Mobile price increase anything I can do ?

[2013]

i buy a phone and sim only 50gb data £12 a month, the phone does all the same as the new ones.

I buy SIM free and I'm currently paying £8 a month and I plan on moving to a better deal at around £7 per month with unlimited data, texts and minutes.

I'm seriously thinking about going 5G home broadband at some point too as £28 a month for 375MB is expensive compared to £7 a month and similar speeds. Although I think upload speeds are terrible currently and so is signal I'll wait for them to improve a little.

I also tend to buy and sell phones regularly and when I sell I usually get most of my money back or even make a profit sometimes as I buy really good deals.

I'd hate to see the depreciation on these £1200 phones.

Does that not put you in a similar position, buying a phone outright (one lump sum) and then paying for the sim only deal?

It also all depends on the phone you buy, I wanted a new phone after 4 years and my old phone is badly damaged, it was cheaper to buy it with a contract for 3 reasons 1 I'm not paying for it in one go, 2 I'm getting the phone I wanted plus I'm getting more 3 inc a good the plan.
4. Plus a nice monthly discount on top. still does not change the fact it's a bit greedy and sly to up the price mid-contract

 

[Psycho Sonny]

Does that not put you in a similar position, buying a phone outright (one lump sum) and then paying for the sim only deal?

It also all depends on the phone you buy, I wanted a new phone after 4 years and my old phone is badly damaged, it was cheaper to buy it with a contract for 3 reasons 1 I'm not paying for it in one go, 2 I'm getting the phone I wanted plus I'm getting more 3 inc a good the plan.
4. Plus a nice monthly discount on top. still does not change the fact it's a bit greedy and sly to up the price mid-contract

I usually buy second hand off members market but now I've just been buying brand new Chinese phones.

I too buy whatever phone I want. Me paying £300 in one go is easy when I'm saving £62 a month compared to you.

Current phone Poco f2 pro go check the specs on GSM arena. I've had it for a while now and I paid £300 for it a few weeks after it launched.

The phone before that iirc was a Sony. I bought second hand used it for a year and sold it on for what I paid for it so the phone cost me nothing.

I could sell my phone right now for £250-£260 on eBay. Therefore it's cost me £50 to own it for a year.

You are paying more than that per month.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_poco_f2_pro-ampp-10220.php

Here's the spec of my phone above just so you can understand that it's not crap in any way and I'm sure if you compare it directly with whatever it is you are using you would see what a terrible waste it is.

As for if you don't have £300 lump sum even using PayPal credit or a interest free credit card would work out cheaper especially if it saves you £60 a month.

There's a girl who I work with who spends £400 leasing an Audi and always has the latest iPhone for £80 a month, etc.

Guess what she's nearly 30 and lives at home and doesn't have any savings. She's going to find it hard whenever she finally moves out. She also has very high expectations of men she dates for them to throw money about like she does.

Problem is those men won't be living with mummy so they know the true value of money.

You are paying £840 a year for a phone. I've probably spent around that in a decade overall and I've always had a decent phone.

 

[2013]

I usually buy second hand off members market but now I've just been buying brand new Chinese phones.

I too buy whatever phone I want. Me paying £300 in one go is easy when I'm saving £62 a month compared to you.

Current phone Poco f2 pro go check the specs on GSM arena. I've had it for a while now and I paid £300 for it a few weeks after it launched.

The phone before that iirc was a Sony. I bought second hand used it for a year and sold it on for what I paid for it so the phone cost me nothing.

I could sell my phone right now for £250-£260 on eBay. Therefore it's cost me £50 to own it for a year.

You are paying more than that per month.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_poco_f2_pro-ampp-10220.php

Here's the spec of my phone above just so you can understand that it's not crap in any way and I'm sure if you compare it directly with whatever it is you are using you would see what a terrible waste it is.

As for if you don't have £300 lump sum even using PayPal credit or a interest free credit card would work out cheaper especially if it saves you £60 a month.

There's a girl who I work with who spends £400 leasing an Audi and always has the latest iPhone for £80 a month, etc.

Guess what she's nearly 30 and lives at home and doesn't have any savings. She's going to find it hard whenever she finally moves out. She also has very high expectations of men she dates for them to throw money about like she does.

Problem is those men won't be living with mummy so they know the true value of money.

You are paying £840 a year for a phone. I've probably spent around that in a decade overall and I've always had a decent phone.

Firstly you should not put everyone in the same boat and 2nd you should not look down at people, Others may look down at you for how you do things.

I have done the same in the past buying 2nd hand but at the time of buying the contact 2nd hand price for a 1-2 year old phone of my choice was not cheap and not worth getting IMO, So after 4 years I thought I would just pay a little more and get the latest (a treat) I've used a few Chinese phones but I don't like them much I prefer others for a few reasons, I'm not a business so I don't want to buy and sell phones I would rather get the phone I like and keep it.

