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cutting direct debit from the bank??

  • 25-04-2011 10:49pm
    #1
    poozers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166 ✭✭


    im using a dongle with a mobile broadband company ... and i dont want to finish my contract because im sick of this broadband, its not fast enough and i get a ridiculously low amount of gigs download a month!!!! if i want to get out of the contract "legally" i have to pay up until november!!! could i just stop the direct debit at the bank??? will they come after me (lol) ??? do people do it all the time?? :D (my mobile phone isnt with this network, i set up a new sim and phone number and i probably will never go back to this network ever again!!)


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  • #2
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    poozers wrote: »
    will they come after me (lol) ???

    Yes and they will find you too. Mate of mine did it and three weeks later his "breaks failed".


  • #3
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    They'll come after you for the money. Letters, threat of legal action, that sort of thing.

    Dongles are awful.


  • #4
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    poozers wrote: »
    im using a dongle with a mobile broadband company ... and i dont want to finish my contract because im sick of this broadband, its not fast enough and i get a ridiculously low amount of gigs download a month!!!! if i want to get out of the contract "legally" i have to pay up until november!!! could i just stop the direct debit at the bank??? will they come after me (lol) ??? do people do it all the time?? :D (my mobile phone isnt with this network, i set up a new sim and phone number and i probably will never go back to this network ever again!!)

    You do realise that an ordinary 3G mobile phone (preferably unlocked and unbranded). Will do exactly the same job as one of those 'dongle' yokes using your existing SIM if you've got a data package or reasonably priced pay as you go data

    I never understand why people buy those things. Must be all down to clever marketing because most people who buy them don't actually need them at all


  • #5
    poozers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166 ✭✭poozers


    landsleaving wrote: »
    They'll come after you for the money. Letters, threat of legal action, that sort of thing.

    Dongles are awful.


    yeah! but i can just ignore them! :D letters are easy to "dispose" of.... *rubs palms together*


  • #6
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Yes you can do it. I've done it. You'll get letters, but just keep ignoring them and they will eventually go away.
    They threatened me with legal action and all that ****e, but they won't go through with it.


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  • #7
    Aishae
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,800 ✭✭✭Aishae


    first they'll prob send a paper bill instead
    but if that isnt paid they'll send it on to a debt collector


  • #8
    FesterBeatty
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 406 ✭✭FesterBeatty


    3...?


  • #9
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    Seriously (and you didn't hear this from me) tell the company the device speed is too slow (if that's what your issue is and then just go into your bank and cancel the DD. Tell them the service is not as advertised, they won't ask anything else.


  • #10
    poozers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166 ✭✭poozers


    Daegerty wrote: »

    I never understand why people buy those things. Must be all down to clever marketing because most people who buy them don't actually need them at all

    I dont know why i went for it at all!!! totally scammed! im 99% sure it was a 12 month contract... and i rang them up to find out what date the contract was up (i have it about a year in may) and they said it was actually an 18 month contract!! i was shocked!! i wouldnt have gone for it if it was an 18 month! and of course, all my letters and copies of my contract are long gone!!! feel well silly!! :(


  • #11
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,464 ✭✭✭Celly Smunt


    just tell them you can't afford it and rearrange your plan


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  • #12
    Daegerty
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,864 ✭✭✭Daegerty


    poozers wrote: »
    I dont know why i went for it at all!!! totally scammed! im 99% sure it was a 12 month contract... and i rang them up to find out what date the contract was up (i have it about a year in may) and they said it was actually an 18 month contract!! i was shocked!! i wouldnt have gone for it if it was an 18 month! and of course, all my letters and copies of my contract are long gone!!! feel well silly!! :(

    I know someone who used to have one of these and the coverage was great

    Until the mobile phone company switched off the fecking base station closest to them. Now lucky the contract was over at this stage but still.

    The base station is still there now, still switched off. and I'd say its been switched off for years now

    When they tried to cancel the contract over the phone the support fella said 'oh thats right you live in an area with no coverage, i don't know why you were sold one of those'


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