S5, Who has pre ordered?

Connor13 said:
Well iv just cancelled my upgrade with Vodacom for the S5 , I was going to just leave it ,but I am rather annoyed with the whole Gear 2 and Gear Fit thing being only for new contracts .Iv tried arguing with them as No where does it specify for New contracts only and in all honesty I find their Marketing of this Special to be rather deceitful . Basically its rather a kick in the face to be told sorry its only for new contracts , we don't really value your renewal enough or return business . Personally I think its a rather bad attitude to have because they should be trying to retain business ,it makes no sense pulling in new customers if you are loosing old customers at the same time .

This is the second time in the last 3 months we have had this as we had a similar issue with Incredible connection when my wife went there to renew . So enough is enough , ill see what Telkom has to offer on the S5 and ill take my business elsewhere . To think iv been giving Vodacom my hard earned money and business for the last 14 years only to be treated like this , oh well it was clearly time for a change . Here's hoping Telkom will have a good offer available with a nice data allowance .
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+1

I just think that the way they advertised this is a big joke. Not only do they limit the S5+Gear 2 for new contracts, they also only allocated 100 of these national wide.
So I also hope that there will be a offer with someone else. As mentioned I see that MTN has an interesting offer, waiting for Telkom to come to the party...
 
Slootvreter said:
After the flimsy S3, and Samsung's pathetic software (Kies), I'm not sure I'm going with Samsung again.
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Yeah, based on the S3 alone you should also avoid Samsung TVs, fridges, vacuum cleaners.... :D

The build quality is great too - despite packing a removable back cover, the Samsung Galaxy S5 feel solid and gives away no worrying sounds when handled. And the IP67 certification hasn't resulted in overly plastic feel either, so we can give high marks here.
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Smokey_sa said:
+1

I just think that the way they advertised this is a big joke. Not only do they limit the S5+Gear 2 for new contracts, they also only allocated 100 of these national wide.
So I also hope that there will be a offer with someone else. As mentioned I see that MTN has an interesting offer, waiting for Telkom to come to the party...
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Honestly I'm irritated with the whole process from Vodacom , the biggest joke is I laid a complaint and what resulted was a consultant called me trying to sell me another contract at a higher price for the Gear Fit and S5 (so in other words paying in for the Gear Fit) . So that is when I cancelled the upgrade entirely and ill be going in at the end of the month to cancel the contract entirely .

Iv also got 2 other lines due for upgrade next month and iv decided to cancel those as well .I am Not prepared to give my business to a company who thinks they are doing me a favor by accepting my business especially after being a customer with them for 14 years now .In the end its false advertising and as I said to the supervisor (who was not bothered in the least) they are basically saying to their existing customers that they are not bothered with their business and rather want new business .
 
Connor13 said:
Honestly I'm irritated with the whole process from Vodacom , the biggest joke is I laid a complaint and what resulted was a consultant called me trying to sell me another contract at a higher price for the Gear Fit and S5 (so in other words paying in for the Gear Fit) . So that is when I cancelled the upgrade entirely and ill be going in at the end of the month to cancel the contract entirely .

Iv also got 2 other lines due for upgrade next month and iv decided to cancel those as well .I am Not prepared to give my business to a company who thinks they are doing me a favor by accepting my business especially after being a customer with them for 14 years now .In the end its false advertising and as I said to the supervisor (who was not bothered in the least) they are basically saying to their existing customers that they are not bothered with their business and rather want new business .
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+1

After 7 years of being a Vodacom customer I will be cancelling my contracts and move on. I think we should show them our anger and therefore I will be moving on...
 
