five year lock in

Hi

Just been reading the post about plusnet, do any others have this type of
clause. Just thinking of going with tiscali.

thanks

Gary

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geepeetee wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just been reading the post about plusnet, do any others have this type of
> clause. Just thinking of going with tiscali.
>
> thanks
>
> Gary

With Tiscali, I would be concerned about a five week lock in, never mind
five years.

Gaz

On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:20:43 UTC, "geepeetee" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> Just been reading the post about plusnet, do any others have this type of
> clause. Just thinking of going with tiscali.

Quite a few. They have to pay BT an activation fee. If they charge that
up front, there is no lock in (for that reason, anyway). If they don't
charge it up front, they either roll it into the monthly fee forever,
which means that everyone pays a fraction of the activation fee for
early leavers; or they charge it (or part of it) on early exit.

Seems perfectly reasonable.

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"geepeetee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> Just been reading the post about plusnet, do any others have this type of
> clause. Just thinking of going with tiscali.
>
> thanks
>
> Gary

The last time I looked, most had a 1 year lock in, and Tiscali had a 1 year
lockin.

Bob

Bob Smith wrote:
> "geepeetee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:ef3qdd$d93$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hi
>>
>> Just been reading the post about plusnet, do any others have this
>> type of clause. Just thinking of going with tiscali.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Gary
>
> The last time I looked, most had a 1 year lock in, and Tiscali had a
> 1 year lockin.
>
> Bob

The 5 year lockin is normally the downside of such things as free
installs or even possible equipment, where the monthly fees don't
cover the costs in the first 12 months.

Just remember there is no such thing as a freebee, just look on the
next page & then you see the 'hook' unfortunately b y that time you
are hooked..

On 23 Sep 2006, "Bob Smith" <bob@nospamplease> wrote:

>The last time I looked, most had a 1 year lock in, ...

Even when there are headline slogans about 1 month contract, there may be a
clause in the T+C about some "admin" fee of around 50 pounds (some +VAT)
if a user leaves within the first 12 months. No explicit "lock in" (and I
do accept they need to cover the charge they've paid BT - just that a few
go further than just covering that fee, and add some icing and a cherry on
the top, by not having yet reduced the fee to 40+VAT - it's over a year now
since BT Wholesale reduced the activation fee) but a "gotcha" all the same!

geepeetee wrote:
> Hi
>
> Just been reading the post about plusnet, do any others have this type of
> clause. Just thinking of going with tiscali.

You won't get any response to emails to customer support; if you phone
them you'll be on a hotline to India, and their `fair use` policy will
mean you won't be able to do anything other than send/receive emails
and surf between 6pm and 11pm every day.

Still, they're cheap.

"Bob Eager" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:20:43 UTC, "geepeetee" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote:
>
>> Just been reading the post about plusnet, do any others have this type of
>> clause. Just thinking of going with tiscali.
>
> Quite a few. They have to pay BT an activation fee. If they charge that
> up front, there is no lock in (for that reason, anyway). If they don't
> charge it up front, they either roll it into the monthly fee forever,
> which means that everyone pays a fraction of the activation fee for
> early leavers; or they charge it (or part of it) on early exit.
>
> Seems perfectly reasonable.

5 years sounds far from reasonable to me - especially with a company like
Plusnet !

On 23 Sep 2006, "Poldie" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> if you phone them you'll be on a hotline to India

What bridge are you lurking under? Complete rubbish as their call centre
is in Sheffield, and can be viewed live via a few webcams...

NoNeedToKnow <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> What bridge are you lurking under? Complete rubbish as their call centre
> is in Sheffield, and can be viewed live via a few webcams...

Plus you can't actually email CS as its all done through the portal..I
assumed the poster must be talking about Tisali..

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