Pretty good deal from T-Mobile

wiiija

wiiija

wiiija

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Hi all,

Do you think I did ok here? Long time T-Mobile customer, rang up to cancel my stupid £35 a month contract which I originally got with the Pulse (ouch).

They have offered me a brand new Wildfire S, 300 mins, unlimited texts and internet and free insurance for £6 a month? :)

Phone probably isn't great but its certainly better than the old nokia thing I'm using at the moment!
 
At that price i'd get it, sell the wildfire and buy something nicer for a little bit extra.

£6/month for a standalone contract without a phone is pretty good, with a free phone is excellent.
 
Yup thats awsome that. providing thats enough mins for you. Sell the wildfire off. Get how much you can get and buy a better handset.
 
Cool, think I'll do that, believe I have the option of a Motorola Defy instead of the Wildfire, not a fan of past motorola phones so not sure :)

*edit* Defy sounds much better spec wise, think I will call and see if I can swap to that instead.
 
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Defy is much better than the wildfire s indeed. With that said i'd still suggest selling off whatever phone you opt for and spend a bit extra on something nice. But the Defy is a nice phone either way so if you're not after something amazing it will do you well.

With that said, the Defy is arguably the most sturdily built (is that even a word?) phone currently on the market. So if you want something that will take a few knocks, it's the phone to go for.
 
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I went for the Defy, £7 a month rather than £6 but the phone seems a shedload better, all in all happy with that!
 
It's almost too good to be true actually...

The only way you'll blag something like this is if you are VERY valuable to them, having one contract at £35/pm does not make you worth anything to them.
 
I will see what I will manage to get from them as am thinking going sim only and buying mobile on free market.

unless any other operators do 12month contracts ? never had contract for more then 12monts and dont want to ;) unless I would get brilliant deal...
 
My haggling skills are relatively poor but still I got the Defy on a 18 month contract with 300 minutes,300 texts,1GB internet and a booster for £14.21 a month. Insurance was for the first 8 months.
 
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Robbo said:
It's almost too good to be true actually...

The only way you'll blag something like this is if you are VERY valuable to them, having one contract at £35/pm does not make you worth anything to them.
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I can assure you that it is true, I have no reason to lie about such a thing :)
I didn't really haggle, I have been with them for a huge amount of years though and always payed my bills on time, I just kind of hmmm'd as he was making me offers and he just kept offering more!

The cost was originally just offer £15 a month, but he went on about an upgrade value that I have, if the phone upgrade costs nothing then they spread this value over the term of the contract, this is what got my cost down to such a low figure.
 
wiiija said:
I can assure you that it is true, I have no reason to lie about such a thing :)
I didn't really haggle, I have been with them for a huge amount of years though and always payed my bills on time, I just kind of hmmm'd as he was making me offers and he just kept offering more!

The cost was originally just offer £15 a month, but he went on about an upgrade value that I have, if the phone upgrade costs nothing then they spread this value over the term of the contract, this is what got my cost down to such a low figure.
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I was offered £10 a month over two years. So you did quite well. OTH,I was on a £15 one month sim only contract before.
 
I wasn't calling you a liar. The mobile networks are just extremely strange when it comes to these things and whether you get a good deal or not is a total roll of the dice.
 
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