Mobile Phones Direct .co.uk

[Boysground]

My son has destroyed his phone and as it is just out of contract so we are looking around. This lot have a very competitive deal against the main networks. has any body used them and are they ok?

Thanks
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[Boysground]

No replies so I assume they are not up to much. Internet suggests customer service iffy. So back to car phone warehouse I think.

Any other suggestions

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[Barleycorn]

My vodaphone contract has just expired and I am thinking of three, mainly because their signal is so much better round here and vodaphone a is rubbish.
It might pay you to get a pay as you got a sim from them and try it around the farm to see what the signal is like. The small firms use the big boys networks anyway, I've got a Sainsburys one on a spare phone and that's vodaphone.

 

[Dr Evil]

Just been through the same thing here- and saw good deals with mobile phones direct as well as a couple of others. I called EE, and asked why these companies could offer the deal at 20% less than they were charging, for the exact same service- and didn't really get an answer- other than they charge less because the support is worse if something goes wrong... (In my experience it couldn't be much worse than EE or Vodafone themselves).

Looked on techradar.com for the best deals- and what finally turned my eye to taking a contract direct, was the fact they highlighted a number of these re-sellers as the cheapest in a league table- but then singled out the deals direct with each of the networks as the best value

Ended up going for a contract direct with EE rather than a reseller- other half works for NHS, so got a 20% discount code for EE, which was easy to get sorted via a website (which didn't make any checks on whether I was an NHS staff member).

 

[KennyO]

I just bought a phone off Amazon/ or ebay for my last two. Then take sim only contract or contract free.

 

[Dr Evil]

I just bought a phone off Amazon/ or ebay for my last two. Then take sim only contract or contract free.

I was going to do just this- but it worked out £5 a month more for me to take the phone on the contract, over just putting a sim in my old phone, or buying a new one. Cheapest I could find the phone I wanted to buy was £280. Paying £5 extra to EE per month- puts the phone cost at £120 over 24 months. I've also got my old phone to sell, which looking at ebay completed items, usually make around £100

 

[Boysground]

Went with car phone warehouse in the end. Told them I was looking at the competition and their deal improved. Ee not interested in negotiation.

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[Dr Evil]

Went with car phone warehouse in the end. Told them I was looking at the competition and their deal improved. Ee not interested in negotiation.

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Same here- EE had no room for negotiating- and I tried 3 or 4 times. The NHS discount not being available via Carphone Warehouse, was what swung it for me though.

 

[Rob Holmes]

Anyone on Giff-Gaff, what that like?

 

[Boysground]

I have a problem with o2 and our business phones at the moment. They seem to have given my number to every chancer who thinks they can sell a mobile contract. They phone up saying they want to discuss the mobile contract but DONT say that they do not work for o2 and then try and sell me phones. This happens every week it is enough to make me move from o2.

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[KennyO]

I was going to do just this- but it worked out £5 a month more for me to take the phone on the contract, over just putting a sim in my old phone, or buying a new one. Cheapest I could find the phone I wanted to buy was £280. Paying £5 extra to EE per month- puts the phone cost at £120 over 24 months. I've also got my old phone to sell, which looking at ebay completed items, usually make around £100

Fair enough. Mine was £10/ month cheaper when I did it and phone was about £100 for basic smart phone.

 

[AF Salers]

Just got an EE 12 month sim only contract, will continue to use my old phone, O2 have supplied the unlock code, for £8/mth 2000 minutes unlimited texts and 2 gb data. Very cheap & hopefully won't need any back up!