But that's exactly how I am paying them - theyve just taken the first payment from my HSBC current account by DD. Am I missing something here? I don't like continuous credit card authorities because, unlike DDs you can't stop them once they've started. I don't recall any problem using a DD with these people though. Have they changed their system since I signed up?
You have the connect number have you it used to be on their site but cannot find a trace of it now . Wombat .
Clara.net 020 7206 9445 or Tesco.net 01256 758717
Virgin.net 01483 881766 seems to have stopped working, anyone have a working geo number for them?
Steve Terry
18866 offer postpay by DD?? i'll have to have another look at their site, if they offer it, that's the way to go
Steve Terry
Well I take your point but on that basis one is supposing that they are a bunch of crooks. I think we should give them the benefit of the doubt but be aware that there are questions as to the viability of their business model, because if something looks too good to be true it usually is!
Cheers
Richard
Nope, i've been through the sign up procedure on
Steve Terry
They will accept a debit card but I have not any mention of DD incidentally Steve the tesco and clara Geo numbers do not seen to work anymore just been trying them . Wombat
Yes they will accept a Debit card with continuous authority, it's post pay by Direct Debit that is safe
Sending this with tesco.net on it's 01296 dial up at 9k6 using an Orange OVP T Mobile FT750
clara.net 020 was also working fine last night
Steve Terry
snipped-for-privacy@easy.com (Peter P) wrote:
Sounds like you wisely took the option on 18866's web site to pay by Solo/Maestro (Direct Debit) rather than Visa, Master or Euro (Continuous Authorisation).
This is the old/original confusion, whether you pay using a Debit Card or a Credit Card the method by which you pay is *still* a Continuous Authority. There have been long arguments (in this thread?) about whether a Continuous Authority is safer on a Credit or Debit Card but there isn't a big difference (I don't think so anyway).
A Direct Debit is another beast altogether and isn't associated with any sort of card. If you can make such payments using DD it's generally safer than any sort of Contonuous Authority.
"Stefan -" wrote
But isn't Solo/Maestro a **debit card**, and NOT a **Direct Debit** ??
Debit cards also allow "continuous authorities", which are certainly *not* direct debits....
Nither would let me in using a PC and modem !!. Wombat .
Why all the doubts 18866 is the ONE company I would trust in the UK they have never put a foot wrong with my invoices which is more than I can say for BT and Telewest . Wombat
Sweet. I bet all scamsters would love to have customers who were like you!
Scamsters do exist, you know. Or maybe you feel that scamsters never give a good deal?
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Thousands of people get scammed by offers which so entrance them by the improbably good deal being put forward that they forget to exercise their normal judgement. They closed their eyes.
I am not saying 18866 are a bunch of scamsters. There is no evidence of that. And I don't think you can say they are not scamsters. Because there is no evidence of that either.
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I am saying that if you get offered a deal which is too good to be true then perhaps it is, er, too good to be true.
Just because their billing is pretty accurate, as you point out, doesn't tell you if there is a problem or not. I don't think anyone said they were "ha'penny slicing" on bills by unfair rounding.
Having used 18866 for over a year now, without a problem, and watched their prices fall throughout, I am left wondering why you have this campaign to smear them.
I have never heard any murmur of complaint about their billing system. I cvan't think of any other telco that this is true of.
I can only assume that you have a hidden agenda to diss them.
It just makes me consider you a dubious source of information.
They would gain many sceptical customers if they did, Tiscali can manage postpay by DD, so should they
Steve Terry
You have your banks Direct Debit guarantee to protect you with DD
Steve Terry
"Steve Terry" wrote
Exactly - only with DD, *not* with continuous authorities!
David's right - you're obsessed. Perhaps 18866 is run by mad people. Perhaps they're backed by a philanthropist who's making up for his great-great-grandfather's exploitation of cotton mill workers in Lancashire by spending his family fortune on funding cheap phone calls. Perhaps it's an attempt by space aliens to take over the earth by beaming special secret radio waves through the phones of people using
18866. Or perhaps it's a tax loss for some other company. I, along with Wombat, couldn't give a tinker's dam.It's 1p flat rate for landline calls. I like paying 1p flat rate for landline calls.
If you feel suspicious enough of it, don't use it.
Which begs the question why havn't they? Maybe it is the cost factor? Would DD be more costly to them than Debit Card or Credit Card transactions? They say they are "working on a solution to offer this in the future". Anyone know how long they have been saying this?
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