Free Texts: Includes virtually free texts from mobiles Discussion

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31redland

redux wrote: »

I think your alarmism risks misrepresenting things.

There are no links on this site to the service you are discussing, and certainly no recommendation of it either by Martin Lewis in the article, or in this discussion thread about it or the subject in general.

A search of this forum has no results for smsntxt. A search for zamano has a number of results, most of which appear to be complaints or warnings about it.

By all means add to those warnings if appropriate, but don't impugn the reputation of this place when you did not actually get referred to this service from here.

Yes, people should be careful about using unknown free services, as some do indeed behave less than scrupulously, sending chargeable messages either to the subscribing sender or to the phones they nominate as recipients. And that is why some research has gone into the article before recommending some that do not behave like this. Always read the terms and conditions carefully, particularly in respect of privacy policy

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i am sorry to report that i was neither being alarmist or lying - the link to smsntext WAS on this site but it was removed before i posted this message, i was in fact aware of the fact that it had been removed but didn't want to start a conspiracy theory red herring by mentioning that it had since been mysteriously deleted since I originally used it back in July. i DID read the small print, and in fact I contacted them by phone and asked to be reassured that i was not going to be charged for the service. i was told i was not on their list of people registered for the service and so I would not be charged - so i went into this with my eyes open and looking for problems (i am not naive and so don't really warrant being patronised) but was told it was free. I subsequently discovered that I had been charged but at no point was this ever made explicit even when I asked directly. So please feel free to heed my original warning and not put me down as making it up.