Coach trips to Localtel HQ.
From: Peter
Date: 07 Jul 1999
Time: 16:18:14


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Hi

Why have I only just discovered this message board? I have obviously been
wandering the net with my eyes closed.

Anyway, onto my main subject:

When Localtel & Tempo issued the press releases about the "Free Dial-up
access to the Internet campaign" prior to April 29th, a number of internet
users in my city decided to put on a coach for the trip to our nearest Tempo
store (approx. 100 miles away) in order to get our free CDs.

Due to our dissatisfaction with the service, we have now arranged another
coach (which has now been filled to capacity) to take us to the Localtel
head office on Friday 23rd July 1999. A round trip consisting of over 450
miles. The intention is to "have it out" with the Managing Director(s),
simply because he/she/they refuse to respond to our mail or return our phone
calls. Ultimately, we are more than unhappy with the service, want to go
back to BT, but are not prepared to pay the rest of the years rental when
the service provided so far has been so bad (let's face it - atrocious is an
understatement). You may wish to note at this stage, that if you signed up
to Localtel through the Internet CD (as long as it was accompanied by the
Tempo Buyers Guide) then the Localtel standard Contract is not a legally
binding document. Actually, it is more accurate to say that it is about 80%
flawed. Further to this, all of us who hired the coach received our
contracts weeks after we joined the service. Trading Standards say that this
makes the contract completely void. You may wish to consult your own Trading
Standards Dept. if your contract arrived after the agreement was signed too.

I think it would marvellous if people in different cities took a leaf out of
our book and also organised mass visits to Localtel (but on different days).
If you are interesting in putting on a coach (at least one person in each
city must be prepared to organise it), I have set up a special hotmail
account to which you can send details of your name, email address and city
(or the nearest city you can get to too board a coach). When 15 people from
each city write, I will forward their details too a self-nominated organiser
so he can get in touch with them. If lots of people write from one
particular city but nobody nominates themself as an organiser, then I will
email you all as well as post a message in this forum to let you all know.
This way, somebody can reconsider upon whether to nominate themself as the
organiser.

Maybe you don't think the coach trips to Localtel are a good idea? I don't
know. I just know that me, my friends and the strangers who organised the
trip to get our CDs are unhappy enough to organise another coach to the
Localtel HQ itself. I am merely assuming that there must be other people
interested in doing exactly the same thing.

The email address is: localtel_daytrip@hotmail.com

Chin up and all that!

Peter.