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dodgy car sale
Hi there Purchased a BMW 3 series W reg Saloon from a dealer in Poole with 6 months warranty (Max claim 300£) / Indy dealer. for nearly 6000 pounds. The car started to flash trhe coolant light in 3 weeks of having it. took the car to garage , they kept car for 3 days and returned it saying faulty thermostat and that it has…
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How to spot fake websites
Hello! I've just read about the fake Tiffanys site and thought I would post this link to a website that tells you how to stay safe online and spot fakes. Sorry if someone's already done this but just thought it might help. http://www.getsafeonline.org
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My postman is eating my mail!!
Someone within the Royal Mail is eating our mail!!!!!!! We have received 2 empty packets, on different days, during the last week. They should have contained freebie sample cereal bars but the packets had clearly been opened and resealed and the contents, presumably, eaten! To add insult to injury, today, the word EAT was…
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Aurigny (airline) and their Credit/Debit card charges!
I'm furious! I know this is a bit petty but im reeeeeeeeeeeally stretching my everdecreasing funds to breaking point... and i NEEEEED to see my mum who unconveniently lives in Guernsey. Went to bite the bullet this morning and book flight tickets with AURIGNY to see her at easter (their tickets are already extortionate…
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Telemarketer Current Tactics!
Just thought I'd put a note to say a very dirty trick currently in use by organisations such as 'Mobiles4U' that call your mobile (however many times you demand to be taken off the list) offering a new contract. Several times now, I've been told my contract is 'apparantly ending this month' as it's a 12month jobby. Seeing…
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**photobucket: Laptop Promo Warning**
A lot of us make use of Photobucket in both standard (free) and premium (paid-for) guise so it's depressing to see it allowing advertising that deliberately doesn't kick in until after a user has logged into her / his account. Thanks entirely to Photobucket -- which really should know a damn sight better --…
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Macdonalds - is this what passes for normal?
For my sins, I had to joing a friend in McD's and decided to hve one of their bagels. It was described as bacon, cheese and egg. What I got was this: Outisde: A Bagel covered in grease Inside: 2 rashers of bacon (comparatively normal looking) some messed up yellow stuff that was apparently cheese a white rubbery thing with…
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B&Q Delivery Charge
B&Q delivered some kitchen worktops to my home 2 weeks ago. I had the day off work to take delivery, but unfortunately they were damaged when they arrived. I phoned B&Q and as the worktops were a discontinued line, with no others in stock, I arranged for them to be collected. B&Q agreed to refund my card. I have checked my…
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Debt Collector (Wescot Credit) Help!
Appears from googling this company are a nightmare. My wife received a demand for £144.38 apparently for a vodafone account in 2001. She has never had a vodafone contract. I think the company does blanket mail drops to all people with the same name as the original debtor. We sent council tax book info showing our previous…
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advice about broken 15 month old cooker needed please.
Hi, I bought a cooker from Argos in October 2005. The guarantee was for the standard year. Now the fan oven is not getting hot. I phoned the manufacturer who told me the parts are covered for 5 years but not the labour. I have to pay £80 call out fee and there will be no further charges. This sounds fair if the cooker is 4…
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Boots - Instore Customer Service
Just needed to get this off my chest - Went instore to Boots yesterday and saw a promotion advertised "No7 Buy 2 get 1 Free", only condition is not applicable to reduced items. Fair enough. I saw 2 shelves with No7 gift packs marked on shelf at £3 - just plain £3 ticket, no mention that they were reduced - no "was £*.** /…
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Parcel Force 48Hrs....More like 48 days!
Hello All As I have previously posted on the eBay board I sent a parcel using Parcelforce 48 on Monday 15th Jan 2007. The Parcelforce man comes to collect the parcel along with the print off I got from the Parcelforce website, of which he WAS supposed to attach a 'document included' sticker on the parcel. The online…
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DFS leather sofa :confused:
We purchased the 'franklin' leather sofa in August, had it in the house since late October. The sofa is all different shades, not massive differences, but its brown and the type of leather mean't it wasn't just one solid colour. Its our first leather sofa and i thought leather didn't get any stains?? Now i know some harsh…
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the national health service!
Hi! I just wanted to say that for the last week the national health service have really done this country proud. My DS (only 7) was rushed in to hospital last monday, and had to undergo an emergency 3 hour operation on tuesday. I have never in my life met such a deticated bunch of people in my life as the staff of our…
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Has anyone purchased items from this website? WWW.SUPARDI.NET?
Did you believe this? Sony Bravia just only $1020, Too good to be true as a matter of fact. I can find NO info online to validate this company. and They've only just registered for 1 month. I think this website equal to SUKADI.NET, TRESTY.COM DUTAPRO.COM. Here the registrant : domain: supardi.net owner: - - organization:…
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Toshiba Customer Services and Savastore
Mods if this is in the wrong section please move it to a better one. On 25th May 2006 I bought a Toshiba Portege M400 Tablet PC from Savastore.com after the DVD-RAM going and sending it to Toshiba to get fix the PC was ok then in November time I started to notice this imprints, after paying out over £1,300 am not going to…
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Returned Sat Nav Via Courier Now Gone Missing!
I had a Blaupunkt sat nav from look again mail order last february,up until recently it worked fine then the voice stopped giving directions and the maps didnt show properly,rung look again who arranged for a courier (parcelnet) to come and collect and told me they would repair or replace it. This was collected on jan 11th…
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Nhs
I know the NHS are strapped for cash but to ask my MIL to inject her own anti-coagulent agent after coming home from a knee op is a bit much. Why not go the whole hog and let me do the op!!!!!!!!!!!Save them a fortune.
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Pipex threatening letters despite cancelled account
I cancelled my broadband account with them months ago. They have confirmed over the phone and even by email. They are sending me letters demanding payment with threatenning letters. I am fed up on phoning them to tell them to P* off. The last time I phoned they just answered the phone and the operator was laighing on the…
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Aldi Help!
Hi I purchased a steam iron from Aldi £40, it is 10 months old and has gone faulty. I took it back to the local Aldi, they said that they have a new returns policy from January 2007. They will only deal with faulty items within three months of purchase, after three months they say you have to return the item back to the…
