06.05.06
Free Mobile with Free Calls!
For the last 6 months I’ve been getting all my phone calls subsidised for free and a free phone to boot!
I know it all sounds amazing and that there must be sort of scam but I can assure it isn’t. The deal is you sign up to a normal 12 month plan for a set amount per month. They give you a free phone, and you pay your monthly bill as normal. Then every couple of months you fill in a simple form (3 entry fields), mail it back with a photocopy of your bill and they refund your charges with cheque.
Witness my latest cheque for 72 quid:
For the step by step instructions:
- Go to Cool New Mobile and check out the phones and plans. Note that some plans will give you cashback thats equal to the total 12 months outlay while other plans don’t cover the full cost of your mobile plan, but probably give you a better phone. It’s a tradeoff you will have to make. Since I’m a cheapskate, I went with a 30 quid a month on a 12 month plan with 360 quid cashback which ends up paying for all of it. The phone I got was a Sony K300i which I gave to the missus to use as it was better then her current phone. Alternatively you can keep your current phone and find one that goes for the most on ebay and sell it.
- Once you got your plan and phone chosen, sign up as normal. You will then be sent a phone and be on a monthly plan, just like a normal contract phone deal.
- The last bit of the plan, is every couple of months (they give you a schedule, mark it in your diary), you fill out a simple form which includes your customer number, your name and the amount of the cashback. Mail this in with a photo copy of the bill for the month, and hey presto you get sent a cheque. For me, my schedule was month 4,6,8, 10 and 12. Five installments of 72 quid each time which equals 360 quid.
Now you may be wondering, how do they possible make any money at all if they pay for everything. Well they rely on your apathy and laziness. They hope you either forgot, or are to lazy to bother mailing in the form, and once you miss one, the rest are void.
The way I see it, I’m getting paid 360 quid to fill in 5 forms every 2 months. So for 5 mins of work each form, 25 mins in total, thats more then 700 quid an hour! Quite worth your time and effort.
Another neat trick is if you want more minutes then what you get on your plan, for me I get 200 minutes and 200 texts (quite enough), then you can sign up for multiple phones and plans. You can then hock the extra phones on ebay as brand new phones. Then when you run out of your normal minutes on your plan, instead of being a chump and paying for the extra minutes, just swap your sim with your extra sims, make your calls for free, then swap back to your main sim to receive calls to your normal number. Ingenious!