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DELL 0% Finance rip off
I placed an order on the dell website using the 0% Finance offer, which is 12months and then a final payment on the 13th month this means you only pay back the cash price. After receiving the finance agreement from Dell today it says in small I must pay £52.88 document charge. It did not mention anywhere on the Dell site…
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Bloomin DFS
Sorry bout this, just having a whinge :o Goes like this: 1. 1st Jan 05 brought a new sofa 2. was told 13 week delivery (fair enough i thought) 3. was told i'd be called on the 14th March to advise delivery. 4. no call on the 14th March so i called them 5. was told sofa would be delivered in the 1st week of April :( 6.…
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Contact lense pricing - Unfair?
There ought to be a way to get the contact lense manufacturers for price fixing. How can it cost 10 times as much for a pair of monthly disposable contact lenses compared to the daily disposable variety. Even accounting for the fact that possibly dailies are manufactured in larger quantities than monthlies I fail to see…
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Asda
I need some help. Bought the weekly shopping as usual on Wednesday evening. The amount I spend wavers each week depending on how much meat etc I buy. Didn't check my receipt until last night and saw that I had been charged 14.95 for a table lamp. Went to the store this morning and explained my situation and a store manager…
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Lloyds TSB Shareview Hassle
Hi, I worked at Tesco for 4 years and paid into a share save scheme. Great i thought. So i leave to move onto pastures new and i recieve a share certificate for 959 shares. It has my name on it and all my paperwork has the same details (ref numbers etc). So my plans start to go wrong a little and i decide to cash in my…
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Doorstep Preference Service???
I had a very pushy British Gas salesman at my door last night - trying to get me to switch back to them using all the normal underhand tricks. I have signed up with the telephone preference service, the fax preference service and the mail preference service - so I suppose the only way they have of getting to me is to come…
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too good to be true?
Hello I've received the below over via email - anyone heratd of it before and is it kosher (sorry about length of text but I'm not v good on these things and don't know how to send attachment) "@ unique IPFinance company offer! A few words about us IpFinance was established in 2000 to provide services of e-currencies…
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New ebay Phishing email (possibly).
Noit sure about this one... Just had an email purporting to come from eBay offering me to become a Powerseller. Very strange since I buy a fair bit, but have only ever sold one lot on eBay. The email comes from [email="'aw-confirm@ebay.com'"]'aw-confirm@ebay.com'[/email], so looks to heve been sent by a 'user' who has…
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Ikea Norden Dining Table -WARNING!!!!!!!!!
If you have visited Ikea you may have purchased this Norden Dining Table in Birch.Size is 220/266/100.We visited the Croydon store back in February 2005 and bought this table.The batch number for ref is 16650 and most importantly the date produced is shown as 0416.(16th week of 2004).We assembled this at home to find that…
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The Sun/News of the World UK Holiday Break Deals
U've prolly seen these on the Sun and News of the World offering uk breaks from £12.50 or something. We booked one as we don't have much money for a break, we did it through the Sun and put Primrose Valley as our 1st holiday choice. Weeks later we got a confirmation letter saying we had a 4day break at Primrose Valley…
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Claiming from Royal Mail.
I sold something on ebay about a month and a half ago. It sold for £33 and cost just over £7 to send standard parcels, with increased insurance. It never arrived at the buyers. So I refunded and put a claim in with Royal Mail. Today I got a cheque for £33. My problem is why don't they refund the postage cost? I'm not…
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Street light outside my window
when pulling onto my drive the other day i noticed a yellow circle drawn onto pavement outside my house, wondered what it was but then forgot about it today came home to an envelope through my door from Aurora Streetlighting. they are renewing all the streetlighting in the city. locations of the new lights will be…
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Small Claims Court
I am in receipt of working families tax credit which may exempt me from court costs. I have been to the small claims court about a matter I want resolving. On 6th April I rang the Small Claims court to confirm what paper work I needed and explained I was in receipt of working families tax credit, I explained that the…
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Morphy Richards II
MR really do deserve a pat on the back. I bought a fancy coffee machine last year from Comet. One of the hotplates stopped working suddenly and, as I couldn't find my receipt, Comet weren't interested (not convinced they would've been interested even if I did have it). So, I rang MR gave them the serial number / product…
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My first UK Nigerian Scam
Received the following today. IT's a classic Nigerian scam email Here you go - I think i must've had one from virtually every country now. "Dear Friend, My name is Patrick Anderson, I am a senior banker in a bank here in the United Kingdom. I am contacting you for a business transfer, of a huge sum of money from a deceased…
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Morphy Richards
just before christmas i purchased a slow cooker with digital timer from morphy richards. After a few uses i realised that the digital timer was too restrictive for my needs and wished that i had purchased one with the control knob which allows the user to select temp. I emailed MR and told them that whilst the machine was…
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Pixmania: just received camera but with all French instructions!
Is this normal? The camera instructions are all French, the rechargeable battery charge is two pin (but they sent an adapter)......... ?
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Mse
If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it. Why do you keep fiddling with MSE ? Last 500 posts it's gone then it's back then it's gone Find all thanked posts New posts keeps changing what it reacts to before today when I visited the site through an e-mail update it didn't count as a visit for the new posts bit today it seems…
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Traffic Cameras or Stealth Tax
I am getting frustrated by all the Traffic cameras that seem to be appearing everywere.I recently went through a Red light inadvertantly at a junction close to me were a new camera has been placed.It used to be a left hand filter lane,i was at the lights stationary the pedestrian crossing lights changed opposite and i…
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Cahoot Unreasonable Overdraft Fee
Hi guys, I'm not sure if I am over reacting on this one, but cahoot have charged me £25 for being £4.55 over my overdraft for 2 days. Does anyone else think this is unreasonable? I have a £500 overdraft limit and have never been over it before. I use my cahoot account for my spending money, which goes in on the 23rd of…
