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Jessops, Amazon, Liz Earle
Jessops as ordered a Canon Selphy ES1 printer yesterday, arrived this morning, took less than 24 hours, brilliant. Good deal too, £99.99 with 2 x 50 photo packs included. Amazon for replacing my mums christmas present of a faulty digital camera straight away, sending it to her and keeping in constant touch via email. Liz…
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Gym Payment 3 year lock in?
Hey everyone i very much need some advice on this situation! I got a call around a year ago to come down to my local gym and have a free look around (quite spooky really because just the day before my partner and i had both said we would look into joining one) and so i went with my mum and had a look around... the picture…
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Gutted at price drop
Having 4 young children, on a limited budget, I shop for xmas presents all year round. This year my eldest 12yr old dd wanted a creative 30gb zen mp3 in pink. The cheapest I found it was at play.com at £179.99, one of my sisters, and her Nana chipped in, & I ordered one at the end of Sept. DD knew how much it was & was…
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Reader's Digest Prize draw
Why don't Reader's Digest dig a big hole and get lost?! :mad: :mad: :mad: Either send me a genuine cheque, or p**s off please. I'm not interested in a crappy prize draw that millions of people are "finalists" in. Somone needs to find the people responsible for these scam junk mails and take a baseball bat to them :mad:…
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fisher price telephone
i had one of these http://www.fisher-price.com/us/products/product.asp?id=5663 when i was a kid and i expect loads of other mse'ers did too. so i got one for chops as one of her crimbo presents. its crap! its made of the cheapest plastic ever, it looks like it comes from poundland rather than £5.00 in woolies (i know still…
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the next sale
i was very very disappointed with the next sale this year. last year i managed to buy loads for the moo but this year nothing in the size 12-18 months. anyone else find the sale disappointing this year?
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Odd SMS - opinions please.
I just received an unsolicited text message on my mobile, which is registered with TPS. It is listed as being from Black Horse (no phone number) and says "Thanks for arranging to see us. Just to confirm your appointment at your local Black Horse office in Crewe is on 28/12/2006 at 14:00" 1: I don't live anywhere near Crew.…
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Phone Calls Warning!
I have just received a Phone Call from a Firm, and Im Ex - Directory! He asked me if I had received correspondence from his firm in my area. I said Im Ex - Directory, how did you get my phone number. He replied " Would you like me to take you off the register then " I replied Yes, but you still arent having my details!…
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Shavers.co.uk - Only 22 hours between ordering and delivery by ordinary Royal Mail!
Exactly as the title says. I ordered an adaptor after breakfast yesterday and the postie woke me at 7.15 this morning with the package. Most impressed with Shavers.co.uk and also the Royal Mail. *Scurries off to plug in new all singing all dancing electric toothbrush :D
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Gym sending out email addresses
Just had an email from a gym I once joined for a short trial. They're offering no joining fee if I join now... They've emailed about 500 people, the email address of each person is showing in the "to" box on the email! How slack is that?
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Comet, price match
I found a laptop on the Comet website on the 16th Dec for £849, (instore price £999.) So I rung customer services, they reserved one in my local store at the web price and said I could pick after an hour. I did and got £150 off! I noticed today it has dropped to £799 on their website, now £849 instore. So I rung them…
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early learning centre - do they swap/refund without a receipt?
one of my aunts got chops the same present for crimbo that mum got her for her birthday. we dont have the receipt. its still boxed and came from ELC. are they ok at refunds/exchanges?
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game in macclesfield
am shocked my son has special needs he,s 17 and went alone to spend his christmas money he has bought a preowned play station star wars lego game for 24.99 which i was shocked at the price but worse its scratched and doesnt play hes just got home so game is shut but am so mad at him being well and truley ripped of , what…
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US Scam?
Has any body heard of or been contacted by The Bench Group, New York, or Cornerstone PPL of Chicago? They are futures traders in the states. Ta.
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c/c question
I went to use my Mastercard the other day, to guarantee a cheque, and found out too late that my pin was blocked. As I don't use the holes in wall I queried it with Lloyds tsb and the answer I got was that it had been blocked as a security feature. It seems that as I had only used it as a guarantee card and online…
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Christmas Returns Warning (Especially WH Smith)
So - got some pressies sent up from the family in Wales (I live in Northumberland) and it turns out that they were stuff I already had - and of course, they didn't send the receipts up. I checked discreetly, and they were bought from WH Smith/Waterstones - so off I trotted into Newcastle to see if I could at least get an…
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Engraved Bracelet Gone Wrong - My Rights???
I bought a 9ct gold ID bracelet for my boyfriends Christmas. It was £223 plus another £20 for engraving. I picked it up from the jewellers on 20th December. By the looks of things the engraving has been done by hand...it is very rough & ragged and the letters "B" "O" "B" are not even in a straight line! To add to this, the…
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GAME Student discount!?!?!
Right then.. though GAME Stores dont do student discount on hardware they do on all software... So when I buy an Xbox 360 with loads of games the games can get discounted (which they did in Stafford) However I recently went to a store in Carlisle to buy several games.. at the checkout (manager serving me too!) I was told…
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Superdrug- overcharging SALE priced items
Hi everyone, I was sale shopping today and popped into Superdrug. I bought a few items and two were mis-priced. One by 50p and another by £3! If you are buying things that have been reduced make sure you are charged the reduced price. No point sale shopping if you end up paying full price! I hope this helps a few people-…
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possible scam/virus - beware
the other night i received what came up as a multimedia message on my mobile from a number i did not recognise. it was entitled 'hi there' im not daft enough to open such a thing and thought should warn you all incase you receive similar.