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FREE XDA 1 SIM FREE!!

Take a look at this, you have to pay about £7 p&p but to me it looks like another one of those advertising mistakes that they might just have to honor:
extrafone.com are selling O2 XDA 1 handsets sim free for £0.00!!
http://www.extrafone.com/products.asp?partno=O2-XDA
Ive placed my order...
Ash

i REALLY dont think they are goin to send em out tho.
THEY WILL JUST CHARGE U FOR POSTAGE
LOL
unless they have to....

Me tooooo... thanks for the link. 8)

Guys...... Just recieved a mail back from them after ordering last nite.
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Dear Customer
We are sorry but your recently placed order cannot be completed by Extrafone.
The item selected is now discontinued from our catalogue and remains on the site for accessory information purposes only.
We apologise for any inconvenience and thank you for your interest in Extrafone.
Yours sincerely
[email protected]
www.extrafone.com
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time to make it free

Isnt it time, this unlocker for the kaiser was made free to all XDA members, surely it should now be thrown over to, or as it should have been VOLUNTARY DONATIONS.
If you feel this should be the case let the members know how you feel about it.... tag your feelings onto this item
Afterall, this forum belongs to all of us......
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are you threatening me, bungholio?

I'm not sure I understand this. Are you referring to the IMEI-check unlocker controversy

yes...
the unlocker that a certain member is holding and charging $50 for the use of, not for himself it must be said

I don't know why people pay for this. You just need to call to your carrier and they will provide an unlock code for you instantly.

unfortunately
here in the UK, the service providers, actually lock their phones on purpuse, and if you want your phone unlocked before the end of your 12, 18 or 24 month contract, you have to pay the remainder of your contract upfront in full, then also pay for the unlocking code fee, normally £25 + vat

I heard someone is working on a free unlocker...

van131 said:
I heard someone is working on a free unlocker...
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Good deal on the free unlocker, but why are you flashing your man-boobs at me?

mdhensley5 said:
Good deal on the free unlocker, but why are you flashing your man-boobs at me?
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omg, you dont like man-boobs?
c'mon man, they are SOOO qute (now I wish there was a puke smily available)
lmao

213 views so far
how many more does it take to change minds....
the members are talking......

Mine came unlocked...
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crystal_clear said:
here in the UK, the service providers, actually lock their phones on purpuse, and if you want your phone unlocked before the end of your 12, 18 or 24 month contract, you have to pay the remainder of your contract upfront in full, then also pay for the unlocking code fee, normally £25 + vat
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wow... I didn't know about that. I hope somebody comes up with a free unlocker soon.
Regards

Let me understand this - a member of this forum will unlock your phone for a donation to support a great site at prices that are far below what commercial services/carriers are charging so that the operators of the forum can pay for bandwidth, servers, software, etc. and this is a terrible thing? From some of the posts I've read, the donation was as low as $10-20.
Could I ask how much having this forum available has saved you in time and money by its existance? And why paying less for something is a bad thing?

I agree.
In fact, I won't SIM unlock my kaiser by Xda. If it was free and volontary donation, I will unlock my kaiser and give like $20, but I feel like I don't have choice.
I prefer give $20 to Xda and not to any website unlocker, but between $50 and $20, I don't have enough money
$50 is not interesting for Xda. Maybe 100 people will pay. But if it was $20, all members will unlock their Kaiser here.
Then, what's better ? 100 paying 50, or 500 paying 20 ?

RSchris said:
I agree.
In fact, I won't SIM unlock my kaiser by Xda. If it was free and volontary donation, I will unlock my kaiser and give like $20, but I feel like I don't have choice.
I prefer give $20 to Xda and not to any website unlocker, but between $50 and $20, I don't have enough money
$50 is not interesting for Xda. Maybe 100 people will pay. But if it was $20, all members will unlock their Kaiser here.
Then, what's better ? 100 paying 50, or 500 paying 20 ?
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word.
hmm.. not sure why i have to lengthen this by 10 chars, "word" pretty much said everything i wanted to say

Starting a thread demanding someone give you something FREE is uncool.
Just because you think it should be free dosen't mean it should be.
Can I have your phone, for free?
Can I have your car, for free?
Can I have your girlfriend, for free?

grizzley said:
Starting a thread demanding someone give you something FREE is uncool.
Just because you think it should be free dosen't mean it should be.
Can I have your phone, for free?
Can I have your car, for free?
Can I have your girlfriend, for free?
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Well if she's as tight as he is!!!!!

