<william.hooper@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Get her to call three and say she wants the contact details of the
telephone regulator to lodge a complaint with them.

What about - how can he complain about herself for refusing to pay a bill ?

They might get
scared at that point, but probably not.

Yes, silly idea that one!

She will then have to write to
the regulator stating her case etc. A few weeks later they will get a
letter from the regulator and at that point will probably drop it.

They will definitely drop her letter in the bin. A regulator will not even
interfere in a case were a person has refused to pay and wants to end a
contract early without penalty.

I had a phone stolen from Vodafone and someone wracked up a £700 bill
overnight calling India despite my having a £100 a month call limit. I
refused to pay and after a few letters from them and a few letter from
me it they left it. I never got around to writing to the regulator and
they never got around to fixing a court date.

That is nothing to do with this, in your case the phone was stolen.

I am fairly sure that they will actually have to get a judgment in
court against her to send in the collectors. It's not like parking
offences where you are automatically guilty and it can quickly result
in your car being towed away from your house and sold at auction. Read
the letters very carefully, don't panic into paying the claimed
escalating bill - it's all bluster designed to make one cave in.


And so people should, there are far too many people putting companies out of
business by refusing to pay bills. Often they take out a contract and a
friend says "you could have got that cheaper" - so they try everything to
get out of a contract. You obviously have no idea of legal procedures and
you keep trying to make comparisons that do not really relate to the
original message.

I hope the person is made to pay in full.