If you're planning on selling the phone to CeX, you can sell the device for £25 instead of £21 by unlocking it with a 99p code from eBay. Every little helps.. or so the rumour goes! :smiley:

That's right. I've sold 7 to CEX today... £105 PSN credit, £7 cash profit, and a few quid on each of the sims to donate to charity... :smile:

Think there is £9.50 quidco too :smiley:

You have to show id when it gets delivered

any idea if this will be locked to EE?

I'd like to get this instore, do you think you can buy 4 x £5 top up vouchers to get the phone?
Also are you tied the the pack advertised as I'm on a £1 a week plan I'm just looking to just get a few £5 top up vouchers for my £1 plan and then get a free spare phone?

oh ok thanks, i thought maybe instore as long as your topping up £20 etc you could get it.

You can't say fairer than that! Great find.

Could this be used as £20 worth of play store credit with a free phone thrown in or do you have to buy a 7 or 30 day package to use and/or set up EE billing on the play store?

Anyone know the exact model number ?

How do I receive a top-up? Do they send a voucher so I can add £20 to my existing number or it is new sim card with a funds already added?

I'm confused sorry to be dense but is this a payg deal?

are there any other phones available with it?

do you really get 9.50 quidco if so that would be a tenner for a phone plus 20 credit?? is that correct

Might come in handy as a burner phone or a phone that ties me over those few days between selling an iPhone and getting a new one

is it 4g?

'Sorry, we’ve performed our checks and are unable to continue with your order. But don't panic...you can try one of our stores or order a free sim'

Wow rejected for a £20 PAYG phone, ohhhhhh the shame I'll never live it down. Now i can't get the damn £9.90 quidco

Anyway successfully been able to buy this online even when i choose deliver to ee store i get the above message

bought, cheers OP

Yeah MC worked tut tut tut Amex

ah that would be it, the old AMEX rejection thing. Ill try with MC and report back

If I select the top up will I be able to use it on my orange sim?

EE site quotes...

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Pay as you go

If you’re on pay as you go, you can unlock your phone as soon as you get it, as long as it’s locked to EE, Orange or T-Mobile. Your pay as you go account must be registered with your details for us to unlock a pay as you go device. Register or manage your account >

You must also ensure the device has not been reported as lost or stolen.

There are no charges for unlocking for pay as you go devices bought from EE and our indirect partners. We’ll need to check other devices to confirm where and when they were bought.

Any idea on delivery time for one of these? They state that they will update me via text, but I'm non contactable as my G4 has just bricked.....hence me buying this!

I keep getting this message when using my Visa card:
"Sorry, we’ve performed our checks and are unable to continue with your order"

If I try Mastercard I get:
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Anyone else?

Only 512Mb, but for the price its a winner if you want a basic phone.

How strict is the delivery driver regarding id on delivery as i am abroad at the moment but there is someone at my address that can show bank statements confirming my address..

Picked up 4 instore, topped up £20 and had the £1 data pack applied to the sims... traded phones at cex at £21 each, and used £15 per sim for psn credit. Winner!

Possibly a silly question but can I buy this and use it as a spare phone. And not have to top up every month?
Cheers!

my quidco cashback has tracked. so 11 quid for phone and 20 top up. sorted

Any experience on what this would be like to use as a sat nav with here maps or similar

finally got it to work with Chrome browser and a Mastercard. It was Edge & Internet Explorer that was the problem.

ordered mine yesterday when the deal came up, no money been taken out of bank and still not been shipped out. is that normal?

​From where ?

From EE..........but you have to phone them!

​ime just curious as no money been taken from my account.

So the phone will be pants. 4gb memory with 512mb ram. Oh dear.

However using the thoughts above.....

Buy £1 weekly pack. Cancel as soon as arrives.
Use rest of credit on play store. Spent £19,waster £1.
Sell phone to cex for £21 (think I've matched model number to 4034x but can someone confirm?) .
That leaves you getting £19 of Google play credit effectively for free and a couple of quid too.

That's right. I've sold 7 to CEX today... £105 PSN credit, £7 cash profit, and a few quid on each of the sims to donate to charity... :smile:

Come on dude, don't take the ****, it's behaviour like this that get deals expired.

