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Are Carphone Warehouse phones bought in store actually sim free?

quarryman · 2014-12-31 12:30:50

When I look a particular phone on their website it is clearly marked sim free. However when I rang a branch to see if they had it in stock I got spun some yarn about them "not being able to advertise it as sim-free" and that 'it wouldn't work on Vodafone" A call to customer care (which went through to the uk) seemed to…

31-12-2014 12:30pm

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When I look a particular phone on their website it is clearly marked sim free.

However when I rang a branch to see if they had it in stock I got spun some yarn about them "not being able to advertise it as sim-free" and that 'it wouldn't work on Vodafone"

A call to customer care (which went through to the uk) seemed to contradict this.

I could buy it online but would prefer to buy it in store and be guaranteed it was fully sim-free.

Has anyone else had this experience?

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