Any way to view postpaid price drops?

King Steuart on 21/05/2014 - 12:35
Last edited 21/05/2014 - 12:36

I know most people on here have a prepaid sim and buy their phones outright from Kogan and whatnot, but I believe that the way I use my phone it's still best to get the 24 month contract for around the $50/m mark and not pay anything for the phone.

That said, I'm up for re-contract now and I've noticed all the phone plans have basically jumped $20/m since 2 years ago. There's now massive handset repayments on all the top phones unless you go for the $79 or $99 per month plans which is outrageous.

Is there any way of knowing when the prices come down or if they have a weekend special or anything, without having to log in and click on each and every phone on their sites? I never see them mentioned in the deals here.

Thanks in advance

Mobile

Comments

  • [Deactivated] on 21/05/2014 - 13:44

    personally I think it's quite pointless, because they won't come down anytime soon. Virgin just halved the data allowance a few months ago (kept the same price), saying they wanna go "premium". I'm not expecting much from the big three telcos at the moment, they are trying to get resellers to decrease data allowance and increase price as well.

    Voda currently has this double data + $100 credit thing which is not too bad, some dealers have double data + 2 months free. Though their reception is not the best.

    • [Deactivated] on 21/05/2014 - 14:33

      I believe that one of the key strategies behind the 'double-data' offers is to catch-out less than vigilant customers with excess data-usage charges when the 'bonus' data offers suddenly end.

      Plenty of evidence as it is that lots of people forget/ignore data-usage notifications.

      The ones who have grown accustomed to using all of the extra data, and aren't careful, are going to be in a world of hurt when that first post-bonus bill turns up.

      Do Virgin and Optus still have $2/MB excess data-usage charges on some of of their plans?
      God help some of those customers, if they do.

      • [Deactivated] on 21/05/2014 - 14:50

        I currently have a contract with Virgin, and they have recently dropped their excess data rate from 20.5c/MB to 5.2c/MB, BUT THEY CANCELLED FREE YOUTUBE BROWSING (and other social networks) at the same time.

  • tonester on 21/05/2014 - 22:19

    what do you need in a plan?

    • King Steuart on 22/05/2014 - 02:30

      Well I can't survive on the 200mb data anymore that's for sure. I lived on it for 4 years but now I work a job that requires data allowance if you know what I mean.. so the $50 Optus plan with 1gb data is alright. I just want a decent phone on that plan (eg Xperia Z2, Galaxy S5, or the Nokia 930 next month).. with no or little handset repayments.

      • [Deactivated] on 22/05/2014 - 09:35

        At the moment to get a new flagship phone with 1GB data, you need to pay at least $68 a month (for Optus and Optus resellers). One thing you can do is to get something like Harvey norman or JB's 24month interest free and get a phone outright - and go for a prepaid/postpaid reseller as they are almost always cheaper, like Vaya's $18 plan has 1.5GB and $650 worth of calls.

      • tonester on 22/05/2014 - 11:01
        +1

        iphone 5 64gb $20/mth for 24mths on telstra $39 plan with $400 cap - $10 min spend includes 1gb
        https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/142114#comment-1966733

        • King Steuart on 22/05/2014 - 12:18

          Isn't the 5s out already though?

        • tonester on 22/05/2014 - 17:35

          yes, as is 5c, and 4s is still around - but only 5 available to non-staff with this offer

          btw staff can buy s5 for $15/mth :)

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