Orange - Victory!

[deathboy]

Woohar... after a week of thinking that the guy I talked to at Orange was probably blowing smoke up my arse, I just got a text telling me the Treo 650 is in stock.

Called up the upgrade line, opened the conversation with "hello, I was going to leave orange, but you gave me a good quote, so I hear you have the handsets now, I want to take you up on it..."

... and what do you know, they had indeed logged the quote, and I am now about to get:

* 750 anytime / any network minutes for 35 quid a month
* Treo 650 for 39.99 quid

plus my old (not ace, but ok) options of:

* 5 quid insurance
* 4 quid for 5mb GPRS (which is the only weak part of the deal, frankly)

... result!

So, the moral of the story seems to be to have all the facts about how you could move off your provider to another and save money, and start the whole deal by saying you want to leave, not upgrade

Fucking ace. I'll be saving about 50 quid a month (due to not running over my talktime allowance) and I get a spanky phone for $not_much_cash.

VICTORY!

Comments

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

The only provider that doesn't work with is O2. I told them I was leaving unless they gave me the phone/network minutes I wanted and the phone monkey basically said 'OK'.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

fucking muppets.

well, all the better reason for you to move, I guess.