July up to & incl October 2005: WBS has canned the 64kbit policy [for some customers]

[slimothy]

what are you thinking? a class action?

 

[Simple Twist Of Fate]

I am not sure, what class action means and my legal knowledge is limited, but my thoughts are that at least we can collectively claim breach, and ask for a remedy
As no other method seems to be doing anything, we may find that an attorney letter might do the trick....requesting remedy, to take place immediately with some form of compensation ie: letter of apology, new contract, AUP and a refund of extra bandwidth purchased.
What are your thoughts?

 

[slimothy]

yeah sounds good, class action means basically that a group of us make the claim, so exactly what you were thinking by the looks of it. I think it could work, but we'd need a group of us and a lawyer willing to do it pro-bono since we're all cheap bastards. Give em a call, or fire off an email, lets see if we can get the ball rolling, or perhaps those affected could send a template email to show its a problem with more than one user. More than one user = publicity and publicity = free lawyer

 

[Simple Twist Of Fate]

ok, i mailed a local dbn based firm asking for a referral for a jhb based crowd.
coz of costs... in the meantime we got to get that poll going so we can se how many peolpe are involved.
Who sets up the poll? RPM?

 

[slimothy]

ic

 

[Raithlin]

ic

See what?

 

[rebel]

Another option should be:

-Disconnected in April and continued to exceed the 3GB cap, but haven't been disconnected in July, yet.

 

[slimothy]

but the reasoning behind not having that option is you tick that today right, and tomorrow you get capped and it happens to you and you cant update your vote.

 

[Raithlin]

I agree with Slimothy. I'm 400MB away from getting capped, and my experience could change overnight. [It might just, if I decide to test the theory]

 

[Simple Twist Of Fate]

makes sense
how else to do it ?
ok, so we make a template upload it and anyone who wants to lodge can use it?
but we need some idea before asking an attorney, as to numbers!!

ok so then if anyone would like they can pm me with yes i would like to join the class action.........and i leave the option open to decide.
If we have enough peole we can get details later on that basis.

otherwise they dont need to say anything

 

[slimothy]

i cant pm, my box is full but im up for any action, I want my baby back

 

[Simple Twist Of Fate]

heh

i cant pm, my box is full but im up for any action, I want my baby back

heh
try teh delete button

 

[rebel]

but the reasoning behind not having that option is you tick that today right, and tomorrow you get capped and it happens to you and you cant update your vote.

Agreed then.

 

[slimothy]

Ic What The Hell Are You Doing, Do You Not Listen To Input At All, Well If You Were Gonna Just Make A Zillion Of Your Own Misc Options Why Ask Us At All?

 

[slimothy]

ugh, i cant deal with this, i'm going to mcdonalds

 

[rebel]

ic, you're a dead man surfing

 

[fergus]

yeah sounds good, class action means basically that a group of us make the claim, so exactly what you were thinking by the looks of it. I think it could work, but we'd need a group of us and a lawyer willing to do it pro-bono since we're all cheap bastards. Give em a call, or fire off an email, lets see if we can get the ball rolling, or perhaps those affected could send a template email to show its a problem with more than one user. More than one user = publicity and publicity = free lawyer

IANAL but AKAIK there is no such thing as a class action suite in SA. Ask dominic, he should be able to tell you whats best here.

 

[Simple Twist Of Fate]

poll

How so? This poll is specifically for iBurst Customers that have experienced being capped this month [July 2005], so others [like myself with 2.48GB out of 3GB left due to iBurst speedlessness] that have not yet reached their cap, should simply wait until they reach their caps, or just not vote at all...also note that certain techies @ WBS do monitor this forum, and usually appear to jump out of the frying pan long enough to turn down the heat & confuse us all by changing something in the Bandwidth Mismanagement non-system...

IC i think the poll is quite adequate for what we need, again though maybe other members would like to add anything to this.
I agree re: your post,ie: the problem is that by the time this poll is polled ye the bandwidthfromhell has changed shape again.

Myself i have about 250megs before i am capped again, I also dont know what the outcome wil be when I am capped.

I hope though that even if we get 20 users who have already been capped and had to purchase, it would be enough to start someting.
The history is something that even WBS CANT CHANGE
Its cool i think, lets just wait and see what response is like.....

 

[rebel]

ic, give me your username & password so I can use up your bandwidth. That's if the UTD id is not part of the authentication. PM me those details anyway.

 

[Simple Twist Of Fate]

hehe i think REBEL is a dead man walking now