Leosghost - 5:27 pm on Jan 4, 2007 (gmt 0)

beesticles ..yes thats exactly what is happening ..!

and as I said I think it is illegal from my readings of the french laws on fraud and consumer protection etc ( however here I would have to personally start the prosecution as a surfer ( "abonneé" ) ..or an adwords buyer would have to start the prosecution themselves as having been defrauded ) ..Our consumer protections are very feeble ..have teeth only if the government and the judge choose to apply them ..that depends on whose feathers that would ruffle ..search "non lieu" :(

as to changing providers ..that is a whole lot harder in France than it is elsewhere ..where I live only two ISP's even will offer me ADSL ..one is Alice /Italia telecom /Tiscali ..the other is wanadoo ..wanadoo are nearly twice the price of Tiscali for the same service , bandwidth , voip etc ..2 megs ..2 year contract ..$50.oo per month is what I pay now ..with wanadoo it would be nearer $90.oo

Changing requires that I pay them around another $150.oo moving / cancellation fee ..and change my phone number ..and go without DSL and VOIP for maybe 6 weeks during the change over ..most of our ISP's lock us in this way ..those who dont only service large towns ..

could be worse ..I could be an adwords customer ..

More inventive very avaricious ..

[edited by: Leosghost at 5:34 pm (utc) on Jan. 4, 2007]