Stay away from VodaFAIL, their billing dept. is run by chimps..

I think you're being rather disrespectful to chimps!

Thanks

Quidco and tcb are the easy bit, you buy your product by linking through there website and a few months later you (should) get you £5. The cash back is from the retailer e2save, you send in your bill on certain months to an email or postal address, they then send you a cheque or credit your bank account with the money. Its along time since I've done a deal like this myself, but never had issues in the past. And am currently on a contract with a different retailer with cash back. You need to check there t&cs about which bills yo send in.

I'm thinking about getting this deal, can someone expalin how cashback works? I've never used anything like quidco or whatever before

Wouldn't sign a contract with Vodafone even if they paid me £17 a month

Are you sure the above deal includes free Spotify /Netflix etc?

As malky39 posted a few days ago:

what's the cheapest vodafone deal including spotify and at least 10gb of data at the moment? I'm currently on a cashback deal for 20gb and spotify for £15 which is awesome but about to end

Is it just me but I can't get past the 'Your details' screen? After I enter everything and click continue, the page just reloads.

Is mobiles.co.uk the simplest for cashback?

Vodafone spent the most in last years spectrum auction, over £500 million. They will have the best coverage out of the 4 main provider soon.

Yes can be done all electronically

​Is it all done through email and electronic banking? I'm not into posting letters, buying stamps or taking cheques to the bank. let me know please

I've been with Vodafone a few months now on a £5 month redemption cashback deal from mobiles.co.uk. The coverage for me is excellent, I get something silly like 50mb download in Lincoln, fast upload too, much faster than my home broadband. I've never had problems with their CS team, the online account took a while to setup but apart from that no issues whatsoever.

Same here, since Jan

Won't bother with Vodafone after reading this. Just gonna unlock phone and stick with giffgaff.

i have requested nano-sim insted of micro when changed the phone iphone. the first sim didn't arrive, so requested second time but then discoveredthat voda wants to charge me £5 (i.e £2.5 for sending new sim), even though they told that it is absolutely free when i was ordering the sims. it took me 3 calls to get the refund.

agree. their signal is not the best and their billing system is rubbish. at the beginning of the contract they failed to set up direct debit for two month, now they keep overcharging for the data use.

You can also cut it to size using scissors

Vodafone are probably the worst company I have ever dealt with please avoid at all costs!!

They probably will but i was so pi**ed off I just gave up.i thought if I cancel my payments then they might take me bit more seriously and resolve the issue but guess i was expecting too much from vodafone there.

I used to read these comments and think whatever, but after finally deciding to leave due to poor mobile internet I can now whole heartily agree what a shower of **** they are.

have to agree with previous posts regarding Vodafone customer services. been with over 10 year. they used to be absolutely gold. in the rent years they have been pretty bad or at least not great.

Im my area i have used all ee , o2 , vodafone and three , regarding coverage vodafone worked most followed by three then o2/ee all had places where no signal at all outside but vodafone had the least no signal 2 bars of 4g get 16gb download speed and like i say ive had problems with others ee so to me they are all the same . Just get payg sims and check before commiting to 12mts .

and there are places within 200m of me where O2 has no coverage, but it's coverage checker and the apps which check this all say I have 'excellent coverage'.

People have to use a network which covers the areas they visit BUT coverage <> speed/capacity and can in some cases be the opposite.

Also - people being less NIMBY about phone masts would solve this but people will be people will be ****

Vodafone have been around for awhile now but they have become a third rate network supplier I afraid, I think they are just money grabbers and they don't give a damn about their customers coverage, Vodafone are old hat.

Sorry but I know plenty of people who are with Vodafone and they don't get any 3g or 4g at all in some places, I myself use B.T sim which piggybacks off EE as you know, I always get 4g where ever I go.

Can't speak for these deals, but mobiles.co.uk do it either by mail (print bill and post) or through your account portal doodah thing directly (never tried it but apparently simple) - you have 60 days to do it, takes upto 40 to get paid.

http://www.mobiles.co.uk/cashback.html

It's more likely they'll just get nasty demands - but it's entirely possible a phone could use data (tho maybe not quite that much) whilst you're asleep

They're called 'SMART' for a reason - they do still all by themselves and there's plenty of apps capable of draining data at a scary rate...

How does redemption work?

Here's the problem with what you said - you're not wrong, but you're talking about the wrong thing. Coverage and actual speed/capacity are not always related.

The places I spend time show the most coverage on O2, then EE, then Three and then Voda - using any of those apps people use to check this stuff or the official coverage checkers or just talking to people, that's what you'll conclude.

Problem is, that data relies on people USING the service - so if more people use O2, it will show as better coverage (more data).

