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Offered z8 series upgrade no fees. When i tried on line need to pay 500.00.

Kazzabluenose — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:19:53 GMT

Had a text to say upgrade z8 series no fees

.when I tried to do online told me 500 up front cost. So decided to call. The very unhelpful agent said, it was doing same for him. So I said could he sort it. He came back and said not eligible yet.

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Steven55 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:37:55 GMT

Ridiculous that EE want £500 upfront plus my S25 ultra for Z fold 8 ultra.think it's time to leave EE and take my contracts elsewhere.so many cheaper deals out there.

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Chris_B — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:48:38 GMT

@Steven55 I’m getting £0 upfront on all storage sizes. Across all payment months, 12 to 48.

you’ve not said what storage size or over how many months. And you do have a credit limit that EE is prepared to give you. The more you’re paying upfront the lower your limit is.

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Steven55 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:50:04 GMT

How you getting £0 ?

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Steven55 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:06:19 GMT

Just 256mb 24 mth contract £100 full works contract. It's on anytime upgrade.

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Steven55 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:08:53 GMT

There's an upgrade fee of £0.00 but the £500 is an upfront cost.example I'm upgrading from s25 ultra and the z8 fold ultra handset price is considerably more than the s25 hence the upfront fee.ive only got 8 months left on contract so thinking of buying z8 handset @£68 pm x 24 and going sim o ly when contract runs expires.

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Kazzabluenose — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:07:41 GMT

Thanks for you reply. My contract runs out in a month. Thats is a crazy
price for up front

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Chris_B — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:23:33 GMT

@Steven55 I’ve been a customer since 2012 and never once had a late payment. My credit score across all credit agencies is perfect ie full scores. Basically I’m in the top 1% of all credit agencies. I believe the amount of credit EE will give me is probably the maximum they offer.

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garybs29 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:34:39 GMT

@Steven55 wrote:
Just 256mb 24 mth contract £100 full works contract. It's on anytime upgrade.

So that'll be different from the flex pay credit agreement options on the website & one of those would take away the anytime upgrade too. It's different types of contracts basically

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bristolian — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:38:50 GMT

A credit score is also individual to each specific lender. Each lender scores your credit history against their own criteria, the "credit score" that some of the CRAs can sell can be useful as an indicator but not much else.

Different lenders can view a small amount of late payments different ways.

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Mrawesome247 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:35:02 GMT

Are anyones Fold 8 orders showing in order tracking yet?

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Steven55 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:41:36 GMT

My solution was to purchase direct from Samsung for £1619. once ee contract is up i will be going sim only.

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October88 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:07:25 GMT

Chris

I work in finance, I'm afraid your wrong very misguided on how credit reference agencies work with businesses and facilitate or help businesses come to a decision to determine the risk any client or customer is, some merely provide conflicting information between all 3 so being in the as you put it **1%** is false no such thing, you could have 3 credit cards pay them off every month and a fantastic mortgage and still be refused credit for a simple chocolate bar, if you earn £100k have zero debt and apply for a £10k loan highly likely you will be knocked back by all 3 depending on WHICH agency the firm uses, your deemed more a risk when suddenly your seeking money when you have no history of credit applications for them to make a decision based on previous applications, I feel your trying to rub salt into OPs dilemma, he could be in this dilemma where EE internal checks can't determine his risk so they are prepared to risk X AMOUNT as long as X AMOUNT is paid upfront in his case this is unfortunate £500 I am assuming he is on upgrade anytime and not flex pay o would advise him to use add to plan and pay off other device once add to plan is in his hands and go sim only

And yes I don't doubt you have good credit but there is no such thing as AMAZING CREDIT I wouldn't surprised if there's some some ego massaging when OP needs help not reminding about your personal credit circumstances, everyone's credit changes with the markets we go to war the chances of gaining the same credit card you were approved for yesterday TODAY is marginally more difficult, hence why your 1% is just Fictional unfortunately that some believe is correct but really its a myth

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October88 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:28:06 GMT

Steven, have you thought about doing the sim only and or using the add to plan? Or if your eligible the flex pay which is better for paying of these ridiculous large costs of handsets they range from 12-48 months and potentially just an internal credit check if your eligible you also get to pay off the device early with no extra cost, personally if I was you I would move to this as samsung and apple are both failing to produce devices with a significant change thats worth £2600, i have the S26 ultra 1TB EE were robbing expletive didn't offer the discount price, unless apple fold is amazing and truly innovative i wont be switching back, but currently I'm able to take 4 Zfold8 ultra 1TB however I use flex pay and no upfront cost over 12 to 48 months i would be more inclined to take the 36 month due to the minimal upgrade on "pro max or ultra" devices

Dont be fooled buddy the zfold 7 is the same just 1mm more thicker you'll get one ui9 with fancam too dont give EE £500 upfront for the same device as last year