Virgin.net scam

[Robert Shiels]

Toby Corkindale wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:24:29PM +0000, Joel Bernstein wrote:
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>>On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:01:17PM +0000, David Hodgkinson wrote:
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>>>OK, folks the virgin.net "no 12 month contract" thing is a lie. They  
>>>*will*
>>>impose a £50 cancellation surcharge if you terminate even 6 months into
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>>PlusNet do something similarly misleading. They advertise no connection
>>fee but then charge a 'deferred activation fee' of 58.75 when you
>>cancel. 
>>Things like that are sailing pretty close to the wind of misleading
>>advertising! Make a complaint to the ombudsman!
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Not to mention recent vodafone advertising for unlimited internet on 
mobile phones. I've ranted already here 
http://se71.org/blog/archives/2006/01/unlimited_inter.html but 
basically, they're lying too, you only get 1Gb per month.

/Robert