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[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] webkami:
Check out This

http://www.mobileswizard.co.uk/display.asp?hs=xdaminis&tariff=none

to compare O2 plans and how much you will end up paying if bought online

and this for T-Mobile

http://www.mobileswizard.co.uk/display.asp?hs=mdav&tariff=none

I like the info on the right saying "Min Term Cost"

gives you and idea of how much you will end up paying.

Still the tradein offer (if you get in 25 quid) is cheaper making it. £217)

Or even if you dont get trade in and have an offline tarif for £16 you will be paying £291.

Think anyone can beat that??????

let me know I am after the phone.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] sion:
Call O2 Store Uxbridge

Just got mine yesterday form the O2 Store in Uxbridge, payed a grand total of £29:99 for it on upgrade, on my low tarif asked the same deal is available on new contracts, if you don't believe me call the store on (01895) 252163 ask for Greg (Nice Aussied Chap) and you will see. That other O2 store is talking BS,

Regards Ash'e
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] ricmoo2004:
Well Done, just been down to O2 in Bath, got mine on O2 25 £16 per month, all the staff have bought one this morning as well. traded in crappy old sony phone. bye bye exec..

Richard
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] cyberwiz:
i just got an 02exec with a 19pound per month plan ...

is there a way to get the wizard for 29 pound only without signing up for more months?

what is an upgrade? i dont get it...

thanks :)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] zoltix:
Real cost of cheap O2 Varios

Am I missing something here, but shouldn't we be taking the estimated cost of using the phone into account ?

I assume the Vario is going to be used i.e. logging on, sending and receiving emails, documents, texts etc.

I realise the O2 25 tariff is only £16 pm but lets face it, you only get 25 minutes. You are bound to have a good sized phone bill every month if you are using the Vario to its full extent.

One of the most expensive T-mobile tariffs is the W&W 200, but you get 3600 free minutes and 480MB over the contract. An active user, going online and downloading every day would probably never have to pay any extra.

If you look around you can get this tariff for £19 for 12 of the months anyway and the phone is free rather than £79 on O2. The only real bonus is the ridiculously high trade-in O2 are giving for an old phone.

Or is everyone just going to sell them on Ebay?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] sion:
Whar you are missing

What you are missing is thar O2 GPRS access is untill further notice free of chzrge with a 33MB reasonable usage limit, and on all tarris they are currently offering double minutes and texts, you just csnt get better than that.

Besides which you can always opt for one of th slightly higher tariifs it you think you will neud more minutes, or move your tarrif up a bard later if yoo need them.

Regards Ash'e
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] zoltix:
Free GPRS on O2

<......O2 GPRS access is untill further notice free of chzrge .......all tarris they are currently offering double minutes and texts.....>

I think I must have got the wrong assistant - my O2 store only offered me 1MB free, then wanted £4 extra for 4MB chunks.

Also, the extra minutes only seemed to apply to the higher tariffs or 18 month contracts.

I'm going to have to go back and double check because I was considering the T-mobile W&W 100 which gives 100 free minutes plus 40MB free per month for £15 a month for 12 months. As the phone is also free on W&W 100 I would save the £79 O2 charge. If only I still had an old phone and charger that worked.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] sion:
O2 Store Uxbridge has just got twenty five Units in Stock

Hey Guys if any of you are in London and fancy getting hold of this deal, I have just ran Greg at the Uxbridge Branch, and he has just got twenty five XDA Mini's on his Stock delivery and said he can also put them on just the £8:00 if you really don't want to splash out on the tarrif, and still £50.00 trade in and double texts and minutes.

Regards Ashe.

PS His number is Tel: 01895 252163.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] tintoy:
got one at last. tried 3 stores before i found a smypathetic ear. £29.99 net when you consider the £50 they gave me for a phone i found in a box int eh store room at work!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Zerocool2311:
is the exec still on offer? But whats the dif in price if its bought online and walk in? MY friend's down in central london.. heard there's no stocks there for the exec.. is it true?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Sunnychad:
The trade in value...how does that get given?

