Utility Warehouse (Telecom Plus) Discussion

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Meeper wrote: »

Meeper-- who can't be bothered with the dream-stealers any more

http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=16627

MillicentBystander

wongawonga wrote: »

Phone and Broadband are normally Talk Talk rebranded.:eek:

IME the best part about talktalk is their actual internet service. IME the worst part about talktalk is their customer service. I have UWs broadcall service, the internet part is indeed talktalk; it's been very reliable. Now if I DO have a problem I ring UW and get through to a human in seconds in their UK call centre. And if their service ever does get !!!! I'm out of there without having to worry about paying up the remainder of my minimum contract ('cos there isn't one). It's a win win situation IMO. And it's clearly a proposition that is attractive to customers, given today's trading statement.

MillicentBystander

Cardew wrote: »

Readers should note that Meeper( a UW salesman) chooses not to argue on the facts.

Aren't you with BT for phone/internet? Is that the best deal out there?

HappyMJ

Is UW really that expensive. Many posters have said that it is really expensive but I still don't see this huge difference. I'm not with them myself yet....I'm just trying to find the best deal whoever I'm with.

UW Dual Fuel. East Midlands. 3,300kWh, 16,500kWh. 12 months with 10% discount on UW comes in at £1085. Medium electric and High Gas tariff. EDF is the cheapest standard plan with direct debit and duel fuel discounts at £1150. I'm still on Npower Price Protector which is £1024. First:Utility is the cheapest at £1014.
Broadcall Max. Unlimited broadband. Unlimited calls £24.99. Cheapest I've found is tesco at £23.75.
Mobile tariff is £10 for 500 mins and Unlimited texts. I couldn't find anything near this. Best I could find was £15 for 600 minutes, unlimited texts.
Plus a £1.50 monthly membership charge. All that comes to £127 per month. It's only £4 a month more than the cheapest possible of what I can find.

How can that be made lower if UW is supposed to be really really expensive? I want to pay the least possible and get the above services from whatever supplier or suppliers are cheapest.

Meeper

When caught out posting a blatant lie you conveniently say you knew it was a lie all the time and that you were just in a tricky mood.Very unprofessional indeed

You have no idea what was in my head when I made the original post. It wasn't a blatent lie, it was a blatent red herring to see whether people focussed on the actual message in the second paragraph (which you have, once again, conveniently ignored).

http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=16627

Conspiracy theorists of the world unite! Dream-stealer. Someone who steals dreams. I have many dreams and aspirations, and they will all be achieved via my UW business. Anyone who attempts me to dissuade me from this course of action is attempting to block the route to which I will achieve my dreams. Thus, you are attempting to steal my dreams. Logic wins. Quote all of the scam.com posts you like, I'll happily conclude that I'm not a sad enough individual to know that a website called scam.com even exists. What a dark and gloomy place your world must be.

Meeper

HappyMJ wrote: »

Is UW really that expensive. Many posters have said that it is really expensive but I still don't see this huge difference. I'm not with them myself yet....I'm just trying to find the best deal whoever I'm with.

UW Dual Fuel. East Midlands. 3,300kWh, 16,500kWh. 12 months with 10% discount on UW comes in at £1085. Medium electric and High Gas tariff. EDF is the cheapest standard plan with direct debit and duel fuel discounts at £1150. I'm still on Npower Price Protector which is £1024. First:Utility is the cheapest at £1014.
Broadcall Max. Unlimited broadband. Unlimited calls £24.99. Cheapest I've found is tesco at £23.75.
Mobile tariff is £10 for 500 mins and Unlimited texts. I couldn't find anything near this. Best I could find was £15 for 600 minutes, unlimited texts.
Plus a £1.50 monthly membership charge. All that comes to £127 per month. It's only £4 a month more than the cheapest possible of what I can find.

How can that be made lower if UW is supposed to be really really expensive? I want to pay the least possible and get the above services from whatever supplier or suppliers are cheapest.

No, no, no. You're doing it wrong. People on this forum don't like the facts. They prefer to use cliches and misdirection in an attempt to cover up the truth that actually, UW is an excellent proposition for a massive amount of people.

You forgot to put in the potential savings that you could make by using the Cashback Card, which can potentially reduce your bill from the £127 per month drastically down by simply doing your shopping in UW partner retailers, which you may in fact already do.

No-brainer, much?

HappyMJ

Meeper wrote: »

No, no, no. You're doing it wrong. People on this forum don't like the facts. They prefer to use cliches and misdirection in an attempt to cover up the truth that actually, UW is an excellent proposition for a massive amount of people.

You forgot to put in the potential savings that you could make by using the Cashback Card, which can potentially reduce your bill from the £127 per month drastically down by simply doing your shopping in UW partner retailers, which you may in fact already do.

No-brainer, much?

Yes I know I'm doing it wrong. Where am I going wrong exactly? I did work out the cash back thing and that came to about £5 a month. It's 3-7% back on spend. I averaged about £125 per month spend at qualifying retailers without changing my spending habits at 4% cash back.

Quentin

Meeper wrote: »

You forgot to put in the potential savings that you could make by using the Cashback Card, which can potentially reduce your bill from the £127 per month drastically down by simply doing your shopping in UW partner retailers, which you may in fact already do.

No-brainer, much?

Why is becoming a busy fool, shopping with the risky pre payment card (with its own cost and ongoing charges) at UW's partners just to pass on any "cashback" earned direct to UW a "no brainer"??

Meeper

HappyMJ wrote: »

Yes I know I'm doing it wrong. Where am I going wrong exactly? I did work out the cash back thing and that came to about £5 a month. It's 3-7% back on spend. I averaged about £125 per month spend at qualifying retailers without changing my spending habits at 4% cash back.

You're not REALLY doing it wrong! I was being facetious and trying to illustrate that the naysayers on this site don't like it when you post facts that support UW.

Anyhow, just using the cashback card in the retailers you already use without changing your spending, you save another £5 per month, which would be another 3.9% reduction off your bill. Very nice. That presumably doesn't include regular grocery shopping, for example. Could you do that in Asda or Sainsbury's and get another chunk of money off?

Meeper

Quentin wrote: »

Why is becoming a busy fool, shopping with the risky pre payment card (with its own cost and ongoing charges) at UW's partners just to pass on any "cashback" earned direct to UW a "no brainer"??

Not a busy fool, as we have covered ad mauseum in the past, because (s)he isn't doing anything out of the ordinary. No change in spending habits. Being a busy fool means to be doing something different or out of the ordinary in the pursuit of nothing. That is not the case here.

Please outline how the card is "risky"

Indeed, there is a cost, which is FAR outweighed by the benefits.

It's a no-brainer for obvious reasons. I'm sorry you don't see it. What would you call someone who doesn't see a no-brainer? A no-no-brainer?