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Hodder & Stoughton
Whilst using Michel Thomas's Language Spanish course one of the chapters was corrupted. I contacted Hodder & Stoughton and received a replacement CD within the week. Excellent service.
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Tesco's mispricing refusing a refund
What happened was first they overcharged on reduced bread, 42p first they only gave 42p back not double the difference as they state Also There was a buy one get one free section, me and my friend thought it was cheap to get 2 cheesy garlic breads for £1.74, but my friend accidently picked up a plain one, which was piled…
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Brent council residents parking
Where we live is covered by one of Brent councils residents parking schemes which in a nutshell means I've got to pay £50 a year to park outside my front door (even though it doesn't guarantee a parking space) We also have a free permit for any visitors but it only covers them from 6pm-8.30am Monday to Saturday and all day…
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That's ASDA Price
Not so long ago the missus bought young Idle a toy boat from ASDA. This boat was battery operated and designed to be used in the bath. So she gets it home and I stick a couple of brand new batteries in it. I play with it in the bath just to make sure it works and all is well.................. until today. Young Idle played…
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Fonefunshop
Hello, I want to warn people about a company on the net called fonefunshop. I bought an item of them on the 23rd feb 2007, paid via Paypal after 4 weeks of not hearing from this company, not even a receipt from them, i started to email, never heard a word, so started to phone imposssible always engaged or just rings. I…
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Fonefunshop Be Aware
Hello, I want to warn people about a company on the net called fonefunshop. I bought an item of them on the 23rd feb 2007, paid via Paypal after 4 weeks of not hearing from this company, not even a receipt from them, i started to email, never heard a word, so started to phone imposssible always engaged or just rings. I…
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British gas
Cannot believe how they do things. I switched supplier end of Feb as our Gas/Electric still wasn't in our name since moving into our house in Oct 06. Got my first ever Gas bill addressed correctly which stated the final amount of £237 just before Easter. Rang to say because it was so high (Oct - Feb usage) couldnt pay all…
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Game stores group and nintendo Wii
My girlfreind visited a Game store to purchase a Wii, they had only 3 units in stock and told her if she wanted one she would have to buy the cover plan for £20, not knowing what to do my girlfreind phoned me from the shop floor for advice. I told her to tell the woman (manager!) I did NOT want the cover plan to which the…
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Nationwide Building Society
I received 3 telephone calls yesterday off Nationwide asking me to contact them urgently. As soon as i returned from work i called them and they wanted to discuss strange transactions on my account. Turns out some nice little person has managed to clone my card and get a very very large amount of money out of my account.…
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Carl Lewis Treadmill
I bought a Carl Lewis Treadmill, from their website, 5 months ago, it worked fine for 2 months but developed a fault. I called them and they told me, they would replace it. That was 6 weeks ago…So I gave them a call, they said, they don’t have carrier as their contract has expired? And will let me know in a few months, if…
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Carl Lewis Treadmill
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Clothing Collection Scam
I'm getting a lot of leaflets (8/9 pw) about Clothing Collections, is this a scam? or do they really go to a good cause?
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Bird on the Rock Tearoom - Clungunford, Shropshire
The above is supposed to be a world class tea room. We love to visit old fashioned tea rooms and took a special detour to visit this place on the way from Bournemouth to Chester. The closing time on the site was 5pm in winter, 6pm in summer. We arrived at the place at 4.40pm and it had a notice saying last orders at 4.30pm…
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Video7/Ebuyer Warranty Problems
Hi All, Been lurking here a while and have found the forum very useful, now i'm hoping to get some advice about a warranty repair im having problems with. I purchased a Video7 LTV30C LCD TV from ebuyer in Jun 05. The screen developed a fault in its second year of warranty and so I contacted Video7 in Germany (Ingram Micro)…
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Lettuce packs recalled from shops
Selected bags of lettuce are being recalled from shops amid fears of salmonella contamination, the food watchdog has confirmed. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) said the affected packs of Florette 100% Lambs Lettuce had been on sale during the past few days. Soleco UK Ltd, which produces the bags, is recalling all bags with…
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Suing a cartel…
I found this article, Suing a cartel should be easier, says OFT, interesting. I think the ideas are relevant to the MSE concept. It comments on, and links to, the OFT’s discussion paper Private actions in competition law: effective redress for consumers and business.
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British Gas Homecare 21% Price Hike
I've finally had enough. Against my better judgement I've been using British Gas Homecare 200 for a number of years now. Over the last 5 years my premiums have gone up by 5.5% on average per year. Just got my latest bill and it's 21% higher than last year. How can they possibly justify that sort of increase? They've just…
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Amazon not paying money owed to me?!
Very strange, 5 weeks have now passed, I sold about 6 or 7 rare old console games, made about £350, but around £190 after fees, I immeadietly transfered this to my bank account, a week passed nothing arrived, another week passed, still noting, but I was away at familys so couldnt send email, came back and sent an email,…
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icesave have lost my parents 6k by direct debit urgent help needed
hi, any help on this will be greatly received. my mum and dad have an account with icesave (who use dd to transfer money to and from their accounts). when my dad set up the direct debit he accidently added an extra digit to the account number of his nominated cahoot account. they then decided to transfer money from icesave…
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Bt problems advice needed
BT have treated me really bad, I had a phone line at my old flat, it wasnt working right, and BT said there was another line unused in my house, so I connected that one after they promised it was free connection to get charged full rate. After many phone calls I got it free, I then moved to flat 2 and had no phone line,…
