EE sim only plans, how deals are advertised and billed.

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In short, I saw an ee sim deal on BT's website. The deal is 50 100gb double data for 13.50 monthly for 24 months including VAT. I am an existing ee customer who is out of contract. I was unable to purchase the deal using an "already an ee customer" box in the secure checkout page. Every time I entered my details the secure checkout page would vanish, so I called them up.

The adviser asked about the details of the deal and where it was advertised. She also wanted a screenshot emailed across to her for authenticity, the deal was not on their system. After some internal conversations between her and a manager they agreed to the deal and started to "manually build" the deal because it wasn't on the system. Finally I was told to try the app in about 15mins and I should she updated deal in the app.

So the new deal is up and I notice a few things. To summarise my deal it look's something like this. 25gb £17.50 a month excluding vat with 6 addons. 1 £6.00 loyalty 2. 10% bt customer discount 3. 15gb additional data 4. 25gb additional data 5. £2 a day EU 6. Wifi boost.

So now with the price increases coming at the end of this month then again next year, will ee increase my bill based upon % of £17.50 excluding vat and not £13.50 including vat (price of the original avertised deal)? Then minus the fixed discount addons?

It seems to me a deal for £13.50 a month inc. vat + xx% a year is better deal than a£17.50 exc. vat + xx% - £6 -10%?

What do you think? Cheers
 
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Having just taken one of these deals as it was advertised on HUKD the one on the BT website and the one you have work out the same. The CPI increase is against what you pay not how the deal is stacked. So if i have read it right you will pay £13.50 INC VAT on the new deal as well based on £17.50 plus 20% so £21 less £6 less the 10% so again £13.50

I took the 20GB for 9 quid then applied a student code to take it down to £8 per month they wouldn't let the BT customer and Student Code stack on top of each other. It said it had gone to verification and someone would call me but i got the email to say the SIM had shipped then followed by the DD set up email.
 
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EE have lost the plot on their normal sim only pricing, cheapest price is £15 for 1 gig.

My 200 gig if I didnt intervene was due to go to almost £33 this April. About 5 or so years ago I was paying £30 for a package with a flagship phone included.

So I sent a online query, asking for proof I was clearly notified I would have an annual inflation busting increase on signup (trying to wiggle out of it, as I still had 7 weeks left on contract), I then found a request a PAC button, and this informed me I would be charged £45 to buy my way out of my contract, I clicked cancel.

I was planning to move to 1 pence mobile £15 50 gig sim, which is on the EE network.

Within 20 mins EE retentions rang me and outdid the 1 pence £15 deal, 125 gig for £15, backdated the discount, exempted me from this years increase, and its only 12 months so I am in the driving seat next year.
 
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Reminds me of watching tourism video clips in India where every time buy something has to be haggled.

200 rupees
100 rupees
50 rupees.. deal
 
This is what starts to happen when two large companies merge and start to own a disproportionate amount of the market. EE have the best network coverage and speeds and feel they can justify the higher costs to get a 'better' service. It will only get worse if the Vodafone / Three deal goes ahead.

On the other hand I still got 20GB a month for £8 and even with two increases I will only be paying £10 a month which is acceptable for me.
 
When I was migrating over from BT Mobile to EE their site and in store had nothing to match what I had (£10 for 12gb). Had to call up and best they could offer was £9 for 10gb (inc BT broadband discount), which was enough for me but compared to other networks the other plans are just too expensive.

It's also weird on BT's side they show better EE deals but EE themselves don't seem to show it, sounds like a mess between the two.
 
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Ironically they just rang me about the form I filled in, seems my form went to the executive team, so more likely retentions simply responded to the request PAC click.
 
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Yes they have adopted VM's model, basically over charge because enough people accept it so its profitable, then give what they can really afford to sell at to those who kick up a fuss.

My way of keeping rates low is by checking Quidco for a sim-only deal with a new network, get the PAC code to keep my phone number, then repeat this once a year. I switch between Three, Plusnet, BT and been doing this since 2019. Wonder how much longer I can get away with doing this?
 
My way of keeping rates low is by checking Quidco for a sim-only deal with a new network, get the PAC code to keep my phone number, then repeat this once a year. I switch between Three, Plusnet, BT and been doing this since 2019. Wonder how much longer I can get away with doing this?

Assuming you have a phone and it's not damaged enough to be able to use a sim only deal. Sim only deals are low because you not paying for a phone in contract so they will always be low.
 
EE are a rip off but they really are the best and have the best features that I find essential. Wifi calling, visual voice mail, watch tariff for Apple Watch etc

I’m on a legacy contract went out 6 years ago. They just can’t look at my contract now sadly. So I can’t get 5G
 
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Yes they have adopted VM's model, basically over charge because enough people accept it so its profitable, then give what they can really afford to sell at to those who kick up a fuss.
Include Sky in that bracket too.

So I just got off the phone to ee. I have been assured that my "price plan" is £13.50 and any increases would be based on that price and not on the "actual" £21 price plan as indicated in my account before discounts. Apparently this is standard practice for when deals are created.

So then I learned that this deal is for new customers only but was there any information as such on ee's site? Not that I could see. The secure checkout even had option for existing customers to enter details. Granted it didn't work but you wouldn't know why.

They must have 10's of thousands of customers on these kinda discounted deals. Why not just say annual increase is calculated after discounts? Example "Essential sim £21 with 10% bt loyalty = xx. Price increase is xx + yearly increase"

Maybe its clear and I couldn't see it. Getting old.
 
I don't know if these are the best ee deals but they are so much better then their standard online tariffs, and they are honouring them if you're out of contract (not a new customer). You have to be a bt broadband customer though.

Having said that the link didn't work and ee didn't ask me for any bt details lol.
 
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Shuggles was right.

Just to add a couple of things - I spoke to EE yesterday and all contracts taken after 1st March 2023 do not get a price rise in 2023 and on the other point about being able to check what you would pay if you do have a price rise you can do on this link

 
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I'm currently a BT BB user, and am thinking to getting 3 of the £9 20GB contract to replace the current BT contracts, how ever. i'm also thinking to dropping BT BB, to go with a fiber provider (fibrus), will they take the double data off me once i drop the BT BB ?
 
I'm currently a BT BB user, and am thinking to getting 3 of the £9 20GB contract to replace the current BT contracts, how ever. i'm also thinking to dropping BT BB, to go with a fiber provider (fibrus), will they take the double data off me once i drop the BT BB ?
I don't know to be honest but I doubt they would drop the benefits mid contract.
 
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