Cheapest place to get a P900 in the UK?

Originally posted by stunno
The Link has gone up to �99 on the �70 pm tariff now that they have some in stock

Thats expensive if you have to stick to that tarrif for 3 months.

Originally posted by Chewie
if you have to stick to that tarrif for 3 months.

lol, do people not listen or something 🙄

Originally posted by nk8
lol, do people not listen or something 🙄

but due to what i said before, they never needed to say if in the first place

infact there was no point in saying that in the first place, it's like saying,

..oh, thjat's expensive if you have to travel to the link to buy it,

it's like, pointless informaton

But it goes without saying that you are going to have to go to the link to get the phone, as for the contract stipulations people have to take your word on that which may, or may not be correct. Hence the "if"

Now I am not saying that what you are saying is not genuine, but believe it or not, not everything that gets posted on the web is correct.

People know for sure they have to travel to the shop (unless ordering online or over the phone of course) they don't know for sure about contract stipulations untill they hear it from the horses mouth.

well thats true

I just got a P900 today from the Orange Shop. 😊
I had an Orange Nokia 7650 for over a year, and looked around to see what deal I could get. I wanted to keep my number, stay with Orange, maybe upgrade my tariff for a while and upgrade to P900 for less than �200. Unfortunately, straight upgrades are not that welcome, and despite promises on websites (onestopphoneshop), and lies from website email replies (The Link) it seemed that I'd have to pay �300 - �350 to do what I wanted. Even The Link girl wanted to upgrade her own phone but couldnt due to the price. Thankfully, the Orange Shop gave me a new P900 today for �149.99 on the 400 tariff (which at �50 p/m is the cheapest for the price, else it is 249.99), which I only have to be on for 31 days anyway. By the way I'm pretty pleased with it, even if I have always been a Nokia fan....
Hope this helps someone - I know previous posts helped me.

NK8 is right.

The store you buy the phone form are charged a clawback by Orange if the customer changes to a lower tariff within 3 months. This allpies to *all* mobile retialers within the United Kingdom. Not all retailers pass this cost on to the customer. The Link do not, however the salesperson looses their commison. As a result, 99% of them will tell you that their is a 3 month period within which you cannot change. Most store managers will also tell their staff this during trainning. Other companies, like One stop phone shop will often quote 4 months, to avoid customers changing down tariffs a day or two early and incuring the charges.

If it is writen in your contract (which it isn't at The Link, most Orange stores, and Comet) you don't have a leg to stand on should the store or website charge you at a later date, however, because of the difficulties in reclaiming these costs (most people will instruct their creditcard company to claim back the fee) most customers of the big high street stores often get away with it regardless of offical policy. I'm not suggesting anyone try it, just pointing out the way the business works.

Take it from someone who knows; that is the gospel.

Well I bought a P900 yesterday at cpw and nowhere on the contract/receipt I received did it say I cant change tariff within 3 months but the salesman said I cant change, ill change after a month and see what happens

Originally posted by omar_g
NK8 is right.

yay

@theefman

it was only until the recent reciepts that they started saying that you cannot change down tariffs within three months else they will start imposing fines, however, this isn's an official thing as they cannot tell who has the new receipt paper and who has the old ones, nor is there a place to note this on the persons account when they purchase the phone, it is just a matter of what printing receipt paper is used at the time.

checked my cpw receipt and it said 6 months is the period not 3 or 4

it's 6 months for o2, it's just that they won't say how many months for each network, so they just say the maximum time, which is o2 at 6 months