Wasn’t all plain sailing. Original plan was to grab a couple of PAYG’s from CPW in Oxford Street as they were opening at 7.30am. Then we could whizz round the corner to film outside the Apple Store, But when CPW opened we discovered that they were not selling PAYG’s. So quick change of plan saw [...]
Wasn’t all plain sailing. Original plan was to grab a couple of PAYG’s from CPW in Oxford Street as they were opening at 7.30am. Then we could whizz round the corner to film outside the Apple Store,
But when CPW opened we discovered that they were not selling PAYG’s. So quick change of plan saw one contract 3G S bought at CPW, and then we nipped round the corner and joined the queue at Apple. The queue was out the door and round the corner by now (8am) but moved quickly. In lesss than 30mins we were in posession of a PAYG 3G S and had a free coffee courtesy of Apple.
However, Apple transferred my existing 3G PAYG SIM to the new phone and claimed this was what they had to do? Only when I got home did I discover that this meant no addittional 12mths Web & WiFi! No mention of this in the store and no new SIM provided with my 3G S because of this.
A call to O2 reveals you only get that if you use the new SIM. So why didn’t Apple tell me? So now O2 are sending me the new SIM and I can the transfer my old number. There are already a number of Twitter posts from users who have had similar issues at O2 stores. Is this a policy or is someone taking advantage of a nice PAYG SIM that has 12mths free data?
I may use the new SIM in the old 3G and buy the £10/mth web bolt on when my current Web & WiFi package expires in September. I topped up £10 when I bought the 3G last year and still have £3 left, not a big phone user hence why I wanted a PAYG with free data and not a nasty contract!
Plenty of interest in the new 3G S
