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Heinz

Mum_of_5 wrote:

When i asked about Broadband at £14.99 as you mentioned they said that was their option 2 broadband and was only £14.99 for 3 months then £22.99! I thought i'd pass it on. Looks like i'm stuck paying £17.99 for broadband as i can't find it cheaper other than talk talk which seems too unstable for me. Any other suggestions anyone?

That's the hassle-free way for broadband IMHO.

I'm on BT Option 1 broadband and got the price down to £14.99/month when, after the first year was up, they phoned me to ask whether I'd sign up for another 18 months if they gave me a £3/month discount.

We've already discussed voice telephony so I won't repeat all that except to say £17.99 + £11 = £28.99 and Primus Saver Option 2 gives you free evening and weekend UK 01/02 calls. As with any such configuration, the additional cost of daytime, mobile and 084/7 calls depends on your use.

Mike_by_the_Sea

Hi Mum of 5

Utility Warehouse provide a package including line rental, weekend calls and up to 8mg broadband for 27.99 (plus £1.76 membership). This is reduced to £19.99 (plus £1.76 membership) if you are on an LLU exchange. Although I would say this, they provide a good service.

The unaffiiated link is https://www.utilitywarehouse.co.uk/store/index.taf?exref= if you want to have a look at what they offer.

All the best

Mike

bendtoy_2

Mike_by_the_Sea wrote:

Hi Mum of 5

Utility Warehouse provide a package including line rental, weekend calls and up to 8mg broadband for 27.99 (plus £1.76 membership). This is reduced to £19.99 (plus £1.76 membership) if you are on an LLU exchange. Although I would say this, they provide a good service.

The unaffiiated link is https://www.utilitywarehouse.co.uk/store/index.taf?exref= if you want to have a look at what they offer.

All the best

Mike

Read this review before being tempted http://www.reviewcentre.com/review234039.html

hurrah

Mike_by_the_Sea wrote:

or this one....

http:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

BLATANT Spam .

Still promoting your company despite the fact you are aware of the rules.

The domain/site you mentioned above in post 165 is registered to Jeremy Tromams,
who is an Independent Group Director for the Utility Warehouse Discount Club products and services.

Your see that it has direct links to his Utility Warehouse products, and recruitment sites.

I note that he also promotes other broadband products, and that he is also a Tiscali Distributor,despite the great write up he gives to Broadcall.

billsavings

Cant anything be done about these guys continually spamming to promote their own products on this site .

Does the wonderful ? plc they work for have a anti -spam policy.

Heinz

Clicking 'Find Previous Posts by Mike by the Sea' is most enlightening - almost every post is a thinly-disguised promo for UW.

Let's just hope not many people are fooled.

Have you noticed BTW that UW now proudly advertises 0871 contact numbers - and then has the gall to add a footnote:

* Calls to these numbers by customers using our Home Phone or BroadCall phone service will be charged at a reduced rate of 5p per minute at all times. Calls from our mobile services will be charged at standard rates. Calls to these numbers from a BT phone cost 10p per minute and costs of calls from mobile networks other than ours may vary.

Mike_by_the_Sea

Hi Hurrah and billsavings (and Heinz)

Apologies if you see this as SPAM, it was only my intention, as with the unaffiliated link in post 163, to respond to the question from Mum of Five for other suggestions. As for the link in post 165, this was, I thought, a site that showed a quick comparison of packages and prices - my mistake for not realising it was a "distributor" site.

I guess I tend to rise to the bait that whenever I post a genuine response for information and the immediate response is generally negative. I'm sure that any provider of anything can be shown to have a negative review somewhere on the net, and it would be nice, just occassionally, for it not to happen.

I do not use the MSE site for spamming and, like yourselves, I offer input and learn from what is posted.

I believe I have always been honest with my postings and have certainly been quoted a number of times when saying it like it is.

As the Utility Warehouse do not advertise, people are often are not aware of what they may have to offer and I believe, as you would expect, that they offer competitive packages that would suit some people.

Anyway, enough of my rambling.

All the best

Quentin

Mike_by_the_Sea wrote: »

As the Utility Warehouse do not advertise, people are often are not aware of what they may have to offer

Not true.

Telecomplus/Utility Warehouse do advertise.

Their ads have been reported to the ASA for making misleading/false claims (as all their reps must know), and the ASA has adjudicated against them on a number of occasions, asking them not to repeat the misleading claims.

Despite this their website continues to wrongly advertise they have supplied the cheapest domestic energy in the UK for 5 years.

aiminghigh

I am sorry Quentin but you are wrong about the adverts.

I am also a Utility Warehouse distributor but do not post on here much because I do not want to be accused of spamming, but find all the queries and answers interesting and informative.

Anyway to return to the reason I am posting - The Utility Warehouse as a company does not ever advertise or sponsor sporting events or weather reports.

The only advertisements you will ever see are those that Individual distributors put out whether for internet adverts/ newspapers etc and local fliers which may come through your door. These are funded by the individual distributors themselves and are not subsidised by the company in any way.

The websites you refer to are given to each distributor when they join, and people seem to think these are the official Utility Warehouse website, as I know to my cost, the number of queries I have had to help people with who have logged onto my site thinking I was Head Office!!


Although official adverts can be downloaded from our extranet sites, all other individual adverts have to be first approved by Head Office.

I know how much you hate them, but I just wanted to reply so you could be aware of this fact.

hurrah

UWDC do have a main/master website for their products and services. Mike on Sea posts a link to it in post 163.Your notice only the difference between that one and a distributors copy site is that the contact details are the Head Office ones,rather then the distributors.(Including their expensive 0871 contact numbers.)

You say they dont advertise/promote , i was given an official coloured leaflet in my local supermarket sometime ago, where you had to fill in your details to win a mini.The person giving them out told me it was a national promotion.The leaflet clearly showed the promoter to be UWDC and gave its h/o address as the one for correspondence.