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Vodafone RTG upgrade

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    #2
    Curious81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17 ✭Curious81


    I know, its ridiculous. I was a Vodafone customer for over 10 years and just recently changed to o2 because Vodafone gave me absolutely no incentive to stay with them when upgrading my phone.

    daheff wrote: »
    customer retention at its best :mad:
    Indeed :)


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    #3
    GerardKeating
    Registered Users Posts: 7,667 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    daheff wrote: »
    Noticed on their website that if you upgrade your phone and state that you are a customer looking to move to vodafone you get 120Eur of free call credit, whereas if you say you are an existing customer you only get 5Eur

    The cost of the phones is also cheaper!

    Porting over:

    https://www.vodafone.ie/df/prepay/prepayporting/index.jsp?manufacturerSelected=ALL

    current customer

    https://www.vodafone.ie/df/prepay/upgrade/index.jsp?manufacturerSelected=ALL


    customer retention at its best :mad:

    One can save money with the upgrades, Take the Nokia 2630, tis €59.99 plus €5 call credit for an upgrade for existing prepay customers.

    But convert fronm O2 and the phone is €39.99 with some call credit.

    So one can save €14.99 with the following
    • Go to 02 site, get free O2 sim
    • Order phone with Vodafone as a migrating O2 customer.

    When the phone comes, just put your existing voda sim in and you have the phone for €39.99 with no free call credit.


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    rubadub
    Registered Users Posts: 32,382 ✭✭✭✭rubadub


    GerardKeating wrote: »
    When the phone comes, just put your existing voda sim in and you have the phone for €39.99 with no free call credit.
    I like it, surely there must be other tricks too. e.g. I use RTG and am not too attached to any company, I am on vodafone but if I was on O2 I might change to vodafone to get that "new customer" benefit, then when the credit runs out move back again, to whatever company has the best deal for new customers.


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    jesus_thats_gre
    Registered Users Posts: 17,441 ✭✭✭✭jesus_thats_gre


    GerardKeating wrote: »
    One can save money with the upgrades, Take the Nokia 2630, tis €59.99 plus €5 call credit for an upgrade for existing prepay customers.

    But convert fronm O2 and the phone is €39.99 with some call credit.

    So one can save €14.99 with the following
    • Go to 02 site, get free O2 sim
    • Order phone with Vodafone as a migrating O2 customer.

    When the phone comes, just put your existing voda sim in and you have the phone for €39.99 with no free call credit.

    I am pretty sure that this won't work. In fact, I know for a fact that it shouldn't work..

    The best bet would be to port your existing number to O2 and then port back to Vodafone.


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    GerardKeating
    Registered Users Posts: 7,667 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    jesus_thats_gre wrote: »
    I am pretty sure that this won't work. In fact, I know for a fact that it shouldn't work..

    Well it does...


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    daheff
    Registered Users Posts: 5,866 ✭✭✭daheff


    jesus_thats_gre wrote: »
    I am pretty sure that this won't work. In fact, I know for a fact that it shouldn't work..

    The best bet would be to port your existing number to O2 and then port back to Vodafone.


    Is that what GerardKeating is saying to do...except instead of porting twice you are just porting once..but opening a new phone number with o2?

    only catch could be that your free credit goes to the new number instead of the old one


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    GerardKeating
    Registered Users Posts: 7,667 ✭✭✭GerardKeating


    daheff wrote: »
    Is that what GerardKeating is saying to do...except instead of porting twice you are just porting once..but opening a new phone number with o2?

    only catch could be that your free credit goes to the new number instead of the old one

    Depends on what you mean by "catch"

    The "normal" upgrade for existing users, is €59.99 plus €5 call credit, my "option" is a phone for €39.99 with no credit, still a saving of €15.

    If one normally topped by by over €40 a month, one could spread the top-up over the two sims (your existing and the Upgraded one) and spread the outgonig calls over the two sims.


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