Double-Check Your Bill Every Month to Avoid Fees for Unwanted "Services" [Personal Finance]

 It may seem like common sense at this point that you should thoroughly review your bills every month before paying them, but in an age of automatic bill payment where our expenses are paid without us ever seeing the statements, the blog Five Cent Nickel explains why we should look at our statements, even if they're automatically paid: most companies consider it the customer's responsibility, and aren't afraid to say so.

The post was inspired by the author's upgrade to a new iPhone 4S back in January, at which time an AT&T rep must have signed him up for everything from roadside assistance to lost phone insurance. Unfortunately, because he hadn't been reviewing his bill every month and the full amount due is automatically deducted from his checking account, it wasn't until his March bill that he caught the new charges. He managed to get out of the plans and get the back fees refunded, but not without a snide comment from the customer service rep reminding him that AT&T considers it the customer's responsibility to review their statements and notify the company if there are any inaccuracies.

It may sound unreasonable, but most companies operate this way, and aren't afraid to tell you so in their documentation, when you call them for help, or on your bills and on their web site. The moral of the story is that even if you have your bills automatically paid, it's worth sitting down for a few minutes every month and reviewing your paid statements, just to make sure you didn't pay a fee or new charge you weren't anticipating—if you catch something, call the company right away.

Do you review your bills every month before you pay them? Do you use automatic bill payments and never see the statements? Share your money management tips in the comments.

Orange Customer Services

We will provide you with phone numbers to reach the Orange customer services in this topic. We at DailyTechie.com have covered a lot of similar topics and have got good responses and we personally feel it will help someone out their searching for customer service phone numbers of various companies to get help.

Orange is a UK based mobile and internet service provider with over 17 million customer base. It was found in 1994 by Hutchison Telecom and has merged itself with another telecom giant T-Mobile UK.

Orange UK provides Pay as you go and Pay monthly plans with their mobile phone services. Apart from that they offer broadband, 3G and similar services for communication needs.

So as promised here are the Orange customer services phone numbers that we were able to obtain while searching on the Internet.

 

Related topics that might be useful to you or your friends: TMobile Customer Service

Orange Pay Monthly:

If you are a Mobile Pay Monthly customer then you can just dial 150 and select option 1 from your Orange phone to reach the customer service. In case you are dialing from another phone then try 07973100150. If you are calling in from outside of UK then add +44 as the prefix and dial 7973100150.

The timings that you can reach them are from 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM.

To  reach the online account team if you are facing problem logging into your account then call 439 from your Orange phone or 07973100439 from a different phone. Add +44 as a prefix in case you are trying to reach them from abroad.

If you want to email the Orange customer service then try this link: http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/contacting-us/paym-email

Reach Orange on Twitter as well at https://twitter.com/#%21/orangehelpers/

Orange Mobile Pay As You Go:

Dial 450 from your Orange phone or call 07973100450 from a different phone. And add +44 before you call the customer services from a different country.

You can reach them between 8:00 AM till 10:00 PM.

If you cannot login to your online account then try 439 from your Orange phone. Call 07973100439 from another phone and +44 from a different country.

Use this link to reach the Orange Email support: http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/contacting-us/payg-email

For help on Twitter use the above Twitter link provided in this topic.

Mobile Broadband Customer Services:

150 – From an Orange Phone and select Option 3

07973100150 – Different Phone

+44 07973100150 from a different country

Problems with Orange online account:

439 – From Orange Phone and 07973100439 from a different phone. Prefix +44 from abroad.

Email the Orange Mobile Broadband Customer Service at http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/contacting-us/mobile-broadband-email

Orange Home Broadband, Phone and Dial-up:

150 – From Orange Pay Monthly Phone and select option 2 and then 1

08448735856 from a different phone

Call 08448738586 from a different phone for problems with your online account and 150 from an Orange Pay Monthly Phone.

You can reach the customer service between 7:00 AM till 10:00 PM.

Need installation help then? Then call 08444934045 for the Orange preferred installation partner between 9:00 AM till 5:00 PM.

Email them on: http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/contacting-us/home-broadband-email

We will wrap up this topic with the most required phone numbers when your Orange mobile or accessories are lost, stolen or if you damage them.

Pay monthly (24 hours) – Call 07973100150 add +44 if calling from aboard and select option 1.

Pay As You Go (24 hours) – 07973100450 add +44 if calling from aboard and select option 2.

Mobile Broadband (24 hours) – 07973100150 add +44 if calling from aboard and select option 3.

Source: http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/contacting-us

For Orange Business users check out this link: http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/all-business

So that’s it, we have provided almost all of the important Orange Customer Services phone number and links. If we have missed out anything do tell us and we will add it up.

Grovo Offers Video Tutorials and Tips for Some of the Web’s Most Popular Services [Video]

The next time someone asks you "Why should I use Twitter," or "How would I get started with Evernote," instead of sighing deeply and writing a massive email to them or directing them to a useless help page, send them over to Grovo. Grovo is a free site full of video tutorials and online classes that are easy to follow and cover some of the web's biggest and most popular services, like Gmail, Amazon, Pinterest, Wordpress, and more.

If you're reading Lifehacker, you probably know about most of these services already, use them, or at least know how to use them if you choose to, but you may also be the person that others ask for help if they're not familiar with what exactly Twitter is and how they should get started with it, for example, or what exactly Facebook Timeline is and why they're getting it. Grovo's video walkthroughs explain the features, and test the viewer's knowledge with quizzes and questions along the way.

The service is free (although there's a $9/month, $99/year premium option for business users, which offers training on topics like "managing a social media presence" and "online marketing."), and requires you tie it to your Facebook account to sign up (a downer for some people, we know.) Once you're logged in and through the service's somewhat annoying tutorial, you can browse all of the courses available, select the one you're interested in taking or sharing, and start it at any time. If you use Facebook, you can invite your Facebook friends to join your "classroom" and take the classes you're taking—or that you think they should take. Whether you're looking to build your own skills or help someone else out, Grovo may be able to help.

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