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Dr Moriarty
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The ever-shifting sands of Eircon rates..!
Shufty, glad to see you splitting hairs again!
I noticed that that .pdf document is dated 18 March 2003 — nearly 18 months ago — so I decided to give them a ring (again!)
I wasn't making it up when I said I'd confirmed those rates I mentioned above; I'd actually checked on their online call calculator and taken the rates from — and verified same on 1901. But now, a few days later, that online call calculator gives rather different readouts — try it yourselves! So I rang 1901 again, asked to speak to a supervisor, told her that I was ringing on behalf of a business client and asked her to settle an argument we were having in the Finance Office regarding national call rates. She said she'd a "new sheet" on her desk as of this morning, and that the latest rates are as follows:
Call a national number (as in outside your local area) and pay
8.2c daytime
4.9c evening
1.26 weekends
But call the so-called "National rate" 0818 prefix, and you'll pay
7.7c daytime
5.1c evening
4.4c weekend
Go figure...:rolleyes
No wonder they don't dare list their tariffs in the 'phone book anymore. No wonder noone wants to buy their bloody shares (this time!). No wonder they've had to employ small armies of commission-only sharks, cold-calling and door-stepping gullible people in an attempt to "winback" [sic] some of the custom that's been haemorrhaging out of the company over the last year or two...
I'd love to see someone pull them up — under ASAI/Comreg regulations, maybe? — for all the conflicting (published) rates. As of now, both their online call calculator and their website rates sheet are inaccurate, each in different ways.
But then I suppose there are too many ex-ministerial cronies still on the board for something like that to happen..?
I swear, I'm going back to the pigeons!
Dr. M.
Shufty, glad to see you splitting hairs again!
I noticed that that .pdf document is dated 18 March 2003 — nearly 18 months ago — so I decided to give them a ring (again!)
I wasn't making it up when I said I'd confirmed those rates I mentioned above; I'd actually checked on their online call calculator and taken the rates from — and verified same on 1901. But now, a few days later, that online call calculator gives rather different readouts — try it yourselves! So I rang 1901 again, asked to speak to a supervisor, told her that I was ringing on behalf of a business client and asked her to settle an argument we were having in the Finance Office regarding national call rates. She said she'd a "new sheet" on her desk as of this morning, and that the latest rates are as follows:
Call a national number (as in outside your local area) and pay
8.2c daytime
4.9c evening
1.26 weekends
But call the so-called "National rate" 0818 prefix, and you'll pay
7.7c daytime
5.1c evening
4.4c weekend
Go figure...:rolleyes
No wonder they don't dare list their tariffs in the 'phone book anymore. No wonder noone wants to buy their bloody shares (this time!). No wonder they've had to employ small armies of commission-only sharks, cold-calling and door-stepping gullible people in an attempt to "winback" [sic] some of the custom that's been haemorrhaging out of the company over the last year or two...
I'd love to see someone pull them up — under ASAI/Comreg regulations, maybe? — for all the conflicting (published) rates. As of now, both their online call calculator and their website rates sheet are inaccurate, each in different ways.
But then I suppose there are too many ex-ministerial cronies still on the board for something like that to happen..?
I swear, I'm going back to the pigeons!
Dr. M.