Monday 20 August 2007

Bank Cards - I'ts Not Like The UK

Thanks to Julie for this great piece of information about your French bank cards.

If you are thinking about setting up a direct debit and handing over your card details for a regular payment (like an ISP) then hear this word of caution. Canceling a credit card regular payment is difficult, Julies personal experience was to her ongoing attempts to cancel her contract with Tiscali. They didn't reply to her letters, even though they've all been sent registered or phone calls. Eventually the only way she stopped them taking the payments was to cancel her card and get another one.

If you want to pay a regular bill then you need to set up a 'prelevement' this form of money agreement will give you the power to cancel easily with your bank.

1 comment:

Jacques Deman said...

A good advice for payment.
Personnaly I never use automatic withdrawal "prélèvement" to pay my bills.
Such an authorization is just a "blanck cheque". Your supplier can withdraw what he wants.
No supplier can impose you a way of payment. You may choose to pay by cheque, upon reciept of a bill. Such a close in a sale contract is considered by the court as abusive.
This is for the informaztion.