£1300 vodafone bill in one month!!

spiro

JethroUK wrote: »

$1300 of phone meterage cost Vodafone $5 max and this should/would be reflected in any damages they are morally/legally/ethically entitled to

JethroUK, we use £s in the UK not $s.

gjchester

JethroUK wrote: »

Quite right - this would happen in all phone companies if the law capped their exploiting of these circumstances

And the first time Little Jonny can't call mum, or a 18 year old girl has broken down on some minor road in her first car and can't call Dad or the AA then who would get the blame?

Harsh as it seems folks have to take responsibility for their actions, not expect someone else to manage their lives. There are options to manage spand, capped contract , PAYG to manage spend, peopel just need to understand what they sign up for, not blindly sign to get the latest shiney toy.

JethroUK wrote: »

$1300 of phone meterage cost Vodafone $5 max

Vodafone to Vodafone maybe, any other network and it would be £150 or so in termination fee's, but thates irrelevent, vodafone is a company and needs to make a profit or wither.

JethroUK

spiro wrote: »

JethroUK, we use £s in the UK not $s.

Good point - anyone know where the £ sign is on HTC Desire?

gas4you

Two of my stepdaughters used to run up regular bills of £130+ a month on their contracts, nothing like £1300, I know, but it was about 8 years ago, and was a lot of money to me to fork out.

First month was a warning, second a more severe warning, third month I just called the network and said we had lost the phone so they temporarily barred it.

They felt like they had lost an arm, but it soon sorted the issue.

After a month I had the phones re-connected. Never happened again.

But then I suppose the easier way would have been to come on here and post how the networks were ripping me off and ask how to get out of paying the genuine bills!!

spiro

JethroUK wrote: »

Good point - anyone know where the £ sign is on HTC Desire?

Do you have the option of which version of English (UK or USA) the phone is set to use?

Silk

JethroUK wrote: »

Good point - anyone know where the £ sign is on HTC Desire?

On keyboard press the 12# then scroll down the symbols

Guys_Dad

JethroUK wrote: »

Quite right - this would happen in all phone companies if the law capped their exploiting of these circumstances

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But the point, Jethro, is the network in question doesn't. Only a couple do.

You know that. I know that. The whole forum knows that. And whoever took on the contract for the teenager should have taken that into account.

We live with what is real, not Utopian.

Sufficient people on this thread have highlighted the options time and time again and you keep chucking back the same old network-bashing tired old argument, completely ignoring the options that the parents had.

Now, in fairness, you don't sound thick or stupid and I am sure that you have absorbed the options that have been spelt out, so I can only assume that you have some other agenda - perhaps an anti-capitalist? Why can you just simple accept that the OP made an error of judgement, the teenager acted irresponsibly and that networks should all be encouraged to offer capped contracts? End of, simple.

grumbler

JethroUK wrote: »

anyone know where the £ sign is on HTC Desire?

"1/2" key in the numerical keyboard (12#)

JethroUK

spiro wrote: »

Do you have the option of which version of English (UK or USA) the phone is set to use?

Its set to English keyboard (no other options)

Silk wrote: »

On keyboard press the 12# then scroll down the symbols

Noted - but I'll stick to $ sign until they update the keyboard to UK English

JethroUK

Guys_Dad wrote: »

.....whoever took on the contract for the teenager should have taken that into account....

they can write anything in a contract - I'm talking about challenging it - and talking of Utopian Dreams - anyone read theirs??????????

Rhetorical questions because I <<<know>>>>>> for a fact that nobody on this forum has - even the oh so righteous

and I personally would not pay Vodafones random bill of £1300 - It would be for the judge to decide - and I would would expect maximum damages of around £200-£300 which I would expect to pay