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Google Pixel 3a €249 on Vodafone (In Stock!)

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  • #1892
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    glasso wrote: »
    sounds like they blackballed you for some reason.....

    as said the card hold option is actually only so that they can offer you a faster/better service as the can send out a replacement immediately.

    the second way they offer is a courier pick-up and then they send you out the replacement once that is received.

    From memory they were originally offered a refurb and refused.


  • #1893
    wingnut
    Registered Users Posts: 1,937 ✭✭✭wingnut


    positron wrote: »
    Wife's Pixel 3a is no longer ringing for incoming calls. Phone's barely two months old. Nothing seems to be working (haven't installed any new apps, tried hard reset, tried starting on safe mode etc etc). Music, apps etc works - so speakers work - it won't ring when a call comes, that's all! It's as if it's a software issue, but I can't see how it is and what could be the fix!!

    I see a large number of people with the same issue here on Google Pixel phone support: https://support.google.com/pixelphone/thread/10048887?hl=en

    Thinking if I should contact Vodafone (famously useless) or Google!!

    I'm sure you have tried this as you did a hard reset but I am know some people were accidentally disabling the ring on the volume control. Turn the phone up or down.a notch and look at the icon on top of the slider
    It should be a be, if it is a vibrate or crossed out bell icon that's your problem.


  • #1894
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    wingnut wrote: »
    I'm sure you have tried this as you did a hard reset but I am know some people were accidentally disabling the ring on the volume control. Turn the phone up or down.a notch and look at the icon on top of the slider
    It should be a be, if it is a vibrate or crossed out bell icon that's your problem.

    definitely a known problem. I initially thought that my dad had done something similar but nope it just wouldn't ring

    the way to test it definitively is go to change the ringtone in settings and if it doesn't sound when you select a new one then you have the issue


  • #1895
    deiseindublin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭deiseindublin


    jimmycrackcorm wrote: »
    I had a smooth process. I took the option to give my card details in advance. It's only a hold on the card. Otherwise I'd have had to send my phone back first. Got the replacement after a 15 minute webchat and arrived two days later
    Might get him to try them again tomorrow. Thanks.


  • #1896
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    deiseindublin wrote: »
    Might get him to try them again tomorrow. Thanks.

    use webchat. not email


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  • #1897
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Basil3 wrote: »
    From memory they were originally offered a refurb and refused.

    don't look a gift horse in the mouth!


  • #1898
    deiseindublin
    Registered Users Posts: 2,257 ✭✭✭deiseindublin


    Basil3 wrote: »
    From memory they were originally offered a refurb and refused.
    No, didn't refuse. They gave us the option of a refurb immediately before we returned original if we paid for the replacement, and they would refund us when they got original handset. Then there was a problem over and back with putting money onto the Google Acc payment method, then they pulled that offer and it went on and on.

    Never refused, he said he'd prefer it wasn't a refurb but when I checked here, others had been given the same and had no issues.


  • #1899
    positron
    Registered Users Posts: 6,279 ✭✭✭positron


    Update: Contacted them on webchat, and after the usual checks, we were offered replacement. However no card hold option, had to post faulty unit to them and they will replace it. Prepaid Ups collected today, fingers crossed they replace it timely and with a good unit. Thanks ðŸ‘


  • #1900
    wassie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭wassie


    Does the Pixel 3A purchased from the VF store have a Vodafone logo/splashscreen on startup or is it pure vanilla Android?


  • #1901
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    wassie wrote: »
    Does the Pixel 3A purchased from the VF store have a Vodafone logo/splashscreen on startup or is it pure vanilla Android?

    Pure Android.


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  • #1902
    flexcon
    Registered Users Posts: 1,618 ✭✭✭flexcon


    Offer is back on.

    €129 this time when you switch over. other halfs 3a is still going strong.


  • #1903
    SickBoy
    Registered Users Posts: 3,523 ✭✭✭SickBoy


    flexcon wrote: »
    Other is back on.

    €129 this time when you switch over. other halfs 3a is still going strong.

    To pay as you go?


  • #1904
    bush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,878 ✭✭✭bush


    I think ill order another one thats so cheap


  • #1905
    Yggr of Asgard
    Registered Users Posts: 5,141 ✭✭✭Yggr of Asgard


    SickBoy wrote: »
    To pay as you go?


