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for The Orange Shop

Rating Summary based on 15 reviews

  • 5 Stars
    		3
  • 4 Stars
    		6
  • 3 Stars
    		1
  • 2 Stars
    		1
  • 1 Star
    		4

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  • After-sales service
  • Layout of goods
  • Prices
  • Quality of service
  • Range of products
  		• 3.0
  		• 4.1
  		• 3.3
  		• 3.8
  		• 3.8

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  • 72 of 72 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    ovetta2001

    4 Stars *HELLO?!? I'M IN THE ORANGE SHOP* 10/05/2007
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great customer service, cool layout

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Trainees *shudders*

    -----------------------------------Orang​e History---------------------------------​-- Believe it or not, Orange only started up in the UK as a small business in 1994. The idea was simple, to help people communicate all over the world at affordable prices. The company obviously hit the spot as it soon became the fastest growing mobile network until March 2001. The best thing about Orange is that as they have become bigger, they have been offering more and more things for the customers instead of grabbing more money. Well obviously they are making a profit but they haven’t gone crazy. They now ... more
  • 27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    crispybits

    1 Star Seeing Red with Orange Shop Online 04/10/2007
    User doesn't recommend the product

    Advantages Advantages None

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Too many to itemise.

    I've been 'in the market' for a new mobile phone ever since, well, I read down the list of specifications on the Nokia N95; compared it against my trusty Nokia 2650 flip-phone and... Yeah, it was like comparing a Swiss Army Knife with a teaspoon. This was about three months ago and far from the craving fading with time, distance and the whole 'unlocked handsets cost twice as much as the average desktop PC' business - my condition worsened. Until, eventually, after serial number-crunching that'd make even the most creative of creative accountants weep, I figured out there was no way I could ... more
  • 38 of 38 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 8 dynamicnurse

    Member since 30/07/2007

    Reviews written: 642

    4 Stars Orange? I nearly went red! 11/04/2012
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Simple shop layout.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages They try to get you to part with your money.

    Having bought a mobile telephone from my local Orange shop (the subject of which is actually in fact another review that some of you may already have looked at but this is me going off on another tangent yet again), I thought that I would just like to write a review ont eh actual experience that I had been in receipt of when actually buying my telephone. Having looked about in pretty much all of the major mobile telephone shops that provide all of the necessary things that one would expect, I decided to go in to one of my local Orange shops. There were a number of different reasons for going ... more
  • 15 of 15 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    MitchellandAimeesMum

    3 Stars The future maybe bright....sometimes 15/11/2006
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages One in every town

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Well...

    I recently purchased one of the Sony Walkman phones the W300i on Orange as it was such a good deal and came with mini speakers worth £30. The phone itself retails for £89.99 and you have to add £10 airtime when you buy. Now before I purchased this phone, I bought, by mistake, a Motorola (which I had for a day) and started the process of "porting" my number across from another network which I told them in the shop and that I was prepared to pay the extra £60 for the W300i but obviously wanted to keep the SIM for the number porting. This then opened a can of worms! They sold me the W300i and ... more
  • 0 of 0 Ciao users found the following review helpful
    1 Star Quick review of The Orange Shop by Dglass 08/08/2007
    My experience with Orange is: Customer services are impossible to get through to. You get charged for Delivery reports and do not get told about this. You even get charged £3.50 for paying your bill manually. DD is free. The roaming does not work abroad I had to contact them from a normal phone abroad which cost me 15 euros, I had actually told them before going abroad that I was going abroad but they STILL didnt activate it. I want to leave but cannot afford 12 x £35.00. Daphne
  • 14 of 14 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 2 westiekate

    Member since 19/07/2003

    Reviews written: 12

    5 Stars orange contract 16/06/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages good service

    Disadvantages Disadvantages staff in shop not always aware of all deals provides by orangd

    i have been with orange since it first began basically so for approx. 10-12 years i therefore can give no real advice to new customers just starting with orange about initial sign up etc ,as it is in the distant past for me . What i can rave about is orange and how i have been dealt with in these years. Firstly a little known fact NHS employees can get a 10% discount on contract.(YOU HAVE TO ASK) I believe insurance is now £5 a month ...now for some reason i get mine free for the the first year ,every time i upgrade my phone (which i do every year)the staff at orange dont really know why this ... more
  • 27 of 27 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    allyb2003

    5 Stars THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT..... 21/11/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good selection of phones

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None that I found

    My saga of finding a new phone continued yesterday with a brilliant outcome. I've been looking for a Siemens A55 phone on Orange Pay as You go and every shop in London was sold out. Then I had a brainwave! The Orange Shop. I went in my lunch hour yesterday to the Orange Shop just around the corner to the office (Fleet Street, London EC4). Saw that they had one on display and asked the "Phone Trainer" if they had one in stock, "Yes" he replied, "we've got 2 left". I was so happy I bought one. The shop was very busy and the staff very attentive. The gentleman that served me was the Branch ... more
  • 5 of 7 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    pefidler

    4 Stars Excellant advice 06/09/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages In most locations

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    Having been an Orange subscriber for 5 years now, I suppose I am a little biased. I still find, although they are not the cheapest, that the level of service given by the Orange shops is great, up to the minute and impartial (well, Orange phones anyway). The shops are always clean, and well lit, and always well staffed. The staff are knowledgable, and have up to date information. You never feel like you may be conned in them. They go through all the little details with you, and you feel like they have treated you just that little bit more special than the last person! I will continue to do ... more
  • 4 of 4 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    blockidge

    4 Stars double your orange free talktime FREE now 12/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Great deals

    Disadvantages Disadvantages They dont really want to tell you about all of them

    I went into the Orange shop, concerned about the amount I was spending on my Orange mobile phone. I am on a talkshare plan talk 150 with two phones. This costs me about 45 pounds per month. I was interested in a better deal and an upgrade to my ageing nk702 phones. Great service, and my phones were updated to the 3310e for 30 pounds each. Now I wanted more (dont we all), so I questioned my tariff and talkplan, and the salesman told me that I could upgrade to talk 500, but the cost would be a lot. I decided against it. However, the salesman (quietly) asked if I had been to phones 4 u for ... more
  • 4 of 5 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    butler_sophie

    4 Stars Special offers but beware 15/12/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Special Offers

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Sneaky lack of information as regards to OVP- "Orange Value Plan"

    Yay scream all you uni and college students, guess what orange shops and certain link stores are offering? Well what is available at the moment is a new sim card with £5 worth of calls in it specifically with cheaper calls and text messages for other orange student sim card owners at your uni, wahoo!! The only trick is youhaveto get all you friends to swap and loose there original phone number. However, no fear as the orange voucher never expires you can leave on your old sim cards answer machine if you made the swap your new phone number!!So go down to local Ornage shop or link today and ... more
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