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i have been offered the chance of an XDAII for £100

decisions, decisions!
Do i take them up on the offer and get a rubbish contract or do i wait and pay a huge amount.
ian

Hi ian
Seems like a very generous offer to me (who made you this offer?).
I took out a contract with O2 earlier this April. If offered similar deal i would jump to it.
I only wish that the new xda would be a lot lighter than the current model!!!! But you get an improved CPU + bluetooth. Thats enough improvement for me to be worth £100.
Cheers

xda
were you offered it by 02
regards kevin beecher

Where can we buy them? I would jump at the chance

lol £100 ?
hate to get folks hopes up but I read the MDA will be out for around $700+
XDAII for £100.... mmm more like £600

£100 XDA
I hate to reveal my sources (so i won't - but i will clarify my statement) but staff at certain retail outlets are offered contract mobiles including XDA for £100 as long as they take the contract offered. The member of part-time staff is a former student of mine (now at university) who comes to me for help and advice, and often passes on deals and useful information to me.
ian

Where is this retail outlet then. I could get a temp job and get the XDA then quit!

If you can get an XDA for that price then go for it
If you can get an XDAII for that price the GO FOR IT lol
Doesnt matter about the contract... if your getting it for £100
Remember there is nothing to stop you going for that contract and then going down to their cheapest.
Personaly I doubt it is an XDAII ( no offence)
but if it is then jump at the chance to get it for £100... just make sure its all legit
I know O2 were selling the old XDA at a discount (to staff) last year because they couldnt shift them fast enough... but I think £500 is a tad large a discount.
Good luck though,
if its genuine I'm jelous... if its not... I'll laff hehe :twisted:

Was that posted 3 times or is this irish whiskey stronger than I thought?

nope only twice.... :twisted:
stop drinking that whiskey !
hehe j/k

whisky
hi
whats wrong with irish whiskey
:lol:

Hey I never said that lol...
:evil:
I dislike *real* whiskey anyways... Southern Comfort n coke and JD is tollerable I guess lol

£100 deal
not that i'm disappointed or anything but my deal (hah!) for an XDAII for £100 has fallen through. If anyone wants to try then find someone who works for a well known electrical retailer d-x--s for example and find out if they are willing to buy at staff discount a phone for you. d-x-n- staff get really good prices on mobile 'phones if they sign up for a specific network and contract.
ian

O2 / XDAii contracts are available from £99.99 via a host of High street O2 Dealers here in the UK, sample contract on Ebay, follow the link below:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3366047099&category=14408
Best Regards
Ian Goulding[/url]

£75 a month. Ouch!
I would imagine that for most users you could get a cheaper deal over 12 months by paying a bit more up front.
Then again what do I know - I'm fortunate enough to get my Xda II entirely free of contract as part of my job

cheap XDA II
My company also do a deals with O2, Vodafone for staff to buy a phone for 50% off onetime, and 25% off rental and call for life. So is quite common. So £200 is an achievalble street price with a bit of haggling. They are going to recoup this in rental and calls so they are not too worried.
They think that anyone that buys an XDAII, IS GOING to use lots of MMS, GPRS,surfing etc, otherwise they'd have bought a sim free phone from another vendor.

Help Me Buy a XDA EXEC: I Will pay for your 1yr Subscription

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Ok guys I will be visiting the UK this week, I really need someone to help me get this phone as o2 only sells to UK residents. I saw on one of theses treads that they now have a student price for 114 ponuds with a 1 year contract bringing the final price to around 345 pounds....CAN ANYONE HELP? FYI:
will pay cash
would buy 2 if price is good (extra phone for wife)
don't want to try EBAY :shock: that place is just to scary for me!!!
will pay little extra for your time/trouble
Hello All,
I don't live in the UK, however I really want one of thoses black beauties (XDA EXEC). I need an o2 member to buy the phone for me with the lowest 1 year subscrition. I will then pay for the cost of the phone and half the cost of the subscription! You get a full year of service with o2 at half the online cost to use on your present phone and I get a XDA EXEC at a reduced price can any of you be willing to help me! of course this is for people who don't really want a XDA but want a new o2 contract at half the price!
Thanks [/list]

wont they release the phone contract free??