    229.99€ with a 100€ discount if you port your number to Vodafone to a pay as you go plan.

    https://n.vodafone.ie/shop/phones/google/pixel-3a.html?gallery=payg


  • #1906
    chases0102
    Registered Users Posts: 1,034 ✭✭✭chases0102


    Great offer....hate being tied into a contracts at times like this!


  • #1907
    DopeTech
    Registered Users Posts: 6,753 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    Absolute bargain at that price.


  • #1908
    long_b
    Registered Users Posts: 4,928 ✭✭✭long_b


    Do you have to buy a 20 top up ?


  • #1909
    bush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,878 ✭✭✭bush


    long_b wrote: »
    Do you have to buy a 20 top up ?

    No. Get a free sim from eir and use that number when buying this phone. 130 is all it costs


  • #1910
    Movie Maestro
    Registered Users Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Movie Maestro


    bush wrote: »
    No. Get a free sim from eir and use that number when buying this phone. 130 is all it costs

    Where exactly can I order a free sim card from on eirs website please?


  • #1911
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    Movie Maestro wrote: »
    Where exactly can I order a free sim card from on eirs website please?

    https://www.eir.ie/mobile/prepay/free-sim-cards/


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  • #1912
    Movie Maestro
    Registered Users Posts: 740 ✭✭✭Movie Maestro


    Basil3 wrote: »
    https://www.eir.ie/mobile/prepay/free-sim-cards/

    Thanks mate!


  • #1913
    ShatterProof
    Registered Users Posts: 1,734 ✭✭✭ShatterProof


    How do you get rid of the the “recurring” costs? Can’t seem to deselect it. (Well not on mobile site)


  • #1914
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    ShatterProof wrote: »
    How do you get rid of the the “recurring” costs? Can’t seem to deselect it. (Well not on mobile site)

    From memory, you choose your PAYG plan, which would be recurring at €20 every 28 days, but you never actually have to pay the 20. You can just get the phone and then pop your normal SIM in.


  • #1915
    ed1140
    Registered Users Posts: 17 ✭ed1140


    Basil3 wrote: »
    https://www.eir.ie/mobile/prepay/free-sim-cards/

    Can you receive your activation code to the eir sim without topping it up?


  • #1916
    DopeTech
    Registered Users Posts: 6,753 ✭✭✭DopeTech


    ed1140 wrote: »
    Can you receive your activation code to the eir sim without topping it up?

    Yep. That's how I bought one last time.


  • #1917
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Everytime I try and buy this it fails. Can you get them instore, if not is there a number you can ring to order online.


  • #1918
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    I've given up I can't complete an order for this. I remembers all the old emails I've used in the past, so I can't use them, and even with a new email account, and new details it fails unknown error. No B&M shop answers the phone and I can't use their online support without a current Vodafone number, which I don't have. Don't remember my old ones either. Pity.


  • #1919
    GalwayGaillimh
    Registered Users Posts: 655 ✭✭✭GalwayGaillimh


    It's an absolute pain trying to order one of these...
    You will be lucky to get a confirmation email if you get that far...they will take the money though..
    Make sure and take a photo of order number on screen if it provides one...then will need to chase it up with online chat team...good luck :-)
    beauf wrote: »
    I've given up I can't complete an order for this. I remembers all the old emails I've used in the past, so I can't use them, and even with a new email account, and new details it fails unknown error. No B&M shop answers the phone and I can't use their online support without a current Vodafone number, which I don't have. Don't remember my old ones either. Pity.

    Si Deus Nobiscum Qui Contra Nos



  • #1920
    nephster
    Registered Users Posts: 434 ✭✭nephster


    beauf wrote: »
    I've given up I can't complete an order for this. I remembers all the old emails I've used in the past, so I can't use them, and even with a new email account, and new details it fails unknown error. No B&M shop answers the phone and I can't use their online support without a current Vodafone number, which I don't have. Don't remember my old ones either. Pity.

    Try a different browser? Ordered yesterday evening and all went through fine for me immediately (using Firefox 79), order showing up under my newly created account, now awaiting pickup by An Post. Got one last time but this is for the mother-in-law!


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  • #1921
    wassie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,246 ✭✭✭wassie


    You do not need to port your existing number across either.
    • To get the discount you do need to select 'keep existing number' then it will send you a verification code.
    • Enter this, select any date to port across and proceed to checkout.
    • You will receive your phone and a sim card - simply put the sim card in the bin.
    If you never activate the VF service the port can not occur.


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