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Beware of Tesco Mobile's Pricing Policy

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  • 01-01-2008 9:35pm
    #1
    drednawt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭


    I recently swallowed the bait from Tesco Mobile with their advertised 20c per minute 24 hour rate after buying one of their prepay phones. I thought this could be cheaper than O2’s 26 cent, but I was soon in for a nasty shock after checking my credit balance.

    A minimum 20c/ min charge applies, and it is only after one minute that per second billing applies. You still pay for one full minute for every fraction of the first minute. I only found this information the T&Cs and not in the nice and friendly ‘Welcome’ leaflets. Fair dues to O2 in that they always charged me by the second without these hidden catches.

    I find, since I make a lot of short calls, that the effective rate, for instance, for a 20 second call will be 60 cents per minute, not 20 cents.

    I have that nasty feeling of having been misled and ripped off. Something should be done about this.


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    #2
    dudara
    Registered Users Posts: 33,518 ✭✭✭✭dudara


    drednawt wrote: »
    I only found this information the T&Cs and not in the nice and friendly ‘Welcome’ leaflets. Fair dues to O2 in that they always charged me by the second without these hidden catches.

    In fairness, I think that all the information was there to be read in the T&Cs, which are what you should always read.


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    Slice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭Slice


    Meteor offer a near identical rate to tesco mobile without the one minute minimum charge


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    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    anyone that signs up to things with reading all the T&C's deserve to be done in my books.


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    #5
    drednawt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭drednawt


    dudara wrote: »
    In fairness, I think that all the information was there to be read in the T&Cs, which are what you should always read.
    Maybe I should have checked the fine print in the T&Cs in their website first. I still think it was a bit of a fast one though.


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    #6
    drednawt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭drednawt


    Cremo wrote: »
    anyone that signs up to things with reading all the T&C's deserve to be done in my books.
    I signed nothing


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    #7
    drednawt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭drednawt


    Slice wrote: »
    Meteor offer a near identical rate to tesco mobile without the one minute minimum charge
    Good idea. Once I get the phone unlocked, I'll get a Meteor Sim Pack


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    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    sorry signed is the wrong word.

    how should i put it... entering a contract with a company.


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    #9
    drednawt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7 ✭drednawt


    If by contact you mean buying something over the counter on impulse in a busy shop at Christmas. We're not going so split hairs here, are we?

    Dumb buy? Perhaps.

    But one thing is true. Whatever the phone will be used for: paperweight, bookmark, etc. It will *not* be used to make calls over the Tesco (089) network.

    So, who's the real loser here?

    Not me


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