Has anyone heard of MaxTalk?

bananawoman_2

Hi, have received a phone call from a company called MaxTalk offering me unlimited day/evening/weekend national and local calls, plus line rental for £17.14 (inc. VAT). They don't offer broadband at the moment, but are trying to launch this. I can't find anything on the net and the customer services number I call is constantly engaged. The rep was quite pushy and I could hardly understand his foreign accent, but just wondered if anyone else had received such a call and if, in fact, they were a genuine company.

Apparently they are ringing all customers with line rental through BT (even though I'm with Talktalk).

I'm going to take a look through all these threads as it looks like I could get a better deal with somebody else. I'm not tied into a contract so easy enough to change (she says!).

I currently have Talktalk3 and pay aprox £35/month. Unfortunately I live in area which doesn't qualify for their free b/band so £10 of this is for b/band. I found their customer services to be excellent until I signed up for the talk3 package and have had really slow b/band speeds throughout the whole contract, so quite keen to change.

Thanks to anyone who is able to respond.

jhp

Why use an unknown company when BT offer it cheaper anyway.

BT Line Rental online monthly billing £10.50p,with free caller display,and inclusive 24/7 geographical calls 5.95p a month from 1/4/2008=£16.45 a month.

bananawoman_2

Thanks for the info. Haven't had time to sit and read through all the posts about home phones yet, but will make sure I do. Can't believe there's so many good deals out there, and so many folk with lots of know how.

Thanks again.

mrcautious_3

Yeah, got the same fast gabblegabble treatment, offering free evening and weekend calls for £13.09 per month, daytime calls at flat rate of 2.92 pence per min. , no connection charge. Customer Service number 08451746188. Contact was "Roy" , ID MN002. Promised an "introduction pack" within four working days. Deeply sceptical and mrcautious on this, but, well, it's new, maybe a winner. WTS - watch this space!

Heinz

mrcautious wrote: »

Yeah, got the same fast gabblegabble treatment, offering free evening and weekend calls for £13.09 per month, daytime calls at flat rate of 2.92 pence per min. , no connection charge. Customer Service number 08451746188. Contact was "Roy" , ID MN002. Promised an "introduction pack" within four working days. Deeply sceptical and mrcautious on this, but, well, it's new, maybe a winner. WTS - watch this space!

Welcome to the MSE forums mrcautious.

If you gave your phone number (or if you're in the book and Roy could ascertain it easily), you may well find that you've 'agreed' to receive a bit more than an 'information pack' in the post. I hope not, but all the signs are there.

phreil

My mother in her seventies and nursing my father who has had a serious heart problem phoned me in a real spin today. She was rung by an operative of "Maxtalk". No address or anything, but left a phone number. Unbelievably, he managed to get her bank details out of her, sort code and account number. She knew she should not have given them to him and is obviously upset about it. She wanted me to speak to him, he had promised to call me and she gave him her number. They left the same customer support number 0845 174 6188. I have called them and the person who answered the phone did not even know who the company was, would not give out the head office name, or her address or anything, and said it was a fault reporting line. I am seriously suspicious and I have told my mother to talk to the bank. I am going to see if I can report them to someone.

BexTech

jhp wrote: »

Why use an unknown company when BT offer it cheaper anyway.

BT Line Rental online monthly billing £10.50p,with free caller display,and inclusive 24/7 geographical calls 5.95p a month from 1/4/2008=£16.45 a month.

Getting you £'s and your p's mixed up there!

£10.50p (note no p as you've used the £, as the p would be ten & half pence).

5.95p = just under six pence.

You only use one currency symbol at a time.


£10.50
£5.95
Total: £16.45

BexTech

mrcautious wrote: »

Yeah, got the same fast gabblegabble treatment, offering free evening and weekend calls for £13.09 per month, daytime calls at flat rate of 2.92 pence per min. , no connection charge. Customer Service number 08451746188. Contact was "Roy" , ID MN002. Promised an "introduction pack" within four working days. Deeply sceptical and mrcautious on this, but, well, it's new, maybe a winner. WTS - watch this space!

Yeah, but for £10.50 you can get line rental, caller display and evening and weekend calls and you can get daytime calls for 5p per call, no matter how long you chat away for.

nutteeboy

bananawoman wrote: »

Hi, have received a phone call from a company called MaxTalk offering me unlimited day/evening/weekend national and local calls, plus line rental for £17.14 (inc. VAT). They don't offer broadband at the moment, but are trying to launch this. I can't find anything on the net and the customer services number I call is constantly engaged. The rep was quite pushy and I could hardly understand his foreign accent, but just wondered if anyone else had received such a call and if, in fact, they were a genuine company.

Apparently they are ringing all customers with line rental through BT (even though I'm with Talktalk).

I'm going to take a look through all these threads as it looks like I could get a better deal with somebody else. I'm not tied into a contract so easy enough to change (she says!).

I currently have Talktalk3 and pay aprox £35/month. Unfortunately I live in area which doesn't qualify for their free b/band so £10 of this is for b/band. I found their customer services to be excellent until I signed up for the talk3 package and have had really slow b/band speeds throughout the whole contract, so quite keen to change.

Thanks to anyone who is able to respond.

hi everyone !!!!!!!
just had a call from so call ((max talk)) as I answered he represented him self aan ((AOL REP)) strange bit..... he new all my details banking details email address then asked me for comfirmation on my D.O.B .......... I Gave him it gave it and the he ask me to comfirm my bank details then I got suspicious and said no i dont know who you are then he said he is from ((MAX TALK)) hang on i am happy as i am........he got all pushie with me ..............put the phone on him ...................................................................................
scarey bit he new all my details so be warned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

nutteeboy

hi everyone !!!!!!!
just had a call from so call ((max talk)) as I answered he represented him self aan ((AOL REP)) strange bit..... he new all my details banking details email address then asked me for comfirmation on my D.O.B .......... I Gave him it gave it and the he ask me to comfirm my bank details then I got suspicious and said no i dont know who you are then he said he is from ((MAX TALK)) hang on i am happy as i am........he got all pushie with me ..............put the phone on him .................................................. .................................
scarey bit he new all my details so be warned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


AS ANYONE HAD THE SAME CALL FROM PLEASE LET ME KNOW
MANY THANKS
NUTTEEBOY

billsavings

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