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Dave Berkeley wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008 19:40:29 Neil Stone wrote: > >> Julian Hall wrote: >> >>> Grant Sewell wrote: >>> >>>> /me notices that I still have around 13 months on an O2 contract left. >>>> /me is not happy about this. :s >>>> >>>> Grant. >>>> >>> /me also remembers buying a Bluetooth earpiece from CPW so my details >>> are on their system. Oh great. >>> >>> Julian >>> >> Mind you, they are not the only people to have sent duff info to credit >> scoring systems.. I recently got a new mobile, i'm fairly sure they lied >> too.. >> > > I used to have an account with VarTec Telecom, who got bought out by TalkTalk. > We never got on. They phoned me out of the blue to say that they had taken > over my account and asked me to set a password. I don't usually give > passwords to uninvited callers, so I asked them to write to me, which they > didn't. > > A year later, when I moved house, I wanted to terminate the account. I phoned > them up and they asked me for my password. I knew I hadn't set one. They > refused to discuss the account without one (citing the Data Protection Act, > of course). Eventually I got an address out of them to write to, which I did, > asking them to terminate the account. > > They, of course, ignored this, so I simply cancelled the direct debit to stop > them taking any more money out of the account. They then sent me a > threatening letter (redirected by the post office to my new address) saying > that if I didn't pay the last bill they would terminate the account. I wrote > back saying please terminate the account and then I will pay the bill in > full. They wrote back another menacing letter. I ignored it. They wrote again > saying they had terminated the account and would pursue me through the courts > to recover the remaining £5 I owed them. I then sent them a cheque, as I > promised. > > This could have made an interesting court case, with copies of your letters plus proof of posting etc, their claim you are not co-operating would be thrown out, pretty quick, in fact the judge would probably back you up, and order them to pay court costs, while you smugly open your wallet, remove a £5 note and hand it over, to them. after which the court officials would probably grab it off them and take it as part payment towards costs, and order them to pay up. Paul Support open file formats use ISO 26300 Open Document format as used by openoffice.org, http:///www.openoffice.org visit us on IRC - irc.flashtek-uk.com / 6667 #dclug -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version 3.1 GIT d S: a C+++ UL++++ P+ L++ W++ N+ W--- O! V! PS+ Y! t+++ 5 X+++ R tv- b- DI! D++ G e H! r! z? -----END GEEK CODE BLOCK---- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html