L Reid wrote:
"Mike Mitchell" wrote in message
...
Having received a lot of useful advice from you guys, I placed an
order today for the Virgin Mobile £39.99 package with the Siemens A50
phone!


Do you have the option to return the phone if not happy? I'll be a
Pain in the A**e and tell you this after you've bought the phone.

Siemens A50's not a good phone (but probably fine if you'll be taking
a sledgehammer to it in 2 weeks). The Nokia 3310's a great phone, I
generally get mine (and so far a few for the family) from the
clearence offers on The Link's web site. They're refurbished phones,
but safer than buying from e-bay and have a one year guarantee. And
you can trade in an old phone for a tenner (if you have one). Only
bad thing is it's on O2 (I prefer Orange as i) they'll match any
other tarrif, so you can have the virgin one and not pay to get your
answer phone and ii) they have no voucher expiry time, so you put in
£20, you get £20 out and can receive calls for a year if that's all
you want to do).

I agree, I think I'd have got the Nokia on Tesco mobile for the same
money and near identical call charges.