and not doing anything, you should be fine - it doesn't constantly download and these days you're usually* only charged by the amount of data, not the length of time.
* - this doesn't apply in the case of a number of old phones for various reasons, and you are billed per minute. This is rare these days though.
Not a surprise. I've seen you out and about, always phoning people. Which people I don't know.
If it's any consolation, I haven't topped up my phone since Christmas. Because I am smart. And also because talking to me on the phone is like being tortured.
would be to check through your statement to make sure you've made the calls you're being charged for. If you don't get itemised bills, then you should be able to find out where the charges have come from through Customer Services.
If they're genuine charges and you can't contest them for any reason, then as suggested above, ask to sort out a payment plan over a few months to pay it off in chunks. Companies will usually let you do this. If you're having problems organising this, and they're being obstructive, ask to speak to supervisors etc until you get someone that's willing/able to help. If still having issues, cancel the direct debit with your bank so they can't just take the money and speak to someone like the CAB or Offcom.
(i.e. the internet), then it might be worth looking at what internet packages your phone company offers, and seeing if you can negotiate them down to the level you'd pay under those if it's the first month you've run up large charges. They may be sympathetic and be able to offer this, they might not.
STOP SPENDING MORE MONEY!
GET OFF THE INTERNET!
He don't worry.
Someone stole our Aussie phone and managed to spend $6000AU in about a month.
Woo-fucking-hoo.
Do you actually have to pay that though?
My heart literally sank when I got this bill.
The answer is we don't know
We may have to. It's all tied up in a lot of paperwork right now.
It LITERALLY sank, did it?
I suspect not.
Stop calling euro pound line
and demanding to talk to the inventor of the scorpion-clock.
He's always too busy creating new products.
I have to keep trying though.
the clock on mine doesn't work
i'm taking it back :(
I went in there and couldn't find the clock.
bah.
my friend richard
once borrowed my phone and ran up a £200 bill.
what a dick!
oh jaysus :(
i feel sick for you. I left my phone on the internet for half the day yesterday by accident and am a bit worried about that.
I think the internet might be where I went wrong on mine.
oh, great
just what I wanted to hear :-\
Sorry. :(
I would start praying though.
Argh!
Theo? Does OperaMini not have an auto cut off or anything?
The browswer was still open at 6pm :(
If it's just open on a webpage
and not doing anything, you should be fine - it doesn't constantly download and these days you're usually* only charged by the amount of data, not the length of time.
* - this doesn't apply in the case of a number of old phones for various reasons, and you are billed per minute. This is rare these days though.
Thank you very much!
I shall stop panicking for now.
massively
i just looked at my online phone bill and i've managed to spend about £2 a day on the internet. I HATE YOU CONTRACTS
Here we go.
Calls
0.00
Messages
1.70
Mobile internet browsing and downloads
102.97
Total before VAT 121.70
VAT 21.29
Total new charges 142.99
I'd like to think I used it on useful things, but in reality it's just football scores and facebook. :(
...
Looking up Facebook on your phone. Incredible.
I'm glad you agree.
...
It was the gently disbelieving 'incredible'.
ok, LOL.
The most useful thing I do with it
is look up places that I'm going to if I don't know where they are.
£142.99. Bargain.
:S
who are you with?
t mobile its free if you have web and walk.
but i have a 11 bill.
i don;t know why either as yet
*111
call them
and say you want to make a 'goodwill' one off small payment and that you'd like to make a payment plan.
you'll pay it off and they won't cut you off.
My bill is direct debit. :(
oh shiz.
that's why i cancelled mine.
i used to top £200 a month on mine most months.
now i text off the internet for free and phone from work or my housephone and it costs virtually nothing.
...
Not a surprise. I've seen you out and about, always phoning people. Which people I don't know.
If it's any consolation, I haven't topped up my phone since Christmas. Because I am smart. And also because talking to me on the phone is like being tortured.
yeah
you are ridiculously hard to talk to on the phone.
And in real life
:D
Och
I had a similar one a few months back, but it was mainly because I was making 30 minute phone calls to the UK when I was in NEw York. Not clever.
