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Ordered a new phone, changing from a payg to a contract.
Phone arrives. I stuff the SIM in, send the text to change from my existing SIM.
I then discover the new phone to DOA - it has a continuous random input from the touch screen which makes it impossible to use - so ring them up to get it replaced...
In the course of speaking to the nice lady with the apparent intelligence of a spaniel, I ask her to make sure that the SIM change doesn't happen until I get the new phone.

So this morning, I am pleased to discover my original SIM is now unregistered...

Aaargh.

Oh come on, did you honestly think changing phones would be easy

Try changing to a new model with a micro sim one week, and then changing back to your old phone a week later because the new one is pants for reception, now that's fun!

Looking at the old Nokia, I think I can get the mini SIM into the full-sized SIM holder, with a bit of packing.

I looked at that with mine but decided to hold out for a new sim.

It's just a few days until the new phone is replaced with one that works... hopefully.

I clicked on this thread to be confronted by too much red in the signatures ; looks like an advertisement thread for a certain book

Now you've interrupted the flow!

Just remembered what my signature is, whoops!

What book would that be then

Dunno, my car's black and clearly visible in the sig!

You can get a micro to normal sim adaptor, I have one in my coat pocket!

Yep, got one in the old phone now.

It gets better...

They told me they'd change the phone. They sent me an envelope to *return* the phone under the 14 day cancellation clause.

The new sim is currently working under the old payg system.

I spent another couple of days on the phone, trying to establish that I wanted a replacement phone for a delivered broken one.

They told me they'd change the phone. They sent me an envelope to *return* the phone under the 14 day cancellation clause.

I spent long enough on hold this evening to cook and eat dinner (nothing exotic, but even so...) and finally got to talk to a bloke in Sheffield.

He has (hopefully) got the contract sorted out, and is arranging for a phone to be handed over on Thursday. He sounds quite a competent sort of chappie, so I have hopes...

Finally I have the phone (as Alexis discovered by accident!).

Is it now necessary to take a nude selfie, or is that optional?

Thanks for the late night booty phone call Neil You need to take a photo of yourself naked, but selling that item. That's the proper way to do it.