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I got offered a brand new unbranded 6680 for R2800 which IMO is a crazy price, pity it had fw glitches.
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Posted: 2005-12-08 10:41:00
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Dats unfair, my 6680 was R5500, i guess i had 2 wait a while b4 i bought it , i cudve saved alot, and bought a mem. Card wit da extra cash :-(
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Posted: 2005-12-08 11:26:36
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On 2005-12-08 10:41:00, brix25 wrote:
I got offered a brand new unbranded 6680 for R2800 which IMO is a crazy price, pity it had fw glitches.
And branded is cheaper!!!!!!!
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Posted: 2005-12-08 11:26:43
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me thinks me should phone voda. . . i want a branded one anyway
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Posted: 2005-12-08 11:41:00
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On 2005-12-08 11:41:00, Rhino8 wrote:
me thinks me should phone voda. . . i want a branded one anyway
Good idea they launching TV on the voda site....
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Posted: 2005-12-08 11:59:20
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I get a feeling that anytime now Tahir is going to jump out of the woodworks to reinforce the gospel of Vodafone and their Live portal. So they're launching tv...that most of their subscibers won't probably be using..why can't they just a put an analogue receiver in the phone...but no, that won't make them any money.
Six months down the line when you decide to sell your "cheap" Vodafone-branded 6680 you'll probably get a fraction of the price of what the unbranded one is going for- sometimes cheap is not always good.
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Posted: 2005-12-08 12:39:33
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On 2005-12-08 12:39:33, brix25 wrote:
I get a feeling that anytime now Tahir is going to jump out of the woodworks to reinforce the gospel of Vodafone and their Live portal. So they're launching tv...that most of their subscibers won't probably be using..why can't they just a put an analogue receiver in the phone...but no, that won't make them any money.
Six months down the line when you decide to sell your "cheap" Vodafone-branded 6680 you'll probably get a fraction of the price of what the unbranded one is going for- sometimes cheap is not always good.
Sometimes making up stories isnt to good to!!!
I think it will keep its value(used) with peoples understanding of phones, vodalive will probably sell for more.... one more item to add to the specs list!
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Posted: 2005-12-08 14:31:26
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@786KBR,
For what it's worth, that's certainly not the case here in the UK.
Do a search on a place called ebay for a start.Then compare prices of branded phones with sim-free/unbranded phones in exactly the same condition,ie. new.
Want me to provide some 'Buy-It-Now' links as proof?
Better still,compare second hand prices between branded and unbranded handsets on auction sites like eBay,in the same condtion to be fair.
Again,this is in the UK,and thus I can't say I have sufficient evidence of SA 'thinking' or market preference regarding this,but I can't see why it would be that different.
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Posted: 2005-12-08 15:01:19
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@da wanqsta: It wouldn't be that different at all. It should be said that networks in SA don't lock their phones (this might be only the case with a few service providers)
I think it'll be more difficult to sell a phone with external branding...the likes of the Z500 or all those el cheapo Motorola's in Vodacom's catalogue.
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Posted: 2005-12-08 15:54:02
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@ brix,
True,with branding almost inevitably means a locked phone here,and this network-limiting factor obviously has an effect on resale value.
I should have also mentioned that initially.
Even so,one could take into account new branded AND unlocked cellphones and they will still be obviously cheaper here than sim-free.
An example:
The Orange-branded spv-C550 (made by HTC) is seriously luring me,with its new version of Windows Mobile,megapixel camera and video,Bluetooth,music player for different formats,plus 512mb card as standard,leads for the tv included,etc,etc...but apart from the fact that it is locked(although they are easy enough to get unlocked),all the Orange crap loaded on it is also a put-off.Sure,if I wanted to be with the Orange network,no probs,but as I have mentioned before,they ain't the cheapest. Trouble is,they are currently the only UK network stocking this handset,although T-Mobile has one quite similar. To buy this phone sim-free costs over £320 from either
www.expansys.com or
www.mobilefun.co.uk.
They are selling them in the Orange shop for £109.99 plus trade in of your old brick,or £129.99 without.
http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop[....]_spv_c550/detail/pay_as_you_go
Now even if I bought it from Orange and immediately unlocked it for about £10,then bought a sim-free one from one of the above-mentioned stockists,it's obvious which handset will fetch more money (by a country mile) on ebay.(or amazon,or...etc.)
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Posted: 2005-12-08 16:20:58
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