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Talk. Talk Reviews. I would like to add my voice to the ranks of disgruntled talktalk customers. It disheartens me in a way because I until this year was fairly happy with their service. Read on if you want to know exactly why NOT to sign up to talktalk.
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I have been with talktalk since 2. February 1. 8th this year 2. OK. Good speeds.. In 2. 01. 0 for example I was getting download speeds of up to 1. Never really had any reason to call the helplines or call centres, very rarely did so. My problems really began in October 2.
I went to renew the service and they persuaded me to go for the TV package etc. Anyway after making the point that I didn’t have a TV or would not be using this service they assured me that … take it anyway and you’ll qualify for a reduced rental even if you never use it. I before a made a verbal agreement added that “I agree with the proviso as long as what you say is correct”.
TalkTalk Reviews. Sometimes the best way to get a feel for a broadband provider is to read what those who are already customers think of the service they're receiving. At first glance, this seems like any other Nissan 350Z you may encounter on the road: it’s silver-gray, it has a manual, and it has a fairly sparse interior. It’s. The Irony trope as used in popular culture. The intended meaning is an inversion of the plain meaning. Pretty simple, really, but somehow a difficult concept. The upcoming total solar eclipse is a major event for astronomers, but the lead-up to the big day is a cartographer’s dream. From the simple slash of the path of.
They do record they conversations so you can prove it if you go via the Subject data access request legislation. So I went for it. Anyway just before February I get a letter through the post saying that they had made a mistake with the pricing for a number of customers and that we (I) owed them an additional £5. At this point I jumped into gear and phoned them to say I would not pay them and that I was assured that this was all part of a deal whether or not I used the TV package (which I never have and never will do and told them so before agreeing).
I reminded them of the subject data access legislation and that I’d specifically added in the words subject to it being as they promised before agreeing to their verbal contract. To cut to the chase they agreed to wipe out the £5. And I had to make sure by taking the name of the person who agreed this and a reference number. I thought it wise as they clearly reneged on the original agreement). Again it wasn’t as clear cut as first mentioned… I had to keep phoning each month to make sure they hadn’t taken £1. I did get this refunded I add, but why should I have this hassle with their mistakes.
Now with most of the call centres in Mumbai I realised what the internet blogs were moaning about. And to be fair though some of these people do actually try and help but it often isn’t realistic considering the distance away and the culture differences & language nuances which they simply don’t twig. Now that phrase would perplex most of them) Same with us … I remember a lady asked me a security question for my first pit.
And I thought what is she on about. So I asked again and she first pit… I said pit? Your dog your cat your pit… ah pet!
Benny Hill would have laughed too and done a comedy routine from this gem. The problems were not confined to this however. Firstly the new online billing went from a fairly straightforward easy to understand format to a new design featuring a complex set of discounts obscure charges and tariffs which essentially was designed to confuse. You would have to have a Cambridge university degree in maths to understand these. Withstanding all that I tolerated it but the next talktalk event was to change that.
Come one evening in February whilst I was on the net looking my bank details suddenly the internet went offline and I went to the phone and that too was dead, the next day, still dead, no sound, no net, nothing. I used my mobile to phone my family and a get talktalk contact number which isn’t 0.
I can phone talktalk via mobile. Anyway the talktalk operator did try and help and within an hour a BT openreach engineer came round and checked my phone setup. He then went up the road to a junction box & after 4.
Anyway after faffing around with his mobile to BT’s exchange he eventually gets my phone going. But it isn’t the same, it is noisy and the internet seems slower but the BT engineer says it will settle down in 2. Well it didn’t; it is now August and I have had enough. I have phoned 2 or 3 times a week and sometimes a day since February..
I’ve had enough of phoning through to talktalk the same old script of a Indian guy or woman in Pakistan or India telling me put a new micro filter on, turn modem off for 1. Etc. Their line of attack is to try and scare you with the notion that it is some item of your computer equipment that is faulty rather than admit it is their supply line of they will do that if you don’t prove otherwise and it is another hefty charge. I reiterated I had already one of their engineers call. A Polish talktalk engineer came round to the property, seen that I’ve got 2 computers, 2 telephones, 1. Ethernet cables, 2 routers one of which is theirs, 2.
