12 months free line rental, too good to be true?

When I woke up this morningguess what I received on my mailbox:

A brochure...
Notice my name and initials on the shopping bag..haha...



Notice the address on the back...my address is 17/4, but it says 17-APR..haha...I'm surprised that it reached..smart Mr postman...


I am not surprised to see the phone company taking so much effort just to keep their customers. Many online mobile shops are starting to grow like my favourite phrase (bagai cendawan tumbuh selepas hujan), with name like mobilephones2yourdoor, mobilephonesforyou, bestcontractmobile, etc..etc... I see the name also I feel weird..haha..like so unestablished...can rearrange become the word 'scammmm'...

2 weeks ago, I called to cancel my o2 contract bcos my 1 year is over with onestopphoneshop...

"onestopphonesshop n e2save are nolonger under carphonewarehouse".

CPW bought Onestop, an online based company 2 years ago for 15million. Their business was good at first, even carphonewarehouse.com upon seeing that, start to restructured their website to show more of their promotions. As many as 5000-10000 connections they get per week, beating The Link and Phones4U (the common mobile shop that we see in shopping complexes)...

but...

Starting last year, the company starts to lose money due to the high amount of low-spending customers (like me...haha..) Onestop is giving out too many free line rental contracts than they can handle. Many cases of ppl not getting back their cashback, claiming that they have been scammed, etc...Ppl who dont get their caashback from Onestop start to contact Carphone for their cashbacks...n due to all this issues, CPW decided to "disown" Onestop...

The weird thing is, when i receive the brochure, it says:

"onestopphoneshop is part of CPW...bla bla..to upgrade my fone, call CPW"...

I wonder isit CPW that sent the brochure ore OneStop...Sounds like CPW trying to curi Onestop punya customer...haha...

Bcos for this 3 years in UK, I have been using all this 12 months free line rental contracts, where you pay your bills and you can claim back you money after that... meaning i practically dont have to pay a cent... When I told my parents, they said:

" Then what they earn? Got cheat ppl 1 onot..."

I think that is what every1 else wonder also... SO far I am very lucky that I get most of my cashbacks...There's this online company, mobile outlet that went bankrupt recently and my housemate lost 400 pds with that company...I was with that company last year..haha..lucky that I've completed my cashback..hoho...

All this 12 months free thing rite, they are operating on probabilities also..just like a casino... They set many cashback rules, hoping that their customers will miss their cashbacks... Buying a phone from them is just like gambling at the casino...

- If your bills dont reach them by 14 days, you dont get your cashback.

- If you dont send original bills, you dont get your cashback.

- If you miss 1 cashback, ur subsequent cashbacks are automatically canceled.

- If you pay your bill late you miss your cashback.

- Some company if you change address, you dont get your money.

- If you change your tariff, you dont get your money.

- If postman onstrike, haleluyah...bye bye to your cashback... (that is when i think mayb they
pay the postman to go onstrike..haha) The postmen just need to go onstrike once..n those who
failed their cashback at that time, wont get cashback for the whole year...how convenient..

- N to make things more complicated, they came out with the voucher system..you need to send in bills with voucher... ONLY ORIGINAL...another loophole for you to forget...

"where did I keep my voucher??"

See...so many rules against you claiming your cashback...The probability of you missing your cashback is so high that it can still keep all these companies running...

But still, if you are 100% sure that you can follow all above, there is still a risk that the company will go bankrupt b4 u can claim all...

So think wisely b4 you get any of the free line rental contracts...there is still my favourite buymobilephones.net that i get 3 of my 12 months free from n never failed me..haha..but no guarantees, cos one of my friend failed...due to negligence..hehe...

I am still thinking should i get a new contract? But to be honest, after 3 years of cashbacks, I am getting abit tired of fear that my bills dont come etc.. I think I would rather get a not so good deal from a more established company than a 'too good to be true' deal from companies like mobilephones2yourdoor, rainbowmobile... Bak kata pepatah,

"setinggi-tinggi tupai melompat, akan jatuh ke tanah jua"

So i better stop lompat now..haha..but the word "FREE" is still too tempting..haha...
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