This completely boggles my mind. When I moved over to this side of the pond I thought long and hard about what to do with my mobile. It doesn’t work in the US, but it’s still dead handy when I’m back in the UK. Obviously, I don’t want to be paying twenty quid a month for something I’m not going to use for eleven months of the year, so I changed my service plan to one where there’s no line rental and you’re simply billed for the calls you make.
This worked fine, up until last month. Dad told me I had a bill for about three quid. This didn’t make sense. I’ve got the phone and it’s not been connected to the Orange network for a few months. I’m not paying insurance on it. What was this charge?
Orange think it’s in your best interests (and theirs) to pay your monthly bill by direct debit. In fact they’re so keen for you to do this that they charge you three quid a month on top of your bill if you don’t. My monthly bill is £0.00. So, to avoid paying the fee, I now need to ring my UK bank and ask them to set up a direct debit to pay Orange £0.00 per month, which is patently stupid – even more stupid than this, this, and this. Okay, maybe not the last one.
Oh, and who actually eats the back of a chicken? What does it matter if the back gets soggy?
