Best Phone deal ever?!

[Michaelbailey]

https://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/deal/?id=417b3bcb1...

Link to a Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus 128GB with 12GB of data and unlimited texts and calls.
£40.99 upfront and £35 a month. £880.99 in total. The cost of the phone on its own is £899. Am I missing something. I have already bought it though!

[Haltamer]

I was about to report you for spam, but it's actually not a bad deal, and you don't look like a robot.

Personally I'll hold off for something flexy; Have a Note8 at the moment, and despite the battery flagging (Replacement is only £70 which seems fair considering It's manufacturer pricing) it's still more than capable.

[Michaelbailey]

does sound very spammy doesn't it hahaha

as I said I bought it asap as I thought id found a glitch in the system. could only get the deal through uswitch and not mobilephonesdirect website. All seems v strange but im happy to accept the savings

[WolfAir]

Pica-Pica said:

..rented it. I guess you never own the phone though.

Im sure you do at the end of you contract. Unless with EE where you have to send back your mobile if you want to upgrade, basically leasing for mobiles.

[RobM77]

Michaelbailey said:

https://www.uswitch.com/mobiles/deal/?id=417b3bcb1...

Link to a Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus 128GB with 12GB of data and unlimited texts and calls.
£40.99 upfront and £35 a month. £880.99 in total. The cost of the phone on its own is £899. Am I missing something. I have already bought it though!

If you bought the phone for £899 and sold it for £200 (I just checked and Mazuma mobile are quoting £218 for a secondhand S8), that's a depreciation loss of £29 per month. This deal is just under £37 a month in total, so you'd have to find a sim-only deal for under £8 per month to better it. Pretty good! Thing is, do people change their phones that often these days? I've had my iPhone 6 for four years, and run on sim-only.

Edited by RobM77 on Monday 1st April 17:11

[Funk]

WolfAir said:

Pica-Pica said:

..rented it. I guess you never own the phone though.

Im sure you do at the end of you contract. Unless with EE where you have to send back your mobile if you want to upgrade, basically leasing for mobiles.

I've not come across that with EE before but I have heard other networks have done it.

[Michaelbailey]

Interesting thought if i give it back after 2 years. As people have said its still cheap though. If i get to keep it double bonus! Ive had my s6 edge for nearly 4 years now and its pretty far gone so time for a upgrade

[steve51800]

On EE there are some contracts where you can trade then handset in and early upgrade, as much as 23 months early on their new Upgrade Anytime plans, other wise the phone is yours at the end of a contract term.

[Jonnny]

Very good price, its also a brilliant phone - my best yet.

[bazza white]

Pretty tempting, I pay £20 for sim only unlimited everything so it would £15m/month for a new phone (id have to keep an eye on data.)

[rich12]

Is mobilephonesdirect a legit site?

I've never bought a phone from companies like that and seems too good to be true.

On the site, if you go for their 'best seller' it works out at £883.11 all in for the same deal. £9.99 upfront and £36.38 a month.

Edited by rich12 on Monday 1st April 22:35

[towser44]

rich12 said:

Is mobilephonesdirect a legit site?

I've never bought a phone from companies like that and seems too good to be true.

Yeah, I've used them before without any problems.

[rich12]

towser44 said:

Yeah, I've used them before without any problems.

Thanks.

I just don't get how they can do it so cheap.
Three have it as £79 upfront and £52/month for the same deal so how do they get it so much cheaper than pretty much everywhere else.

[towser44]

rich12 said:

towser44 said:

Yeah, I've used them before without any problems.

Thanks.

I just don't get how they can do it so cheap.
Three have it as £79 upfront and £52/month for the same deal so how do they get it so much cheaper than pretty much everywhere else.

No idea how they do it. I remember I even used TopCashBack and got the cashback on top of the deal too from them. It was around 45 quid I think.

[rich12]

Blimey, £44.10 cashback on top of that deal if I had known.

There's some crazy cash back rates on that site for how much I spend a month. Got to start using it.

Shame I bought the phone before going on there.

[bmwmike]

Looks a good deal! Cheers might have found a replacement for my trusty but crusty note4!

[towser44]

rich12 said:

Blimey, £44.10 cashback on top of that deal if I had known.

There's some crazy cash back rates on that site for how much I spend a month. Got to start using it.

Shame I bought the phone before going on there.

I've found Quidco more reliable than TopCashBack when it comes to tracking and paying out over the last 6-9 months and the rates are generally similar. Quidco do regular bonuses as well where they pay an extra £2.50 on top of any cashback. I'm not a big spender, but I've had £645 actual earnings I've had paid and transferred to my bank account from TopCashBack since late 2015.

[Easternlight]

rich12 said:

Blimey, £44.10 cashback on top of that deal if I had known.

There's some crazy cash back rates on that site for how much I spend a month. Got to start using it.

Shame I bought the phone before going on there.

I think with distance selling you can cancel that one then start again and buy another one with the cashback

[roadsmash]

OP, you as Joe Public might buy the phone for £800+, but these phones are often bought by the retailers on an alternative foreign market at hundreds below their usual UK selling price. To add to this, they’ve probably bought a lot in bulk which helps drive the cost down further.

The device will probably be European and then flashed to a UK spec. Frowned upon but totally legit.

The end result is a good deal for the customer and massive traffic to the retailer’s website.

[rich12]

Easternlight said:

I think with distance selling you can cancel that one then start again and buy another one with the cashback

I don't think it's worth it due to the contract side of things. Don't want another credit check on my account.

Im just happy to get out of this mate 20 Pro I recently bought.
Just so many little things that it doesn't do right that Samsung does somehow.