Tuesday, February 3, 2009

12 Month Free Line Rental

By Saundra Howton

Have you ever heard of a free line rental mobile deal? Chances are you have not, as they are pretty obscure!

First off, what does a free line rental deal give you? Well, as the name suggests, a free line rental mobile gives you a free mobile phone handset, and free line rental, and free text messages. That means that your entire contract will not cost you a penny!

So how can this be? Surely any company offering free line rental deals would go out of business? Well, yes, indeed many have gone out of business, the ones that got their free line rental terms wrong!

The way it works is this, when taking out your new mobile contract the retailer offers to give you cash back, to cover the cost of your bills. So, initially you have to pay the bill as normal. At this point, you are out of pocket, not what you would expect from a 12 months free line rental deal!

Then, later on in the contract you have to submit a claim for cash back to the retailer that sold you the phone. They refund your money, covering the cost of your contract, and voila, you have a free mobile phone!

So where is the catch? Well, it is clear that the retailers will actually lose money by dong this, so they make it tricky to make that claim for cashback.

To make a profit the mobile phone retailers have to make sure a lot of people on free line rental deals do not get their money back. So, the first thing they do is say that you must make the cashback claim on a particular date. They know that some people will miss this date. Then they ask for obscure pieces of documentation, knowing that some people will have lost this, and so it go's on. By the end of the process they have tripped enough customers up to make their profit!

So, yes, 12 month free deals are too good to be true, but, they are also possible to exploit. It is possible to out smart the retailers and get that elusive 12 month free contract, but you have to be determined.

If you opt for a free line rental deal you would be well advised to organise yourself. Make sure you have the relevant dates and documentation to hand so that when you make your claim it all goes smoothly, and you get your free line rental deal!

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