They've got stacks and stacks of them in my local. It's a crap phone so demand is gonna be pretty low.

Anyway, the deal here for me is the psn credit for free... it would be silly not to make the most of it.

How do you convert the payg top up into vouchers? Can I also do this for iTunes?

Don't think so. With PSN you can buy credit in £5 increments using mobile phone credit, I don't believe you can do that with iTunes.

If you're planning on selling the phone to CeX, you can sell the device for £25 instead of £21 by unlocking it with a 99p code from eBay. Every little helps.. or so the rumour goes! :smiley:

I was tempted by this, but just a little more hassle than I could be bothered with!

​How do you transfer the top up to Google play or wallet?

Can you sell the top up to cex?

No, just the phone.

​You're adding a new payment method to your Google play account which is carrier billing and linked to the ee sim.

I thought i seen people sell credit to them before?

just stop the pack immediately after you have applied it and before you have used any of it. then you get the whole £20 credit.

Thanks, wasn't aware you could do this!

Ordered on 25th (via TCB £5.75 cashback), had confirmation email saying they'd let me know when dispatched.

Today had text message saying 'thanks for your order, in order to complete it please ring us on 08009566042'

As far as I'm concerned the order IS complete, so I don't see what they need. What info are they after?

I did the same. They are basically trying to up sell you something, pretty pointless really and it was difficult getting through but got there. Being dispatched today for delivery tommorow.

​Thanks

​Have u called them up ? what didnthey say? i have been in hold for 10 mins and then they say will call me back in 7 mins but no calls.

have you ordered more tha 1 phone?

Yes, spoke to them after a long wait yesterday. It was just for one phone. Bloke initially said they needed to check details - mentioned delivery address needed but then, after I pointed out he had all this info in the email they'd sent entitled 'successful order', he changed his story and claimed their system hadn't got all the payment info and he needed the security code from the back of my card. I wasn't convinced he wasn't just making things up - though with what aim I couldn't say. He may have been correct - but as he couldn't explain it and had asked for different info originally I think he was just busking it.

I declined to give him the security code, partly because I thought it could be interpreted as negating the online completion via TCB, and partly on principle of not casually giving out a debit card security number. I had already submitted all the required info and he couldn't give a proper explanation of why he needed this bit, the most secure bit, again now. He denied the cashback would be a problem, but I just told him I'd prefer to cancel if he wouldn't proceed without it. So the order was cancelled.

And then I re-ordered online.... Will see if they try to go through the same process again!

I just received the phone and payg sim. Instead of there being a voucher to apply to a sim there was a slip saying that the £20 topup would be added to your account within 2 days. As I wanted the credit to go onto an existing payg sim I rang to check which sim it would be applied to. They said the new one. So as a goodwill gesture and because I had been told i would get the topup as a code so I can apply it to my old sim they applied a £20 credit to it. Apparently the £20 will still go onto the new sim.
So I spent £20, will get £9.50 cashback, got a phone and a new sim with £20 credit plus a £20 credit on existing sim. That can't be sniffed at can it !

Currently says £29.99 for phone, so expired.

This has been a complete nightmare. Ordered the phone online last Wednesday and had the order declined 3 times. Was later advised by a member on here that this was probably because I was using Amex. I then tried MasterCard and the order went through. Two days later I started getting multiple texts saying I need to contact EE to complete my order. Called EE and they said my orders were not completed and I need to give them my payment details again to complete the order. I refused and said I had already done this online. They now checked their system and said all the Amex ones went through despite their site saying they were declined. In the end they cancelled all the orders except one.

Finally they dsispatched the phone to store for me to pick up which I did yesterday. Came home inserted the sim to phone and No Signal. Tried it in another phone No signal. Called EE and they claim that there is is no record on their system that the sim belongs to EE. Further more no £20 except some paper that's says it will arrive in 2 days.
EE place me on hold to speak to sales then they cut me off. I call back, they place me on hold then transfer me to India then cut me off. I call back get the same woman who's been cutting me and she says oh sorry there must be a problem with our lines. Finally she says oh I can't help you but the sales team can bit erm their closed right now can you try again tomorrow?