I think you'll struggle to find anyone willing to accept that deal, truth be told. O2 don't offer great deals with subsidised 'phones (in the UK at least) apart from maybe to existing customers whom they hope to retain. For example, the cheapest tariff available with a handset is something like £17 for 50 minutes but it's not difficult to find, for example Vodafone sims (with cashback) that effectively offer 1000 minutes for free. e.g.
http://www.scancom.co.uk/product.php/958/476//655aea8edf70d8d14da1da39d5d245e6
Also, the XDA Exec will be locked to O2, maybe even to O2 Uk, so I'd either just stump up the extra for a jasjar/qtek or wait until there's a proven unlock procedure.
sorry to be so negative.

:shock: well i really hope someone is interested in helping, i know the phone will come locked, but with a community like this :lol: i KNOW i will be able to unlock it. Call me silly but the JasJar is ugly compared to the xda exec, hence me wanting one. xiasma, thanks for your feedback, i guess it would not be worth anyones time to take up my offer!

Well, it seems you're aware of the options, so if an XDA is the handset you want, O2 have suggested a contract-free price of £400, so this may be your best bet. The prices should be available by the end of the week, or Monday next week at latest, i'd guess.
I'm hoping O2 offer it on their online, business-only tariffs (£16.50+VAT / month) at less than £250+VAt for the XDA. Failing that, I don't mind which network really, and the colour doesn't bother me, so it'll probably be T Mobile, possibly on their 100mb 3G tariff.

£400...that would be the cheapest price yet for this kind of device, Do you know if this applies to non UK persons? that works out to $TT4000.00 in my currency :lol: If you get more info PLEASE keep me updated. Thanks a mill friend!

As soon as I know pricing and availability, I'll post it in this forum. Unless someone beats me to it

Somebody is deaming
T-Mobile is tradtionally the cheapest and most agressive, and they sell it for 550GBP on Germany. There is no way o2 is doing for 400GBP. your are kidding yourself. Expect, at best, between 500-600 sim free from o2. They are just never cheap to buy from o2.

REALLY NEED YOUR HELP GUYS!!!
oh I forgot please PM me your telephone contact and i will call to finalize any details!
thanks again

haha, are you kidding?
you can get the phone for 114 + 19x6= 228 pounds, and the one who get it for you, need to pay for 114 pounds for 50 mins per months and no new phone at all?
then what is the benefit for him?
i think if i sell the phone for 400 pounds, there are a lot of people want to buy it....
then at least he/she no need to pay for the whole year contract and earn a little bit of money..

@siupiu
How do you get a 6 month contract? I have misunderstood your calculation?

the guy said that he will only pay for half of the cost of the subscription, so he only pay for 228, and the the person need to pay the rest of the subscription, so the person who help him to get the Exec, need to pay 114 and have no new phone...
to be honest, who will do this stupid things???
if there are anyone who to sell the phone to me for 228 pounds, i probably buy as much as i can.

siupiu, I WILL PAY FOR THE FULL YEAR SERVICE...so i get the phone and the person gets 1 year's services paid up front to use.

siupiu
these phones (XDA EXEC) are flying of ebay for £450 to £600, put on tomtom and throw in a GPS reciver and youl get more-one just went for £695.00 with the GPS stuff on ebay, mate youl be lucky if you get one for less then £250.
If you do give me a shout il buy em in bulk! lol

O2 out of stock? This is why ...

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/sea...ws/&fkr=1&from=R8&satitle=xda+exec&category0=
No wonder they dont' have any left ..
They're all on ebay being bought by Nigerian Orphans for £500
"Relisted for the 9th time, due to scammers ..."
My heart bleeds.

and im wondering where this info comes from in the first place
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/o2-XDA-II-2-E...5827030204QQcategoryZ4668QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

if someone stupid enough to pay through the nose and beleive that rubbish then more fool them simple rule reserch before you buy

I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!
People are selling this information..... people are so dumb!!!
If I thought i could sell stuff like that on ebay i wouldn't have to get out of bed every day and battle with exchange server 2003 and have to handle dumb ass secretaries saying "My files haved disappeared off my computer" all day.....
AARRRRRRHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
On a lighter note, i ordered a Exec from Coolsmartphone friday morning, after speaking to the sales rep on the phone to make sure they were in stock...... around 2 oclock, i rang then to confirm how my order was progressing to be told that they were waiting for more stock..... Bugger i said, i was promised stock was available this morning when i placed the order, sorry the sales guy said, we must have had a big order before we could process yours.
So i went to Mobile Fun.co.uk, ordered one from them, saved 50 quid on hte phone in the process and should receive it tomorrow.... how cool is that.
If i'd ordered it on thursday instead of spending the day researching it, i woould have it now...... never mind.
A big thumbs up to http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/o2/7839.htm

I like www.mobilefun.co.uk as well. The price of the Exec has reduced on their site in the last few days. The £35 per month option could be very good if you could convert to the Data 5 data only tariff after 6 months.

