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Jan 27, 2005, 03:00 PM
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DriverHeaven Junior Member
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The Great Tiscali Swindle
Just about any company can have a rough patch, but few can turn it into an artform in quite the way Tiscali have. 3DVelocity have a first hand article containing tales of bandwidth capping on unlimited accounts, laughable customer services, sub-dial-up speeds and outsourced call centres.
Quote if Required: " For my sins I didn't take much notice of all the negativity back then. My connection was reasonably fast and I'd had no dealings with customer support. All that changed however when, on December 21st, I got an early Christmas present from the Tiscali bad news fairy. "
Direct Link: 3dvelocity |
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Jan 27, 2005, 03:42 PM
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Burned
Join Date: May 2002
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Thanks, I edited your post to use embedded links in the site style, not raw urls.
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Jan 27, 2005, 03:59 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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Location: Montreal
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oh my God this story is so sad  |
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Jan 27, 2005, 04:30 PM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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Wow.
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Jan 27, 2005, 06:28 PM
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Most of the 7 dwarfs in 1
Join Date: Jul 2002
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Ah wow that is so out of order it's not funny.
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Jan 27, 2005, 07:05 PM
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Delete Me
Join Date: Mar 2004
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good god.
And I thought it was offensive when i called earthlink and was told to "hit the grey start button in the bottom left of my screen"
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Jan 27, 2005, 08:57 PM
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DriverHeaven Senior Member
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Originally Posted by pr0digal jenius
good god.
And I thought it was offensive when i called earthlink and was told to "hit the grey start button in the bottom left of my screen"
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haha imagine you were completely noobish and your start button was green like mine ..... lol |
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Jan 27, 2005, 10:07 PM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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Insane!
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Jan 29, 2005, 05:42 PM
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DriverHeaven Addict
Join Date: Oct 2004
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it reminds me of meh time with Freeserve "Unlimited time" 27,000 people meh self included recieved threatening emails from Freeserve (now Wanadoo) threatening to take us to court if we did not pay for our service , considering they had our bank account details when we signed up , seemingly they lost our bank account details without telling us , 3 months later they sent out the threatening emails  |
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Jan 29, 2005, 07:03 PM
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Most of the 7 dwarfs in 1
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Jan 30, 2005, 04:37 AM
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DriverHeaven Extreme Member
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Tiscaly really do suck - my folks use em and their connection is awefull.
Half meg pipe which only downloads at 10k/sec and rarely connects at all after 6pm.
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Jan 30, 2005, 12:32 PM
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Flash Banner Hater
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: UK
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Agonizing over staying with NTL (300k / £17.99 / 1Gb per day "warn" level) or the speed upgrade when it happens (1Mbit / 5Gb per month, same price).
Rather tempted by V21's 512k "unlimited" for £16.99, but it would mean swallowing the activation and modem costs, and could be "out of the frying pan, into the fire".
For anyone considering NTL phone, TV and 300k, on the current price list (PDF), there is a "3 for £30" tariff of Phone, TV base pack (freeview plus 1 or 2), and 300k broadband - make sure you DON'T get the phone + Base pack at £19.50 plus 300k BB extra £17.99
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Oh shit!!! This is too much, my missus got a special offer throughat her work b4 xmas and she got me 12 months subscription to PC world for zip.
