I don't post often but I think it is important to share my most recent experience with the phone shop which is across from Bim / Sultan Pastanesi. I have just came to spend the summer and came to Calis, had not had time to walk through Fethiye yet and brows,look at current prices, etc. I was needing intenet and was advised by a neighbour that I could get a thing called VINN. Seeing it in this shop a few days ago as I was passing I popped in, the chap explained that I could use it for three months up till 4GB then I would have to buy top ups. The price he quoted was 140 lira, which I paid and then took it home to use it. At the time the transaction was slow and he seemed uncertain of what he was doing but I put that down to it being a small shop and though, maybe he doesn't sell that much. He called me at home to tell me he had forgotten to call the number through to the main centre to activate it and so I had to take it back for him to do that. I double checked what I had bought and stupidly did not get a receipt. When I started using it a message came up which told me my units would end on 11th April - one month later, not three as I had been informed. When my husband and I were in Fethiye today we nade an enquiry at the shop there as to what we had bought and the chap there told us I had been royally ripped off. The package I was sold should have been 99 lira and had I wanted a bigger package it should have been 147 lira, which would have been 10GB for three months, not the 4GB for one month that I have been deliberately flogged. When my husband went to the shop this evening to challenge the chap he wa as guilty as sin, gave my husband 20 lira and denied that I had paid 140 lira. My husband left angry and told him lanet olsun (God damn you) and told him he was a rip off merchant. When he then went to the small shop down the road, the chap there said he stopped shopping there ages ago, because he had also bought bad goods from him. Just a cautionary tale but hopefully it will save another from being cheated. I will continue to use my VINN and, yes, I will have to top it up eralier than expected but never mind, another learning curve
