Today i thought i would treat myself to a brand new iPhone 3Gs. I went down to Magnum Mac in Newmarket after work as i wanted to get my hands on it straight away rather than having to wait for Vodafones online store to send it to me. Magnum Mac had pleantly of the black 16G version i was poised to buy.

Then came the rules, there was an entire page of them plastered to the counter and the staff at Magnum Mac had the fear of death put in them to follow them.

I have been a post paid customer for the last 2 years, and before that i was an employee of Vodafone so i guess that is on account as well, i have recently (in the last week) moved from post-paid to pre-pay and thats where the pain comes in.

You need to have been a Vodafone pre-pay customer for at least a month and have topped up. or be on a current post paid account. I am neither of these while still being a customer of over 10 years without a break, yet i am unable to purchase a phone OUTRIGHT, yes i have to meet all these rules to pay full price for a phone.

What are Vodafone trying to achieve with these rules, and it has already posted that XT customers are getting their hands on them still.