AstroTurf said:
S4 and S5


Also, looking at this thread my hopes of getting mine on Friday have been raised exponentially :)
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LOL!!
Well I've decided to get the S5.
Will, sadly, not be able to get the gear with it but hopefully I can buy one later but the limited free option was most annoying.
Now to decide on the color? Wanted blue but dont know when it will be available.
Might hold off until the weekend to see it in the flesh to make a better decision regarding the color.
 
curbs2012 said:
LOL!!
Well I've decided to get the S5.
Will, sadly, not be able to get the gear with it but hopefully I can buy one later but the limited free option was most annoying.
Now to decide on the color? Wanted blue but dont know when it will be available.
Might hold off until the weekend to see it in the flesh to make a better decision regarding the color.
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I have had black or grey phones for way to long (last "colour" phone I had was Silver, some Sony-Ericsson) so I decided to change it for once and got a gold :whistle:
 
Well I wont be getting mine on Friday after cancelling my upgrade with Vodacom ,does anyone know if Telkom will have units in store on Friday ? I tried calling the store closest to me a couple of times and they just don't seem to answer , ill try and pop in there a little later .

On a side note , I see the Vodacom advert on their site promoting a Free Gear 2 and Gear Fit etc with the S5 is still up even though Customers on Facebook are complaining that they are being told that there is no more stock left of the Gear 2 or Gear Fit . Its rather poor from Vodacom I must be honest . The promotion was at best false advertising and deceitful and then to top it off they leave it up even though there is apparently no more stock left . The right thing to do would be to remove it completely now ,but instead they are misleading Customers , well in my opinion anyways .
 
Connor13 said:
Well I wont be getting mine on Friday after cancelling my upgrade with Vodacom ,does anyone know if Telkom will have units in store on Friday ? I tried calling the store closest to me a couple of times and they just don't seem to answer , ill try and pop in there a little later .

On a side note , I see the Vodacom advert on their site promoting a Free Gear 2 and Gear Fit etc with the S5 is still up even though Customers on Facebook are complaining that they are being told that there is no more stock left of the Gear 2 or Gear Fit . Its rather poor from Vodacom I must be honest . The promotion was at best false advertising and deceitful and then to top it off they leave it up even though there is apparently no more stock left . The right thing to do would be to remove it completely now ,but instead they are misleading Customers , well in my opinion anyways .
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You are right but the very design of the advert as well as the huge price drop from the Gear 2 to the cover is a dead give away that the watches were just bait.
Those watches (and the booby prize) have probably given them a tremendous amount of new enquiries.
 
AstroTurf said:
You are right but the very design of the advert as well as the huge price drop from the Gear 2 to the cover is a dead give away that the watches were just bait.
Those watches (and the booby prize) have probably given them a tremendous amount of new enquiries.
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Incredible Connection were running the pre order R10 499 including Gear 2 now I see on there brochure R9999 for the phone. it was a bait to lure potential customers to not pass on such an great offer. Probably stock that was sitting in their warehouse collecting dust and decided to bundle it for their flagship launch! Instead of collecting dust
 
Well they lost my business and we had 3 lines and 2 data contracts with them . So their loss will be Telkom's gain . At least I wont have to worry about data issues again . It was just amazing how they are so quick to throw away existing Customers (14 years or so) ,but there you go .

I considered taking the matter further ,but in the end as I said to my wife maybe its a good thing because over the past 6 months or so I have seen this become common practice with Vodacom in terms of offering the good deals to new Contracts whilst upgrades/renewals end up with nothing . It might just be me ,but in my business we tend to reward our loyal long serving Customers and value their business .
 
RichardG said:
Incredible Connection were running the pre order R10 499 including Gear 2 now I see on there brochure R9999 for the phone. it was a bait to lure potential customers to not pass on such an great offer. Probably stock that was sitting in their warehouse collecting dust and decided to bundle it for their flagship launch! Instead of collecting dust
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I think the incredible deal was for the galaxy gear and not the gear 2 (but other than that I think you are right, easy way to get rid of old stock before the gear 2 hits the shelves).
 
AstroTurf said:
You are right but the very design of the advert as well as the huge price drop from the Gear 2 to the cover is a dead give away that the watches were just bait.
Those watches (and the booby prize) have probably given them a tremendous amount of new enquiries.
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Just off the phone and I got the exact same deal as yours :whistle:

Delivery on Monday though as I'm in the gatkant of the country apparently (Hermanus)
 
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