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Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Birmingham
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Problems with Orange Upgrade
I'm in the last three months of my 18 month contract with Orange and today I tried to upgrade to the Samsung I600.
With the tariff I want, this phone is £19.99 to new customers - but Orange tell me that, as an existing customer, I have to pay £79.99. This seems to contradict the gumph on their website which says that they give existing customers "the same deal" as new customers. I don't see how they can say this and then charge an existing customer £60 more for the same phone. |
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You are not out of contract, and my guess is you don't have a high spend so to do an upgrade early you are charged £50 and then the price of the phone. Ring them again and ask when the price will drop for you.
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I understand about the upgrade fee. But their website makes a big thing about offering existing customers the same deal as new customers - and they're obviously not doing that in reality.
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If you were out of your contracted minimum period, you would get the price as advertised.
In reality you are getting the same price anyway. The phone will be £19.99, the upgrade fee is applied dependant on the period left on your contract, in this case £50. |
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Actually the i600 is free to upgrading customers in bands 4&5. There is a charge to you as you are a light user in band 2. Your light use dimishes your worth. If you'd used your phone more you would have got the i600 for nothing.
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