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Fitness First
Hi, I could do with some help on where I stand with this situation, plus I need to vent! :mad: I was a member of a fitness first club for a year but didn't really like it so once my 12 months was up I decided to cancel my membership. My monthly fee for December was taken off at the beginning of that month and the day that…
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Fake SKY Phone Call
Hello Thought I had better post, just answered the phone and it was apparently SKY TV, Conversation went like this:- ME: Hello? SKY: Hello Mrs Berncastel Its Sky Tv here we just want to confirm the account holders name and deatils for your account and check your bank details are up to date ME: I don't have a Sky Account…
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Screenselect! Rip Off?
Last year I was with screenselect to rent DVDs. i paid £14.99 a month. I have just found out that whilst I was paying £14.99 a month, they were running a promotion with a company's staff discount card scheme (which was open to everyone technically, all you had to do was enter a code) where they were giving 10% off rental…
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Watch out for O2 Phishing Email!
I have searched but couldn't find a specific warning about an O2 phishing email, so apologies if this is old news. I received an email today that purported to be from O2 that said I owed £82 and that it would be taken from my account. It also invited me to click a link to the site to enter my username and password, but the…
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Tesco photos
Just need to moan about this! I got a £3 photoprocessing voucher from Tescos in a Baby and Toddler Club giveaway. I don't really print off a lot of photos (as they are all over my house) but my daughter's godparents came over with their children in February and I wanted a copy of the photo we took of them all together. As…
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Glow Worm Boiler Problem
Hi all, hope someone can help me out here as I'm quite desperate to get this sorted. My mum moved into a new house in May of 2002 and found that the boiler that was currently installed was leaking and needed replacing. A local firm was recommended to her and on 26th June 2002 she had a whole new system installed, including…
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Intelligent Finance & Mp3players.co.uk
A warning and a cry for help at the same time I ordered a Sammy tv from MP3Players.co.uk back in Jan, then because they didn't have any stock I cancelled the order 2 weeks later. They took the money from my credit card when I ordered and I have emails confirming both the order and the cancellation, BUT they have not…
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BHS excellent customer services
I've moaned about bad service on here before so I'm delighted to give credit where it is due...in this case to BHS for excellent customer care. I had a BHS standard lamp which gave up the ghost after about 3 years. Had no guarantee or receipt or packing left. The thing went pop one day leaving scorch marks on the halogen…
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Swags & Tails kit from shopping channel :(
My 80yr mum bought a swags & tails kit from the Ideal World shopping channel. She taped the show and I've seen it and they make it look very easy and no doubt it will be ONCE she (me actually) has made paper copies of all of the huge templates! I am so cross that not once do they make any mention of having to do this and…
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Long delayed delivery
I received a phone call today saying chairs I'd ordered and payed for on 29th January and which were due for delivery next week will now not be in stock before the end of May! The shop, Archibalds (supposedly "the North East of Scotland's finest Retail and Contract Furnisher" and part of the living design chain I think)…
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Debenhams personal shopper (not)
Went shopping today for Bridesmaid dress for my DD with my sister and niece. My sister is registered disabled due to serious health problems which are not apparent at first sight but she regularly overheats and has palpatations. With this in mind I decided to use the personal shopper in Debenhams to fetch us some dresses…
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email given out.is this legal?
I did some work for a certain mystery customer company.i have just got an email from them.As well as the subject matter their is a header which gives a long list of all the email addresses it was sent to,including my own.I dont give my email out to anyone.Can they do this.Other people in the list now have my email address
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Idiots!!!
I just really need to get this off my chest... I used this sitebed&breakfast to find aB&B in Edinburgh, the prices are per room yet when contacting the provider they stated the same amount yet per person. I thought perhaps the prices were a special deal with the website so contacted them to check, they suggested i…
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Problems with dell laptop.
Hi I purchased a dell laptop at the end of august and its been working fine but recently I have been having problems with a loose connection in the power adpater so it will only provide power when the wire is held in the right position. I contacted dell technical support and they confimed that it was a problem with the…
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Swapit's - I'm Soooooo Angry!!!
Hi All Well, this is the story... My son discovered swapits and decided to swap everything he could in order to bid for an Xbox 360. He worked really hard, listing items, packing and posting them etc. 2 weeks ago, he finally had enough points and 'won' the bidding. Then we find that actually Swapits have not got them in…
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Richer Sounds
On 22 Oct 02 i made a purchase of a multi region Sony DAVS500 home cinema kit for £414.85, inclusive of the 5 year extended guarantee from Richer Sounds website. Since that time the Unit has been back on 3 separate occasions for repair. Each time with the same fault (when watching a DVD after about an hour the dvd will…
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Sky half price subscriptions
Make sure that if you take up the offer with Sky for their x months half price that they don't hit you for the full amount due to some 'account error'. Also beware if you live in a building of more than 10 flats as you won't be eligible for the full offer, usually just half of it ie 2 months instead of 4. That's only…
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BT? Bloody Terrible
hey all, i wanted to try and save some dosh on my cable/broadband. i currenly have an unlimited 4mb service from Telewest, together with the phone and essential tv pack, in total my monthlies are £50.50 + calls + vat, giving me a average monthly total of £72. after doing some research, i found i could get an 8mb broadband…
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Is this a rip-off or i just don't get it
Few years ago i took a credit card from Adams. Never had problems, as i was paying it in full. Just before Christmas i forgot to make a payment, as we just move home and wanted to make it nice before the holidays. It just slipped my mind. I was fined for late payment on my next statement. As i lost my job i had to start…
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Hospital visit just cost us £30
My husband went to visit his mum in hospital yesterday, she collapsed on Monday and hit her head. They've been running different tests as she's went a bit funny and been totally out of character. Anyway on the way out the nurse stopped him and said the doctor wanted to speak to him. He went into the office and waited about…