You may think the Chinese phone is very good and not crap others may not agree, it all about prefrence.

For me, it worked out better to get the latest brand new phone which came with some decent gifts because it's new I know nothing is wrong with it and I can always return it if it has.

Also, I may be paying more but I am getting a very good phone which will still have good value in the end if I wanted to sell it and the gifts are also work over £140 if sold.

I'm paying about £650 a year, which is less than the value of the phone after 2 years. Its not cheap and not what I would normally spend but its not bad considering that includes the phone plan and the gifts and when my contract is up I can keep the phone and go back to a sim only deal.

also, I have just compared the 2 and it's a huge difference.

 

[Psycho Sonny]

Firstly you should not put everyone in the same boat and 2nd you should not look down at people, Others may look down at you for how you do things.

I have done the same in the past buying 2nd hand but at the time of buying the contact 2nd hand price for a 1-2 year old phone of my choice was not cheap and not worth getting IMO, So after 4 years I thought I would just pay a little more and get the latest (a treat) I've used a few Chinese phones but I don't like them much I prefer others for a few reasons, I'm not a business so I don't want to buy and sell phones I would rather get the phone I like and keep it.

You may think the Chinese phone is very good and not crap others may not agree, it all about prefrence.

For me, it worked out better to get the latest brand new phone which came with some decent gifts because it's new I know nothing is wrong with it and I can always return it if it has.

Also, I may be paying more but I am getting a very good phone which will still have good value in the end if I wanted to sell it and the gifts are also work over £140 if sold.

I'm paying about £650 a year, which is less than the value of the phone after 2 years. Its not cheap and not what I would normally spend but its not bad considering that includes the phone plan and the gifts and when my contract is up I can keep the phone and go back to a sim only deal.

also, I have just compared the 2 and it's a huge difference.

You don't need to be a business to buy or sell phones.

Your the one complaining about a 4% increase. So surely it is an issue? If not why bother complaining?

Also my last phone before this I used for 18 months and sold it for more than what I paid for it. it takes literally 2 minutes to list a phone on eBay and then 5 mins to package and then I get the wife to drop it off at the post office as she has to go there to bank cash every day anyway.

You don't even need to spend £300 on a Chinese phone and you do realise your iPhone is made in china right?

I just bought the wife a Moto g9 power for £150 and it's a brilliant phone. Again it does everything anyone needs from a phone.

I've also had contracts and bought phones brand new for £600, etc. Then I realised that your just throwing money away. I can't think of any reason why anyone needs a £1200 phone. And why a £150 phone can't do what anyone needs it to.

I mean camera picture quality has stagnated for years now the cpu is really the biggest difference when it comes to speed and screen Res has went backwards.

My old phone had a 4K screen for instance and it's been 3-4 years now since it launched and all the current phones are lesser Res.

It's costing me circa £150 a year for phone and contract. I have a really great device and a great deal on SIM only.

 

[2013]

You don't need to be a business to buy or sell phones.

Your the one complaining about a 4% increase. So surely it is an issue? If not why bother complaining?

Also my last phone before this I used for 18 months and sold it for more than what I paid for it. it takes literally 2 minutes to list a phone on eBay and then 5 mins to package and then I get the wife to drop it off at the post office as she has to go there to bank cash every day anyway.

You don't even need to spend £300 on a Chinese phone and you do realise your iPhone is made in china right?

I just bought the wife a Moto g9 power for £150 and it's a brilliant phone. Again it does everything anyone needs from a phone.

I've also had contracts and bought phones brand new for £600, etc. Then I realised that your just throwing money away. I can't think of any reason why anyone needs a £1200 phone. And why a £150 phone can't do what anyone needs it to.

I mean camera picture quality has stagnated for years now the cpu is really the biggest difference when it comes to speed and screen Res has went backwards.

My old phone had a 4K screen for instance and it's been 3-4 years now since it launched and all the current phones are lesser Res.

It's costing me circa £150 a year for phone and contract. I have a really great device and a great deal on SIM only.

You want to keep buying and selling phones to cover costs that's upto you, I don't want to buy and sell phones.

Just because I'm complaining about a 4% increase. That does not give you the right to look down at others, others may look down at you for how you do things.

And yes because I don't think they should be able to do that, it's dishonest and greedy and I was not aware of it because it has never happened to me before, when you agree to buy something you should be paying what was agree they should not be able to change the price later, you don't expect this when you buy anything else why here? that's why I posted someone who may have more info than me, a few people do agree but your replies seem off-topic.


It's all about preference, Your's are different to mine, you may think one thing others may not agree.
You are happy with Chinese phones and other budget models, I would rather get something like a Samsung or iPhone which I've used a lot and I'm happy with but I need to pay for that.

This has gone a bit off-topic so I'm sorry