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

[Machineage]

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

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

Thanks!

[bandit2329]

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.

[jtaylor06]

Originally Posted by Machineage

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

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

Thanks!

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.

[Graham M]

Originally Posted by jtaylor06

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

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.

[Machineage]

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

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

[Donser]

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.

Originally Posted by Donser

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.

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