118 rip off. And take out a mortgage if you ask them to connect for you



Not so good to talk: Phone giant charges £5.68 to get just one number from 118 118
BT, Sky and Virgin all blame rises on the service provider
BT added that it took only a small fraction of the charge
Earlier this month BT, Sky and Virgin all made huge increases to minimum charge for calling 118 118 – taking it from £3.58 to £4.45
TalkTalk increased the minimum fee by 45 per cent from £3.92 to £5.68

David

 

who is stupid enough to use 118 when Google is free?

 

This has been a major irritation for me for years - BT had a monopoly - well boo hoo - the charge from BT was 25p..... someone in OFCOM (******) had the great idea to 'open the market up to competition' - so took this service off rapacious BT and said anyone can now do it (lets face it we were all being royally ripped off 25 pence!) and now look whats happened - the average charge now to Directory Enquiries is £9!

£9 ******* quid!! SO that little intervention (that nobody wanted) went well then - FFS

Sometimes just because someone has a monopoly doesn't make it bad - its just they may be the only & best provider - God stuff like this makes my **** boil
(and no - I'm not Jeremy Corbyn's love child either! hahahaha)

 

Serious

9 pounds for one phone call assistance??!


I think was probably 20 years ago I used it mind . Google is your friend

 

Its also like OFWAT (oftwat?) who want to deregulate water suppliers - projected savings per customer ........ £8 on an average UK water bill of £400+...... it will cost millions & millions to set up - all for a saving on £8?????

Who the hell in reality is going to through the hassle of switching water suppliers to save £8 - or less than 2% of their bill? - they cant get enough people to switch energy that would save them hundreds!

Fcucking crazy....

 

Switch energy? I looked into it recently on receipt of my latest annual statement.

The site said I could save over £300 pa by switching and gave me what my new monthly DD would be. It was £7 MORE than what I was already paying.....

 

Old people who don't have a computer and no family to help them. And people away from home who don't carry a tablet around or own a smart phone.

And folk who think 118 is a service that will help them not knowing they will be ripped off.

dl

 

I'll give you old people .. but anyone else is just being daft. If you choose not to have a smart phone, you can save the money for 118

 

Well the clue was kind of in the title , for your Mam !

not everybody is 25 in here

 

You forget grandad.. The people hitting 70 now are the people that created the Internet..