I did the deal yesterday but the guy started saying that only £30 would be the trade in value etc. I said why, he said some printing error etc. I was not convinced. He charged me the full £79.99 and said that a cheque would come in the post from O2 for £30 but argue and you should get the £50. Please let me know if this is right as it seems that everyone is paying the lower amount at the till!!!

Thanks.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Zerocool2311:
How many of you guys bought the exec? price wise? : )
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] dajtw:
Anyone tried that Uxbridge shop? I called them up and they say they're out of stock until Saturday? what does 8 quid per month give you? I take it it's 'unofficial' right?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] andybjackson:
Got deal from Strand St, Paid £79 & expecting refund

I got the deal from Darren at the Strand Street, London branch yesterday. Took a bit of banter to get to the agreement. Paid £79.99 and am expecting £50 refund. Signed up to £16 per month for the O2 25 package. Didn't get the double texts and double minutes, but got 300 off-peak minutes instead. Probably more valuable than double 25 mins.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] tintoy:
Sunnychad, yes, you do get the rebate as a cheque in 3 months time rather than at the till (apparntly you only get 'at the till' rebates for pay as you go phones).

Also, my wife has just got a phone with this deal as well! I'm beinging to think that this 'rumor' is a cunning ploy by O2 to get people into the shops!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Sunnychad:
O2 Have sent a bulletin to shops to say £50 trade-in error

I have been told that O2 have sent their shops a note saying the the £50 trade-in is an error and the amount to offer is £30. All the other phones in the book say £30 trade-in apparently but there was an error on this one. I have contacted customer services who have written (email) to me to confirm that the trade-in is £50 and that I will get it in 28 days. I would suggest all do that to make sure. On my receipt is says only £0.01 so that is why I chased up etc. The customer services guy contacted the shop manager and got confirmation etc.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] webkami:
I just got it paying 80 and being promissed 50 back in cheque (for a Sagem my friend was going to throw out).

My plan is £9.40 (Thats the £8 one with some extra wap, not sure)

£8 plan is NOT unofficial, but it is a business plan

called "O2 Data 5"

Never gonna call out on this sim card, just the WAP and WIFI.

So I would pay £142.8 in total over one year.

Phone it self is excellent except a bit bulky.

For 142.8 / Year a phone costing around £400, i dont think O2 have done this as a marketing stunt.

Looks to me they go a FREE lot of XDA Mini and they want to get rid of that lot.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] tintoy:
I'm pretty sure this is not a epos error. my friends have all availed themselves of this 'error' in various stores without any problem. one bought one today (saturday), supposedly after the epos error was meant to be fixed. still a corking deal though!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] monkeyphonix:
How much do you reckon they buy the Wizards for ? Many shop staff seem to make out that they pay like the same price as if you would go buy the equiv from Expansys, particularly Orange, who besides having cheeky staff at their call centre make out that they are losing hundreds when they give you the latest Nokia or something.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] saquib:
Hi,

I'm slightly confused here - is the price 79.99 for a Wizard (Mini S) or Universal (Exec)? I went into my local O2 shop and they are doing the Mini S for 79.99 plus 50.00 trade-in, the exec is the ull price 149.99.

Some posters have mentioned getting the Exec for 79.99, is this correct?

Many thanks!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Zerocool2311:
Central London ppl.... or anywhere... need info/advise

Hi ppl, a friend of my in central london was supposed to get an exec for me... but he dropped me an email something like that below...

"Bad news..I went to look ard today but there is no more stock available. I went to 2 O2 shops (along Oxford St) and they were saying that the stocks for XDA Executive were highly in demand. And they no longer carry the Data5 tariff anymore (apparently they got an "internal" email saying the phone is too cheap). So the minimum tariff is Data 36 (14.50GBP exc) and the plan cannot be downgraded for the next 12 months. Price of the Exec would be at 300GBP. Anyway, there is no stock for now."

Can anyone confirm on this? It seems so unreal as others are having no issues with getting the exec.. something's not right.. could anyone help?

Thks!!!!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Zerocool2311:
Anyone can help on the above? really appreciate it : )
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] sakram10:
XDA Mini S pricing -

Just spoke with Greg regarding the deal whereby you get £50 back from handing in an old phone against a new XDA mini S + an £8 per month contract and he's told me that it doesn't exist!!

