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Swiftz

Swiftz

Swiftz

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My current Three contract (Essential SIM 2GB data, 200 minutes and unlimited text) for £9pm ends next week and was wondering does the contract automatically continue after or do I need to give them notice?

As there is currently an offer on Mobile Phones Direct for 8GB data and unlimited minutes/texts for £7pm which is cheaper and better than my current contract but they send out a new SIM card with a different number on so to keep my current number, should I request a PAC code from Three and then use the code to transfer the number to the new SIM, is it possible?

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You can't PAC from Three to Three, if you want to keep your number you'll have to transfer it from your current Three SIM to another providers SIM then back to the new Three SIM.
 
tom_e said:
You can't PAC from Three to Three, if you want to keep your number you'll have to transfer it from your current Three SIM to another providers SIM then back to the new Three SIM.
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I think you can port to PAYG then back to contract though, I'm sure I did this last year.
 
tom_e said:
You can't PAC from Three to Three, if you want to keep your number you'll have to transfer it from your current Three SIM to another providers SIM then back to the new Three SIM.
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You can, you just cant go Three Contract to Three Contract.

But you can go Three PAYG to Three Contract.

@Swiftz ask to cancel but say you want to keep your number they'll put it on pay as you go
 
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Mr_Cool said:
You can, you just cant go Three Contract to Three Contract.

But you can go Three PAYG to Three Contract.

@Swiftz ask to cancel but say you want to keep your number they'll put it on pay as you go
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that is new to me. i thought it was impossible to transfer on the same network. thanks for the heads up though :)
 
You are better off getting the autocashback deals of £40 off (£10.67pm). By the time you factor in the the cost of the recorded delivery you are probably only £35 down. Then the time and effort to remember the exact dates to send off the invoice (all of which you have to save or print off). Then if you forget one, I think you lose all the following ones. Trust me, I tried this and it is a ****ache even if you put it on the calendar.
 
Noughtboy said:
You are better off getting the autocashback deals of £40 off (£10.67pm). By the time you factor in the the cost of the recorded delivery you are probably only £35 down. Then the time and effort to remember the exact dates to send off the invoice (all of which you have to save or print off). Then if you forget one, I think you lose all the following ones. Trust me, I tried this and it is a ****ache even if you put it on the calendar.
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Pretty certain you can simply upload a PDF version of the bill to the website.
 
Is it not worth asking Three for a better SIM only deal? (Saves messing around with swapping networks and porting your number!)

That's what I did and I'm paying £10 p/m on a rolling monthly basis for 600 mins, unlimited texts and 12GB of data!
 
StevieP said:
Is it not worth asking Three for a better SIM only deal? (Saves messing around with swapping networks and porting your number!)

That's what I did and I'm paying £10 p/m on a rolling monthly basis for 600 mins, unlimited texts and 12GB of data!
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May consider renegotiating mine. Thought I did OK by swopping to sim only and getting a monthly contract at the yearly price (something like £8 for 600 minutes, 1GB of data and texts. Whilst that is all I need (work from home) yours offers far better value. So I should get a lower price or take the dog for a longer walk and stream Netflix in the woods!
 
I've just rang 333 to upgrade to move me from a seriously out of date 4gb advanced contract sim deal (20 quid a month) to 30GB advanced for 18 quid a month on a 12 month contract with go binge etc. No sim or number swap or pac code required.
 
Noughtboy said:
You are better off getting the autocashback deals of £40 off (£10.67pm). By the time you factor in the the cost of the recorded delivery you are probably only £35 down. Then the time and effort to remember the exact dates to send off the invoice (all of which you have to save or print off). Then if you forget one, I think you lose all the following ones. Trust me, I tried this and it is a ****ache even if you put it on the calendar.
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Complete misinformation. You don't have to post anything, recorded or otherwise - do it online for free. You have 60 days to submit the cashback claim from the date on the bill. You don't have to print them off. If you forget one then you lose that single one. Don't trust you, you've clearly not tried very hard and don't seem to know what you are talking about.

I am on my second manual cashback deal with e2save (subsidiary of carphone warehouse) and both have been super easy. Every two months, download your bill and upload it to the e2save website. Takes literally 2 minutes. You get an email after a couple days confirming or rejecting it (only time I was rejected was due to being over 60 days late). The cheque comes in the post after a week or two to cash at your leisure.

Vodafone cashback (including rejected claim due to the 60 days thing)
£120 back on a £20pm contract made it £10pm (technically £12 cause I missed one)
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Current EE cashback
£150 back on a £17pm contract makes it £4.50pm
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Sounds like Noughtboy may have used a cash back deal years ago as that's how I had to do my first one remembering to collect the right bill and post it off, but like you say it's so straightforward these days all you need to do is stick something in your calender to remind you and upload them. Easy money if it gets you the best deal.
 
tom_e said:
Sounds like Noughtboy may have used a cash back deal years ago as that's how I had to do my first one remembering to collect the right bill and post it off, but like you say it's so straightforward these days all you need to do is stick something in your calender to remind you and upload them. Easy money if it gets you the best deal.
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It was years ago. That was how it was. There was an entire page trying to "make it clear". I am good with these things and even I had to call them to clarify which bill they wanted as they clearly tried to obfuscate the details.

It had to be an original invoice not a copy. If that was lost you were **** out of luck because you couldn't present a copy and had to get another original from the network thereby necessitating the recorded delivery and putting on a time pressure.

Then they would make it odd months. 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 16, 19, 24 etc.
 
Noughtboy said:
It was years ago. That was how it was. There was an entire page trying to "make it clear". I am good with these things and even I had to call them to clarify which bill they wanted as they clearly tried to obfuscate the details.

It had to be an original invoice not a copy. If that was lost you were **** out of luck because you couldn't present a copy and had to get another original from the network thereby necessitating the recorded delivery and putting on a time pressure.

Then they would make it odd months. 6, 8, 9, 11, 14, 16, 19, 24 etc.
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To make the point on the obfuscation, something like if the bill was generated before a certain period of the month, use the previous bill. If it was after, use the following bill so month 9 could be either month 8's bill or month 10 depending on when it was generated. Now take this across your differing months and it gets confusing really quickly which is how it was designed to prevent as many cash backs as possible and then leave the customer out of pocket for all the following cash backs.

It was like the Wild West
 
Oh, that was with both e2save and Dial a Phone. Used both. Four contracts. If it has changed for the better, that is because of legislation following the furore over them being seen as scams!
 
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