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shoe repair - a licence to print money?
recently, due to job change, have had first pair of stiletto heels in ages. took them to get heeled (teeny weeny stiletto heels) and was told £7.95!! there was no price list at the heel bar/keycutting place. did they see me coming? i went to woolies and bought stick on ones you can cut to size. including the glue it cost…
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Road works
Not the usual rant about blocking off lanes etc. but rather lack of notification to residents of forthcoming works. Woke up this morning at 8.30am to a loud rythmic thumping sound on my road. Continued to 1pm. Rang the council and they were testing the road surface with a view to replacing (its currently concrete) so they…
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Prizes 4 U - 0906 570 0121
The phone number should say it all really! A friend received a letter stating that they'd won a prize. All they had to do was call the above number for a £6.75 call or send 4 texts to 80444 for a total of £6.00. I'm thinking that they would have won one of the 4000 digital cameras claimed via voucher (couldn't quite make…
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Jessops Price Matching
Not sure if this should go here so feel free to move where necessary We were really impressed today, we wanted the Canon Powershot S2 which was £340 on Amazon and £440 in Jessops. As we prefer (from bad experiences!) to buy more expensive items from a shop we thought we would test Jessops Price Match policy- they were more…
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Tiscali Rip Off?
I am currently on £24-99 per month 512 broadband no limit with Tiscali. Having been informed by them that I was going to be upgraded to 1Mb free of charge. As this hasn't happened I checked Tiscali web site to find that NONE of their packages now cost £24-99. In fact 512 package now costs £14-99 but has a 30Gb download…
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Viking Direct - warning of extra charge
I just went to place an order on Viking Direct's website, and just as I was about to checkout, I noticed an additional charge of £0.94 for 'Protection Plus'. This allows you to send back goods after the 30 day free trial they offer, but there is NO WAY to remove it directly on the website. I had to email them and ask them…
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Thanks Wilkinson
I would like to congratulate Wilkinson for keeping there prices so LOW. They have saved me £100s of pounds in the last few years. For example; I brought some tile glue for £11.99 in Wilko and the same in B&Q was £15.99 massive saving!
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ICE is a scam
This may have already gone on as info, but we just had an email at work saying that the ICE campaign is a scam and a way of getting the phone user to pay for calls they haven't made.
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Warning about www.ultramusicstore.com
I have a problem with the website https://www.ultramusicstore.com What has happened is that I ordered several copies of a rare Enya DVD (to sell on) totalling over £50 ($80) by Visa Card but then realised that there is no way that this company could get hold of more than one copy of this (and I also discovered that there…
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Harvey's - "misleading"(in myopinion) advertising
just wanted to make people aware of Harvey's advertising methods - what I would call "misleading" but apparently isn't My wife and I went to one of their stores yesterday looking for a rocking chair, for our impending arrival. We spotted one in the store marked "summer save I've had 25% taken off" the chair was right slap…
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Top Notch Car Insurance Service
My wife is a driving instructor and her car insurance is with NIG which has been arranged through Waveney Insurance Brokers (based in Norwich). The premium was the most competitive around (£400 fully comp, any driver + 17 year old son - excesses £150 for over 25's £350 for son). Anyway on 12th July someone ran into the…
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Phone rings and says you have won a holiday rubbish
The phone rings and there is an answer machine playing a message: Hi you have won a holiday to Florida? I slam the phone down and when I pick it back up the message is still playing? They have hold of my phone and wont let me go????? How the hell do they hold my phone to ransom? Once it took about thirty goes of my finger…
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Grocery shopping online Arrrrrrrrrgh!!!
Is it me or what? Ive never done the weekly shop on line before but keep receiving evouchers off asda for money off if you spend X amount of money. Now being a savvy shopper I thought Id give it a whirl. Well........ive just spent the last hour trying to find the products I wanted. Firstly I really could do with my…
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Construction work in work giving me a headache!!
Just got home from work at 7 but havent gone to bed yet because my head is aching.. i work in a Tesco and they are piledriving through the floor overnight every weekend night for the next year in preperation for us to "extend up" to a second floor next year.. :rolleyes: They are using a huuuugggee drill thing and it took…
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point out a REAL shortfall of Wales
TO WHOM it may concern ... ... we like to ...point out a REAL shortfall of Wales .....and travelling to it ... as a GB -travelling - tourist We recently arrived from ENGLAND ... and X-ssed the Severn Bridge ... being greeted 'by Welcome to Wales' sign ::: BUT this was the end of 'lustig' .. Seemingly Wales has NOT arrived…
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Top notch customer service from JANSPORT
I have two Jansport bags and the zips were getting a bit fatigued, split etc and they have had a heck of a lot of use since I bought them, a lot of use. Anyway I sent one off to get repaired under warranty, lifetime guarantee on both the bags I have. I asked for the zippers to be replaced on both pockets and wondered about…
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Marks & Spencer Online...ARGH!!
I just need to vent my frustration with m&s online.. I think I wont ever shop with them again! Here's my story.. I recently made up a basket of some lingerie items for myself, and little miss babylon85 (she's 6 months old, and growing out of clothes like there is no tomorrow) almost two weeks ago. 5 days or so later I…
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EBuyer - Great!! - i luvs ya!
Mods - if this is not in the right place, please feel free to move.... I just wanted to say i have just had fabulous service from EBuyer, I bought something which i then didnt need (£130 worth) Put in a request to return *after* 7 days (which is in the T&Cs), and not only are they taking it back, but they are also…
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frustration at local costcutters
Last night thought I'd treat OH to a couple of beers.At the local costcutters had some offers on three types of beer buy two four packs for £5.50.Great I thought as there was one of the brands on this offer with 13% extra free. True to money saving, picked up two of the packs with the extra free beer and took them to the…
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Tesco Bleach Be Careful !
Please be careful if you have ordered bleach/buying bleach from Tesco as last Friday I got it all over me when unpacking my shopping after it had been delivered - the top on one of the bottles wasn't tight enough (child proof tops I know !!) the bleach had spilt over everything in the bag leaving a puddle of it - my top…
