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Tesco's fruit & veg prices
It appears that Tesco have been caught out on their latest TV ad campaign. They claim to be halving the price of five different fruit and veg products as part of a healthy eating campaign. BUT, it now appears that the prices were raised before they were "halved" ! Gala Apples were £1.19, they rose to £1.99, then halved to…
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Sainsburys Moan
I am not a happy bunny. I have been shopping at Sainsburys weekly for over 6 years and once or even twice a week buy their own cheapie whisky. Just after Christmas the shelves were empty of this product. I patiently waited to see if they were re-pricing and low and behold they did! At a reduced price! Then this happened…
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Virgin Media V Sky
Having been with Telewest from virtually the start up of Cable TV in our area, we were totally dismayed by the current argument between Virgin and Sky which cost the consumer certain Sky Channels. On hearing that although these Channels had been removed, no reduction in price would be offered, we took Martin's advise and…
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car insurance -outrage
got quote from bell car insurance and then they find out i had a FULLY SETTLED NON FAULT insurance claim and the b******* put my quote up by £60:eek: - absolutely disgraceful:mad: kwik fit gave me a qoute and then forced on legal protection , i told the call worker i did not want it , but she repeadetly lied to me over the…
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Twinings Tea
Before Christmas I bought a pack of Twinings English Breakfast teabags, mainly because I was running out of tea, but partly because they came in a rather nice metal caddy, and I'm a sucker for 'free' things! Unfortunately, when I opened the box inside the caddy, two of the bags were stuck to a blob of glue, and when I…
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Morgan Stanley
I bought 6 sets of blinds over the internet yesterday at about 3 pm, in 3 transaction of two blinds each (I saved £30 by doing it that way !) total value £500. Morgan Stanley 'phoned me this afternoon to see if I had done any transactions on my card, as five transactions had taken place on my card in the middle of the…
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Costco Membership
Does anyone know why Costco have a policy of restricted membership? I have just been up to their new store in Chester to join and the 18 year old girl on the counter refused me membership. This is despite the fact work for an international insurance company (one of the biggest in the world), and I hold chartered status of…
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Dell =hell
lAST NIGHT I MADE A BAD MISTAKE AND TRIED TO BUY A DEKTOP FROM DELL. I GAVE THE SALES PERSON THE " E VALUE CODE " WENT OVER ALL THE SPECS AND HE SENT ME A E`MAIL TO CONFIRM THE ORDER £385. THE SPECS WERE FOR ANOTHER DESKTOP NOT THE ONE WE HAD DISCUSSED, AND AS HE WAS STILL ON THE PHONE I SAID I DID NOT WISH TO PROCEED AS…
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Royal Mail
I returned two items of jewellery to QVC using Special Delivery costing £5.40. QVC said they didn't receive it. I put a claim form in to the Royal Mail. The two items were over £220. Royal Mail have sent a letter today saying that the Special Delivery was delivered but that they couldn't give me a copy of the receipt since…
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Laptop Lunches - Great company.
I bought some laptop lunch kits from https://www.laptoplunches.com last year. Unfortunately the hinge on the back of inner container snapped. I taped it together so I was still usuable but not ideal solution. I dropped them an email to let them know what had happened. I recieved a very prompt reply apologising for the…
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dentist
Delete please
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Identity Theft from File Share Websites
I read an artical in the news the other day that says alot of people don't know how many of their files are being shared on these p2p sites. Most of them give you the option of sharing your whole C drive which can include anything from bank statements to copies of passports. Apparently people have started using these P2P…
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City Link
My husband ordered some items mail order, and purposely paid extra for delivery yesterday knowing there would be someone in all day. The goods never arrived. I've been in all morning, and they haven't arrived today, so he checked the City Link tracking page. The page states the courier called here yesterday morning, but we…
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morrisons
Check your reciepts when you have done a shop at Morrisons. Bought Innocence 1 litre smoothie that was 1.49 half price but was charged full price. I rung morries and they are gonna refund my money
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Sky+ - thanks peeps
:j From reading a posting regarding sky+ my tale started today..... paid bill got switched back on.... box still unable to record....phoned premium rate number and after 17+ minutes was told I needed to book an engineer at cost to self £65.00... partner found this site and read that if you phoned back and said you wished…
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BT Help!!!!!
Can I just rant a bit please. We moved.(3rd Feb) Gave BT more than the '5 working days' as requested on their web site. They said ok, might be a prob so we will book an engineer, but sorry one not available till 19th Feb, shouldn't need him though we just have to book it. Ok we thought, we've moved before, they just switch…
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swift roofing manchester avoid at all costs.
i was unfortunate enough to have swift roofing to replace my roof 18 months ago, what should have been a 7 day job turned into a three and a half week headache of him disappearing or not even bothering to turn up. when the job was finished he turned up that same evening for his money and reluctantly handed over a…
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o2 International charges
As I'm going a wee trip to Canada in a few weeks I thought I'd check to see how much I would be charged if I use my o2 mobile over there. Calls 99p/min to a UK land line - expensive but I can see why. Texts - conflicting information some webpages say 25p others 49p - still unsure for charges to receive texts I could not…
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help advice needed
i ordered a sofa from a big chain at the end of december 2006 on buy now pay in 12 months, the paper work was completed at the end of january 2007. i paid £170.00 deposit at the end of december. on the 28th february 2007 they left a message on my answer machine to say the finance had been declined and i could not get a…
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Take That Ticket Touts
Just back from Glasgow city centre where I queued for 3 hours to get my daughters tickets to see Take That in November. I am FURIOUS to find tickets for these gigs for sale on eBay for up to £600:mad: Some even have the audacity to put a picture of the ticket on eBay with the seat number and face value clearly showing…