Can some one clarify that is does and of another store that is doing this particular deal. I'm not too fussed if the £50 has gone down to £30 as long as i can get a low monthly contract.

If the above is a myth then what's the best deal on one of these right now?

SA
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] sakram10:
XDA Mini S pricing

With respect to the previous posting, i have been in touch with Greg again, and i'm not sure if there were a few crossed wires as to the product, but it is available at £8 on a "data only", but the rebate is only for £30 and not £50.

Many thanks to Greg for sorting that out for me.

SA :lol:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Zerocool2311:
Does that apply to the exec as well? Data 5 tariff being avaliable. How much is the exec going for on that tariff?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] twoday:
i am pretty sure that the trade-in for xda mini s is 50, not 30 in bristol, as i got mine on saturday, and traded in a old sendo phone ( 4.71 pounds from ebay) for 50.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Zerocool2311:
Repost..

Hi ppl, a friend of my in central london was supposed to get an exec for me... but he dropped me an email something like that below...

"Bad news..I went to look ard today but there is no more stock available. I went to 2 O2 shops (along Oxford St) and they were saying that the stocks for XDA Executive were highly in demand. And they no longer carry the Data5 tariff anymore (apparently they got an "internal" email saying the phone is too cheap). So the minimum tariff is Data 36 (14.50GBP exc) and the plan cannot be downgraded for the next 12 months. Price of the Exec would be at 300GBP. Anyway, there is no stock for now."

Can anyone confirm on this? It seems so unreal as others are having no issues with getting the exec.. something's not right.. could anyone help?

Thks!!!!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] jasonrabbit:
hi went to O2 store in stevenage today and got my xda mini s for £79.99

les £50 trade in on an old nokia (cheque tobe sent in 28 days)

put the phone onto Data5 £8.00 +vat per month

thanks very much to O2 :P
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] sakram10:
XDA Mini S pricing

I was told that the £50 was an error and it had been reduced to £30. I'll have to get back in touch with Greg again. Some people reckon that O2 made a mistake and are trying to back track on this, hence why we are now getting quoted £30.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] jasonrabbit:
HI in the O2 box instore it has the £50 trade in shown by the phone
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] jasonrabbit:
sorry that should have been book not box
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Zerocool2311:
Anyone have any ideas on the Exec?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] hshortt:
This offer is all over now! It's 99 quid minimum with 19 quid minimum contract price for 12 months.

Cheers

:cry:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] sion:
Hate to burst you bubbles guys

have just got off the with Mark leonards at O2 head office the offer of £79.99 on any tarrif has been extended for one more week but only in store have just zonfirmed this with Greg and Razi the Managers at the O2 store in Uxbridge and they confirmed it to so it is still a case of get them while there hot

Regards Ashe
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Sunnychad:
TRUE

My brother just picked his up from O2 in Watford for £79.99 and traded in an old 3 phone for the £50!!! Never thought he would give it away let alone get £50 for it!!!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] hshortt:
Anyone one want to get one for me?

Pretty please?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] wilesd:
My O2 store wanted £99 to upgrade, no trade-in.

As I have an O2 online contract I rang O2 retentions up.

£80 to upgrade, no budging on phone price, managed to haggle my line rental down by £5 a month from £25 to £20 though so essentailly got the phone for £20
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] 27:
What did you say to them?

I think I'll try it.

Are you on a new 12 month contract, effective when you get the phone?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] 27:
Eh?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] wilesd:
Just threatened to leave for Tmobile and the guy on the phone offered the £5 off. It's always worth using this one, got a BLue angel for free this way last year!

Basically it just signs you up to the same contract for another 12 months, happy with my Tariff so no worries for me.

Phone came today
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] 27:
I did that in May and got an improved contract and a Razr V3.

