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Need advice
Hey Guys, I hope you someone can help. My brother paid £350.00 deposit some sofas which costed a total of £3500 in April. Unfortunately circumstacnes changed and he could not afford to pay for the sofas. When he went back yesterday tehy said he had lost the deposit because they had to sell the sofas cheaply. My brother did…
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7 day shop email looks like a phish
With so many warnings around about phishing mails, and not following links in emails etc you would think shops would be cautious about what they expect their buyers to do. I've just got this mail in my inbox which I assumed was a phish: This is an automated email - please do not reply as the address is not monitored Dear…
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Boots / Huggies starter pack
My wife received some boots parenting vouchers yesterday and the latest Boots parenting magazine. The picture of the freebies looked really good (see pic) so went went into town to collect our pack it scanned at £24.99 so thought it must be good, when we got home it contained a changing bag, sample pack of baby wipes and a…
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Britannia Rescue
We're all used to bad service but for once I'd like to thank someone. I've just had 2 weeks up in Fort William and on the last day, Friday 13th of course, my clutch goes. As this is over 600 miles from home theres no chance of driving home and getting a part would have taken a good few days. I phoned Brittania and within…
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xbox360 repost and another question
Is it me or do i only get the people that can't speak or write? I got my refurbed console back on friday or is it new...i can't tell untill i start the machine and see if my Bro's background is still there....but then i can't do that as they didn't send my power pack back!!!! So now i phoned them up and got some guy who…
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Should I ask for money back?
It was my birthday on Friday, and I fancied having my hair coloured. I went to a salon I'd been to before for a cut and showed them a picture of what I fancied. I have dark hair, some of which has been coloured before (dark brown), but my roots are my natural (dark brown) colour. Anyway, the pic had really light chunky…
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Tesco DVD Rental
Anyone on here use Tesco DVD rental? I tried to sign up on Friday and ever since I got the initial email back from them I've heard nothing - my account has still not been activated according to the website, and neither of the email addresses I have for them appear to work (I get returned messages saying the email cannot be…
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Farepak Hampers in receivership
Not sure if this is general news yet but farepak hampers have gone into receivership. Lots of people will have lost all the money they have paid in over the year and have a bit of a bleak christmas. One of my friends is an agent. It is very hard to get any information, apart from a pre recorded premium rate phone line,…
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Paypal
Hi all I won a couple of xmas presents off Ebay and went to pay for them with my Paypal account but it was refused I checked why and found about 16 transactions which were disputed, cancelled and re-charged from an 'american seller' all of which I have no idea what they are Paypal have not contacted me but have frozen my…
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Farepak Hampers gone BUST!!
Friday 13th turned into a real horror story when I found out they went into receivership. £450 that was supposedly safe and set aside for Xmas is down the drain, The website states none of this, it's only when you phone the number that you get a recorded message basically saying - tough! I hope they can sleep well, Santa…
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Rip off or not?
I have just had a message left on my answerphone telling me I have won one of either a Mini Cooper, £2000 Plasma TV, Holiday in Las Vegas, or £5000 in cash. I have been invited to ring a premium rate no (£1.50/min). Has anyone out there experienced this before. I figure if I have really won something they will ring me back…
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I wanna buy something from ASOS
I ordered some shoes from ASOS this week. I received the confirmation of order email and then today I received another saying they had cancelled my order saying it was 'high risk'. They asked me to provide either my passport or driving licence to perform a security check on my card. From what I have read, their website…
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Kitbag - paid for next day delivery - sent to WRONG CITY!!
I ordered football boots on Wednesday 11th October and paid for next day delivery. My son needed them for an importance match today - Saturday. By Friday 13th (:eek: ) they hadn't arrived.Phoned both the 0870 number and the alternative.on Friday....asked to leave my number, which I did. No reply!! Went on their web site…
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Crap Dixons!!
Hey there, Brought a TV from Dixons Online at the end of August and recieved a telphone call a few days later to say it was out of stock and they would be in touch when it was back in stock to arrange delivery, fair enough.......i thought. A week later i ordered a washer dryer and fridge freezer from them. I then recieved…
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Vistaprint Rip Off
I recently recommended Vistaprint to people who have small businesses, to get stationery only paying postage. I have just checked a bank statement and have found when i have paid the postage costs by debit card online this company have set up a direct debit without my permission taking out £9.95 per month. I have to admit…
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Car Service Sham???
Opinions please! We had our car serviced coming up for a year ago. To our utter dismay we recently broke down on investigation discovered the cam belt had gone and subsequently affected (in polite terms) the entire engine. Therefore the cost of repair is looking to be in the region of £1500, which we may as well purchase a…
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returned something to tesco and instead of getting a refund was charged again
Returned something to tesco last saturday, customer service lady got in a bit of a tiz cos the item was a bogof and the till was saying i should get refunded too much, so she said she would do it a different way, didn't give me a receipt and i had to ask for my card back, checked my statement and i have been charged…
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Ebuyer - rip off merchants
I went into the ebuyer website 5 days ago as I was interested in a NAVMAB F20 Sat Nav. Their website said 66 in stock. They took my credit card details for a payment to be taken of £149. Today I have received an email from them saying they are out of stock and would I like to choose an alternative product. Ive just…
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Tesco Fuel Vouchers (Deal With Car Ins)
Has anybody taken out car insurance with Tesco in the last fewmonths? I took out the insurance for the 04/08/2006 and Included in this was an offer for £20 worth of fuel vouchers, I was in formed that you have to have the Insurance with them for over six weeks before these vouchers are sent out,However I havent received…
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Someone hit my car
I went out at dinner time today to do some voluntary work, car is parked outside my house. When I got dropped off later that afternoon, the OH was out and told me some swine has hit our car front wing. I large scratch and where the wing sticks out of the wheel, a large dint. I really could do without this, what with my…
