£91,000 phone bill calling chatlines

FFS, I have a serious word with myself if I go over £100/month. What an idiot!!!!

He only went to the papers because he saw it as a way to wriggle out of paying by portraying himself as the victim. It's clear from his twitter he was bragging about what he spent so he knew exactly what it was costing and still calling long after Vodafone cut him off so even a £91k bill didn't put him off.
It maybe hasn't done the channels any favours but, at the end of the day, Vodafone's poor credit control isn't their problem.

(09-04-2013 00:04 )RESPONSIBLE ADULT Wrote:  Rammy you worry me. You cannot help yourself from defending these programmes no matter what. Trickster is just pointing out the underhanded depths these despicable cretins will go to to get their hands on peoples money. And what do you do? You condemn the paying customer. Where Trickster is wrong is in describing the callers lonely etc, not all are lonely, just obsessively strange sex starved weirdos who get a stiff cock listening to some tattood trollop calling him baby on a premium phone line. But that doesn't give the twats the right to rip the weirdo off.

It's not you, is it?

FFS, I have a serious word with myself if I go over £100/month. What an idiot!!!!

He only went to the papers because he saw it as a way to wriggle out of paying by portraying himself as the victim. It's clear from his twitter he was bragging about what he spent so he knew exactly what it was costing and was still calling long after Vodafone cut him off so even a £91k bill didn't put him off.
It maybe hasn't done the channels any favours but, at the end of the day, Vodafone's poor credit control isn't their problem.

Also, he's probably cost 'normal' callers alot of money by hogging the lines so much so that they couldn't get through to the babes themselves.

(09-04-2013 07:15 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Having watched the shows last night and this morning he does have a point about the cost being not that visible on the screen and its not just S66 its every channel when u compare the size of text of the cost to the text size and clarity of the actual phone number its miniscule and hardly readable

that said there was plenty of other warnings

Yeah, it's not a credible excuse really. The recorded message at the start of each call tells you the cost.

Regardless of how the cost is being shown, it should be obvious to anyone that calling anyone (sex chat, normal landline, other mobile) from a mobile for 16 hours a day + is not going to be cheap!

I have no sympathy for the moron, he was living a double life pretenting to models he was some sort of millionare or whatever other nonsence he was spinning to impress them, (they all see through it and know people are NOT what they say when they call them up) he knew what he was up to and his twitter feed proves that with his constant acceptance and promotion to the channels of his debt

we will probably soon hear about a massive credit card debt where he has been stupid enough to buy them louboutin shoes and gucci handbags from wishlists

This story reminds me of this himym episode

(09-04-2013 09:11 )The Silent Majority Wrote:  FFS, I have a serious word with myself if I go over £100/month. What an idiot!!!!

He only went to the papers because he saw it as a way to wriggle out of paying by portraying himself as the victim. It's clear from his twitter he was bragging about what he spent so he knew exactly what it was costing and was still calling long after Vodafone cut him off so even a £91k bill didn't put him off.
It maybe hasn't done the channels any favours but, at the end of the day, Vodafone's poor credit control isn't their problem.

Also, he's probably cost 'normal' callers alot of money by hogging the lines so much so that they couldn't get through to the babes themselves.

(09-04-2013 07:15 )HannahsPet Wrote:  Having watched the shows last night and this morning he does have a point about the cost being not that visible on the screen and its not just S66 its every channel when u compare the size of text of the cost to the text size and clarity of the actual phone number its miniscule and hardly readable

that said there was plenty of other warnings

Yeah, it's not a credible excuse really. The recorded message at the start of each call tells you the cost.

pretty much in agreement thesilentmajority. it's got nothing to do with ofcom, nothing at all to do with the costs of calling and definately hasnt made the babeshows any tamer or worse than they already are at the moment and not made the babes wear 2 pairs of knickers

for me its simply that this person spent all this money calling the shows and boasted about it in an attempt to get dates etc with the babes and when the babes stood up to him and not give him what he wanted, he turned unpleasant towards them and when he saw how much he had spent (nearly £100,000) he went running to the papers and spun a story to potray him as the victim and blaming everyone apart from himself.

thankfully it hasnt worked and all the comments ive seen on the newspaper sites this story is on, have all been pretty unanimous in having a go at him

Don't telephone services come with a limit on their use, for example like a credit card automatically has a credit limit attached to it? It seems odd to me that anyone would be allowed to ring up such a large bill in the first place. Is there normally no cap on what spend you can make on a mobile phone?

(09-04-2013 01:56 )Scottishbloke Wrote:  Could this one islolated incident be the catalyst for ever increasing dull shows so as to dissuade anymore of his type ringing in

Why would that work? Who said he was interested in what the shows were like? Where did he say that? It seems highly unlikely that what the shows were like had any relevance at all to him. How can you dissaude someone who when his SIM card is blocked to stop him calling simply finds a way of getting another one.

(09-04-2013 11:18 )BarrieBF Wrote:  Is there normally no cap on what spend you can make on a mobile phone?

Some providers allow you to set a credit limit. But according to the Vodafone website they don't offer this facility because a credit limit "relies on billing information, and billing information can be delayed up to 72 hours. So any limit set cannot be guaranteed for this reason". With the providers that do allow credit limits it seems to be optional anyway, i.e. they only impose a credit limit if you specifically ask them to.

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I think Kev became convinced he was actually getting somewhere with some of the girls and that's the reason he couldn't stop calling.