Guest KenBW2 Posted April 18, 2013 Report Posted April 18, 2013 (edited) Interestingly the phone is £130 + £0 topup online, but in at least two stores (I assume nationwide) it's £150 + £10 topup, so £30 more expensive. I seem to remember with the G300 it started out at £100 and was then upped to £130 a couple of weeks later (willing to be corrected on this). Because of this (and that my Blade is sorely in need of an upgrade) I bought it from the website today (it's been despatched already!). The only real thing holding me back was the idea that it might not get a dev community, but the spanish forums, the reasonable amount of early activity here, and the fact that Paul O'Brien has bought one gives me great optimism. So I took the plunge. Just a word of advice if you're holding out, watch out for unexpected price increases! Edited April 18, 2013 by KenBW2
Guest Simon O Posted April 19, 2013 Report Posted April 19, 2013 Huawei themselves have said that the RRP is £130 so Vodafone would be really really stupid to put the price up on the website. Stores are a different matter though. They usually are more expensive.
Guest KenBW2 Posted April 19, 2013 Report Posted April 19, 2013 That's kind of a relief. But wasn't this also the case with the G300?
Guest Voxpop2011 Posted April 19, 2013 Report Posted April 19, 2013 (edited) There seems to be some pricing 'jiggery pokery' going on with this model. The website price is currently £130, but I and another forum member has seen it at £180. Indeed, said forum member had the website price of £130 converted to £180 at the checkout. Vodafone are clearly having issues with the site and/or pricing. Hardly surprising as its website is generally abysmal. The shops are selling for £150 plus a £10 top up, but existing Vodafone customers shouldn't have to buy top up. I placed an order on the site yesterday at £130 and am waiting for delivery to my local shop. Edited April 19, 2013 by Voxpop2011
Guest Andymac1969 Posted April 19, 2013 Report Posted April 19, 2013 Huawei themselves have said that the RRP is £130 so Vodafone would be really really stupid to put the price up on the website. Stores are a different matter though. They usually are more expensive. There seems to be some pricing 'jiggery pokery' going on with this model. The website price is currently £130, but I and another forum member has seen it at £180. Indeed, said forum member had the website price of £130 converted to £180 at the checkout. Vodafone are clearly having issues with the site and/or pricing. Hardly surprising as its website is generally abysmal. The shops are selling for £150 plus a £10 top up, but existing Vodafone customers shouldn't have to buy top up. I placed an order on the site yesterday at £130 and am waiting for delivery to my local shop. Here here, what have I found again, cleared the web data on my phone, back on the Vodafone website and low and behold £130 becomes £180, now with pictures lol, doubting Thomas's I salute you :P
Guest Combat Gerbil Posted April 20, 2013 Report Posted April 20, 2013 No matter how hard I try... I can only find the G510 for £130.. on the Voda website.. NOT £180.. wierd..
Guest Voxpop2011 Posted April 20, 2013 Report Posted April 20, 2013 Must have been a glitch. If you intend to buy then surely £130 is the figure you would want to see. :)
Guest andy/newbie Posted April 22, 2013 Report Posted April 22, 2013 yes voda made a mistake its 130 pounds
Guest Voxpop2011 Posted May 5, 2013 Report Posted May 5, 2013 I was in a Vodafone shop today and noticed that the price has gone down to £130, but there is still the £10 top up.
Guest Combat Gerbil Posted May 5, 2013 Report Posted May 5, 2013 You only have to pay the top up if you're not already on Voda PAYG... I bought mine for £130 without top up..
Guest KenBW2 Posted May 5, 2013 Report Posted May 5, 2013 You only have to pay the top up if you're not already on Voda PAYG... I bought mine for £130 without top up.. There's no such requirement on the website, got mine sans top up and I'm on 3
Guest Voxpop2011 Posted May 6, 2013 Report Posted May 6, 2013 True, but when this model was first launched it was £150 in store with £10 top up for non-Vodafone customers. It has now dropped to an in store price of £130 plus the obligagatory £10 top up for non-customers. As with all network operators, Vodafone is only interested in prompting the high-end, contract phones so there is only a non-working dummy phone on display. Imagine how much better this phone would sell if there was a working model and would be buyers could have a play. Having this this, the G300 sold in bucket loads but this might have been largely down to price.
Guest dalyer Posted May 9, 2013 Report Posted May 9, 2013 For what it's worth... Vodafone Ireland are selling them online for €149.99. If you get a free SIM from another operator and port the number in then you get it for €129.99. http://shop.vodafone.ie/shop/phones-and-plans/phones/pay-as-you-go/phone-details/huawei-ascend-g510-black
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