Just ignore them and they will go away.
This by the way is perfectly serious advice. There is no way in the world that 3 will go before a judge and try to justify this silly charge.
*Important* If you exceed your allowance within a billing period, you will be charged the out of bundle rate of 5c per MB. This is pricey - so to be on the safe side, make sure you keep a close eye on your My3 account.
Leo is dead right; This sort of innocuous stuff can come back to haunt someone. The OP should negotiate it.
Leo, the newspaper article you referenced is interesting, but it is nearly 9 years old.
The money they say he owes them does not seem like something they would willingly air in court.
If the OP were to receive a court summons, not a threat of a court summons but an actual summons, then I might reconsider the advice to ignore them, but up to that point I think the OP should not pay and should not respond.
Experian as far as I know does not hold details of unpaid telephone bills in this country at any rate. Nor could it.
No way should he suggest or entertain any possibility of paying the equivalent of 30 times his normal bill, especially if there is no obvious or credible reason why the account was allowed to get so out of hand in such a short space of time.At least ring them up to make contact, offering to pay a certain amount per month. I'd suggest to make an offer to clear it in total for say 30% of the bill.
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If he was 1.5GB over, that is 1500MB. At 5c per MB, that would be a bill of 5c * 1500 = 7500c, which is E75, so where is the E1695 coming from?! How much exactly are they charging per MB over this bundle limit?
That's for broadband customers,not phone customers.Very surprised people are advocating to ignore a bill like this. Totally agree with Leo, ignoring any bill and hoping it will go away is IMO not a good idea. At least ring them up to make contact, offering to pay a certain amount per month. I'd suggest to make an offer to clear it in total for say 30% of the bill.
However, the bill doesn't seem right to me. From [broken link removed], it calls the charge out quite clearly:
If he was 1.5GB over, that is 1500MB. At 5c per MB, that would be a bill of 5c * 1500 = 7500c, which is E75, so where is the E1695 coming from?! How much exactly are they charging per MB over this bundle limit? Too late now obviously, but everyone should set a mobile data limit on their phone to prevent this happening, all phones all you to cut off the data at whatever rate you desier.
If the phone company resort to the courts to enforce it, the pressure will be on them to convince the court of why they should collect the entire bill or the bulk of it.
If even the most basic defence is entered, the chances of them getting their money are slim.
I thought there was now an obligation on the provider to send a notification once the amount reached specific levels.
There was a problem with threes billing recently with data.
I would look at the detailed bill.
... , he decided to change provider but was still with Three with no bundle add on for data on his account,...
Don't these debts get resold to collection agencies? They (almost certainly) wouldn't have any legal mechanism to enforce it, but that never seems to stop them making life difficult for their "targets".Would you like to explain how it could come back to haunt someone, or is that just an off the top of the head comment.
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