BT take the biscuit

[granny]

This is funny as fuck this is.

Moved into a new house 2 months ago. My chance to get broadband I thought. So before we moved I phoned up BT to see if they could have ADSL installed by the time we moved in (wishful thinking I know but bear with me). BT told me that we'd have to have a BT phoneline installed at the house before they could tell if ADSL was possible at that address. Very annoying but there ya go, so we ordered a BT landline which they duly installed and charged us for. 3 weeks after having the phoneline installed they finally got round to telling us that no, sorry, ADSL isn't possible 'cos we were too far away from the exchange. Why they couldn't tell us this before we had the phone line installed I don't know...

Anyway, ADSL being the only reason for wanting a BT line in the first place we promptly cancelled the BT line and signed up with NTL who installed a Cable Modem, telephone line & TV for less money than BT wanted for ADSL on it's own. Screw you BT I thought, hopefully I'll never have to deal with you again

No such luck. Since then I've now had 2 bills from BT for line rental on a line we cancelled. Great. I've shouted at them about that lots, had the bills cancelled.

Today... and this is the funny bit... I get home to discover that BT have billed me £8 for cancelling the line. Hahaha. Oh my sides are splitting.

I just phoned them up and told them that if they send me another bill I'm going to use it as toilet paper before returning it unpaid.

 

[Ch3tan]

Go granny, send them the shit. Dont wait for a bill just shit into a jiffy envelope and send it to them.

 

[Custy]

I would have gone with cable anyway. ADSL is mucho expensive.

 

[Ono]

To be honest I expect nothing less from BT.

As a consumer company they blow chunks. As a telco provider to other telcos they also suck.

I have had BTOW ADSL for almost 8 months now and to be fair it's not been too bad a service but, and this is the crux, for FORTY QUID A MONTH I would expect them to be laying out the red carpet for me.


This is how it goes:

I pay 40 quid get 576 DL, 256 UL.

My bro (who works in Hong Kong) pays £22 and gets 1.5 Meg DL and 512 UL with fixed IP.


My arse hurts from being screwed BT!

 

[Summo]

I hear ya, buddy. I have to make do with the BT Surf Together phone line package because no bugger will install anything alse in my house. No cable, no ADSL.

Although I did come across this weird satellite shit which could be a last resort.

Or I could move.

 

[Dudda]

i have same problem i cant have cable or adsl have to come with bt suftime which is shit, i mean i get connection speeds of 36,000bps on a 56k


it takes the piss uke:

 

[whipped]

Pray your cable never breaks though. Or it won't just be BT that will be getting jiffi bags full of bodily waste.
I assure you.

 

[Wij]

I had worse billing experiences with British Gas but that's another story

 

[haggisman]

BT are supposed to be bringing out RADSL (rate adaptive) so it can work greater distances, its only meant to cost £20-25 though ISP's generally add 40% onto that so £30-35 would be the cheapest

 

[Moving Target]

thank gawd i changed to NTL a few years back!

 

[old.Duck-Tape_(uk)]

Well, as I live out in the dengie, the chance of us getting ANYTHING better than a good old 56K modem is, well, about 0.0005% in the next ten yeArs.
If u ask me, BT stands for Blair Telecom (always con people), much like the BBC, Blair's Broadcasting Corporation.. lol

Anyway, to the thread starter (bless u, I forgot ur name), u have joined 99% of the UK population who realise just how bad BT is!

This is what i do to BT everyday on their doorstep...


uke:

Oh, it will damage my reputation even more but I also give BT this sign...

Sorry to all the youngsters out there who are under my lowly age of 15. Heck, I don't even have to pay the bills yet............

 

[old.Reverend Flatus]

Yep, BT=bastards

 

[nothing]

Heh, it took them 4 months to get a phone line to my big brother's house, and he's in the middle of a town. So they gave him £150 of free calls. Heh.

 

[Stazbumpa]

BT only get away with this because they have the monopoly, which correct me if I'm wrong, the taxpayer paid for and BT inherited.

If I had the choice I would go with cable if only to fuck BT over.

 

[~Lazarus~]

I'd luv to go cable - problem with living among the sheep is that we are always the fucking last to get new technology.

Going through the NTL adapter jobbie but still using BT line.

Mind you, come to think of it, there are SOME advantages of living with the SHEEP


BAAAAAA

 

[Moving Target]

I hope your not doing what I think uke:

 

[Ch3tan]

What do u think he is doing mt? Shearing them?


Anyways,after spending all my life with a BT phone line I magaed my parents to get cable tv and phone line.

We kept the BT line so I could surf on the cable phone line.

then they introduced CM's to my area and well, bye bye Bt dont need your shit anymore.

So £25 a month for the CM, and £22 a month for the two cable boxes and phone line. £47 less than some adsl sproviders that is.

 

[~Lazarus~]

Originally posted by Moving Target
I hope your not doing what I think uke:

Cant do it properly though. Need the edge of a cliff to get the best experience. (they push back harder)

 

[Summo]

And some velcro gloves.

 

[Wij]

Wellies

 

[Moving Target]

OMG U PERVERTS!! erm join the club

 

[Mr_Horus]

Originally posted by Ch3tan
Go granny, send them the shit. Dont wait for a bill just shit into a jiffy envelope and send it to them.

ROFL.
I can hand deliver it. I live in Glasgow and there is a big shiny new BT building down at Anderson Quey in the City Centre

 

[Dudda]

just make sure u dont get ne on ur hands

 

[Perplex]

Originally posted by Horus^


ROFL.
I can hand deliver it. I live in Glasgow and there is a big shiny new BT building down at Anderson Quey in the City Centre

Man oh man Horus...you won't deliver it though...we ALL know about your scat fetish ((((((((((

 

[bodhi]

LOL

Beat me to it you cunt

 

[granny]

/me worries about you lot sometimes

Anyway, I got a written apology from BT today after they admitted it was outrageous and cleared the bill for me

Here's hoping it's my last ever dealings with BT ever ever ever again (I'm keeping a big turd in a jiffy bag in storage just in case though )

 

[~Lazarus~]

Here ya go granny,

A new letter head for any other email correspondence with BT

 

[Wij]

Where do u find all these things ?

 

[~Lazarus~]

Easy,

The guy pissing was on the website from the thread posted by LEad Nibbler (I think) about the strange molecule names.

The BT logo was on the bt website.

put them together and you get the guy pissing all over BT

 

[Wij]

u obviously watched too much Blue Peter as a child