Carnivor said:
and im wondering where this info comes from in the first place
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/o2-XDA-II-2-E...5827030204QQcategoryZ4668QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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If you were that way inclined, you could work out where the scamster lives by looking at his photo's

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.s...22&st=8&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf
Not many houses there, either.
http://www.multimap.com/map/photo.c...dn=373567.765156&lang=&db=freegaz&coordsys=gb
According to that, its Derbyshire, but Ebay says Southampton.

Jesus £35 a month for a phone?
I would never pay that much tbh ..
Part of my amazement at the ebay market for execs is the fact its 250 cheaper just to get a 1year contract with o2 than it is to buy the fecking thing used ..
Morons!
Ebay is really a cult of stupidity ..
PS: Erm actually .. its not. However I pay £15 not £30 for my 02400 tarriff.
So yes, my bad. If you dont get a discount its fine - I guess. Wouldnt give you £500 for an exec tho. They're not worth half that ...

O2 UK Great Pricing error.

Get them while there hot again, O2 stores have got an error on there POS system, which they are not able to correct untill Friday, consequently, you can get a new XDA Mini S (HTC Wizard) for only £79.99 on whatever Tarif you want, including the low price base ones, got my two upgrades free but with a £50:00 trade in of a crap old nokia got myself a third for £29.99 and an additional £7:95.
So I am now the proud owner of 3 HTC Wizards which cost me in total the princeley some of £29.99.
So don't miss out get down to the UK O2 shops with your crappy old trade inns now before they get the system fixed.
Thanks Chaps,
Regards Ash'e

Is this right? You can buy a non contract wizard for £80?
I'd be interested in one for development...
V

Hi - what did you have to supply to get the £50 trade in - just phone or other bits of kit?
Scott

vijay555 said:
Is this right? You can buy a non contract wizard for £80?
I'd be interested in one for development...
V
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No, he said on whatever tariff you like, so probably 10 or 15 quid a month and 79 quid outlay initially.

Blimey, if I'd have known that I'd have stuck with o2. Ah well, never mind, T-Mobile seems fairly good and cheap...

Trade Whatever you want
Hey Guys
you can trade in whatever phone you like, as long as it boots and as long as you have its charger.
Then you get £50.00 back taken of the £79.99 leaving you with just £29.99 to pay (bargain) but here the really good part, untill the end of the week you can put it on any tarrif you want including the low band ones starting at £16:00 a month. But hurry chaps they won't let this keep going on for long.
Best Regards - Ash'e

As an Added Bonus
Oh & forgot to mention as an added bonus O2 are also offering DOUBLE MINUTES & TEXTS for SIX MONTHS on all UPGRADES & NEW CONNECTIONS (BONUS SCORE)
Regards Ash'e
PS - (Can you really go wrong chaps considering the real value of the Wizard)
(& Think of what the other poor sods in the rest of Europe have to pay.)
(Now if we could only get an I-Mode browser for the wizard to take advantage of O2 great new service, Still I live in hope, O2 I-Mode is totally free till the first of January & I-Mail is Totally Free till April 2006 eclusive to O2).

This poor sod is on T-Mobile netherlands and paid 110 euro for a 1 year 150 minutes (21 euro a month) contract renewal...

That sucks for me. Because i have an online contract, i can't take advantage of any of these deals.
The upgrade centre don't even have the XDA mini on their systems yet!!
So angry

Just tried this on in my local O2 highstreet store and they wouldn't do it. They basicaly said 'thats obviosuly an error, f**k off'.
Oh well, at least I tried...

I called O2 for an upgrade and they said I could have the Mini S for free or the Exec for £150.

Yep - got my XDA mini with O2 - lowest tariff, traded in a broken mobile.
Scott

Where have you had sucess doing this? I tried a shop in central london and the guy wasn't having it at all!

Hmmm. I need to look for a discount airfare r/t over there. LOL

low airfare.
well, new york london for only £120 check cheapflights.com
ehehehe

Geez, I haven't been into UK since I bought my nickel plated, Metisse framed, two barreled weber carburated, side hack mounted Trumpet...and then left my wife and kids in the hotel to ride it back to Germany...in November. LOL
Man, those were the days..197?

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.

