My last email from VF said something like "Attached is your february invoice PDF" bla bla bla No attachment in the email, and of course no one to contact (easyly) about it. Can't bother going to that horrible website to check my account. I would like saving trees, but the digital system has so far sucked. Hope you do manage to fix it someday...
Matias Gertel Freelance Web Development & Coding e: [email protected] m: +64 21 288 8840 p: +64 9 838 3367 On 2/02/2009, at 3:06 PM, Brislen, Paul, VF-NZ wrote: Hi folks, those with longer memories will recall the thread about our billing practices. Below is the press release I just sent out to the media... Thanks to you all for your feedback and help - having pages of emails to wave in the air really helped. Any questions, let me know. Cheers Paul Media Release 2 February 2009 Vodafone's paper-based bill lives on Well, that didn't work, did it? Late last year we announced we'd introduce a new online billing process that meant customers would be able to receive a TXT or email alert about their bill and could go online to pay it. Nice idea, we thought. People will like that we're thinking of the trees and the convenience factor will be a big plus. Certainly the trial group liked it, so we rolled it out to the public. To encourage customers along we also said we'd charge $1.50 per month for those customers who still want a paper bill, with that charge kicking in some time in the first half of this year. And that's where the wheels came off. Our customers have told us they quite like the idea of online billing but they hate, hate, HATE the idea of being charged to receive a paper bill. Did we mention they hate it? Well they do. And we're going to listen to what they say. So, being the company we are we've decided to do a U-turn, an about face, a 180: now you can get your bill in the post each month if you so want, and it won't cost a penny. In fact, we'll go a step further - customers can opt to carry on getting the email or TXT alerts, they can get a paper bill posted out to them or they can chose to get their bill emailed out to them in PDF format. And we'd like to say sorry for all the trouble. We're not perfect. We're only human but hopefully we're grown up enough to 'fess up when we make a mistake. - ends - Paul Brislen External Communications Manager Vodafone New Zealand Mob 021 721 337 Email [email protected] NOTE TO EDITORS: Vodafone will be writing to all on account customers asking which method they'd like to use to receive their bill in the coming weeks. We'll probably apologise again. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Have you seen our website?.... http://www.vodafone.co.nz Manage Your Account, check your Vodafone Mail and send web2TXT online: http://www.vodafone.co.nz/myvodafone CAUTION: This correspondence is confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. If you are not the named recipient and receive this correspondence in error, you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it and you should delete it from your system and notify the sender immediately. Thank you. Unless otherwise stated, any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not represent those of Vodafone New Zealand Limited. Vodafone New Zealand Limited 20 Viaduct Harbour Avenue, Private Bag 92161, Auckland 1030 Telephone + 64 9 355 2000 Facsimile + 64 9 355 2001 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
