iPhone 3gs - Buy on $40 plan, disconnect straight away

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Wannabe Geek

#233363 10-Jul-2009 01:17

Ok, i dont care about the dock anymore i just want to use the thing. When is the Vodafone site going to sell the iphone by itself? The email did say 12:01am didn't it..

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#233364 10-Jul-2009 01:19

'The iPhone 3GS and these pre-registration offers are available online from 12:01am Friday 10 July.'

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Master Geek

#233365 10-Jul-2009 01:27

Come back in the morning and pray for the stock is still good.

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#233367 10-Jul-2009 01:52

They're up for everyone now.

Ordered mine.

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#233369 10-Jul-2009 02:10

Yep. Ordered mine aswell. Only took two hours for it to be available outright!

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#233370 10-Jul-2009 02:11

I just ordered outright too. Hope theres still stock in the morning for the others.

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#233372 10-Jul-2009 03:01

Also bought mine outright just now. Had to wait for my credit card payment to clear.

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#233386 10-Jul-2009 07:50

Bought mine outright just now.

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#233493 10-Jul-2009 10:18

Raile: I just ordered outright too. Hope theres still stock in the morning for the others.

I'm really disappointed you didn't use the loophole. There's nothing dodgy about it, you sign a contract with known conditions and use those conditions to your best advantage. Did you get to save the extra $100?

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#233571 10-Jul-2009 11:23

Raile: However she did mention that would have to sign an apple agreement (apparently a 36 page document!?), and there might be something in there that forbids this kind of activity. I dont think this will be an issue though.

So, did anyone had to read or sign a 36 page agreement?

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#233584 10-Jul-2009 11:38

I'm wondering if it's potentially the Apple T's & C's at the point of registering through iTunes?

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#233620 10-Jul-2009 12:15

freitasm: So, did anyone had to read or sign a 36 page agreement?

Well the tiny window that the T&C's were in was probably 36 clicks on the scroll bar from top to bottom...

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#233628 10-Jul-2009 12:28

Satch:
freitasm: So, did anyone had to read or sign a 36 page agreement?

Well the tiny window that the T&C's were in was probably 36 clicks on the scroll bar from top to bottom...

Haha yeah. The store manager said a 36 page document was an agreement with apple. I saw no agreements with apple. Maybe you have to sign some kind of agreement when you register it through itunes.

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#233632 10-Jul-2009 12:42

bazzer:
Raile: I just ordered outright too. Hope theres still stock in the morning for the others.

I'm really disappointed you didn't use the loophole. There's nothing dodgy about it, you sign a contract with known conditions and use those conditions to your best advantage. Did you get to save the extra $100?

At the end of the day i decided it wasnt really worth all the hassle and risk for $40-$100. I couldnt get clear information from vodafone on what the rules really are. As Mikec241 pointed out, its advantaguous to vodafone to have ambigious terms. Which is sh*t for their potential and existing customers.

I had a quick flick through the vodafone terms and conditions. As far as i could see there was no clear numbers on contract cutting. So its still not clearly defined. Was 2am by that stage, and couldnt really be bothered going through it with a fine tooth comb though.

Mikec241 also pointed out that the $100 exculsive offer is for account credit, not a discount on the phone. This doesnt interest me as im not intending to stay with vodafone.

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#233633 10-Jul-2009 12:48

freitasm:
Raile: However she did mention that would have to sign an apple agreement (apparently a 36 page document!?), and there might be something in there that forbids this kind of activity. I dont think this will be an issue though.

So, did anyone had to read or sign a 36 page agreement?

No, there was nothing like that - I read somewhere saying that you need to agree to something when you hook it up to iTunes.

There was another set of different Terms & Conditions we had to accept in a really small long paged as scrolly box which I copied into notepad for future reading though.

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