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Confucius Aug 29th 2009 11:15 am

How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 
For example; 2 specimens each worth over AED20,000...

http://www.sybarites.org/wp-content/...09/vertu60.jpg

http://www.mydesignerwatches.co.uk/w..._meridiist.jpg

ceres Aug 29th 2009 11:20 am

Re: How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 
LOL I asked my hubby for the VERTU phone, I had of course not looked at the price tag. It is a seriously nice phone though, apparently comes with a concierge type service............How the other half live.

Confucius Aug 29th 2009 11:22 am

Re: How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 

Originally Posted by ceres (Post 7886312)
LOL I asked my hubby for the VERTU phone, I had of course not looked at the price tag. It is a seriously nice phone though, apparently comes with a concierge type service............How the other half live.

Yeah...The concierge answers your calls for you and schedules your diary...

The thing is, just like any mobile phone, once you buy it, more than half the money you paid disappears at that exact moment...It's not an investment at all...

ceres Aug 29th 2009 11:29 am

Re: How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 

Originally Posted by Confucius (Post 7886318)
Yeah...The concierge answers your calls for you and schedules your diary...

The thing is, just like any mobile phone, once you buy it, more than half the money you paid disappears at that exact moment...It's not an investment at all...

I think if you can afford to buy a phone like that, you have to have a serious amount of money to burn......would imagine the people who buy these are not the sort of people who bother to look at the price tag!

Confucius Aug 29th 2009 11:30 am

Re: How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 

Originally Posted by ceres (Post 7886331)
I think if you can afford to buy a phone like that, you have to have a serious amount of money to burn......would imagine the people who buy these are not the sort of people who bother to look at the price tag!

True...And the retailers are inflating prices even more because of that...

ceres Aug 29th 2009 11:32 am

Re: How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 

Originally Posted by Confucius (Post 7886334)
True...And the retailers are inflating prices even more because of that...

It won't be long before your neds are running around with their copies.:rofl:

Confucius Aug 29th 2009 11:34 am

Re: How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 

Originally Posted by ceres (Post 7886341)
It won't be long before your neds are running around with their copies.:rofl:

I don't think they would copy the Tag...

ceres Aug 29th 2009 11:36 am

Re: How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 

Originally Posted by Confucius (Post 7886347)
I don't think they would copy the Tag...

Why do you think they wouldn't copy the Tag?

Confucius Aug 29th 2009 11:39 am

Re: How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 

Originally Posted by ceres (Post 7886354)
Why do you think they wouldn't copy the Tag?

Won't sell as much as a Vertu copy...Not everyone knows that Tag also manufacture phones...

ceres Aug 29th 2009 11:45 am

Re: How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 

Originally Posted by Confucius (Post 7886357)
Won't sell as much as a Vertu copy...Not everyone knows that Tag also manufacture phones...

I would have thought that a Tag phone would would sell better because of the name. However the Vertu is a better looking phone, so you mayvery well be right.

Blue Cat Aug 29th 2009 11:54 am

Re: How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 
I am so not into mobile phones, last one is the basic nokia! as long as I can ring people and text that's enough for me. BUT I did see a lush pink nokia for 700 dhs - I didn't buy it though :p

Confucius Aug 29th 2009 11:57 am

Re: How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 

Originally Posted by Blue Cat (Post 7886384)
I am so not into mobile phones, last one is the basic nokia! as long as I can ring people and text that's enough for me. BUT I did see a lush pink nokia for 700 dhs - I didn't buy it though :p

You can get it on 24 monthly installments...Subject to bank Terms and Conditions...

Madam Medusa Aug 29th 2009 11:58 am

Re: How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 

Originally Posted by Confucius (Post 7886390)
You can get it on 24 monthly installments...Subject to bank Terms and Conditions...

if you need it on installments, you can't afford it...

MM, xx

Confucius Aug 29th 2009 11:59 am

Re: How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 

Originally Posted by Madam Medusa (Post 7886393)
if you need it on installments, you can't afford it...

MM, xx

I always let the bank decide...

Madam Medusa Aug 29th 2009 12:01 pm

Re: How much would you spend to buy a mobile phone???
 

Originally Posted by Confucius (Post 7886396)
I always let the bank decide...

then that's where you've been going wrong...

MM, xx


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