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iPhone 14/Plus UK iPhone 14/14 Plus/14 Pro/14 Pro Max Pre-release, Orders and Dispatch Thread

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What model are you getting?

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Saturnine said:
In-contract price upgrades are a massive bugbear of mine. I can't think of anywhere else where you sign up to an agreement, whereby the supplier is legally allowed to increase the cost by an unknown amount. I would never, ever, sign up to a contract like that in my professional life.

The fact that it's CPI/RPI + 3.9% which this year is going to be in the region of 14% is pretty grim too.

When networks first starting doing this it wasn't actually formally stated in the contract, as it is now, so I took it to CIFAS arbitration ... and lost. My case was that, by changing the terms of the contract, I had a right to withdrawal. This was especially true as they used RPI as the measure of inflation rather than CPI, which is generally a little bit lower. Even government departments had stopped using RPI as the 'true' measure of inflation by that point.

Boggles the mind that a 14 Pro 128GB, with a modest 25GB/month data allowance is £71/month today but would be around £87/month by the end of the contract, depending on inflation rates. And that brings to me to my final point. It's *somewhat* understandable that the carrier wants to charge you for increased the cost of their service, taking inflation into account. It's quite another thing to charge you RPI/CPI+3.9% for the portion of the contract that is actually paying for the phone. That's just a licence to print cash.
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This is why I have Virgin as my mobile supplier, the tariff is a separate contract to the phone payments and the RPI only applies to the tariff, my £7 tariff only went up about 70pence instead of about £4 if the tariff and phone was the same contract.
 
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My AppleCare+ with Theft and Loss Proof of Coverage just arrived, so I’m guessing my phone is about to despatch!

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Saturnine said:
In-contract price upgrades are a massive bugbear of mine. I can't think of anywhere else where you sign up to an agreement, whereby the supplier is legally allowed to increase the cost by an unknown amount. I would never, ever, sign up to a contract like that in my professional life.

The fact that it's CPI/RPI + 3.9% which this year is going to be in the region of 14% is pretty grim too.

When networks first starting doing this it wasn't actually formally stated in the contract, as it is now, so I took it to CIFAS arbitration ... and lost. My case was that, by changing the terms of the contract, I had a right to withdrawal. This was especially true as they used RPI as the measure of inflation rather than CPI, which is generally a little bit lower. Even government departments had stopped using RPI as the 'true' measure of inflation by that point.

Boggles the mind that a 14 Pro 128GB, with a modest 25GB/month data allowance is £71/month today but would be around £87/month by the end of the contract, depending on inflation rates. And that brings to me to my final point. It's *somewhat* understandable that the carrier wants to charge you for increased the cost of their service, taking inflation into account. It's quite another thing to charge you RPI/CPI+3.9% for the portion of the contract that is actually paying for the phone. That's just a licence to print cash.
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For me I have started taking shorter contacts so then you can move and change plan quite easily. I am on Voxi at the moment. £10 United everything. 30 day contract. At the end of 30 days can shift into a PAYG and then onto another contract if I want. Out it just carries on rolling.
 
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I assume I’m having trouble getting on here because people are getting their shipping notifications…. Mine has just come through.
 
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