Don't know if it'll work this early.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] erne:
Phoned the Uxbridge shop and was adviesd the offer is still open for the wizard, The trade in has been reduced by £20 but still on any taffif an double mins etc

ern
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Sunnychad:
SO WHAT DID YOU GET? £20, £30 or £50

Please check out this post and let us know what you get!!!

http://xdaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=36206

Thanks
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] tintoy:
Just got a letter fromt he phone trade in people with a cheque for £30! I am very very very pissed off. I was told i'd gret £50 in stotre (and checked this with the store manager). I'm off for an argument witht eh shop come boxing day!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] SantfeKuss:
Also found a great deal myself from www.mobiles.co.uk

Its the o2 'Best for 'Business' deal, minimum of 2 handsets,you can choose the lowest tariff which is £11.90 +vat for each handset.

So, I got 2 free xda mini S's on the 12 month contract.The sims just go in my drawer and I use my existing sim,and will pop one on ebay.

Not as good as previous posts,but not bad at all. Will work out approx £300.00 over the year.

And if you're feeling kind, you can use this link :roll:

http://www.mobiles.co.uk/cgi/refer.cgi?refer=cust1029098
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] knowsleyroader:
That seems too good to be true. Seeing as you will get around £300 for a mini s on ebay, you could sell both and make £300 quid profit for nothing. How on earth can the company justify that deal ? Are you sure there isnt a minimum spend in calls per month ? If it is as you say, I cant see the offer lasting long once they realise what they are doing.

It makes no sense as the xda exec is £139 on the same deal, only £10 cheaper than on the o2 site. But the mini is free as opposed to £99 on the O2 site ????
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] SantfeKuss:
Been thro the small print, no mention of a minimum spend on calls. Even read the invoice they sent before I opened the phones.

Nice :lol:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] knowsleyroader:
In that case they have lost the plot :D
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] tintoy:
o2 are a compelte shambles! This is why i stopepd using them ages ago. (I'm using my voda sim in the mini-s i got for £30).

I'm going in to the shop i bought mine from on tuesday to talk to them about th £30/£50 trade in cheque issue described above. When I phoned O2 customer services they told me to talk to the shop. Then shop said I should talk to customer services. The whole O2 organsiation is staffed by halfwits! I'm going to sort it out on tuesday in store or I'll make a very big fuss (I'll write to trading standards and I sugest anyone else with this problem also consider this course of action if they cannot get teh £50 trade in cheque they were promised at the point of sale).
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] dmeineck:
Still available at www.mobileshop.com for £79.99 on 25/month.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] knowsleyroader:
But the above offer is free for only 11.90 per month. You need to get 2 but you can sell one on ebay to cover the cost of the contract and you have a free xda mini s.

Its bonkers !!

If I hadnt already gone with O2 I would have done it. Although im still in my 14 days I could cancel but I cant be arsed :wink:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] rmg:
gone up to 179.99 at mobiles now.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] SantfeKuss:
Must have had a stampede of orders, some have been refused to honour them, I've got 3 referrals still pending.

I must have been the lucky one :roll: Spoke to o2 again today, just to check the tariff and all is fine, they could not believe the deal I got :lol:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] knowsleyroader:
Quality. Get in there my son :wink: exec has shot up to £339 as well from £179. Jeez they must have lost some money.

I got my universal for £49 from 02 in my high street today on the data5 tarrif of £9.40 per month for 12 months. Was £99 but I will get my £50 cheque for the phone I traded in within 28 days.

Lovely. Its in the January 02 Catalogue in the business section if anyone is interested. The sales girl was really helpful and knew exactly what was going down as she said one of the employees did it and flogged it on ebay for £400. It works out at £162 for the purchase price and the full 12 months contract after deducting the £50 trade in. Theres a thread in the Universal section with a copy of the magazine page.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] tintoy:
Wait for that check knowsleyroader, O2 will try and stiff you like they have everyone else!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] scotth_uk:
Still available - don't give up

Just got mine yesterday for £69.99 from my local O2 shop in London on a £10 per month data bolt on plan.

Yippee!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] knowsleyroader:
I will go in my local shop and cause holy fcuk if they do :lol:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] SantfeKuss:
** UPDATE **

Just noticed, click my link, the handsets are free, but line rental has gone up to £13.99 + vat each handset per month, still a 12 month contract as well.

