Annoying Telstra

[Mickyj]

Topic tittle says it all .Over the last couple of years they have called and called and called .Had the odd knock at the door .Including tonight
I've been told everything over the last couple of years from
1 you owe us money
2 you have to pay us for line rental
3 your the only customer left in this area/street who is not with Telstra
4 you are paying someone else for line rental and we have a complaint about you paying another company for line rental
5 and after the last one do you actually have a land-line

And these damn Telstra don't accept that we are happy with our current internet / phone provider .
You should have seen their face tonight when I said we have not been with Telstra for between 15 to 17 years.

Why wont they take no as an answer!!!

[HH3]

I posted about a bill i had that shouldnt have existed in another thread...was told it got sorted and finished...yesterday got another overdue bill in the post...

[devilsadvocate]

You guys heard of voip using naked adsl?
It works. Brilliantly. No line rental. No telstra. No annoying incompetence from australias most poorly run business.
Get on it!

[Pseudo]

A while back Tel$tra starting sending our bill to two-doors-down and vice versa, for no good reason. I didn't realise we weren't getting our bill until they cut us off for non-payment.

[Mickyj]

You guys heard of voip using naked adsl?
It works. Brilliantly. No line rental. No telstra. No annoying incompetence from australias most poorly run business.
Get on it!

I'm not with them and they wont leave me alone .
I still think they'd be knocking at my door with voip .

Perhaps a no hawker sign or hawkers will be shot and buried sign is in need .

[fisho mcspaz]

We just got rid of Telstra a couple of weeks ago and went with Adam Internet instead. We get the employee rates but even if we didn't it'd still equate to about $100 less per quarter. Best thing - no having to ring up Telstra and cancel the connection, Adam did that for us. Every time I've rung Telstra telling them, 'I can't really afford this, I'd like to downgrade my plan' they tried to sell me something else.

[The Ash Man]

I had a guy of sub-continent appearance knock on my front door a few weeks back.

He knocked and held the screen door open, should have seen his face when I opened the other door and my Weimaraner ran at him, PRICELESS!!

He then tried to convince me I need a home phone, I simply called the dog back to the front door!

[gadj1976]

My wife was confronted with a salesman from Telstra attempting to convince her that we are the only people in the street not on Telstra and after conversing with her for a few mintues said "can I have a drink of water, it's very hot". Strange.

[Blacky]

i had a bloke from foxtel knock on the door
wanted to know if i wanted foxtel i said no
he said you are the only one in the street without foxtel
i said good if i want to watch something on foxtel
I WILL GO NEXT DOOR
look on his face priceless

[locky801]

I must be the fortunate one, been with Telstra for years, never had a problem with them, have a great phone( home and 2 mobiles) , Foxtel and Internet package with them, probably just put the mockers on myself now

[Mickyj]

i had a bloke from foxtel knock on the door
wanted to know if i wanted foxtel i said no
he said you are the only one in the street without foxtel
i said good if i want to watch something on foxtel
I WILL GO NEXT DOOR
look on his face priceless

actually that was something that really upset one of these Telstra idiots a few months back .How do u pay for foxtel direct debit no you should pay for it on your telstra bill !! yeah right door closed in his face and that one just stood there for about 5 minutes!!

[Mickyj]

I must be the fortunate one, been with Telstra for years, never had a problem with them, have a great phone( home and 2 mobiles) , Foxtel and Internet package with them, probably just put the mockers on myself now

Nah Locky they wont those of us who aren't customers .
Found out today one lady I work with got rid of her landline phone as Telstra phoned her every night at dinner time !! She said no landline no telstra calls fixed !!

[godoubleblues]

I must be the fortunate one, been with Telstra for years, never had a problem with them, have a great phone( home and 2 mobiles) , Foxtel and Internet package with them, probably just put the mockers on myself now

I am the same as you locky, home phone, 2 mobiles, foxtel and I have never had a problem over many years. me and the missus can make calls to each other for nothing
although I am looking at getting rid of the home phone and going naked adsl (hopefully) with my ISP as we only really have the home line for internet

[dedja]

I must be the fortunate one, been with Telstra for years, never had a problem with them, have a great phone( home and 2 mobiles) , Foxtel and Internet package with them, probably just put the mockers on myself now

that's great news but they're screwing you for the privilege ...

[heater31]

i had a bloke from foxtel knock on the door
wanted to know if i wanted foxtel i said no
he said you are the only one in the street without foxtel
i said good if i want to watch something on foxtel
I WILL GO NEXT DOOR
look on his face priceless

Similar experience,

talking about what I like to watch on TV and sports came up. I said yes I like to watch my sport on tv. spiel about watching fox sports yada yada. I responded I just bought a Set top box and like what One HD offer. Good day and shut the door to a stunned salesman

[Psyber]

I haven't been bothered by Telstra callers, but I've had door knockers from Foxtel, Optus, and the Jehovah's Witnesses. Only the JWs were not Indian..
I'm glad to know some of you are keeping up my dividends from my Telstra shares, though I've just written to shareholder services pointing out why I as a shareholder don't use any of their services myself...