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UK iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus Thread
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Used to work in debt recovery for an unnamed major UK network that may or may not have had a red logo and have something similar to "fone" in their name.
Back then we didn't seek to recover the handset (would involve having a legal warrant to seize the item from your person or property), we would only seek to recover the cost of the handset + tariff cancellation fee + anything outstanding on account. If this wasn't possible then it would depend on the outstanding cost at that point whether it was worthwhile selling the debt onto a specialist recovery company or just to mark it off and purely leave the default on the person's credit file.
My goodness.
Whether they recover the phone itself or the cost is basically irrelevant.
The point here is that @frosty001 wanted to sell an O2 contract phone the moment he received it.
You'd be mad to buy a phone that hasn't actually been paid for yet. Whether O2 come chasing after the phone or the money, you're totally at risk of having it network barred.
It's as stupid as buying a car without checking if there's finance on it.
Not sure but I ordered the red one on Tuesday and it came today. Slightly taller and thicker than my 6 Plus leather one.
It comes in the normal Royal Mail post so I wouldn't imagine you'd get it today.
24th September 2015 14:35 Booked/Awaiting Collection
24th September 2015 14:34 Collected
My O2 phone! Delivery for Monday.... I am pretty chuffed to be honest I hadn't had anything from O2 about this so was expecting this to be a saga.
So basically O2 phone on Monday and Apple one on Tuesday.
24th September 2015 14:34 Collected
My O2 phone! Delivery for Monday.... I am pretty chuffed to be honest I hadn't had anything from O2 about this so was expecting this to be a saga.
So basically O2 phone on Monday and Apple one on Tuesday.
Loving the Parcel app. Can't remember who it was here who first recommended it, but thank you!
The push notifications are great. It's far better than the Deliveries app (which doesn't even support DPD or UK Mail properly!)
The push notifications are great. It's far better than the Deliveries app (which doesn't even support DPD or UK Mail properly!)
It's very relevant - you're assuming it is a bad deal for the seller. Not so long ago o2 were selling loads of top handsets on £10.50 / month contracts and the phones were worth considerably more than the £252 minimum commitment - I know a few folks who bought and sold straight away and made a tidy profit. In those cases ownership is important.
As far as I am aware, only EE put anything into T&C around retaining ownership, o2 and Tesco specifically state the opposite - and I would be surprised if EE managed to enforce on their terms...
I recently bought a smart phone from CEX, EE locked, 6 months of use no problem, suddenly phone got blacklisted. Original owner who traded it into CEX did so on the day he received it and then EE blacklisted it after 6 months of non payment. I suspect that's how they enforce it!!
That's amazing - so they blacklisted it at the very point they accept that they 'don't' own it!
Well at that 6 month mark i happened to go into store to change my sim only contract, meaning they entered the IMEI number into their computer, few days later it was blacklisted!
Yep, have received dispatch notification for two devices. Should get delivery info from DPD soon
In case you haven't noticed, when the tracking details are up in the app you can also ask siri "remind me about this later/tomorrow" and it'll add it to the reminder app.
FWIW My Apple watch went to dispatched and the money charged to my card at 22:20 the day before it was delivered.
Me! (Maybe) annoyingly my ukmail delivery doesn't seem to want to track
