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Pestered by dodgy foreigners trying to buy your shares...?
Anybody else being subjected to this in recent months? Phone calls out of the blue from overseas by people expressing an interest in shares you own in more-or-less worthless companies - usually offering ridiculously high prices? I suspect it's just a variation on the 419 scam and if you proceed then bank details and…
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Computer Problems - What are my rights?
Here's a summary of my problem - I shall keep the company nameless as I'm still in discussions with them. November 2006. Received new PC. December 2006. CMOS battery and card reader failed. Engineer came and replaced the parts. February 2007. Battery dead again! Engineer to Visit. I refuse overtime at work as I have to be…
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What Investment- Continuous Payment Authority
I signed up for a cheap magazine trial with What Investment some time ago, I thought it was a 3 month thing so called to cancel, she said it was a year so I might as well leave it for now and cancel later. Of course I forgot all about it, just seen £35 go out of the current account so called subscriptions expecting them to…
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BOS Credit Card: No Escape
Stoozing is fun and has been fine until I tried to end a BOS Guide Dog Card that is impossible to close by paying the full balance! Here's a sorry tale from my letter to the Chief Exec: I am writing to raise a formal complaint regarding my Bank of Scotland Credit Card account. My account was opened with a 0% interest offer…
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Annoyed with Local Council re Council Tax Payments
I contacted my local Council (on mum's behalf) on 12.03.07 to request that she be sent DD form (previously she had paid by DD but it was cancelled as Council Tax account number had changed as had some bank details). Anyway, it hadn't arrived by Thursday 22.03.07 so I rang again. Person I spoke to said that first payment…
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carpet right refund
hiya folks i bought a carpet from carpet right today and i stupidly bought two tins of their aerosol adhesive as they said it was extremely good even though very pricey at £10 a tin, as i left the store i went to b and q and saw virtually the same stuff for 3.98 a tin, so i marched back (within 10 minutes) and they wouldnt…
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mfi
Hi I ordered 2 sofas and a footstool at the end of dec with clubcard deals. it has taken them 3 months to deliver them and then they deliver 1 brown and 1 black. They can't come and collect the black one for a week - yet another day to wait in. what am i supposed to do with the wrong settee in the meantime? how long it…
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Tesco Fuel
Anyone else noticed that they have put 3p per litre on all fuels in the last few weeks!!!!....Asda and even my local usual expensive garages are cheaper than them....they have lost my business...anywhere between £150 -£300 p/w....it's annoying how stupid they think we all are....
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Nintendo UK is the Best!!!
My son took his ds lite to school on the last day before Christmas (they were allowed to bring in a toy) and another lad fired it across the playground. Ever since it hung together by a thread. Then he dropped it about 30cms one day on the carpet and it fell apart - totally broke. We had got it in the Canaries during the…
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Free PJ Smoothies with added spewiness
In Birmingham City Centre today - me and a group of friends were given PJ Smoothies. 30 mins later I was running out of lecture with my head down the loo. A few hours later and the others are all at it as well!!!! Eeeeeww - I feel so bad now. And how can something just made of fruit make you feel so bad??????
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Greasypalm
My word. I have never been so disgusted at a company's communication and 'service' since it took B- *I don't know my backside from my elbow* -T 9 months to transfer my broadband.. Well..I wrote them a letter asking them to close my account and pointed out that i found it unbelieveable that an internet company did not give…
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Argos made my Day
I took my daughters nintendo Ds back begining of February as it wasn't working properly and as she only got it in June it was still under guarantee. Been in for last couple of weeks to see if it was repaired to be told today, the repairers had never recieved it, so unfortunatly they would have to replace it with a brand…
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Am i cheated?? about a delivery company, firstdirect
i received a post card send by firstdirect limited .it was said that they sent me a packet but missed me, i had to arrange a redelivery . the card was leaft nothing but my name and reference number,i have been sending 10 email to this company but no reply.and nobody answer the redelivery hotline.that's too rediculors! and…
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Burton Online
I received terrible service from Burton's online clothing site. I wanted to write a letter of complaint but i have emailed them 3 times now to give me an address and they just will not reply. I have also sent 2 letters to an address that i found on their site although i do not think it is for customer services and again i…
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Specsavers - above the call of duty
Broke my the frames of my glasses last night and went up to Specsavers a few minutes before they were due to close. They could not repair the frames but the girl managed to find a pair that would accept my lenses. I was in a panic because my other pair ae currently lost and I can not use my reading glasses for driving and…
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Krusell - Top supplier of mobile phone cases!
I recently bought a Krusell case for my XDA orbit phone as supplied by O2. Unfortunately it did not come with a case and I had to wait for quite a while before the first suppliers received stock. The bad news was that when my case arrived, it really was not an ideal fit. The company I bought it from has ignored all my…
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Aria not refunding
Just sounding off about this company. I returned a tft monitor on 2nd feb and received a receipt email advising refund would be processed with 5 days. So far no refund despite 6 calls, 4 emails and a recorded delivery letter. My emailswent unanswered, every time I phone I get told they can see the credit on my account and…
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Mothering Sunday Flowers
We have just discovered that the flowers our son sent to his Mother for Mothering Sunday never arrived. He ordered them from Tesco in ample time for delivery and of course paid for them. My wife was surprised when no flowers arrived this year, how can you ask someone if the forgot? How many other bunches of flowers did…
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Car Insurance, surely this cant be right!!!
My son took out a new insurance policy for his car in January. As his wife was due to take her driving test soon they wanted a policy which would allow her to be added as a named driver at a later date. The broker "found" an insurance company who would be happy to include her after 6 months of cover had been used. My…
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Frustrated UK & Euro Lottery Players Wanted!
Hello All! The other I received an email from a friend asking me to join an e-lottery syndicate!?! Have you ever heard about such thing? Here is what the webpage says: Frustrated UK & Euro Lottery Players Wanted! Are you fed up of wasting £5 or more every week on the lottery, with no excitement and no winning tickets? If…
