Looks like business customers are unable to have iPhone Upgrade Programme.
Can someone confirm this?
Thanks
Can someone confirm this?
Thanks
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iPhone Upgrade Programme coming to UK tomorrow.
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It's available, just reserve a phone for in store pickup and you sort it out when you pick it up.
Reserve an iPhone to buy in store on 16 September
I just reserved two black via this link
Pickup on the 16th too.
I just reserved two black via this link
Pickup on the 16th too.
How though? I can pick my store, and time, but it wants a payment method (credit or debit card)
How though? I can pick my store, and time, but it wants a payment method (credit or debit card)
I reserved a gold one here, no payment information required
https://reserve-gb.apple.com/GB/en_...33ABBE66697D1186&rv=0&path=&iPP=E&appleCare=Y
Yeah, I couldn't get on the store until 8:10am and then all the phones were "Unavailable for pickup" in the 10 nearest stores, and my phone wouldn't be delivered until 29th of September if I paid for one... So I went for a normal contract through O2
Reserve an iPhone to buy in store on 16 September
I just reserved two black via this link
I couldn't follow this link in Safari - it just took me to the US Apple site. Pasted into Chrome and reserved to pick up on the 16th in about 30 seconds!
Just before it went onto delivery 27 Sept
Ok. I don't get the "Upgrade Program".
From what I can see, it's nothing to do with upgrading, it's just in interest-free way to buy the phone by spreading the cost over 20 months.
But it says you can upgrade after 11 months but doesn't explain what happens to the phone. Do you have to hand it back? Pay it off? What?
Edit: By digging through the T&Cs I've found out you hand it back. So it's more of a iPhone Rental Program. Makes sense now.
From what I can see, it's nothing to do with upgrading, it's just in interest-free way to buy the phone by spreading the cost over 20 months.
But it says you can upgrade after 11 months but doesn't explain what happens to the phone. Do you have to hand it back? Pay it off? What?
Edit: By digging through the T&Cs I've found out you hand it back. So it's more of a iPhone Rental Program. Makes sense now.
You can choose to hand it back after 11 months for "iPhone 8" and then keep going with IUP, or continue with your 7 until contract has ended. Think of it like PCP/hire purchase on cars.
If you want to upgrade you hand the phone back and the remaining payments are written off and you start a new 20 month agreement. Basically you sell the phone back to Apple for the same amount you have left to pay (9 more months)
Great, thanks for this! Just reserved a black 7.
Looked like it was running out of options... originally picked Covent Garden and by the time I got through the only London option was White City. I'm sure it'll be worth the trek
You do if you want to be able to upgrade after a year, the option without insurance is just a straight 20 months interest free. However you could pay it off early through Barclays.
Does anyone know if you can reserve for store pick up under the iphone Payments plan (not the upgrade programme). Website only seem to be letting reservation be made under the upgrade programme. Also, can you cancel a reservation without a penalty?
I was interested in this but it is fantastically expensive.
Option 1: Upgrade programme
eg. top of the range iPhone 7: £49 + 12*£43.45 = £570 per year
Option 2: Buy outright and resell
eg. Top of the range iPhone 6S: £799 (purchase price) - £500 (sale price, based on ebay right now) = £299 per year
Simply, you are at least £250 per year worse off.
Even if you add in the completely unnecessary, overpriced Apple Care insurance at £119 to option 2 you are still worse off. It's crazy.
Option 1: Upgrade programme
eg. top of the range iPhone 7: £49 + 12*£43.45 = £570 per year
Option 2: Buy outright and resell
eg. Top of the range iPhone 6S: £799 (purchase price) - £500 (sale price, based on ebay right now) = £299 per year
Simply, you are at least £250 per year worse off.
Even if you add in the completely unnecessary, overpriced Apple Care insurance at £119 to option 2 you are still worse off. It's crazy.
I doubt I would get £500 for it, especially as I'd wait until after I got my new one before selling. And I do like the Apple care, so I reckon its only £50-70 better best case, and honestly I'd pay that just to not have to deal with the hassle of having to sell it myself.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-iPh...612584?hash=item1a1b445468:g:MjMAAOSwGtRX0S2e
[doublepost=1473416905][/doublepost]And don't start me on Apple Care.
Expert technical support? er that's what google and if all else fails, the genius bar is for. All free.
Accidental damage? apart from the fact that most people don't damage their phone, and that it is probably covered somewhere else like your house insurance or bank account benefits, it is much cheaper to buy separate insurance which will cover more than Apple does eg. https://www.insurance2go.co.uk/iphone-insurance-money-saving-expert-promo/
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With option 1 you would end up with a new phone (iphone 8) with option 2 you end up with nothing.
No. It really doesn't. I keep seeing people doing these absurd calculations. Unless you're going to opt out of having a smartphone at the end of the year, you're always going to have to pay for a new one (which would be a free upgrade on the upgrade programme).
I addressed this earlier in the thread, when I showed that - up to 2020 - buying outright would work out £30 cheaper than with the upgrade programme. The hundreds of pounds of savings are silly talk, because - unless you one day find a smartphone you're happy to keep for the rest of your life - you're always going to need to upgrade.
The idiocy of the pricing is compounded by the fact that if it was somewhere near worthwile, it would temp people like me on a 2 year cycle to go to 1 year as well as tying me into the arrangement.
They are effectively guaranteeing my ongoing loyalty on a 1 year cycle (even with substandard upgrades like the 7). It should be CHEAPER than option 2.
They are effectively guaranteeing my ongoing loyalty on a 1 year cycle (even with substandard upgrades like the 7). It should be CHEAPER than option 2.