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

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

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

O2 website pricing error

I'm new here (been lurking for a while) and in the process of haggling with my local O2 shop to match my previously bargained Orange tariff to a XDA mini and O2 tariff. Anyway...
Last night whilst browing i noticed that if you Select a XDA mini S on the O2 shop website, instead of being charged £79.99 on all plans, it comes up as £49.99 on all plans.
Hope this is of some use to somebody
Cheers

I thought you had to trade in an old phone to get them for fifty quid, but not if they're making mistakes (again)! :lol: Given the number of mistakes that O2 have made recently, I'm surprised they're still in business!
Good find. :wink:

Of use to me - many thanks! Kneale

whats the cheapest plan availabe :shock: ?

Just be careful they dont say it was a clear error and charge you £79. Bonus if you get it for £49 but maybe be prepared to pay £79.
Tell you what though £49 for a mini S is one hell of a bargain. Its a fantastic piece of kit. God I paid £50 for my nokia 3650. Also a very good phone in its day and still a good phone to be honest.

There is no mistake now as the price is shown as £49.99
In just a couple of weeks the price has dropped from £99.99 to £79.99 and now £49.99. At this rate it will be FREE in the next 4 weeks on contract.

Me being a student, I ordered it at a price of 54.99 on Friday and just had it delivered yesterday afternoon :?
Now the student price is less than 30 :x . Is there anything I can do about it? Also why is the price being halfed so rapidly? :shock:

Return it. Reorder on different card.
I'm yet to receive an order confirmation for mine...

kvee said:
There is no mistake now as the price is shown as £49.99
In just a couple of weeks the price has dropped from £99.99 to £79.99 and now £49.99. At this rate it will be FREE in the next 4 weeks on contract.
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Yeah gutted as I just paid £99 for mine just before christmas. You should get a refund if they drop it within a certain time of you buying it. £50 ive just wasted. Not buying a phone just before christmas again. Still got them back with the exec deal :wink:

I got mine instore for £79.99 with £30 back as trade in for an old broken nokia and charger on Data5 tarrif (5Mb data per month only - no calls or sms) at £9.something per month. So basically £50.
The guy in the shop never questioned my choice of data only tarrif. He also trusted me to come back with a mains charger as I took a car one with me.
It also seems they are not concerned about people re-flashing firmware and removing the O2 extended ROM (which makes the phone MUCH faster - I did it today). They will help you get your gprs and wap settings back after the flash

I bought one today - arriving tomorrow. One helluva deal! 49 quid for any tarriff - I went for the 12 month contract on the OnLine tariff £19 a month with 50 cross network minutes, 200 texts and 1Mb of downloads bundled in.
I also bought a 2Gb high speed mini SD from moby memory (http://www.mobymemory.com/proddetail.asp?prod=miniSD_2048mb_MOBY_001) for £87!
Bring 'em on!!!

... I did give the O2 shop a chance to match this deal. The best they could offer was a free phone on a £70 a month tarriff locked in for 6 months... and they were out of stock. :lol:

£87 for a 2 gig Mini SD is VERY cheap! Thanks for the link!

its 50 pounds now :S

Sorry Don't want to mislead anyone. I actually paid £49.99. Next day delivery was free though.

I just ordered one yesterday at 79.99, just seen this price drop info and ill be calling them tomorrow to tell them they best not be charging me 79.99 when its on the site a day later for 49.99!

Sizer, let us know what happens

Will do, just noticed the time of this post aswell. It was about 5-6 hours after I ordered it too!
Any chance the original poster can confirm what time they saw the offer??

Has anyone had their phone delivered within the last few days like me? I had mine delivered on 9/1/05. I ordered it on 6/1/05 though. I am hesitating a return as I do need it right now and have not yet emailed them. How exactly should I word it?
Price match? Re-imbursement? Refund? Don't want to sound like an @$$.
EDIT: actually I am going to email them...here goes nothing

Personally I am going to phone and speak to a person. Email isnt direct enough IMO. I will simply be stating :
That the price was dropped several hours after ordering and if they do not give it to me for the new price I will use it for 13 days and return it on the 14th. There is a 14 day cool off period. I will then inform them that after I have returned it to them they will have to then sell it on as 2nd hand/refurb and that I will place my order again for one at the lower price.
Under these conditions it would be far easier and more beneficial to them to alter my invoice accordingly and save wasting my time and their time/money. And if that fails, I will simply return it and go to another network operator that looks after the customers they already have rather than a company who just likes to get you as a customer then forget all about you.
If anyone does phone them be sure to make a note of the date/time of the conversation and get the operators name in case you need it for future reference. I have been caught out before simply because I could not provide these details...