Orange and Xbox Spain offer the Xbox One S financed but... is the price really worth it?

If we thought we had seen everything in terms of offers and subsidies from telephone operators, we were very wrong. And it is that as a result of the extension of connectivity to many more _gadgets_ beyond phones and tablets, we may begin to see offers like this one that are now being launched in Orange Spain.

And it is not surprising to find how through Orange Spain users will be able to get an Xbox One S for a price of 9.95 euros per month. A way to attract customers with the Xbox duo plus data rate to browse.

In this way and only for the operator's customers who make use of the LOVE Family rate, the Microsoft console is available for a payment of 9.90 euros per month for 24 months offering a cost total of 237, 60 euros. This is the 500 GB Xbox One S model that also comes as a gift with Minecraft.

An offer that they seek to make interesting by comparing the price resulting from this financing (237.60 euros) with the price at which it is supposedly free (320 euros). However, just by browsing the net a bit we see how we can buy the same model on Amazon for 239.95 euros (2.35 euros more only) so that perhaps this offer is not so tempting for some customers.

What is surprising is that they say that the Xbox One S in the 500 GB model is priced at 320 euros when from the same Microsoft Store we can find it for 249 euros, 70 euros less than what advertised in the comparison.

And the fact is that the Xbox One S is available on different websites for around 240 euros in the basic model with different _packs_. This is a situation reminiscent of the one resulting from the financing of many terminals by operators that offer the same price as if we bought it free.

The advantage… payment in installments

Maybe in cases like this, customers who have the contracted rate and want to continue using it do not see as a disadvantage seeing the 24-month permanence grow. In addition, allows them to buy a product in installments, in this case the Xbox One S in a convenient way.

Personally and after many years navigating between operators I have decided that as far as possible it is best to be free, without ties or permanenceof any kind, even if this implies not always being able to be up to date or having (if we want to do so) to make a punctual payment.

What it seems that we will end up seeing is how with time and given that more and more devices are likely to require a data connection, it is how the telephone operators are betting in their catalogs to further diversify the offer of products with which to attract your customers.

Via | Orange Blog

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