BT some never used in packets. And before they could try and insinuate it’s my power supply … a UPS (uninterruptable power supply). I told him to arrange it in any order he wished and show me how it was my equipment that was faulty. He had to agree that the “fault” was somewhere on their circuit rather than mine. I claim breach of contract because they have failed to deliver a service that was promised and it is unfit for purpose especially if the TV package was supposed to work.
This service as it stands can’t hold up email properly let alone iplayer downloads etc. Now are these events connected? I don’t know for sure but it does seem a bit of a coincidence particularly when I was a satisfied customer for 9 years…. My service now is much the same as described on here by other customers. I suspect this so- called fibre broadband what they’re flogging now I had, and probably I was on the fibre feed and they or BT have switched my line over to someone else and I’ve the rubbish line they had. Well I will move from these and give the post office for phones a try on the monthly contract and for internet it will be plusnet for the same type of monthly contract if possible.
Or I will disconnect the home phone and go to three network payg and use my 3. It works btw….. Talktalk are now giving a poor supply service and using tactics like obscure and obfuscated billing. Disjointed customer call centres with no proper logging of your complaint records. Sales tactics of promising all wonder of discounts and assuring it is all proper and there will nothing more to pay … only to find they a few months later they do change it. And it is difficult to prove unless you too record the calls..
Paying in advance by credit card can sometimes help but they make this difficult to do. Finally when you do complain of slow speeds, slow internet and downloads they try and imply it is your equipment that is at fault and scare you with the £6. I suspect they use this if you cannot prove it isn’t.
They seem to do this even when they know it is their supply that is faulty rather than accept there is no fault of the customer. Talktalk . the writing is on the wall … go anywhere but there.
Red John - Wikipedia. Red John is a fictional character and the primary antagonist of the CBS crime drama The Mentalist for the first five seasons and half of the sixth. As a serial killer, he is believed to have begun his killing spree in 1. California, Nevada, and Mexico, throughout his murder spree. Five years prior to the action of the first episode, he murdered the wife and the daughter of Patrick Jane (Simon Baker), making Jane his dedicated nemesis. In the season 3 finale, "Strawberries and Cream (Part 2)", Jane encounters a man (played by Bradley Whitford) in a shopping mall who convinces him he is Red John and whom he subsequently kills.
However, after this "cliffhanger" episode, over the course of the first several episodes of season 4, Jane determines that the man he killed, Timothy Carter, although a psychopathic killer himself, was not Red John but one of the killer's many operatives. In season 5's "Red Sails in the Sunset", Lorelei Martins (Emmanuelle Chriqui), a Red John operative, who goes astray after Jane convinces her that Red John murdered her sister, Miranda, accidentally reveals to Jane that he has already met Red John and shaken his hand. Jane compiles a list of men whose hands he has shaken and eventually narrows the list to seven names. Lorelei, however, is captured by Red John, whom she refused to name to Jane, breaking a promise she had made, and reads a pre- mortem message from Red John threatening to go back to killing "a lot" until Jane captures Red John or vice versa.
In Lorelei's message from Red John, she names the seven men Jane had narrowed down his list to include, indicating that somehow Red John has gotten inside Jane's mind, although Red John doesn't deny being one of the seven men. In the season 6 episode "Red John", the eponymous serial killer's identity is revealed to be Thomas Mc. Allister, the sheriff of Napa County, portrayed by Xander Berkeley. After unmasking himself to Patrick Jane, Mc. Allister discloses that he is the founder and overall leader of the secret organization known as the Blake Association.
TV Guide included Red John in its 2. The 6. 0 Nastiest Villains of All Time".[1]Character profile[edit]Patrick Jane relentlessly pursues Red John, and ultimately in season 5 narrows his list of suspects to seven. The number of people in series who claim to have met "Red John" is limited. Although Patrick Jane learns that he has met Red John and shaken his hand at some point, he only discovers Red John's true identity midway through season 6. The Face and other signatures[edit]As part of his criminal signature, Red John draws a smiley face on the wall with the blood of the victim—always clockwise (except when it was portrayed in skywriting in "Red John's Footsteps"), using the three fingers of his rubber- gloved right hand. Jane says in the pilot episode, "Red John thinks of himself as a showman; an artist.
He has a strong sense of theater .. You see the face first and you know. You know what's happened and you feel dread. Then, and only then do you see the body of the victim.
Always in that order."Jane uses this information to work out that an apparent Red John murder was a copycat crime. Red John has twice painted his victim's toenails with their own blood. Both were female. The first was Patrick Jane's wife, Angela, to strike a personal blow against Jane for derogatory comments Jane made on television about Red John. Years later, knowing the case would be intercepted by the California Bureau of Investigation team and that the reminder of his wife's death would make Jane furious, Red John painted the toenails of a young girl, to lead Jane into a trap. Red John's victims have been mostly female, with some exceptions, such as Jared Renfrew (Todd Stashwick) in the season 1 episode "Red John's Friends", a man Jane helped to be released from prison on the condition he would give Jane information on the whereabouts of Red John. Fearing Red John, the man escaped Jane's custody before giving any relevant information.
Later that day, the man contacted Jane to explain that he would be of no further assistance, although this doesn't save Renfrew's life. Jane used background noises from the conversation as a starting point to find this man, but Red John got to him first, killing both Renfrew and the prostitute Renfrew had been with. In the season 2 episode "His Red Right Hand", it is revealed another man was killed when he interrupted his wife's murder at the hand of Red John. Jane believes this occurred early in Red John's career and that Red John made a "mistake" due to his inexperience. Jane believes Red John removed the body from the crime scene (something he had otherwise not done) to bury the mistake. In the season 2 finale "Red Sky in the Morning", Red John and Jane meet when Red John rescues Jane from kidnappers; however Red John wears a mask that obscures his face. Red John also kills the two kidnappers, one of whom was male, but leaves alive a boy who the kidnappers blackmailed into looking like a criminal.
In the season 4 episode "Blinking Red Light", Red John kills James Panzer, a blogger and serial killer known as the San Joaquin killer, after Panzer has been goaded by Jane into insulting Red John on television. Jane did this because he could think of no other way to protect society from Panzer. In the season 4 premiere "Scarlet Ribbons", Patrick Jane says that Red John's victims are "nearly all women, late at night, in their homes. He wakes them first, because he likes to see the fear in their eyes. He likes to hear them beg for mercy as he cuts them open."In the season 2 episode "The Scarlet Letter", Jane tells Senior Special Agent Sam Bosco (Terry Kinney) that "Red John doesn't make mistakes. He doesn't leave clues.
If you have new evidence, it's because he wants you to have it. The question isn't 'What does it mean?'; it's 'Why did he give it to you?'"Bruno Heller, show's creator, has said that Red John isn't a "pathetic loser who is hiding out in a basement somewhere", and that Jane is "not fighting the Green River Killer. He's fighting Moriarty."[2] In addition, "Jane and the audience are coming to the gradual realization that this is a much larger task than it seemed at first. It's like those Amazon tribesmen who throw spears at passing airplanes, then come to realize those planes are the seeds of a much larger civilization that is coming down on them." Like Moriarty, Red John has a network of agents, willing to kill or to die for him. In a radio interview Heller has also stated: "Red John is really just a personification of death, I mean it's that simple. Patrick Jane is very much alive and is very much about being alive in the face of death.
And Red John is the fate that awaits us all in the end."[3]Tyger Tyger Conspiracy: The Blake Association[edit]In season 2's finale episode "Red Sky in the Morning", a William Blake theme is introduced, when a person, whom we believe at the time to be Red John, saves Patrick Jane from being killed under the direction of deranged slasher- movie makers Ruth and Dylan. Jane is tied with saran wrap to a chair and, while he is immobilized, Red John recites the first verse of the William Blake poem "Tyger Tyger": Tyger! Tyger! burning bright. In the forests of the night. What immortal hand or eye. Could frame thy fearful symmetry? In subsequent episodes (season 3), Jane wonders about this but doesn't tell anyone that Red John recited it to him.
In episode 9 of season 3 (Red Moon), serial cop killer Todd Johnson is burned alive. While in the ICU, with Jane the only person present, Johnson whispers in his dying breath "Tyger! Tyger!". This makes Jane conclude that there is a connection between Johnson and Red John, but he doesn't tell anyone about this either. During subsequent episodes, it becomes clear that Red John either has an inside man in the CBI or is himself working within the CBI. In season 3's "Red Queen", the new director of the CBI, Gale Bertram (Michael Gaston), also recites William Blake.