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| Thread ID: 86304 | 2008-01-11 22:43:00 | taking companies down legally | mabix (10146) | PC World Chat |
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| 629535 | 2008-01-11 22:43:00 | does anyone know if it's possible to sue (bad speller) companies for unjust prices, etc? looking at vodafone |
mabix (10146) | ||
| 629536 | 2008-01-11 22:49:00 | does anyone know if it's possible to sue (bad speller) companies for unjust prices, etc? looking at vodafone Explain? |
plod (107) | ||
| 629537 | 2008-01-11 23:08:00 | does anyone know if it's possible to sue (bad speller) companies for unjust prices, etc? looking at vodafone Not sure what you mean. Companies can charge what they want in general, and the consumer doesn't need to buy from it. The commerce commision also keeps business in check, so you may want to fire a compliant to them. Also vodafone is a huge international company so they have very deep pockets. They are a far larger company than telecom which is mainly NZ owned these days. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 629538 | 2008-01-12 02:10:00 | does anyone know if it's possible to sue (bad speller) companies for unjust prices, etc? looking at vodafone You can't sue companies fro simply charging high prices because like robbyp said, you don't have to buy from them. Now if its was an absolute monopoly and not a duopoly like we have now AND they sold essential goods then maybe you could sue them but in this case you wouldn't;t have any legal grounds to stand upon. To successfully sue them, you would have to prove evidence of illegal activities such as Vodafone and Telecom forming a cartel or tacking on hidden charges or billing extra etc for you to win a case that way. High prices aren't illegal. They just suck. |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 629539 | 2008-01-12 19:00:00 | Mabix - I agree with you , their prices suck ! But they are about the same as Telecoms. (I assume you mean mobile phone charges) So I don't see how you could sue them as the "competition" is charging the same price ! I know the Commerce Commision is aware of their high prices for mobile phone calls in NZ and they have forced a drop in the "termination rate" which resulted in a small drop in Telcom's calls to mobile charge a few months ago by 3 cents per minute. But their charges are only slightly down from 79c a minute which is what they were when mobiles first came in in the 1980's !' What is needed is for hundreds and thousands of users to write letters in the newspapers, phone Telecom and Vodaphone, write to magazines like this one and write to their MP's to EMBARAASS these two companies into dropping their rates to around the average OECD level. I have already written to the Minsister of Communications and have had two good replies from him (on broadband) Regards Digby |
Digby (677) | ||
| 629540 | 2008-01-13 00:39:00 | Mabix - I agree with you , their prices suck ! But they are about the same as Telecoms. (I assume you mean mobile phone charges) So I don't see how you could sue them as the "competition" is charging the same price ! I know the Commerce Commision is aware of their high prices for mobile phone calls in NZ and they have forced a drop in the "termination rate" which resulted in a small drop in Telcom's calls to mobile charge a few months ago by 3 cents per minute. But their charges are only slightly down from 79c a minute which is what they were when mobiles first came in in the 1980's !' What is needed is for hundreds and thousands of users to write letters in the newspapers, phone Telecom and Vodaphone, write to magazines like this one and write to their MP's to EMBARAASS these two companies into dropping their rates to around the average OECD level. I have already written to the Minsister of Communications and have had two good replies from him (on broadband) Regards Digby If the government built a Wimax network, we could do away with these cellphone companies, and their networks would be useless. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 629541 | 2008-01-13 00:44:00 | Are we turning into Texas or what? | --Wolf-- (128) | ||
| 629542 | 2008-01-13 01:06:00 | Mabix - I agree with you , their prices suck ! But they are about the same as Telecoms. (I assume you mean mobile phone charges) So I don't see how you could sue them as the "competition" is charging the same price ! I know the Commerce Commision is aware of their high prices for mobile phone calls in NZ and they have forced a drop in the "termination rate" which resulted in a small drop in Telcom's calls to mobile charge a few months ago by 3 cents per minute. But their charges are only slightly down from 79c a minute which is what they were when mobiles first came in in the 1980's !' What is needed is for hundreds and thousands of users to write letters in the newspapers, phone Telecom and Vodaphone, write to magazines like this one and write to their MP's to EMBARAASS these two companies into dropping their rates to around the average OECD level. I have already written to the Minsister of Communications and have had two good replies from him (on broadband) Regards Digby Not sure how you would embarrass them since everyone already knows how expensive the are and what a rip-off compared to the rest of the OECD. Even if they were embarrassed, then why would they drop their prices since they are the only 2 competitors/ |
beeswax34 (63) | ||
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