Phones 4 u buying out contract.

[Nigel]

I'm currently on Orange and have broken my phone. I'm on a 12 month contract with just over 4 months left.

Phones 4 u have offered to buy me out of my contract. I need to keep my mobile number. What they explained seemed really quite complicated.

Has anyone else done this? Was it easy and worth the hassle?

 

[Revels]

Theyre must be something in it for them, its probably not the best deal theyre getting you to sign up to..

 

[Nigel]

They've offered me £125 to buy my old contract out. K850i for free on vodafone for £35 a month, which is the same as I'm on now and it's another 12 month contract.

It's the transfering number and paying off the old account that seems difficult.

 

[Tom]

Personally (And i have worked in that industry for about 5 years on and off, been a manager for carphone and even during a brief spell worked for P4U) I wouldn't.

No operator i know of will release a number whilst still in an active contract, P4U's method is shaky and personally i wouldn't risk ever buying from them or their subsidiaries.

 

[Harry182]

I've done it twice now. THEY CAN GIVE UPTO £100 PER DEAL!

Haggle with them, they will crack

I got a N95 when they 1st came out and got £100 cash in hand!

 

[Nigel]

Hmm, it does seem really a really dodgey way of doing things. They keep glossing over the details. I really don't want to lose my number, but they assured me I won't.

 

[Tom]

Why the hurry?

Just buy a cheap PAYG on orange.

http://shop.carphonewarehouse.com/pay-as-you-go/motorola/f3-blue/ £20.

 

[Grant_172]

they bought me out of my old contract they will try to get you to go on t mobile, I got another orange one from them. They give you the cash out the till too !!!

 

[Nigel]

That was my original plan to buy a PAYG and use my sim, but phones for you were trying to steer me in the contract direction instead.

Thanks for the link Tom, is that the best phone for under £50?

I still have my old N80, but it's started doing some wierd things so need to get something sorted soon!

 

[Tom]

No there are way better for under £50, thats just a quick option.

 

[Nigel]

Ok, is this any good?

http://shop.carphonewarehouse.com/pay-as-you-go/sony-ericsson/k510i/

Or what would you recommend?

 

[Tom]

Thats not bad, stick a wanted ad up on here and pick up a bargain.

 

[quikshine]

I did this, I was told I had 3 months left on my contract by the guy in phones 4 u. He called up t-mobile to find out. so he then changed my old tariff to the lowest available to £15 a month from £35 and gave me the cash from the till (£50) to pay off my contract. All seemed good but then I found out I actually had 6 months on my contract left so the guy in the shop had lied to me.. I should have known myself to be honest how much I had left to go on my contract so maybe I was partly to blame, but anyway, I contacted phones4u via email through their website and they sent me a cheque to cover the rest of my old contract.

I called t-mobile up.. explained that I wanted to end my contract and wanted to keep my number. (ive had the same number for years, so that was important to me) I paid them the line rental to the end of my contract with the money phones4u gave me and they released my number so that I could transfer it to my new orange contract.

In the end it all worked out well and was easy. the only glitch was phones4u only telling me I had 3 months left when I actually had 6!