And as for his car can you imagine what that’s like ,with all the years of free maintenance !!

the issue was....
the thread was started simply due to the fact of a donation being voluntary, and a charge being mandatory.
The member cannot claim its a donation, yes its all going to XDA, but its a charge of $50, and even more annoying the imei_check are only charging $40 ish for it.
My whole point was simply either make it a voluntary donation or make it free... but not to charge more than the ones currently selling their souls as a business.

grizzley said:
are you threatening me, bungholio?
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Bungholio? Is that the new polite way of calling someone an a**hole?

Never buy anything from http://www.tigaduacellular.com check this out!

The wiki list of prices showed this shop to be the cheapest one! http://www.tigaduacellular.com
I tried to order from them, please see what happened! DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM! PLEASE!
Here we go, the e-mail conversation with their sales department:
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Please Confirm Your Tiga Dua Cellular: Order #
to me
Hello XXX,
Thank you for your order. We have the phone you order in stock.
We have the EU and Asia version available.
We will dispatch your order after we have verified your payment. Please
confirm if you want to cancel this order or want to continue this order.
So we can provide you with our payment information.
If you have any questions regarding your order, don't be hesitate to contact
us.
Best Regards,
Mr. XXX
http://www.tigaduacellular.com
Email: [email protected]
Phone:
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Me to the shop
Hello,
Thanks for your extremely fast reply! I would like to purchase the EU version of the phone. So please continue with the Touch Pro EU version order.
Sincerely Yours,
XXX
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Me to the shop again
Hi,
I'm wondering if you have noted my message that i would like to continue with the purchase of the Touch Pro EU version as noted below. Now I find myself missing the payment information, which I am waiting from you to send me. The first contact from you was extremely fasy, which I'm thankful for, but approximately how long it can take to tell me how to pay?
The thing that you don't have option to pay via Credit card is already quite annoying, but even more annoying is to wait for the bank transfer payment information. Nothing personal, I'm just used to that shops would be more eager to get the money from the customers.
Sincerely yours,
XXX
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to me
Actually, we have send the payment information to you, the day you reply the
email.
We don't know if you already received it or not.
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Me to the shop
Hello,
Alright, I see! So the payment information is not sent via e-mail but by post. I am honestly sorry for my misunderstanding. I was assuming to get it to my e-mail. Thanks for the info. I'll be looking forward getting that information. Again sorry for my bad behaviour. all the best!
Regards,
XXX
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to me
Of course we have sent the information via e-mail.
Well I guess you're not serious buyer anyway.
Hope you will get your "FREE PHONE" with other website.
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Me to the shop
Hi,
I would really like to buy the phone, but have not received any confirmation? I double checked my spam folder also, nothing in there! I am really serious, as soon as you can provide me with the payment information i would like to purchase the phone.
Because i tried to be the nicest possible to you, i will take all the e-mails, collect a nice package of them and get in contact with your superior. This is not customer service.
You will hear from me, Mr. XXX. Too bad that you werent able to do your job. I will make sure no one will ever buy from your shop again if this harm done by you is not corrected.
Think twice before you fool around like that, WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I WASNT A SERIOUS BUYER?
Sincerely,
XXX
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Me to the shop
PS. this information, and all the emails we have been sending to each other will soon be found from all the biggest mobile phone forums, where your customers are also coming.
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to me
Oh yes.
And you're just a customers who don't pay but want mobile phones.
Or maybe you're just another Nigerian buyer.
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Me to the shop
Excuse me!
I was ASKING YOU to send me the PAYMENT INFORMATION! BECAUSE YOU FAILED TO DO SO IN THE FIRST PLACE!
All this will be reported to your superior. Thanks.
Regards,
XXX

DAMN!!!!! what the hell....
Unbelievable!!!!
Thnx 4 sharing dude!

I was gona buy from them but when a seen they only do "Bank To Bank Transfers" a shat out of it. Don't see why any site wouldn't do paypal.

adamdon89 said:
I was gona buy from them but when a seen they only do "Bank To Bank Transfers" a shat out of it. Don't see why any site wouldn't do paypal.
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I'm glad i never got those payment instructions. who knows where my money could be right now!
And also remember, when ordering from them, you will probably have to pay the toll and VAT at your home country, so it really isn't even that cheap.

OMG
What a clueless webshop contact.
I think you should inform the owner of the shop so you can get this guy fired!
thanks for sharing

Amazing.......
You should copy the web-link from here and send them an email with the details of this post..... not good at all? and "who" pays "bank to bank" only these days - very strange indeed?
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WizzarD-me said:
What a clueless webshop contact.
I think you should inform the owner of the shop so you can get this guy fired!
thanks for sharing
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I thought to do so, but after doing whois pings on the domain, found out that the website is registered to a person with a same surname than the person answering my e-mail. Family biz.. They can go to hell with their stupid shop, just ordered from expansys.

