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Author:  okenobi [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:04 pm ]
Post subject:  I'm never going out again...
Day off today, so checked my snail mail a little while ago and I find a letter from Natwest saying I've gone overdrawn on my bills account. That nevers happens, so I go online to find a D/D from Orange for £412! I ring Orange to shout at them for their mistake (I'm SIM only, so £30/mth buys me 1200 minutes. Ample.). I then find that in fact I've gone 1000 minutes over my allowance and the bill is genuine. Worse still, last months was £300.

I'm still in shock tbh. £700 that I don't have - gone. Forever. The retentions team have sorted me out with an additional 1000 minutes, to 2200 and dropped the monthly fee to £25. And whilst that's possibly the best contract deal ever in the world, it doesn't fix my immediate problem.

Christmas (along with everything else) is cancelled. :cry:
Author:  timark_uk [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:07 pm ]
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okenobi wrote:
Christmas (along with everything else) is cancelled. :cry:
Bummer dude.
In the cancelling of Christmas, I'm with you.

Mark
Author:  oceanicitl [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:09 pm ]
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I don't know if you can do the same with Orange but with O2 you can send them a text and they text back with how many minutes you have left. Sorry to hear your bad news. 1000 minutes over is a lot of chatting!

Christmas for me is cancelled too unless a miracle happens. Luckily Mum is going to chip in for £100 for food as we are eating together on Xmas day and she's too old to do a lot of traipsing about.
Author:  jonlumb [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:14 pm ]
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Man, I thought that the couple of £100 level bills I had were bad. That's really bad.
Author:  timark_uk [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:17 pm ]
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oceanicitl wrote:
Christmas for me is cancelled too unless a miracle happens.
I see what you did there.

Mark
Author:  Fogmeister [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:19 pm ]
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timark_uk wrote:
oceanicitl wrote:
Christmas for me is cancelled too unless a miracle happens.
I see what you did there.

Mark

Very good :D
Author:  oceanicitl [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:22 pm ]
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:)
Author:  onemac [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:30 pm ]
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Bad news man. It's just a shame I can't transfer some of my minutes to you (not sure Vodafone would allow it) as I never use my full allowance :roll:

+ another 1 for cancelling Christmas :D

Al
Author:  oceanicitl [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:33 pm ]
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I never use mine either. Think I have 10 hours a month. I only text, don't like talking on the phone. I've got to dislike it as I've gotten older.
Author:  paulzolo [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:52 pm ]
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What’s wrong with having a PAYG phone? That way you know how much credit you have left, and you can’t overrun.

I am off monthly contract phones now. Seemed to be a disaster waiting to happen, and I’m saving money every month as a result!
Author:  oceanicitl [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 12:55 pm ]
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paulzolo wrote:
What’s wrong with having a PAYG phone? That way you know how much credit you have left, and you can’t overrun.

I am off monthly contract phones now. Seemed to be a disaster waiting to happen, and I’m saving money every month as a result!


You have to pay for iPhones on PAYG :P
Author:  paulzolo [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:08 pm ]
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oceanicitl wrote:
paulzolo wrote:
What’s wrong with having a PAYG phone? That way you know how much credit you have left, and you can’t overrun.

I am off monthly contract phones now. Seemed to be a disaster waiting to happen, and I’m saving money every month as a result!


You have to pay for iPhones on PAYG :P


I know. I did. I use it as a phone, but for other things a lot too. £35 per month is too much, and when I bought the phone it was with money I had saved up for the purpose.
Author:  Linux_User [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:10 pm ]
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Jesus wept! I only get 900 minutes (only! lol) and I've come close to going over, but never have. What do you use your phone for? :shock:
Author:  rustybucket [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:16 pm ]
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oceanicitl wrote:
paulzolo wrote:
What’s wrong with having a PAYG phone? That way you know how much credit you have left, and you can’t overrun.

I am off monthly contract phones now. Seemed to be a disaster waiting to happen, and I’m saving money every month as a result!


You have to pay for iPhones on PAYG :P

You pay for it on contract as well.

The cost of the phone is recuperated through the inflated cost of the contract.

Oki: Bad luck dude
Author:  timark_uk [ Fri Nov 06, 2009 1:18 pm ]
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Linux_User wrote:
What do you use your phone for? :shock:
In another thread I believe he said he'd just met a girl, so I'm guessing long conversations to eachother are the culprit.

Mark
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