Please Help: O2 broadband cancellation - £50 charge for router

Router

withabix wrote: »

It will all be in O2's terms and conditions that you signed up to. You did read them, didn't you?

You broke the terms of your contract and you are !!!!ed off that they want to charge you? Why?

You will have to pay the £50 or wait until the end of your minimum term, although you will still need to check the T&Cs if you do the latter, because they may still require you to return THEIR router.

well unless you have a time machine, what good will you telling me I should have read my T&Cs do for me now?

kwikbreaks

Router wrote: »

well unless you have a time machine, what good will you telling me I should have read my T&Cs do for me now?

The truth is that nothing is likely to help you now and you'll almost certainly have to stomp up some cash for not adhering to those T&C you didn't bother reading. As the fault is yours you are unlikely to get much sympathy either. All you can really do is try your luck with O2 to see if they'll waive the charge.

macman

Router wrote: »

well i didnt know it was worth anything

The only obvious response is-why would a working ADSL router not be worth anything?

Router

kwikbreaks wrote: »

The truth is that nothing is likely to help you now and you'll almost certainly have to stomp up some cash for not adhering to those T&C you didn't bother reading. As the fault is yours you are unlikely to get much sympathy either. All you can really do is try your luck with O2 to see if they'll waive the charge.

i did not ask for sympathy, i asked if there was anything I can do to avoid paying this fine...as you are unable to offer a solution, why dont you just stop responding with useless posts and find something useful to make you feel better about yourself than posting useless crap to me

Router

macman wrote: »

The only obvious response is-why would a working ADSL router not be worth anything?

why is it obvious, ive had routers before and i got a new router with each contract.....its not obvious to me why people waste so much time responding with useless posts to strangers on the internet, is it that bad for you

spadoosh

Router wrote: »

why is it obvious, ive had routers before and i got a new router with each contract.....its not obvious to me why people waste so much time responding with useless posts to strangers on the internet, is it that bad for you

Your asking these strangers for help, be a bit more polite!
Basically what people are trying to say is 'its your own fault'. Its not good having to pay the fine but legally speaking you do not have a leg to stand on.

I don't think it would matter if you paid your bill untill end of contract and didnt use the internet (still getting there money for the service offered) and i also don't think they will ask for the box back then. however they are perfectly within their rights to do so. This gives you a couple of options.
1. source new router and see if they will take it
2. save up the £50 and wait to see if they ask for it at the end of contract. if not have a night out.

I hope this is in depth enough for you and appologies that this does not give you the answer you want but it does give you what will and might happen

macman

Router wrote: »

why is it obvious, ive had routers before and i got a new router with each contract.....its not obvious to me why people waste so much time responding with useless posts to strangers on the internet, is it that bad for you

Well if you can afford to chuck a working router away each time you switch ISP, you can't really be so hard up that you can't pay the £50 penalty?
I appreciate that the answers you've been given are not the ones that you wanted to hear, but that's how it is.

JJ_Egan

All the routers i have received from various ISPs have A worked with other ISP networks and B been subject to return /paid for at varying contract lengths . As A was true the last upgrade of contract offer was £13-99 a month including router >> sorry mate i dont require a router >> £11-75 a month without hardware for a twelve month contract was the next offer made .

jje

jje

Router

spadoosh wrote: »

Your asking these strangers for help, be a bit more polite!
Basically what people are trying to say is 'its your own fault'. Its not good having to pay the fine but legally speaking you do not have a leg to stand on.

I don't think it would matter if you paid your bill untill end of contract and didnt use the internet (still getting there money for the service offered) and i also don't think they will ask for the box back then. however they are perfectly within their rights to do so. This gives you a couple of options.
1. source new router and see if they will take it
2. save up the £50 and wait to see if they ask for it at the end of contract. if not have a night out.

I hope this is in depth enough for you and appologies that this does not give you the answer you want but it does give you what will and might happen

I can handle the answer whatever it is, so if someone comes and says "thats it, theres no other way but to pay this fine" then I am happy with that as this answer is also helpful, but what I dont need is posts which do not offer advise on what to do nor knowledge of what my options are, but only come here with irrelevant "attacks"

it is immature, and bad ettiquete for forum posting, so I am not being impolite by pointing this out, but merely drawing the attention to what they are doing so they dont do so in the future hoepfully

the forum is about asking strangers for help, not coming here to derail the thread with unhelpful posts

Router

macman wrote: »

Well if you can afford to chuck a working router away each time you switch ISP, you can't really be so hard up that you can't pay the £50 penalty?
I appreciate that the answers you've been given are not the ones that you wanted to hear, but that's how it is.

not many people read my post....