Void seal broken on new phone

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:53:59 -0000, Jon <[email protected]>
wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>,
>[email protected] says...
>> Where in the phone did they stuff the fiver..? No need at all to open the
>> box, they could have sent you a voucher or whatever to add it yourself.
>
>Then there's a risk of the fiver not getting credited to the phone it
>was meant to get credited to, which can result in clawback for the
>retailer.

But surely the most profitable scenario, as far as the network
operator is concerned, is where the credit is paid for but never used.



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In article <[email protected]>,
[email protected] says...
> >> Where in the phone did they stuff the fiver..? No need at all to open the
> >> box, they could have sent you a voucher or whatever to add it yourself.
> >
> >Then there's a risk of the fiver not getting credited to the phone it
> >was meant to get credited to, which can result in clawback for the
> >retailer.
>
> But surely the most profitable scenario, as far as the network
> operator is concerned, is where the credit is paid for but never used.

True as long as the handset doesn't end up getting split from it's SIM
and both then get sold on for a profit. That's called box breaking and
networks don't like it.
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Regards
Jon