Carphone Warehouse closing all stores in April

Luckystrike123 said:
The wife had her contract updated and moved to sim only recently. Carphone Warehouse's offer was 100% more expensive than going to the provider directly, I can't say that this news comes as a surprise.
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That'll be down to the rampant mis-selling that has happened previously with CPW. It's a carbon copy of how Phones4U went under.

They missold contracts in order to get the commission and caused problems for the networks so networks stopped selling them cheap contracts.
 
People are going for sim only now. Phones are lasting longer, people are upgrading less due expensive and longer contract terms.

It was a matter of time before CPW would make a loss.
 
Cheap and Chinese, or cheap Chinese with an Apple logo and a 300% markup. More people are picking the cheaper option these days and getting it from the provider or ebay where it's even cheaper.
 
malachi said:
People are going for sim only now. Phones are lasting longer, people are upgrading less due expensive and longer contract terms.

It was a matter of time before CPW would make a loss.
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My contracts have always been 48 months since I can remember. In more recent years I've stuck with the iPhone when upgrading and the most recent one was less per month with much more data.

I don't see how things are so much worse than they were previously.
 
.Lethal said:
My contracts have always been 48 months since I can remember. In more recent years I've stuck with the iPhone when upgrading and the most recent one was less per month with much more data.

I don't see how things are so much worse than they were previously.
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48 months:eek: Don't know where you been getting your contracts from!.... Vodafone!?!?? :D

12 month phone contracts had been available uptil the iPhone 5 or 4S. Then if you wanted a high end phone, you have to go for a lengther contract.

That's when sim only contracts started coming out.
 
Had to happen
Double whammy of phone stagnation, direct completion from Internet.
Surprised lasted this long


Sim only for me

Get an old phone for couple of hundred, 9ppm contract.

Yearly cost about 200 pounds rolling.
 
malachi said:
48 months:eek: Don't know where you been getting your contracts from!.... Vodafone!?!?? :D

12 month phone contracts had been available uptil the iPhone 5 or 4S. Then if you wanted a high end phone, you have to go for a lengther contract.

That's when sim only contracts started coming out.
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mrbell1984 said:
a 4 year contract for a mobile phone? That's disgusting.
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My mistake I meant 24 months, I was tired when posting last night :o
 
Despite being the same company they couldn't match (or get anywhere near!) the deals offered online even by their own online brands.

Obviously overheads play a part but would've thought a 'meet in the middle' common pricing model for both streams of what is effectively the same business maybe could've helped save some stores to at least have a token high street presence.

I guess they will just focus online now.
 
Not sure how they were going to survive. Every high street has it's own network own brand shop now - so the competition for anyone not backed by a network must be impossible to compete with.
 
SexyGreyFox said:
Their stores are still inside Curry's and PC World according to the article
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My bad, didn't read properly. The in-store branches would make sense as they share the overheads with the main store then. But unless they change their pricing to match or come close to online, they also seem a bit pointless!
 
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