Phones 4 u stop selling new o2 contracts
jabbamk1
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So first three and now o2. Who's next?
You can still upgrade on o2 through p4u though.
Www.phones4u.co.uk/o2
You can still upgrade on o2 through p4u though.
Www.phones4u.co.uk/o2
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Not selling phones on the fastest growing UK network and on the single biggest phone brand would surely kill their business.
I wouldn't be surprised if they don't struggle over the next year and become yet another high street casualty.
P4U won't be though if there not selling phones for half of the main networks and piling money into a MVNO with seemingly no USP.
£1bn Best buy investment now worth half that, had to close their best buy brand. hundreds of job losses and a declining prepay market which has been a traditioanl winner for CPW
I'm not sure about the MVNO though.
There's still CPW but less choice is never a good thing.
CPW stopped selling Vodafone when they were the biggest network due to Vodafone demanding CPW implement sales targets for their contracts.
The outcome of that was CPW shifted focus to O2, sold that many O2 contracts that they even had to step in and set up a parallel billing system because O2 couldn't cope with the influx of customers. Vodafone stopped being the biggest UK network and went back to CPW cap-in-hand a couple of years ago.
Best Buy weren't a CPW brand.
As for Best Buy's investment, there's two ways to look at it.
If you bought something off me for £1000 and a little while down the line I bought it back in exactly the same condition for £500, has it's value dropped or have I simply ended up with a £500 profit?
Disappointed, I thought I'd try out the store in Sheffield city centre - thought I would get a clearer answer but obviously not… Again, was trying to push me on getting anything other than O2. It was almost like buying a used car, (or trying to!) but 100 times worse! clear as mud. Ended up leaving out of frustration! Anyone else had this kind of thing happen at P4U?
Not had any real problems with them but it does explain why they did not want to barter when their price for a phone I was buying was £10 more than in the o2 shop a few steps down the road.
I thought I would try P4u first because I though the phone maybe un-locked but a tenner plus £20 Amazon voucher got the money going to o2 direct and as the phone was for use on GiffGaff it did not bother me much.
It has left me in a state of mind that Phones4u are just not worth bothering with in future, but that said I must admit I have only ever brought one phone from them anyways over the past 18 years of buying mobile phones so not a big loss for them anyway.
BTW Welcome to DS faceboy:).
What was the answer you found?
The one about O2 not wanting to subsidise handsets and pay the same amount of commission to P4U, this P4U and O2 ending the agreement they had?
I was more annoyed at the service I got tbh. Rather than just tell me the truth, they tried to push me into another provider.