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ITV and inappropriate adverts
As i understand Ofcom have announced a Ban on junk food advertising from the end of January when the targeted audience is children. So today i settle down with my 9 year old to watch all the childrens programmes as it is the first Saturday of Febuary and to my amazement the line up of adverts included McDonalds, A new type…
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Faulty Goods and no receipt
Hi I really hope someone can offer some advice... basically I bought a portable dvd player as a gift for someone for xmas and when they have went to use it they have said it doesn't work... I don't have the box or the receipt and when I returned it to the shop they wouldn't offer me an exchange unless I had proof of…
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Stopped continually in town by people with rucksacks.
It is now getting to the stage where I think violence is the only answer. In the time it takes me to walk from my work to my car through town (5 minutes) I am stopped DAILY by...... The "Have you had any accidents in the past year?" blokes. A chinese guy handing me a leaflet for his alternative therapy shop. A big issue…
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Help ballifs came, not my debt.
I have abit of a dilema.... Have just gone out to my car and found that there is a notice to seive the goods on it that has been served by the ballifs. I am not quite sure why this is here as the name on it is the lady who is registered as the previous owner and i brought the car through a main dealer. I have phoned the…
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Telewest t.v. package - two channels lost!
We currently use the Virgin Media Large service (which equates to the Telewest Essential Service) and have noticed that, today, we're missing two channels - Jetix and TheBox. We've just spoken to somebody in Customer Relations about this and they're not planning on reimbursing or replacing - which I think is a bit grim!…
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Car Servicing Rip Off - Arnold Clark - What can I do?
Hi I am looking for some advice, I recently had my car (Vauxhall astra) serviced at Arnold Clark in Glasgow. The cost of the service was £175 but they stated that the all of the checks contained within he Vauxhall servicing schedule would be carried out. When I went to pick up my car I noticed that the service indicator…
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Sky Tv
Phoned today after receiving some junk mail. Using their automated system took about 7 mins to get through to a human. then repeatedly told they couldn't find my phone number on their system. Then had to confirm my postcode about 3 times because the person didn't understand English. Asked them to stop sending me junk…
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DESIGN FIREPLACES - load of rubbish
Having ordered a fireplace and firefront from Design Fireplaces (head office in Guildford, Surrey) back in September it was delivered a month later. Unfortunately when it was installed the guy could not get it to work and we found he had ordered the wrong style of firefront. A few days later we were told we would need to…
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prudential car insurance
Broke up with partner last week so called to take him off my car insurance only to be told it would go up in price and not down if insured only to drive.............that on top of admin fee.............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So left him on.....................cheaper for me - stupid or what!!! Liz xx
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Tax Credits
I got a phone call from the tax credit recovery agency today saying that I owed them three thousand pounds from last year!!!, when they call me about this last yeat I immediately call them and they said it was a mistake on their part and it would be cancelled, now I phoned them again and spoke to a Mrs Unhelpful, who said…
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Pricedrop tv and Post Office
Ok I will try and make this as quick as I can, although its quite a long story. My Dad ordered some digital home phones from Pricedrop, which were faulty. He phoned Pricedrop, and was told they didn't have anymore in stock and no idea when they would have more. He sent the phones back for a refund, waited for refund to…
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Government's proposal to share bank account information without your consent
For those strongly opposed to the Government's proposal to share bank account information without your consent. Click here to find out more and how to back this campaign. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/bankdatasharing/
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Help please - am i entitled to a refund?
Hi everyone, I'll try and make this as quick as possible! I purchased a rocking moses basket stand from Mothercare online in September, my baby was born in October so this is when it was first used. Just before Xmas we finally finished his nursery, I picked up the stand to move it into his room and it quite literally fell…
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COMPLAINT letter - please can you guys check it please..
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currys - always lowering prices
or not.... before christmas i brought a wireless keyboard and mouse for £30. there was no sale on and brought it at the RRP. yesterday we were in there looking at cameras and i saw the exact same keyboard priced at £29.99 sale price 'was £49.99' what a cheek! theyve upped the price then made it look like it had been…
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United Press Ltd
My 13 year old daughter put a couple of poems into one of their contests and was thrilled to be told that one of them had been chosen to be put into the book 'Flight of Fancy'. She was told that it wasn't like any of the other publisher that require you to purchase the book to be published AND as she was only 13 she could…
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MFI yet another sale
Hi all, I' hope I've found the right place to post this, if not I'm sure I'll get moved to the right place! I've fallen foul of something that I can sort of understand from their point of view but still is annoying and I'm wondering where I stand doing something about it. Yesterday was the last day of MFI's big VAT-free…
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Tesco Direct - Excellent Service
I bought some furniture last Thursday from Tesco Direct, a three seater sofa, a two seater sofa and a chair. Delivery charge just £4.85 for delivery the following Wednesday. I was given 8am-6pm as the 'slot'. But on Tuesday I received a text from them to say they would phone me an hour before they arrived on Wednesday.…
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Hotpoint washer/dryer Hell
Where do I start? well I suppose the beginning so here it goes : April 2006 we purchased a Hotpoint Aquarius Washer/Dryer from Argos we paid for delivery and Installation (as partner is not good at these sort of things), we also on same day brought matching Hotpoint Fridge/Freezer, Dishwasher from Currys. Hotpoint…
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rip of Britan this is really bad....please read and act!
This is one of the greatest rip Britain...... things I have ever seen. Hudson Reed, they are a massive manufacture of high quality showers, taps, radiators, ect. I have done a lot of research into this and have been looking into many shops, I have noticed that they have word wide shopping sites. they all offer free…
