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didled over extended warranty, passing of book!
dont know if this is the right place for this, but i wondered if martin would be interested in an issue that irritated the life out of me. I had extended warranty on my dishwasher and claimed most years!!!! then the company sold out and the other company wouldnt deal with the fault as the company they used for repairs was…
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Spanish Lottery Warning from OFT
The following is a press release from the office of fair trading Spanish lottery scam hits Britain A Spanish lottery scam is targeting UK consumers, warns the OFT. 9 December 2004: Mailings purporting to come from the El Gordo de la Primitiva Lottery in Madrid are being sent to UK consumers claiming they have won the…
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Computer Security
I know this subject has been covered in various threads, but, it really is an important issue. Recently, there was a report that stated that if you connect a brand new out of the box computer to the internet with no security. It would take on average 20 minutes before you picked up a virus or spyware. At the end of the day…
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****** Microsoft
Installed SP2 couple of weeks ago after hanging back to see what experiences other people had. Read up on it and prepared thoroughly beforehand. Install went fine. Since then has been a nightmare. Three progs badly affected and practically impossible to use and various glitches cropping up all over the place, (including…
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HANGOVER'S! AND SCIENCE
Hello everybody, Today I am sporting the leftovers of a works xmas party and am very disgusted that there is no cure!!!!!! ::) ::) what's this world coming to I want some boffin to invent a little pill that you take at bedtime and it absorbs all the booze so you can get up first thing in the morning feeling fresh as a…
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Cadbury's White Choc Button Advent Calendar
I love white chocolate, so I bought myself the white choc button advent calendar BUT every single chocolate looks like a white choc button, very unimaginative. >:( AND to top it off the little picture on the back of the doors, most of them are the same. >:( Thinking of writing to complain, but will they take me seriously…
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My Postman
not often they are praised, buti just had a card brought which was ripped, and some money inside was coming out, and he rang the bell and gave it me to make sure i got it all intact. wonderful, he deserves his xmas tip this year.
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De Agostini
Am becoming increasinly agitated with De Agostini over their Radio Control publication. Have bought approx 48 issues at £5 each to build a radio control (the irony of that will be seen later) car. At the end of it you then have to purchase the battery pack and charger to make the thing go for an extra £9.99. Ordered this…
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new ebay email scam
Just to let you know I had an email apparently from ebay inviting me to become a PowerSeller but it's a scam. Sorry if this is old news, just thought I'd post it in case as it did look like the real deal!!! Luckily I went to the ebay board and read about the PowerSeller thing and discovered I dont qualify so forwarded it…
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littlewoods and xbox.can anyone help?
i wasnt sure where to put this but thought i would see if anyone knew if there was anything i could do. last saturday i ordered an xbox from littlewoods and it stated that it was in stock. i got an order confimation saying it would be here in 7 days. just got a call saying that it isnt in stock and people have been waiting…
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Watch out for scammers offering speakers
I was walking home from uni with my housemate when we were approached by some guys in a white van asking if we needed any speakers which were initially made out to sound like they were free. Us being students and always on the lookout for a bargain went over to speak to the guys who opened up their van and showed us some…
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vision express
one of the nose-pads broke off my specs - i called to a local opticians n the snooty girl said as i didnt purchase them from there the pads would be £5.00 each. she then said she didnt have a pair and couldnt help me... :-[ so today i called into vision express the girl took them away and returned them 2 mins later with 2…
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THE STORE /EMPIRE STORES - URGENT READ THIS
Apologies if this is in the wrong section but this is urgent for any who has just received some digital cameras from the store....I realise that we dont want anymore threads re: empire/the store in this forum but can you leave the link here as alot of people only visit this forum....thanks.. I have received 5 cameras today…
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People who push in!
I have just returned from a trip to Barcelona with Easyjet, I have no complaint with Eastjet whatsoever as we had bargain flights and everything went according to plan. The thing that makes me really mad is people who insist on pushing in during boarding - We always ensure we check onto our flight with plenty of time to…
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Travel Lodge
Why on earth do places like this not cater for anyone other than Mr & Mrs average with 2.4 children?! We have 3 kids but the eldest is 21 and despite the fact he has various (mental/emotional) disabilities he is judged to be an adult and therefore can't be included in our room. It was ok when the youngest was a baby, it…
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Boots.com
I ordered some presents on boots.com and got 3 things on the 3 for 2 doodah! On saturday I got an e-mail saying that one of my items wasn't in stock and they didn't know when they'd get more so they were cancelling it and were gonna give me a £5 voucher with my delivery. I checked my order and it was the free thing from my…
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Australian Immigration Agent!
Following on from my TRA are pants posting, I have now discovered that the reason our assessment failed was due to an almight c**k up by the agent that we used. Apparently because we applied as Toolmaker and the reference from my husband's job said Senior CNC Technician that is why we failed. We paid AUD$270 for the…
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Parents Evening grrrrrr
Daughter's parents evening yesterday. Well, it wasn't evening, it was 4-6pm. The teachers allow 5 minutes per appointment, that means out of a class of 30/31 children only 24 can get appointments. D is choosing her options (sorry, pathways (that's a different rant)) this year, she's already chosen her subjects so I thought…
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A "Grape" about del monte Drinks Carton
Due to the unique shape of Del Monte's Brazilian & watermelon fruit juice carton - the top , one can-not fully extract all the juice from a carton, which becomes very annoying! {despite various shaking positions } Hence I get out the carving nice and slice the carton in halve in desperation, Ok we are only talking about a…
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Network Marketing
Is there anything wrong in principle with Network or Multi level Marketing companies. Anyone got any experiences of any you are willing to share please :-/
