Troubles with internet provider (payment and fee)

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lovelyjet
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Troubles with internet provider (payment and fee)

Post by lovelyjet » Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:07 pm

Hi,

I stayed in a small city in Finland from Sep 2012 to June 2013, I have a contract with a internet provider from Sep 2012 to Jan 2013. During the contract, I somehow forget to pay in October. In the end of December, I came to terminate the internet contract, stated that I want to pay the rest of the contract at once, they have me paid for only December and January (Oct was not mentioned). In mid January, they suddenly cut my internet connection without any prior notice, saying I hadn't paid for Oct and instructed me to pay for that month (extra fee was not mentioned) to reopen the line for a few days left in the contract. I paid for Oct and the internet got back on. I moved to a new address in that month. And few months later I moved to a new city.

Just a few days ago I received a debt collection letter. I called the internet provider and they sent me scanned invoices. These invoices include connection reopening (which was never mentioned) and fine plus interest for not paying this fee for 4 months. I have never received such invoices in my life so I looked at the address - they sent them to a strange address that was never mine!!

I have already sent my complaint to the internet provider company, but they insist that I have to pay. What else should I do in this situation? :(
Last edited by lovelyjet on Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:09 pm, edited 1 time in total.



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lovelyjet
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Re: Troubles with internet provider (payment and fee)

Post by lovelyjet » Thu Jun 13, 2013 1:08 pm

Double post....

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rinso
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Re: Troubles with internet provider (payment and fee)

Post by rinso » Thu Jun 13, 2013 6:41 pm

What else should I do in this situation?
Pay. The debt collecting agency will not go away. The collecting costs can only increase.

You can try to reason with the internet provider and get (some) of your money back.
But if I understand your story correctly, you did not pay some of your bills so it looks they are in the right.

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Re: Troubles with internet provider (payment and fee)

Post by Bee » Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:55 pm

Now hold on! They definitely can't charge you the 4 months worth of interest if they've sent the bills to an address where you've never lived. I don't know about the other charges, because i'm a little confused about all this but maybe contact the Finnish Consumer advisor http://www.kuluttajavirasto.fi/en-GB/co ... r-advisor/

lovelyjet
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Re: Troubles with internet provider (payment and fee)

Post by lovelyjet » Wed Jul 24, 2013 2:24 am

Hi thanks for the advice. Luckily for me, all fees were waived. I talked with a very nice lady from the provider who solved all the issues for me. They had something wrong with their system that generate some invoices by mistake. Posti is also at fault when informed the provider the wrong address after I moved. In fact I only had to pay 5 eur from the very beginning (instead of ~100eur after 4 months), they waived that invoice for me too, as an apology to the hassle they made. What a nice provider! :D


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