Sounds very dodgie.... Thanks for sharing....
I bought from highstreet "Kamla" in London on Tottenham Court Road... UK version for £499.
A bit more expensive but from my past experience with HTC P3600 which was quite unstable initially, I thought it's better to buy from a shop where I can go back to if anything goes wrong.

I tell you...that is nuts. I had an issue with the first Touch Pro I ordered. Thank goodness I did it on E-Bay. Paypal refunded my money after my dispute, found another seller, and bought two of them with next day air delivery. Though I had one seller try to mess around with me, money was safe, and still had my Touch Pro within a week of the UK's launch.
Good luck with your next seller.

if it wasn't blindingly obvious to you already:
DON'T PAY BY BANK TRANSFER OR WESTERN UNION.
A merchant who doesn't take cards is generally always a scammer; bank transfers/WU are irreversible, this is precisely why they're required by scammers.
If you want to buy a device, buy it on a card; the price is cheaper than average for a good reason, use your noodle.

[APP] Spotify USA NEED INVITE or UK Member to sign me up!

Hi I currently reside in the USA and spotify (because of the darned record companies) has not made its way over here yet. I heard that if someone invites your or someone based in the UK or other countries where its supported signs you up you can use the service. So being that the community here on XDA is full of surprisingly generous people I thought I would give it a whack and ask to see if anyone could help me I am willing to donate via paypal if someone truly can help! THANK YOU FOR ALL REPLIES
I tried all sorts of proxy methods already and it seems as though they blocked this method....

Can you download the application from the states? I can make you an account.

BazookaAce said:
Can you download the application from the states? I can make you an account.
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yes I already got it installed...maybe PM me and I can give you the information needed? this would be awesome of you....

You need to have a Premium account to be able to stream to your phone, that costs £10 a month.

JamesC_ said:
You need to have a Premium account to be able to stream to your phone, that costs £10 a month.
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well thats fine I would like to get a free trial though to start then go from there

I'm on it I'll just fill out some random name and stuff. You can change it yourself later.

Btw, i need your email. PM it to me

I am sorry, but it won't work. Maybe it'll work at first, but the free account only allows you to listen outside the allowed countries within 14 days, after that you won't be able to listen any more. And to pay for the service you need to be in an allowed country, otherwise you won't be able to pay

Yeah, you'll just have two weeks, but that's two weeks of sweet listening

[GAME] Cash Button Race [WIN $100]

Hey everyone,
Here comes a new game on the Android Play Store!
Cash Button Race is a game where you have to be the fastest to get to the GOAL! Create your free account and reach 1 MIL hits on a button and YOU WIN $100 REAL CASH!
Download:
Mod edit: No paid apps without a free version for xda members - thread closed.

so let me get this straight
100 people buy an app for $2.42x100=$242
and then finally one of us gets $100?
While you pocket the rest?
I am sorry but really??

Mhh i think you wont even get the 100$.. also i think its very easy to make with a vnc server and some windows makros.. or gamecih or whatever.

muneebrocks said:
so let me get this straight
100 people buy an app for $2.42x100=$242
and then finally one of us gets $100?
While you pocket the rest?
I am sorry but really??
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The game is one time purchase, and there will be 2 or 3 rounds... Depends how many people buy the game.
The calculation is almost right, except Google takes 30% out of each sale, so it will be 2.42 - 30%x100 = $170
Then I give the winner $100 bucks and I get $70... I think it's worth consider the time spent to develop this game.
And if it turns out to be more successful then just this, The prize will definitely go up, but for start, I think it's fare like this.
Best Regards,
Ivan

westpak said:
Mhh i think you wont even get the 100$.. also i think its very easy to make with a vnc server and some windows makros.. or gamecih or whatever.
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One thing I hate in life are those SPAM games or ads all over the web!
I am an honest man, and will send $100 dollars to the winner via email as soon as we get a winner!
There is a server security, so gamecih or other 3rd party software won't affect the numbers.
Thank you for your opinion on this westpak, I appreciate it!
Ivan

Please read the forum rules before posting again.
11. Don’t post with the intention of selling something.
Don’t use XDA to advertise your product or service. Proprietors of for-pay products or services, may use XDA to get feedback, provide beta access, or a free version of their product for XDA users and offer support, but not to post with the intention of selling.