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Praise, Vent & Warnings sticky
Please keep in mind the MSE Forum rules, notably that: * We cannot accept active calls to boycott organisations. * If a post is reported to the Forum Team as being defamatory, we’ll follow a legal process set out in Section 5 of the Defamation Act 2013. 📢 Here are some threads from this board which you might useful: *…
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I think I've finally cracked why most people don't invest in the stock market
In the UK only 23% of people invest in the stock market outside of their pensions. I think I've identified 3 key reasons for this, and not having money to invest isn't one of them. 1, They don't learn about compound growth and think £200 a month isn't worth it. They think in a short term linear fashion like £200 x 12 =…
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No dogs allowed outside at Wetherspoons
So I visited Wetherspoons a few weeks back with with my other half and our dog, along with a friend of ours who joined us. We were out having some celebratory drinks, it was late-ish, around 8pm and we were wanting a bite to eat but nothing too expensive, so popped along to our local wetherspoons. We took a seat on one of…
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KFC pricing rip off
Recently purchased a family meal deal from KFC and wondered if anyone else had noticed the price differences. To collect the meal was £23 but for delivery it was £30 + £4 delivery and service charge. So when I asked what service I was receiving for the additional £7 I was fobbed off with some ridiculous reply which didn’t…
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Confused.com
Can anyone share any info on what is happening at Confused.com regarding their rewards incentive. Bought & paid for insurance, obviously verified, voucher for £20 received via app, went to choose participating Vendor and now all I'm getting is 'rewards not available'. Contacted them and given excuse, we're working on it!
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Tesco Advert Torture
I've been watching quite a lot of ITVX recently and they have the SAME adverts at every commercial break including the Tesco Clubcard one (I've got the Power). Now I quite like the song but seeing the same advert at every commercial break (and there are quite a few in the ITVX series), is like torture. But what I find most…
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WARNING and help?: Debenhams and daylight robbery /misselling protection
I was shopping at Debenhams online and upon checkout a delivery protection fee of £15.99 was added to my order. I did not realise this until I had checked out and paid, despite carefully reviewing my order before placing it. It must have been a ticked box somewhere, Debenhams describes this charge as optional, but I never…
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Trust Pilot - can they be trusted?
There is a famous Latin quote: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" - which translates as "Who is guarding the guards themselves?"Or to put in this particular context - who is reviewing the reviewers?Most of the posts in this forum about TrustPilot seem to raise questions about whether TrustPilot is pressured or influenced by…
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John Lewis - "Never knowingly Undersold"
Just a heads-up for anyone relying on John Lewis’s “Never Knowingly Undersold” / Price Promise. I’ve been a John Lewis customer for over 40 years and, until now, had never tried to price-match anything because I trusted the policy. This week I tried for the first time after finding an identical product (same model, colour,…
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onlinecarparts.co.uk using Evri for scam?
I foolishly ordered some expensive (£460) car parts from onlinecarparts.co.uk (actually a German company AKA AUTODOC AG) on 20 March. AUTODOC charged my card (unfortunately not a credit card) on 26 March, and soon after showed the parts as 'delivered' on their website with a tracking number I tracked down to Evri. The Evri…
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your local Window Cleaner
We had a lad turn up last week in a “your local” van enquiring about window cleaning. Agreed to clean but received no bill, said it would be by message but only later realised we didn’t give him our phone number. Feeling it’s now a scam. Anyone aware of them? Don’t event have a business card but I do have some CCTV. Trust…
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Currys Price Match Promise/Guarantee: A Warning. A Complete Disappointment
I posted this originally as a response to another comment here, but I felt this experience warrants an exclusive thread as it might give adequate warning to others. So, I have decided to rewrite this and improve it with slightly more detail and information. I hope it proves useful to someone who is researching Currys and…
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Youtube Premium free trial scam
I was offered a 2 month free trial for Premium when I signed in to my account (I have had this last year for a free ad free month which worked fine) I gave my credit card details which is a standard procedure only to get a confirmation email from Google Play and Youtube thanking me for purchasing a month's worth which will…
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ONEPLUS TRADE-IN EXPERIENCE INVOLVING MONDO AFFARI AND FEDEX
Posting this to share my experience in case it helps others. I bought a new OnePlus 15 and used OnePlus’ official trade-in programme to return my 10-month-old OnePlus 13 (512GB), in excellent condition and worth roughly £900. The return was done using the prepaid FedEx label provided by OnePlus, with Mondo Affari as the…
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Today's phone scam.
I received a call on my landline this morning. The guy greeted me by my name, then confirmed my postcode. Told me a call blocking device was going to be sent out to me within the next 3 days. The asked me to confirm I was the bill payer. All good up to now. Then he said the price was reduced from £379 to £179. At this…
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Garden Buildings Direct / BillyOh / Kybotech – small claims mediation pending. Any experiences?
How I wish I had checked this Forum before buying a shed from Garden Buildings Direct (instead of only looking at the quick and places to check). It is clear from comments here over many years what sort of company they are. Their profits seem to be invested in marketing and clever legal drafting/protection but not in…
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Amazon account hacked advise please?
This happened earlier this month 7th April. My Amazon account got hacked and they bought £200 gift cards I saw it first as a pending payment in my Barclays Bank account. Stopped my cards and spoke to both Amazon and Barclays immediately. Amazon have been no help so far just saying they’re investigating and Barclays…
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Don't fully trust r/BenefitsAdviceUK on subreddit.
I hope i don't get any hate for this as it's just meant as a warning. I'm not into internet drama at my age. I'm sure they do good work and have given good advice but some of their advice has been very miss rather than hit. Early last year I joined their reddit with a question about Pension credits. I am 68 and had 6k in…
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Good result: Amtech warranty replacement
I bought an amtech 12V air compressor from my local hardware shop. It came with a 3 year warranty. I got home and went to use it but it died after 2 minutes. "Oh dear" I thought. Anyway, I went inside and registered the warranty and put in a claim. A few days later*, a new compressor arrived through the mail. No questions,…
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Lloyds Bank brings fictional fraud to life?
Lloyds Bank shows characteristics of Great Benefit, the
insurer that never pays, in John Grisham’s novel, The Rainmaker. Except the denial in this case, is denying mathematical
reality, with full support from the FOS. Like Great Benefit, Lloyds Bank are relying on the fact that
the majority will not be able to afford…
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Royal Mail - help needed quickly please!
Hi, I'm an ebay business seller, selling over 100 items a week. I always send my parcels, pre-paid and posting them in a Royal Mail parcel box. Almost everything I send is tracked and I've never had a problem until now in around 2 years of posting this way. On Tuesday this week, I dropped around 40 parcels to the parcel…
