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But are you "locked in"? If you want to cancel, do you have to pay the whole year's subscriptions, or do you only have to reimburse the

It's a 12-month contract.

I'm not sure what isn't clear about that. You have to pay for 12 months service - just like you do when you get a mobile phone on 12-month contract - or a BT phone line ...

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One would have to be pretty naive to not realize that PlusNet expect something in return for the

I wouldn't say I want to have my cake and eat it. Of course they expect something in return. The deal is (in effect)

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Having to pay up to 11 months' subscriptions for a package I no longer want is not fine, in my opinion.

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That's the way that "retention" contracts work - it's also the way a lot of ISPs work with their standard contracts - my former ISP (Pipex) being a case in point.

At least with the PlusNet offer the choice is yours and nobody is forcing you to make this commitment. I left Pipex ( after over 5 years) because the only way they'd upgrade me to Max was to accept a new annual contract and there was no way of knowing what I'd actually gain.

For the life of me I can't see that anyone is having the wool pulled over their eyes with this deal - mind you, there are none so blind as those who don't want to see

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I'm not arguing that anybody IS having the wool pulled over their eyes. To be honest, I haven't even read the T's & C's - I was merely curious.

Thanks to the replies I've received, I'm of the impression it's a pretty rubbish deal, just to save a measly

Huh?

Total nonsense! Nothing like diesel or modems.

I'm just saying worst case, if you break the deal, ought to be you lose all the benefit of that deal (i.e. the