Rant.
Apparently VAT is going up again soon - so sayeth the message I just received from my mobile network. Apparently this means the cost of sending a text message is going to rise by 10%. Funny, I didn't see the fucking things getting any cheaper when VAT went down. And is a 10% increase in the cost of this service really in proportion with what will likely only be a couple of % increase in VAT? Any excuse to milk your customers a little more, eh? Cunts.
/Rant
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 12:21, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

You pay for text for messages?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 12:23, Reply)

Not quite, but I do pay to send missives comprised of text.
Being a tight-fisted old scrote, I am the sort to stick with a pay-as-you-go set up and make £10 worth of credit last as long as I damn well can.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 12:26, Reply)

Fair enough
But some of the contract deals are really competative and included unlimited text/Internet for not a huge amount every month.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 12:27, Reply)

Yeah, I looked into a few of them.
But when my average expenditure probably varies between £10-20 a month, the contracts really would have to work at it to sway me. I guess the replacement phone would be the only incentive, but then I really can't be doing with these flashy modern ones.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 12:30, Reply)

£10 a month gets me 12,000 text messages on PAYG and my £10 left over to make calls with.
although they still charge me for messaging Barry from the Gay Exchange.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 12:28, Reply)

Twelve thousand texts?
That would last me more than one lifetime.
(Cave Duck, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 12:40, Reply)

The country's broke and we have royal weddings to pay for
i'm sure HMRC know what they're doing
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 12:25, Reply)

actually, they most certainly do.
sadly, the chancellor and the government doesn't have a fucking clue.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 12:26, Reply)

This would be the same HMRC that ultimately answers to George Osborne?
It's not the VAT rise I mind so much as the fact that my network seems to think a 10% rise in the cost of its service is justifiable the minute VAT rises.

(Though I will start to seriously question the VAT rise if the Royal Fucking Wedding looks in the slightest bit extravagant.)
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 12:28, Reply)

George "The Irish have a lot to teach us about running an economy" Osborne

( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 24 Nov 2010, 13:11, Reply)