ISP complaints

[PhilT]

@tomaz1940

Thank you. I have considered TIO and ACCC but chose to await the next performance of the debt-collector (a powerful firm of solicitors); I’ve had ONE conversation during which I explained it all - perhaps that is an end. Who knows?

… months later

@tomaz1940

This IS still pestering me with a phone text message almost every month out of Sydney and the cost has increased to $280 (I think).

The relationship between your iinet experience, ‘not-free public wifi’, and this debt is not completely obvious. If they are related you apparently chose to ‘wait and see’ and now have a $280 debt.

@tomaz1940

It occurred to me that ISP’s, in general, probably have many clients on some contract permitting the taking of a pre-payment for Service which only the ISP and the Bank can stop. …It seems, to me, to be a weakness in the construct of the Bankcard administration/design

If you have not seen it, this thread covers credit and debit cards and why debits are treated differently, with reference links, regarding blocking or cancelling.