Optus? AAPT? Telstra? Advice please peoples.

[Winmar]

I'm in the process of moving house, and will need to get the phone hooked up. I don't make a lot of calls, but will use the internet on most days. So, can anyone recommend which phone company to hook up with? I suppose I'll have to sign up with an isp too, won't I?

Thanking you much in advance, metal peoples of Australia.

 

[Shannow]

Dunno, but after misleading and pushy salespeople, I will NEVER use AAPT.

Get this, one day I come home from work, and there's this dodgy looking guy hanging around my front yard (turns out he freaked out the missus, and she asked him to wait outside 'till I got home).

I ask him what he's doing, and he advises that he's from AAPT (shows credentials), and has to come inside, use my phone, and activate a new service that's now available in my area.

I ask him to repeat, and he does.

So I ask if this "service" is actually changing provider to AAPT. He tells me that it is.

I asked why he didn't tell me up front what he was doing, but tried to con us into doing it by lying.

Then he blew, up, telling me that we'd save heaps of money, and we were idiots for not wanting to change, and that he was doing us a favour.

I told him to fuck off, then rang AAPT, who promised to "do something" and get back to me.

They haven't but it's only been a couple of years now.

 

[Winmar]

That's really really bad!

 

[phlogiston]

If you don't make a lot of calls but use the internet a lot I'd look at the option of getting a cheap mobile phone plan and a permanent internet link.

 

[Lord Tim]

If you go mobile, long distance and internet, go Optus - their Yes Rewards thing gives you heaps of good stuff, like free calls and discounts for the net, etc.

http://www.optus.com.au/Vign/ViewMgmt/display/0,2627,1038_35573-3_6748--View_354,00.html

 

[weetbix]

I can recommend someone to not go with, but then that's coz I work for them and know their dodgy system intimately. Somewhat biased

 

[KoichCPA]

Brent, I think that would be of assistance also.

 

[Southy]

I think the unity here is all iPrimus, its good apprently

 

[Winmar]

Thanks peoples, I'll have a further look. Decisions, decisions....

So, who do you work for, weetbix?

 

[weetbix]

It was ihug until it was bought out. Still known as ihug in the meantime though

The best thing we got going is the price for local calls is not too bad. Can't compete with some of the other bundled deals though....

 

[weetbix]

Oh, Arcane if you read this .... move along and ignore this thread

 

[Goreripper]

Dunno, but after misleading and pushy salespeople, I will NEVER use AAPT.

Get this, one day I come home from work, and there's this dodgy looking guy hanging around my front yard (turns out he freaked out the missus, and she asked him to wait outside 'till I got home).

I ask him what he's doing, and he advises that he's from AAPT (shows credentials), and has to come inside, use my phone, and activate a new service that's now available in my area.

I ask him to repeat, and he does.

So I ask if this "service" is actually changing provider to AAPT. He tells me that it is.

I asked why he didn't tell me up front what he was doing, but tried to con us into doing it by lying.

Then he blew, up, telling me that we'd save heaps of money, and we were idiots for not wanting to change, and that he was doing us a favour.

I told him to fuck off, then rang AAPT, who promised to "do something" and get back to me.

They haven't but it's only been a couple of years now.

Good to know I'm not the only one they tried this on. I actually signed up with them briefly. I was told by their sales rep that it would be a local call service only (I didn't want a long-distance service from them because I had good long-distance service from Telstra). A month later, I got my bill and discovered that it was for full service! I checked the contract, and lo and behold, I'd signed up for full service even though the guy told me it was for local calls only. Shows you that you should read what you're about to sign. Anyhow, I switched back to Telstra immediately, as I had a payment plan with them (which AAPT doesn't have: don't pay on time? Disconnected instantly!) and never paid the bill. I still haven't paid it. AAPT is evil. Even more evil than AOL, and we know how evil that is.

 

[Shannow]

Gorey,
when I was at my parents place Mum was telling me how they treated her the same as our experiences.

Dunno why she signed up, but she reckons it was the only way to get rid of the salesman.

 

[phlogiston]

Something similar almost happened to me. But when I told them my partner worked for Telstra (which she did) they went away.

Maybe that would be a strategy to employ in the future?

 

[Southy]

grab em by the fucking ears and headbutt the cunts, or offend them, that works too

 

[Goreripper]

Oh the next time an AAPT guy comes to the door I'll be giving him a 10 second headstart before I start chasing him an my axe. And I can run quite fast.

 

[Shannow]

I've only got a tomahawk :sniff:

 

[Goreripper]

They're still good! Nothing buries in the skull better than a good tomahawk! Just ask Eddie.

 

[Shannow]

Good point....headbutt, followed by a tomahawk.

Might just work

 

[Winmar]

Well nobody's gonna mess with Terry then, what with his stash of semi-automatic duck hunting weapons!

AAPT sound bad. They can fuck right off.