Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>> It's fairly stupid for Telstra not to keep those details.

>>> How on earth is any carrier actually able to keep those details?

>>> They can and do keep details of who you SMS, but they dont keep details of the content of the SMS

>> Then the Telstra gets to (1) wear the cost of challenged premium
>> SMSs; (2) recover from SOLMOB the cost of challenged premium SMSs; or (3) contact SOLMOB itself and obtain the
>> information required to justify the premium SMS charges.

> Or you can just avoid beating round the bush by the customer calling them direct.

Telstra is the one claiming that they are entitled to charge that.

Telstra gets to substantiate that claim, you stupid dunny cleaning fuckwit child.

>>>> If the OP didn't in fact sign up for the service, he's under no obligation to contact SOLMOB at all.

>>> And then there is the real world.

>>> You think 3rd party charging on all networks is illegal or legally untenable?

>> No. But if the customer challenges the charges, Telstra needs to be able to prove that the service was requested.
>> It can do that by obtaining the

> Which they can do by getting the customer to request the info from SOLMOB

Wrong, legally.

>>>>> There is a fuckwit born every minute

>>>> Are you suggesting that people DO knowingly sign up for to receive
>>>> fortune cookie quotations at $6.60 each, and are for that reason fuckwits?

>>> Yes

>> Plainly, the OP doesn't fall into that category.

> The OP *claims* not to fall into that category. How do you know it isnt a son or daughter or someone else?

Its telstra that gets to prove that thats who ran up
the charge, you stupid dunny cleaning fuckwit child.

> Used to remind me of when I knew colleagues who worked in a call centre. Father swore black and blue that no one in
> the house made those calls to 1900 sex lines. Oh hang on, he will just check with his 14-year old son . . . then he'd
> get off the phone saying "ill sort it out in the family"

> Just because the op physically didnt make the charge himself, doesnt mean someone didnt with access to the service

Its telstra that gets to prove that thats who ran up
the charge, you stupid dunny cleaning fuckwit child.

>> At worst, he accidentally signed up for the 'service' without realizing that he was doing so.

> Which is fine. And if he wants further details he just needs to make a call to SOLMOB.

Nope, telstra gets to substantiate its claim that he did that.

> 25c call.

Only in your pathetic little drug crazed fantasyland.

Makes a lot more sense to spend 0c and call the TIO instead.