So currently no signal and no £20 or any record of it. It's turned out to be a great waste of time.
On a plus note the phone seems decent and quite small.

I thought this is 4" but turns out to be 5" really happy ..

Mate can u let me know how to do this please

Have any one got a different model which is 5" ?

I had this. Rang them and it turns out that the online orders have to be input by hand by their own operatives. The excuse for requiring a call its to check that the details are correct ie address, date of birth (they don't ask for bank details). I think it's really a response to the upgrade scam recently.

They do ask for bank details - see my earlier post. But I think they're just making it up as they go along. So I wouldn't like to guess why they're doing it. If it's just to check address etc details they could, easily, just say that in the text and email requesting a call - which would give us a reason to ring them.

As it is, their email confirming a 'successful order' would appear to be a complete sham. My replacement order, following my cancelling the first, got the 'successful order' email and now, today, I've had the 'we need you to ring us' email and text. I'll ring tomorrow - and see what story they try spinning this time...

They didn't ask for bank details from me..in fact they went out of the way to say that they weren't asking for bank details. I reckon you must have been one of the first batch and they were just 'winging it'.
All ordered, paid for and delivery booked for tomorrow. :sunglasses:

no money taken yet and received a better model 5" but yes had to call them up as they asked for it

is it safe to give them credit card details over the phone including security code ?

sounds very unsafe to me

Dropped you a PM rather than derailing the thread.

wow, i had zeromtrouble in store and just made £6 profit selling phone while getting to keep credit

I've had the phone two days and still no signal, tried to get to the store yesterday after work but a 40 mins delay on the jubilee line prevented that. Will try again today

Finally got it working, they had to transfer the payg to another sim as the one they sold was a dud. Extra £5 for the troubles. If anyone knows how to convert the payg to Xbox credit would appreciate it.

Also got ee to unlock the phone

The offer has ended now

Bit confused by an email I just got telling me they've sent me a SIM card, after an email yesterday asking me to phone (which I haven't done yet).

Three of mine arrived today. They only charged me £20 for the first one but they didn't give the top up for the other two. So i got them free

I saw that too
http://ee.co.uk/help/getting-started/joining-ee/unlocking-your-device

however I went thru the unlock process online & the confirmation screen said I would be charged £8.99
from my sim credit balance

not happy

On the plus side TCB tracked thru at £9 not the advertised £5

Try calling them up. I asked them to unlock the phone and they said it's £8. I said it shouldn't be as the policy recently changed and it's now free. He put me on hold checked with his colleague and confirmed I was right. They will ask you for the IME number of the phone and say it takes up to 8 days. I think u get a text once it's done but they say you will need to put a sim from a non EE network.

you guys know you can get it unlocked on ebay for 99p right? took under 10 mins both times

I went through because it was free but then did a live chat and it was confirmed to me that it would be Free and he said that his supervisor had check it - he didnt know as live chat is for pay monthly.

I stupidly crashed the browser before I could get the chat printed/emailed to me.

who did you use?

just had EE customer service by phone confirmed that an EE purchsed PAYG is free :smiley: and she did go to double check

I have moved £15 from the £20 to my sony account so they cant take it even if they did want to

or buy anything you want on Google Play...

Can it be moved to Xbox accounts?

Thanks OP. Is this phone any good for satnav?

I have exactly the same situation as you, no signal and no £20 or any record of it. Very poor service from EE again :disappointed:

Complain, with all the details, via their website system.
I had the same problem, phone arrived and was fine - but sim was apparently dead, no service at all, number 'not one of ours' according to EE's website registration (an unbelievable excuse!) and, as it was dead, there was clearly no £20 credit.
Sent online complaint weeks after the order (it had been a Christmas present so problems not discovered until a month after ordering) and, after a couple of calls back and a replacement sim, all sorted.
Completely awful service in the first place, but can be fixed if you perservere.

Just had the quidco confirmed for this deal.
£9.90 x3 + £50.61 That's £80.31 for a £19.99 phone Madness!!!!!!!!!!!