"Can you pay my bills ? "

LegacyUser

"... Can you pay my telephone bills?"


I have been shown a figure that I owe on a bill in a househare.
Should I ask to actually see the bill and how the figure was arrived at?


Or just pay it and say nothing?

Big Bag of Chips

The normal thing to do in a houseshare is get an itemised bill, each pay for their own calls and divide the standard changes equally.

So yes, you should ask to see the bill.

mood

Yes you should always see all bills. In on house I shared in someone would work out the bill and leave it on the kitchen table for all to see.

dory

What telephone bills? Do you have a landline??

And yes, ask to see them.

seamus

In a house share I would always advise people to ditch the landline and let people use their mobiles.

However, yes I would ask to see the bill and how this figure was arrived at. Directly splitting a telephone bill between housemates can't work because invariably someone will lose out and someone will pay far less than they should.

One solution in future might be a money jar. Back in the old dial-up, per-minute charges days, my housemate had no computer but wanted to use my computer and line to surf the web, check emails etc. No problem, so what I did was stick a jar beside the computer, and you threw a few pennies in the jar whenever you used the web. So if you were online for an hour and it was 1c/minute, you threw 60c in the jar.

This was as useful for keeping track of how much *I'd* spent as it was for getting money from my housemate. In variably we'd both throw in more money than we'd spent and the excess went towards the next bill.

In a few houseshares, with a landline, we each went over the itemised bill and added up how much the calls we made were. One house I was left to do this job myself, so we had a notebook beside the phone, and just wrote in our name and the number we'd called. Then I could just scan down the bill, find a number I wasn't sure about, look it up, and know who'd called it. Time consuming yes, but it kept everything above board. We also always kept the bills stuck up on the wall in the kitchen till they had been all paid and dealt with.

God, having a landline phone in a shared house just sounds like a bad idea, especially if there are more than two people. But yes, always ask to see the bills, if they refuse, you refuse to pay.

LegacyUser

Sorry Guys,

Its the net and TV bill.
Not the telephone bill.

I'm gonna just pay it up. And the next bill, I will ask to see a breakdown, figures ect.


Thanks.

Victor

These should normally be fairly fixed. However, do ask to see the bill. No point in you paying for a premium package if you can't avail of it because its only for the TV point in someone's bedroom.

LegacyUser

It's there !

Im a eeejit.

Goood day.