Around here, O2s network is absolutely overloaded and slow-as-hell (there are several O2 stores which probably explains this). EE is a bit better, Three is similar (each have one store) but they're all busy.

Voda (no stores) - no-one uses it and it's really quick. There are 'holes' in coverage for sure, but those exist for EE, Three and O2 also (indeed O2 has one right outside my house!!)

The best I could get from a O2 4G SIM with 'full bars' was about 4Gb down and 2Gb up - tried several places/times, never bettered.

Same areas on Voda didn't always show full bars, but comfortably topped 10Gb down and 8Gb up - peaks were higher again - BIG numbers.

At busy times, the O2 network is slow-to-dead-stop and sometimes even fails connection - Three and EE are better but still relatively slow (you'd not replaced your wired broadband)

The Voda SIM has no such issues - indeed, I still get more data speed at peak times than O2 can EVER give me and more than my ADSL line gives (esp upload)

That's just the 20mile area I cover of course - YMMV - but do NOT mistake coverage for speed - in-fact, sometimes the least 'coverage' means the most speed (which stores don't you have - that network is likely the least congested)

I must be lucky i had a £9 extra bill query they refunded it right away not a problem .

Vodafone has the worst customer service ever - get at your own risk! It took me numerous phone calls and months to get an overcharge refunded. Each agent you speak to lies - don't do it!

​It's on Vodafone own Web site under sum only pay monthly 12 month contracts. The £22 on I son offer at with 8gb instead of 4gb

Pretty bad move just to cancel the DD and hope it will all go away. I expect they will seek a judgment against you!

​Please could you link it?

3g and 4g coverage are not as good as the rest,

Vodafone are awful beyond belief , the customer (lack of) service is awful .. 2nd only to NPower . Coupled with the threatened taking jobs abroad definitely worth a swerve.

I totally agree i got £138 bill for data usage and all that usage happened when i was fast asleep in the middle of the night according to them.rang billing department over 30 times but they are useless so i just cancelled my direct debit.

I have a e2save vodafone package including spotify premium. Not had any issues with vodafone or e2save, cashback was easy to claim and the cheque arrived within a week.

Just my 2 pence.

Vodafone the most complained about mobile phone provider. stay clear

I moved from ee poor signal while out in certain areas , still poor signal in certain areas with vodsfone but theres less areas so better for me , i got the 20gb deal on vodafone site afew months back for £20 a month which im happy enough with just wish the conpanys would start to share masts so everybody can get coverage everywhere .

Excellent deal. I pay £15 for 5Gb and 500 min. The data speeds are very good and has very good coverage in comparison to other networks and I been with most of them.

​I would confirm with mobile.co.uk of this does include spotify/sky now. As if you look at the Vodafone Web site there are two different 8gb plans. This one at £22 which is a 4gb plan with double data but no Spotify etc. and on at £27 which is a standard 8gb plan which includes Spotify etc.

I would totally avoid E2Save.
I have a redemption contract with them now which is thankfully ending in October.
When claiming my cashback ( I have done 5 so far ) they were a major pain in the backside.
Their log in procedure was from like 10 years behind and 2 months ago they updated it and the log in was down for nearly one month.
When I phoned them with the problem it took me 35 minutes and then 45 minutes the next time, told me it will be sorted in about 5 days and it took 2 further weeks.
They rejected every claim the first time and 2 of them 3 times, cant see your post code in the bill.
I could go on but you get my gist.
NEVER AGAIN

Avoid Vodafone at all costs unless you enjoy being billed incorrectly, have accounts created in your name without your knowledge, lose service, get lied to every single time you call etc.

They are genuinely the worst phone provider in the UK hence why they have like three times as many complaints as any other company.

It might be cheap but it just isn't worth the hassle .

Rubbish coverage and the customer service is terrible.

We were promised a great deal and that the guy we were speaking to would be a dedicated account manager . Then found out it was a total lie and he didn't have the authority to do so.

Still trying to sort out an overcharge of £130 that they may has been paid back but hasn't.
Oh and if ever they promise a call back, might as well turn your phone off cos it ain't going to happen.

Vodafone - cold
Redemption - cold
Both together - Pluto level of freezing.

is this by redemption

me too!

Stay away from VodaFAIL, their billing dept. is run by chimps..

Will this tariff include free Spotify /Netflix etc?

how do I renew with this ?

Great deal but not the best service provider.

My nephew has been sorting out an overpayment on his bill for the last 5 months with Vodafone customer service department.

I've changed twice in the last year and too lazy to wait for the right sim card size when I change phone, so I just cut the sim myself with a pair of scissors.

Cut around the chip part if you can't get a nano easily.

Probably worth nothing this is a Microsim. Anyone know if you'd be able to sign up to this sim and then get it changed in store for a nanosim? I had to do a similar thing with Three when I changed phones and had no problems.