Is this possible - VM Mobile - sell & use SIM?
 

Hello everyone :)

Forgive me if I'm being stupid here - I'm quite new to how mobile accounts work...

I'm an XL landline user - and recently received notification that if I took on a VM Mobile - they would deduct the £8.00 I pay per month for this - and instead pay £7.32 (in the case of the Blackberry Curve 8250) with a free handset on a 24 month contract. So does that mean in fact I would get the handset free - and the call plan - and save 68p :confused:

Further - could I sell the handset if I didn't want it - and use the SIM in another phone which was unlocked?

Am I missing something here :erm:

Thanks!

Re: Is this possible - VM Mobile - sell & use SIM?
 

Hi got one of these at there store for my daughter went in and they told me it was £10.32 approx a month but if i had all there services could have one for £7.15 a month on 24 month contract to inc 100 minutes 500 text 1Gb of data and unlimited call to vm mobile phones. its a loyatly thing for vm customers only and it changes from month to month hope this helps.

Re: Is this possible - VM Mobile - sell & use SIM?
 

Can't see why not?
I had a contract with Orange for a Samsung Jet, hated it.
I then bought a phone off eBay (Galaxy S) that was unlocked, inserted my SIM and today I am still using the Galaxy S with no problems.
Instead of selling the phone I gave it to my dad instead.

Your contract in the end pays for the phone anyway, so Virgin Mobile would not be unhappy with such happenings.

Re: Is this possible - VM Mobile - sell & use SIM?
 

So long as you didn't default on the contract during that period, I'd guess.

I've never looked heavily into it, but I would imagine the handset is written in as remaining property of the telephony provider til the end of the contract period, and could be asked for back should, as I said the contract go into arrears etc.

Re: Is this possible - VM Mobile - sell & use SIM?
 

OK either it's me - or this is very misleading...

In actual fact they DON'T deduct the £8 / month you pay for phone XL as advertised - they actually deduct £8 off the monthly cost for the phone plan. So you still pay £8 / month for Phone XL and £7.32 in the case of the Blackberry. Very naughty VM :mad:

I had to phone them to confirm this was the case.

Re: Is this possible - VM Mobile - sell & use SIM?
 

Well this explains the mobile offer I got from a virgin sales call. I got offered a sim only deal on a rolling 30 day contract for 600 mins and unlimited texts for £7.32 a month. This was £8 less that the special offer on the virgin website. I see now that they have reduced the price of the sim by the £8 I am paying for my xl phone. I suppose its quite a good way to tying me into staying on the xl plan.

Re: Is this possible - VM Mobile - sell & use SIM?
 

I took up this offer and never did get the £8 credit off my bill without a phone call to Mobile CS,

In the end I had to go to the CEO office, and they explained that the offer was genuine but as yet IT had not figured out a way to take this £8 off the mobile bill automatically

to get around this they gave me all the £8's in one credit, in my case £64 for the remaining 8 months of the contract, I had got the other 4 £8 by ringing CS up each month

Don't know if it's fixed now but you would have thought IT would have been involved before they started ringing folk to make the offer :cool: