{"id":1804,"date":"2014-03-13T15:43:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T15:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2014-03-13T15:44:14","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T15:44:14","slug":"i-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/03\/i-win\/","title":{"rendered":"I win!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I always win.<br \/>\nWhen I transferred my phone service to virgin in February I was surprised to receive a letter from talktalk to tell me I had agreed a 24 month contract for their tv service, especially surprised since I don&#8217;t watch tv.<br \/>\nI hate to let slip an opportunity to scream and shout at someone and here was an opportunity to scream and shout at the worst telephone company in the country. I just leapt on them for four days, ringing them constantly, insisting on being put through to the top person in their sales office &#8211; who couldn&#8217;t actually deal with me, but by having him to talk to the right people I thought I could tie twuo people up and Piss them off a bit more. After 4 days interrogation I discovered that all evidence of any contract I had agreed to had been lost or destroyed or nit recorded in the first place.<br \/>\nNeedless to say, my contract is voided to my satisfaction.<br \/>\nI still expect a court case however, since they have been charging me for this tv package for six months and won&#8217;t refund me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always win. When I transferred my phone service to virgin in February I was surprised to receive a letter from talktalk to tell me I had agreed a 24 month contract for their tv service, especially surprised since I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/03\/i-win\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-t6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1806,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2014\/03\/how-to-beat-talktalk\/","url_meta":{"origin":1804,"position":0},"title":"How to Beat Talktalk","author":"taxicle","date":"March 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Ring the sales number 08000491374 - they are English and expensive - and refuse to be put through to customer services - they are Indian and cheap. 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