BT offering financial incentive to switch to paperless billing

humfer

Stuart_W wrote:

May need to re-do the maths here.
12 x 25p = £3.00

Oh my god how bad is my maths!!!!:rotfl: :rotfl:

ahrimaniac

Oh for goodness sake, they can't do right for doing wrong! They're offering a discount on their line rental of 25p a month IF you go paperless. Not a huge saving, admittedly, but they could have done it another way - if you DON'T go to paperfree you'll pay more than you usually do.

But no, gotta look a gift horse in the mouth.

humfer

ahrimaniac wrote:

Oh for goodness sake, they can't do right for doing wrong! They're offering a discount on their line rental of 25p a month IF you go paperless. Not a huge saving, admittedly, but they could have done it another way - if you DON'T go to paperfree you'll pay more than you usually do.

But no, gotta look a gift horse in the mouth.

Which is what Talk Talk are now doing.....

humfer

humfer wrote:

Which is what Talk Talk are now doing.....

Agree I think its probably one of the better things they have done over the last few years. Although lets be honest their track record aint great

gt94sss2

redux wrote:

Postage and an envelope and a few printed invoice pages and inserted leaflets costs more than that, so they could afford to offer a bit more.

Actually they probably couldn't offer more than that without making a loss and having Ofcom up in arms.

This is because of the £10.75/month BT Retail have to pay almost all of it to other parts of BT who they technically "rent" the line from. (Just as other operators do so as well) - though I don't have the exact figures in front of me, the margin is very small.

Also, most people are billed every 3 months by BT, so can think of it as 75p off each bill which may 'sound' more reasonable.

Besides if all your calls are going via 1899/18185 and Primus (say), the BT bill are always going to say £10.75/month (maybe a few p more if you make a handful to get free caller display) - so is unlikey to require loads of checking!

Regards
Sunil

Milarky

Does anyone know: If you already get paperless billing from BT - like me - will this saving be passed on automatically in December or will they do as they have done in relation to making caller display 'free' leave it up to people to claim their 'rebate'?

(They've got form on this you know)

hurrah

Milarky wrote:

Does anyone know: If you already get paperless billing from BT - like me - will this saving be passed on automatically in December or will they do as they have done in relation to making caller display 'free' leave it up to people to claim their 'rebate'?

(They've got form on this you know)

See Post No 4 in this thread.

Inspector_Clouseau

Q. What happens when you don't get your ebill alert

A. You're hit with a £5 late payment charge

Why? because their (BT) system didn't send the email alert to me so I didn't know I had an outstanding bill. I've since switched to dual billing instead - best of both worlds.

BexTech

Inspector_Clouseau wrote:

Q. What happens when you don't get your ebill alert

A. You're hit with a £5 late payment charge

Why? because their (BT) system didn't send the email alert to me so I didn't know I had an outstanding bill.

Pay by direct debit, none of the hassle and a £12 a year discount.

utilitybroker

humfer wrote:

Which is what Talk Talk are now doing.....

Talk Talk are going to charge £1 a month more if you want paper billing eg £12 a month line rental instead of £11. They are not rebating their existing tariff.