Comments for You can buy a race car...just with training wheels at http://www.nziphone.com , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.nziphone.com Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:44:13 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.nziphone.com/news/other/you-can-buy-a-race-carjust-with-training-wheels.html#comment-104 Well, I went in to a 3rd party Vodafone retailer today after getting frustrated yesterday talking to the incompetent staff at an official Vodafone store. The answers I got seemed to be accurate and they made me have a change of heart over the entire prepay option. Before I always said that I was on the opposite side of Phil because I just wanted good plans from Vodafone. From what I learned today is that there is that you can't buy the phone at full price and go one of the iPhone plans and cancel when you want. If you buy the iPhone full price and go on an iPhone plan you're still stuck in a 2 year contract with a hefty canceling fee. From my limited knowledge and from what the person at the store said: there's no way to go on account without at least a one year contract. I was a little surprised and assumed that it was like the states where you can go on account but cancel at any time if you don't have a subside to pay off. Now I'm with Phil, I want prepay as an option. I want to be able to use my phone only when I want to. I'm glad you're here fighting the good fight Phil. Hopefully things will change for the better. I'm one hundred percent behind the iPhone on (consumer friendly priced) prepay crusade. My other question, that I've raised before, is what happens to the early adopters when Vodafone's iPhone plans change for the better? They'll be stuck with terrible plans that they're obligated to wait out. These are the people that were so excited about the product that they waited in line and signed up for ridiculous plans. When Vodafone starts offering better plans, whether because of competition, government pressure or to sell more phones, these users won't take well to being left behind. After all, they're the ones that paid the most just to get the iPhone. Apple learned the hard way that early adopters get really upset when things become cheaper and in America Apple had to offer $200 gift certificates to early iPhone buyers. Doesn't Vodafone see that they're heading down the same path? They should immediately change the plans to be called low, medium and high usage with the promise to early adopters that when bandwidth goes up they'll be upgraded too. - yuutamichael Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:48:18 +0100 http://www.nziphone.com/news/other/you-can-buy-a-race-carjust-with-training-wheels.html#comment-102 [quote]Seems a little OTT to me Phil... [/quote] That's fine...but you're probably not dealing with the emails I am saying "Hey, you got it wrong, prepay is available....it isn't!"...or others I'm receiving of people being told by retailers (yep..people who actually sell these things) that they can buy an iPhone and just use it on prepay with no issues. They're not being told the full detail there....and I'm on 'response overload' to these people. Better just to point them to this commentary. Phil - Philip Roy Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:18:22 +0100 http://www.nziphone.com/news/other/you-can-buy-a-race-carjust-with-training-wheels.html#comment-101 Actually isn't data available as an option to prepay users? I know it used to be. Not really sure because I'm a plan user and have been since the days of BellSouth. - lowededwookie Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:41:34 +0100 http://www.nziphone.com/news/other/you-can-buy-a-race-carjust-with-training-wheels.html#comment-100 Seems a little OTT to me Phil... - Fastred Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:41:41 +0100 http://www.nziphone.com/news/other/you-can-buy-a-race-carjust-with-training-wheels.html#comment-99 Completely agree 100% with all that. :) Nicely put... Cuby - Cuby Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:53:05 +0100