Don't forget, click the link :

http://www.mobiles.co.uk/cgi/refer.cgi?refer=cust1029098
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] knowsleyroader:
Still seems wrong mini s for 13.99 x 12 ??????
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] rmg:
Yes its bizarre,

Oh well, still waiting for mine to arrive!
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] SantfeKuss:
I agree, but thats the price mate. Its actually o2 that send out the phones,so if they're cheap in the o2 mag, at least its getting passed on :lol:

Here's the link if anyone interested:

http://www.mobiles.co.uk/cgi/refer.cgi?refer=cust1029098

Knowsley, you like yours ??

PS.....would just like to add, thanks to the people who clicked on my link.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] alienbb:
how long did it take from order to delivery? :shock:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] xdaer:
Just a suggestion, but how about this site has a deal alert section so threads like these get posted like in the news section.

As the deal was short lived, possibly not everyone who wanted to took advantage of this and other deals.

A Deal alert section might bring stuff like this to people's notice quicker and more effectively.

For those of us not in the UK who need all the time we can to get Friends / family to go into the stores and scoop up these hot deals.

also how about making the News / Deal RSS ?

Finally, to everyone who were lucky enough to get the deals, congrats! May be next time for me.

I'm not trying to be negative, so please dont flame. Just trying to make this fab site even better.

Thanks
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] shadowman:
Just a quick question....... Do I have to be in business to get 2 XDA Mini S phones on a Best 4 Business tariff? Can a private individual just get 2 phones for myself and my wife for example?
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] SantfeKuss:
Was over xmas,ordered late sunday before xmas, delivered Thursday before New Year, because o2 were out of stock.

Very good service actually.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] SantfeKuss:
PM'd you.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] shadowman:
Just to re-iterate, the Best 4 Business tariff hasnt gone up from £11.91 to £13.99 the latter is the VAT inclusive price (£11.91 + 17.5% VAT = £13.99)
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] rmg:
So the phones have gone back to being free? MADNESS I tell you... MADNESS!!!!!!!11111111111
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] SantfeKuss:
Oh.. well done Shadowman, and rmg.....I agree with you. :lol:

Worth it though.... :D
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] knowsleyroader:
Great suggestion although if I attempted to buy any more phones the wife would have my ollocks :D
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] knowsleyroader:
Lovin my mini S with a passion m8. Its not a phone, its my bit on the side. At least the missus treats it like it is :wink: I think she thinks its a 3 in a bed scenario now. Or 4 if I have my Exec on me as well. Hehe
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] SantfeKuss:
I agree, and my wife would do the same :lol:

Just looking thro this months T3 magazine theres a 'Mio satnav phone' ,looks really nice, and only £400, mmm sell both xda mini's and my sat nav, ...get this :lol:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] SantfeKuss:
Lovin my mini S with a passion m8. Its not a phone, its my bit on the side. At least the missus treats it like it is :wink: I think she thinks its a 3 in a bed scenario now. Or 4 if I have my Exec on me as well. Hehe[/quote]

HA HA... just been reading, the o2 mini is limited to wifi 'B', you have to flash the Rom so it can be 'G' ..... any ideas anyone.

Will do a search
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] SantfeKuss:
Oooh.... look nice :wink:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/25/mio_a701_exposed/
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Numberz:
quick question, is there a limit as to how many contracts i can have with o2?

as i have my online 500 for day 2 day use of voice calls/sms

and now the xda exec data 5 tarrif

and hopefully the mini s on contract aswel! how does the minimum 2 handsets thing work?

will it be 2 x 13.99 a month then ?

or does the 1 x 13.99 /pm cover both free handsets ?

wont o2 start asking questions ?

also...

after all this...

il have a brand new

xda2i(upgrade on my online contract)

xda exec &

xda mini s

which 1 would YOU keep by urself to use?

ps e2save are doing the siemens poppy fone free with free 12 month tarrif on orange...just ordered mine for my gf !
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] SantfeKuss:
I have 2 personal contracts, and 1 business.

And yes, its £13.99 per month per handset.