New phone finally ***Here

[WordsforHire]

Oh my god if there is one piece of advice that I can give to you guys is to LEAVE Orange well alone.

We sat for two hours last Tuesday on the phone to them trying to upgrade our phones and finally got there. They then said that the delivery would be on Thursday or Friday. The Father in law took both days off (he is a taxi driver and desperately needed the money but on the instance of the nagging MIL he did as he was told)

Orange didnt deliver.

We called them, "Oh there was a glitch on the system, the order wasnt processed and didnt go through."

Cunts!

So MIL then told them to deliver it to our address and made the girl on the phone re read the adress back to her so she wouldnt fuck it up. We were then told today between 9am and 5.30pm we would be delivered these phones at out adress. I got up at eight so I would be ready incase they came.

1pm came and went so we phoned orange just to make sure everything was going to plan, "yes the phones are due for delivery today they should be tehre before 5.30pm"

5.30 pm came and went and still no fucking phones. We phoned orange " no they werent due to be delivered at that address they were to go to this address...."

Those god damn FUCKERS couldnt get fuck all right, luckily the MIL neighbour took the phones in or us or we would have had to wait AGAIN for them.

But must say my phone was worth the wait. i love it!

ORANGE ARE CUNTS!

[xcite-tv]

the future's bright ............

[WordsforHire]

The futures fucked...

[dvtimes]

I got an Orange phone a few years ago.

It did not work unless I sat upstairs next to the rear bedroom window.

They said as it worked, they would not refund me the money.

I was lucky as my mate took over the contact.

I even went to a solicitor over it.

I would never go with Orage after that.

It did not even work going out of Leeds to my mates. OK, its going into the countrydside a bit (in between Leeds and York) but I would have expected it to work. I thought what would happen if I broke down and could not contact anyone.

This is not that long ago too.

Somone told me they had the fewest arials going, and so thats why when they said they were the fastest going network, it was because they had so few arials they had to install them quick.

I got it as I thought it was a good deal to have that pay 50p a day and all calls are free after 6pm. Well that was the worst contract ever.

But at least if you get a phone from car phone whearhouse, they let you stop the contract if you have any problems.

Istill prefer t-mobile. I like the fact that they still seem cheap, plus they do not charge for you to get your voice mail. I think thats such a con.

[TommyMac]

Im with orange. My contract had expired and i wanted a nice shiny new fone. Fone the geordie fella at orange up(they are all geordies), i want an upgrade:

Geordie: You can have a piece of shit nokia v1.006 for £100 or a Motorola ROCK( yeh, no where near a fucking pebl) Cudnt even get RZR for under a monkey.

Me: I seen an offer on your web thingie that says n70 30 notes.

Geordie: Yeh, for new customers only.

Me: cancel contract start new one. Recieve n70 on the cheap.

I had to cancel my exisitng contract paying £25 a month, start a new contract paying £25 a month. Get a new fone number and register all over again. Its like they love causing me hassle and giving themselves more paperwork.

Fucking piss flaps at orange!!!

[TommyMac]

It did not even work going out of Leeds to my mates. OK, its going into the countrydside a bit (in between Leeds and York) but I would have expected it to work.

hahah you can get a sat gps fone to work in baghdad but not a mobile in youkshire....

hahahah, thats the fucking cold dark north for ya!

[dvtimes]

Im with orange. My contract had expired and i wanted a nice shiny new fone. Fone the geordie fella at orange up(they are all geordies), i want an upgrade:

Geordie: You can have a piece of shit nokia v1.006 for £100 or a Motorola ROCK( yeh, no where near a fucking pebl) Cudnt even get RZR for under a monkey.

Me: I seen an offer on your web thingie that says n70 30 notes.

Geordie: Yeh, for new customers only.

Me: cancel contract start new one. Recieve n70 on the cheap.

I had to cancel my exisitng contract paying £25 a month, start a new contract paying £25 a month. Get a new fone number and register all over again. Its like they love causing me hassle and giving themselves more paperwork.

Fucking piss flaps at orange!!!

My mate had to do that too.

The best thing to do is to go into the phone shop when its quiet. Find the phone you want. Say its on offer for £200, and just offer them £100 (knock of at leadt £100 if not more). I have done this a few times, they will acept, as they get £150 or more for a contract.

If you have time, go to one shop then another and play one off with the other till one comes out with the best price.

I did that with t-mobile shop and car phone whearhouse.

I said that carphone wharhouse said they would sell me a pda phone for £45, but it would take 4 days to deliver to the shop. The chap at t-mobile shop said ok, how about £20 if you get it now. Great stuff.

That said, I think he expected me to buy all the add ons such as webspace and so on. No thank you I said (his face droped, and his manager was not please). Just the phone thank you. He almost started to cry, and said but how will you get on the web. I said its got wif which is much quicker and free for me.

One thing about me is that I look stupid, and people think I am thick. In fact I on purposly act thick with sales reps as I know how to play them. As I used to be a sales rep (and a very good one) I can read them very well, and know that they are more desperate to make a sale than me wanting to buy.

I remeber when I first started out, I was told a tale about a BMW garage. A scruffy man in tatty jeans came in. All the sales reps looked, and thought 'wast of space'. Anyway, he looked at the most expensive car there. One of the junior sales reps went up to him to be polite, as the others thought, scruffy git, no cash.

Anyway, this chap pulled out £50k cash and handed it to the lad, and said keep the change. He was a builder and worked in cash only.

It turned out that lad got the best comishion on a car in the garages history.

In other words, often sales reps will jump to conclusions. And as long as you know that, you can play them.

And at the end of the day, if one phone firm shop is not playing the game, go to another.

I bet you will get at least £100 knocked off if not more.

[dvtimes]

hahah you can get a sat gps fone to work in baghdad but not a mobile in youkshire....

hahahah, thats the fucking cold dark north for ya!

It was the lack of stupid Orange arials.

Never had a problem with t-mobile.

I go out into the coutriside a lot, and still get great resepotion.

By the way, a sat phone should work world wide (depending on the firm).

They are not small in size and getting cheaper.

To be honest, if I traveled a lot, I think I would opt for a sat phone rather than a standered one.

[matt]

Isn't the talk time on sat phones about £10 per min though?

[JT]

Bill them for the two days off.

[WordsforHire]

He cant bill them as he doesnt get wage slips he drives taxis and he would have had about £300 per night but cant prove it to Orange...

They are complete fannies, I mean we sat for two hours trying to get our upgrades for free which we finally did . They wanted about £500 for our four phones so that we could all keep our numbers where we made the point if we walked into their shop and signed up as new custoemrs we would get al these fancyy deals, free texts, phone right there and then, brand new phone etc for free... So we got them in the end but buggers fucked up delivery arghhh

At least its here and it works cant ask for anymore than that from orange it seems. I love the phone its superb!