R10,000 Contract Buy-out “phenomenal” success: Cell C

LOL, i'm waiting for the complaints to start rolling in about the higher tarrifs on those "epic" packages.
 
I seriously doubt this. It's just one big marketing ploy. In fact I doubt that ten people have even signed up for it.
 
I have been called by CellC for this. The salesman was really pitching the "unchanged tariff for 24 months - guaranteed" thing hard. If I had the time I would have taken him to task about that statement and CellC's previous behaviour. Or ask him to issue a written guarantee for that.
 
Give it a month or two... then we will see HP and this forum overrun by people crying about it.
They almost caught my parents with this crap also.
There was a talk on 702 the other evening where they actually pointed out that this is the purest form of snake oil ever to be punted in this country.
 
I would never go to Cell C... no SlapTiger for me...

I come from Cell C, been on Vodacom for a month and love it to death: signal everywhere and anywhere "even 3 floors below the surface"...

Cheers...
 
I don't understand which consumers out there think that CellC has magically transformed into a charity organisation overnight.

I mean - quite apart from the fact that you'll only be getting the full R10 000 on the maximum package, do these consumers understand that that money is just a loan that CellC is giving them and it is their own money that is buying them out? Probably cheaper to just throw the old contract sim away and move onto whichever other contract you want.
 
CellC might not always have the best signal but at least they are competing.

If it wasn't for Cell C we would still be paying Vodacom R2 per megabyte and them offering 20 MB pm data bundles .....
 
Flowerhat said:
CellC might not always have the best signal but at least they are competing.

If it wasn't for Cell C we would still be paying Vodacom R2 per megabyte and them offering 20 MB pm data bundles .....
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yes, because resting on your laurels is the surest sign of competitiveness :/

Cell C has been on the decline since 2012-ish. Since then, no amount of complaints nor clear network fault reports* have gotten them to take their heads out the sand and do something about their ever worsening network.

*remember how Cell C store consultants always needed to take walks to find signal? Nowadays they have landlines installed.
 
Flowerhat said:
CellC might not always have the best signal but at least they are competing.

If it wasn't for Cell C we would still be paying Vodacom R2 per megabyte and them offering 20 MB pm data bundles .....
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This. Happy Cell C customer for 8 years now. The only place I ever struggle with signal is in Secunda, but there my MTN sim and colleagues on Vodacom are even worse off.
 
Flowerhat said:
CellC might not always have the best signal but at least they are competing.

If it wasn't for Cell C we would still be paying Vodacom R2 per megabyte and them offering 20 MB pm data bundles .....
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If it wasn't for Cell C being the pioneers of increasing prices mid contract the other 2 operators might not have followed the same route and contract prices would have been same till the end of contract. Now they wanna fool more people into taking contracts with them till the next mid contract price increases.
 
Cell C said the guarantee that prices will not increase during the contract term has resulted in a phenomenal response
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Eh! So that's the new selling point nowadays? I'm glad I'm not a contracts person
 
A small company always has a limited budget for investment, pity Cell C decided to spend it all on marketing. Frankly it wasn't too bad in 2012 and 2013 after a major roll out of 3G, but its gone all downhill since. If cellular reliability is of any importance or essential to doing your job you would be silly for going to Cell C, it's going to cost you money and cause you lots of frustration. My wife gets terrific reception where we stay, I was actually surprised to hear how good voices sounded over the network on her phone. Fortunately porting away in 3 days, I've already got the paper work ready.
 
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