Monday, May 05, 2008

The votes have been counted...

So T-Mobile made me an offer for 2 new Blackberries and were prepared to throw in a PS3 and a Wii.

I phoned up Orange to get my PAC codes and they made me a counter offer...

No fancy freebies but similar minutes, texts, email and data to T-Mobile at about 2/3 of the monthly price; the WiFi versions of the phones instead of the GPS versions, and across the two contracts, £180 of cash-back.

When you compare the two contracts over 18 months, the Orange one comes out £630 cheaper but doesn't give you the two consoles.  The two consoles have a street price of under £500 so this is a no-brainer for me and Serena.  We stay with Orange and buy the Wii soon and the PS3 a bit later.

Oh and we have to wait until 22 May for the new phones as that is when our current contract ends.  Big deal!

3 comments:

GF said...

I'd do the same as you mate.

When you said you were going with Carphone Warehouse I thought they would be more expensive about 1/4 to 1/5, not 1/3. Mind you I didn't mention as I assumed you'd already checked that....

...how else do they afford the free consoles!?!?

Get Wii Fit, it's great... ;)

Jase said...

Carphone Warehouse were useless.
I shopped around on the net and fuond a better deal by a mile, still Orange came up trumps in the end.

GF said...

I knew CW would be mate, I just didn't want to say if that was what you were wanting to go with....glad you found a better deal though.

G