contract if you want to get the full cashback from redemption.

The other option is to just carry on paying until the end of the contract but I can see this being an inconvenience for some.

dbmzk1 · 17 Oct 2011 at 18:47

I had to pick between these two deals myself last week when I was getting my SGS2 - which I've now got and is awesome by the way! Was already with T-Mobile so it made deal 1 a pain as I'd have to port my number away then back. But a day after I asked for the PAC code and literally about 5 mins before I pressed the buy button on deal 2 they phoned and offered the phone free on my current 18 month contract while keeping the Android data package, win!

By the way - on new contracts T-Mobile don't offer unlimited data - it's 500mb!

McPhee · 18 Oct 2011 at 14:12

Mr Krugga said:
I don't see how you could avoid paying the VAT on service that have already been fulfilled and includes a product.

Terminating the contract early means you won't be receiving the remaining months' of line rental, or the associated inclusive allowance. As such you cannot be charged VAT on it. The handset is a separate entity entirely, it's a sweetener designed to entice you to sign up to the contract. If you read any line rental agreement you will see that this is stated quite clearly.

If you terminate your contract early then you pay the remaining line rental sans VAT. Some operators also add a discount as a kind of refund for the unused allowance. This used to be 30% on Vodafone, but it's recently changed to 2%. I'm not completely sure on other operators current terms.

Pers · 18 Oct 2011 at 14:36

I'm looking to upgrade to an S2 from my Legend as my contract has just expired. However in Spain the S2 is expensive and unless you go with a massive contract you wont get it for free.

With Vodafone they want 168 euros (£152) to go on a 24mth contract. I really did think they would offer me a better deal as a loyal customer.

Is it worth playing the old I'll cancel my contract trick for a cheaper upgrade on the S2. Oh and soz to highjack your thread a bit.