Shitting hell you bellend
I didn't realise calling bedford was that expensive.
I actually knew you were going to say that.
I'm becoming predictable
this is the jaguar line. The next station will be McGoverns.
This train terminates at.... The Valley.
This train will be calling at
The salisbury
Beacs
The emirates
Bedford
The valley
...
[gag about wax and Jimmy]
Tunde MacKay
is getting his Jimmy waxed by a heiress to a vast fortune
updated: Peggy Laslett
I actually feel sick.
That could be because I just ate too much pizza though.
Did you order the pizza
on the phone?
I used WAP to phone WOP*
*Wood Oven Pizza in Kilburn, I'm not just being racist.
^^ massive racist
You shoudl ring them up now
and demand an upgrade to a better phone and contract based on your one not being good enough.
First thing
would be to check through your statement to make sure you've made the calls you're being charged for. If you don't get itemised bills, then you should be able to find out where the charges have come from through Customer Services.
If they're genuine charges and you can't contest them for any reason, then as suggested above, ask to sort out a payment plan over a few months to pay it off in chunks. Companies will usually let you do this. If you're having problems organising this, and they're being obstructive, ask to speak to supervisors etc until you get someone that's willing/able to help. If still having issues, cancel the direct debit with your bank so they can't just take the money and speak to someone like the CAB or Offcom.
Thanks.
I might have to do this.
Oh, and if it's data charges
(i.e. the internet), then it might be worth looking at what internet packages your phone company offers, and seeing if you can negotiate them down to the level you'd pay under those if it's the first month you've run up large charges. They may be sympathetic and be able to offer this, they might not.
yeah
i'm thinking of getting the unlimited internet bolt-on. £7.50pcm for all the mobile internet i can ever want!*
*fair usage policy applies
Oh really?
I think I may need that.
I'm going to have to do some crying down the phone to 02.
what the shiz?
what the fuck do you do on the internet on your phone??!
My laptop is broken.
I get bored.
we have to settle our bets somehow
AQA?
Dude, buy a book.
I have books.
I need the internet in my life.
...
so you might want the money for the Charlton ticket soon then? 'Kin hell, use my laptop for Facebook shiz!
This is just after I've cleared my overdraft as well.
I'm just thinking about all the other things I could have spent £143 on. :(
like fixing my laptop!
or going to McGoverns
A pint of gin.
or
The Rise and Rise of Charlton Athletic: From Portakabins to Porto Captains by Mick Collins
A tatoo of Clive Mendonca on my face.
a full charlton kit
A sega rally machine.
A tow truck to move the sega rally machine.
a season ticket to Bedford
A giant 'L'
I could buy my own phonebox to sleep in in Bedford.
and a plaque with my name on that says "he liked it here".
You should buy
a Jaguar
and some terrapins.
and a half welsh/half polish barmaid
An entire non-league football club
I'm canceling my direct debit and buying Welling Utd.
Buy hendon!
we can go to McGoverns after every game*
*meet me at McGoverns after work?
No!
I'll be there anyway
are you stalking her now?
not the best idea.
That was a joke
and there is another hot barmaid there as well.
my phone bill this month was £66.23
:s how? i cant afford this!
^ See advice above
I love Tom but I had to repost this
Calls
0.00
Messages
1.70
Mobile internet browsing and downloads
102.97
Total before VAT 121.70
VAT 21.29
Total new charges 142.99
It cheered me up somewhat from the impending $6000 phone bill :D
In fact it made me actuLOL!!!
Sorry. I am a scumbag :(
No, I had to laugh when I saw that. Well, sort of cry-laugh.
On a new note of misery, I just realised these are actually my other charges on top of my normal bill. My actual bill wil be 162.99.
Oh my god. :'(((((((((
FUcking hell.
Are you on a £20 a month contract? Eee!
Yes.
I'm currently tempted to cancel my direct debit, throw my phone in the thames and flee the country forever.
you should phone up
furious and say you phoned up a month ago to get the bolt on 7.50 thing and were told it had been added, and so you refuse to pay.
Good job I didnt move in eh!
;D