[Penfolds]

If you rent your home phone from Eircon, simply call up 1901 and ask them to upgrade your phone to a cordless DECT (model: eircom 5010) and they'll send you one out in the post...for free !!!

Yep, you read it right...They'll charge you €0 for your nice shiny new handset (which even has handsfree on it).

If you don't rent your home phone from them and you've some old piece of crap (as I had) then they'll charge you an extra 2.50 a month on your bill for the shiny new phone (30 a year ain't too bad)!

I'd get in quick though as I doubt it'll last long (it is Eircon after all!)


Penfolds

[conZ]

I've got one of those seimens eircom cordless dect phones, and a couple regular house phones - could i still get another?

[subway_ie]

Originally posted by Penfolds
If you don't rent your home phone from them and you've some old piece of crap (as I had) then they'll charge you an extra 2.50 a month on your bill for the shiny new phone (30 a year ain't too bad)!

€30 a year isn't great considering what you're paying for - an obsolete cordless phone, that would cost you about €60 to buy and own, versus €30 a year to rent it from Eircon.

[flogen]

what makes it obeslete?

Flogen

[tomk]

Penfolds - is this on the €ircon website - if not, where did you come across it?

[Stephen]

Yeah, Can't find anything about it on the site myself.

[[nicK]]

just rang them up and they're sending the phone out this evening! shocking!

[edit] no extra monthly charge cuz i'm renting my phone from eircom anyway [/edit]

[MarkR]

I bought a digitial cordless phone from maplins in galway for 30-40 euro. 30 for one year is ok(ish) 60 for two years is crap. Going onto three years and...

Take the plunge and buy a phone.

[swiss]

Originally posted by MarkR
I bought a digitial cordless phone from maplins in galway for 30-40 euro. 30 for one year is ok(ish) 60 for two years is crap. Going onto three years and...

Take the plunge and buy a phone.

Agreed. This believe it or not is a moneyspinner for Eircom. It's exactly the same as renting your television. It works out cheaply in the short term but over time you *are* going to get screwed for it. This is Eircom, remember, Eircom. If you are paying comfort phone rental I think there is a link in Sceptres sig that shows you how you can stop paying this bloated form of rental.

*smacks people on the head with rolled up newspaper* Never trust Eircom. You should all know this by now.

[dahamsta]

Are there any terms and conditions? If there aren't, what's to stop people taking the phone and ringing the next day to cancel equipment rental off the bill? If there are, what are they?

adam

[subway_ie]

Originally posted by dahamsta
Are there any terms and conditions? If there aren't, what's to stop people taking the phone and ringing the next day to cancel equipment rental off the bill? If there are, what are they?

adam

When they used to rent out those old piece of crap phones (the really ancient beige ones with no speed dial, speakerphone, etc) they would just let you keep them when you cancelled the rental. Recently they've started making people bring the phone into their local eircom dealer to cancel the rental and return the phone. I'd imagine that the cordless phones either have a minimum rental period, or remain the property of eircom after you cancel the subscription, more than likely all of the above.

what makes it obeslete?

I'd say they're about to bring out newer models and are just flogging this bog-standard one so they're not stuck with excess stock. Obsolete as in they've been replaced, not as in they don't work.

[Penfolds]

Well, I just rang up last night and took them up on their kind offer.

Prior to this I never rented a phone off them and I haven't signed anything to say that I will now, I just rang up and asked for the phone and was told it'd be a fiver every two months for the equipment rental.
So there's nothing in wiriting to say that I agree to rent a phone off them for 12 months and if I deicde to stop renting I have to give it back....so what is to stop me saying that I'm cancelling the phone rental in a few months.

gas thing is I haven't had my calls through them for a year or so, all i paid them was line rental (and i'll be off as soon as someone else can offer me that) but they still gave me a nice shiny new phone !

[Peace]

Do you have to send back your old phone?

[dahamsta]

For the record, subway_ie is right; although the phones aren't obsolete, they're just not the most up to date at this stage. It should also be noted that they're simply branded Siemens phones, i.e. they're quite good quality.

Seems like a good offer, just make sure you don't leave your poor old ma or pa paying for it for ten years. Personally I'd prefer to lash out for my own phone, just to keep as much money out of Eircom's pocket as possible. It's not as if they earn it or deserve it.

adam

[eirebhoy]

Originally posted by Peace
Do you have to send back your old phone?

Yeah, I rang them up and they gave me this address to send to phone to (nclude your name, address and a/c number):

Eircom Logistics
Freepost
Dublin 22

I don't think I can take up the offer because I wouldn't be able to last without a phone for a week or so.