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£91k mobile bill!!
konebyvax
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Oh dear. How utterly stupid can a person be?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305358/Vodafone-Kevin-Waldrum-runs-91-184-phone-calling-daytime-chat-line-alleviate-loneliness.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2305358/Vodafone-Kevin-Waldrum-runs-91-184-phone-calling-daytime-chat-line-alleviate-loneliness.html
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the fact that they cut him off and he went and got a new sim does not bode well for him.
Also, hasn't he heard about pornhub?
He could have saved himself a lot of money.
If he'd used Pornhub, he'd have only run up a huge data bill because he's probably too stupid to have an unlimited data package for video!
Questions have to be asked internally of how the retail shop could override the bar and surely he would have had notes on the account. Hence why Voda is knocking a chunk off i think. Other than that, all him. W***er!
Believing in unregulated capitalism also gave us our beloved bankers.
Also, it comes as no surprise that t was reported that Apple gets 71% of iPhone app profits from in-app purchasing.
Plenty of Kevin's there too, to make the bankers happy.
The networks are extending credit to every user. They must know they've no chance of getting their £91k even if this bloke is declared bankrupt. Yes, he was an idiot. But why let him run up the bill in the first place? A bank wouldn't allow you to go on a stupid £91k spending spree with your credit card. No company should.
And they especially shouldn't keep extending credit after the first bill. If I maxed out my credit card, I wouldn't be given another by the same bank.
However, I do think the guy's debts after the first bill should stand. He knew he was running the bills up and continued to do so - the first bill might be ignorance, not the others.
If they put in protection, there would be millions of easy profits lost somewhere in the chain. Business is just never going to give a damn.
He says he felt unable to stop: ‘I was back calling them pretty much right away"
Surely a contender for the 2013 Darwin Awards.
Muppet
It is also lucky for those businesses that so many people just like to put the boot in, the Mail included
I suspect they will go down the debt collection route, then when he is unable to make a acceptable payment proposal, they'll go down the CCJ route.
Then that debt will follow him until he satisfies it.
Vodafone has cut total bill of £91,184 to £29,083 in 'goodwill'
Mr Waldrum has called the offer 'rubbish' and refuses to pay
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Not at all. He'll declare himself bankrupt and the debt will be written off.
He was cut off.
There, it's his own fault.
Has he not heard of the Samaritans, would a darn sight cheaper.
He should have done that in the first place.
Vodafone can't necessarily write it all off as they will be paying the premium rate provider regardless of if the customer pays up, I think they've done a reasonable gesture.
Although you have to question why Vodafone's system didn't flag it up earlier and why getting a new SIM card reactivated his account, you'd think they could suspend the account rather than shut off the SIM itself.