Financial ruin has caught up with me...

... thanks to this little bit of kit.

I checked my bank account this morning, to find out I am overdrawn. Eh???

Before I left for my holiday, I rang my service provider to ask about data bundles, knowing I would want to use the internet to keep in touch with people and to Blip. I can't remember the exact wording of what they offered me, but what I heard was £3 for 30Mb per day or £15 for a month. Obviously, I knew I'd use the internet on more than five days, so it made sense to me to pay £15 for 30Mb a day for a month.

What I'm now grasping, having come back to bills for July/August and August/September which equate to slightly more than a mortgage payment, is that the offer was for £15 for 30Mb for the month, not per day. I'd say I went over that on day 2...

So, conned by my provider's ambiguous wording, or just really naive? You decide (they've made their decision).

What I would say though is that, if you're expecting a Christmas present from me, it may not this year be the gift of your dreams...

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