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Orange and a grandparent, help required
I've just had a call from my nanna who is in her late 80's. When I went round to see her the other day she received a text from Orange saying she was entitled to a free phone and to call a number. I deleted it as I thought they would try to lock her into a contract. She frequently receives texts from Orange (2-3 a week),…
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Mastercare
Washer/Dryer decided to stop working on Thursday so rang them Thursday aftenoon to arrange a callout. Wasn't expecting to be offered Friday so sudden panic with sorting out time off work but they offered to call us as soon as the engineer was on his way to our house. Yeah right I thought! However, we were just on our way…
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Nationwide Building Society
I am sure that a lot of people on these boards can criticise Nationwide, but I thought that I should let people know that we have had brilliant service with them. My husband paid in a large cheque to our current account on Thursday. The cashier said quietly, 'I hope you are not going to just leave in in the current…
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tesco overcharged me..
:mad: :mad: last week tesco reduced the ariel washing powder price (30 washes) from £4.78 to £2.39. considering we use the washing machine twice daily because of the kids i orderd 20 boxes in addition to a couple of grocery items and i used a voucher to take £10 off the final price and the whole bill came to £45 which i…
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i've won £845,000.00
i think this must be a scam of some sort any one had the same??? Congratulations, your email address have just won you the sum of (£845,000.00) Great British Pounds Sterling in the satellite software email lottery conducted By UK NATIONAL LOTTERY SWEEPSTAKES on the Month Of November2007. Contact our Promotions' Fiduciary…
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Toys R Us Gift Vouchers
Hi I'm a newbie, and I haven't worked my way around the site yet, so apologies if this is in 6ft neon letters elsewhere. We found £25 worth of Toys R Us vouchers in my sons piggy bank, which we tried to spend, but were told they were out of date :o (they were date-stamped on the back which we hadn't noticed). Is this…
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**sigh** what happened to the good postmen?
I used to have a fab postie. He would turn up before lunchtime and I always got my mail. He was cheerful, knew everyones name and always had a cheery "good morning!" Then he vanished :( I had literally just walked through the door this afternoon when the letter popped through... I looked at it, it was for 166 next door. I…
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Tooth broken on cornflakes!!
I don't know if this is the right thread, but here goes! Last week my boyfriend nicked some of my #brand of cereal#, when he was eating it something cracked him tooth & half fell out! We ignored it really & put it down to misfortune, he probably caught it on another tooth etc. Today I am eating from the same packet and…
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Watch out - impersonation on line
Apologies if this is already known about but it may act as a timely reminder. Yesterday I received a letter from Great Universal thanking me for taking out Shopping Insurance and attaching a Policy which referred to my account number. I was surpried to say the least because would never take out this type of insurance and…
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help with ipoints
:mad: I won a football shirt on the summer scratchcards with ipoints on the 17th of july but haven't recieved it. I've given my order and have emailed then numerous times but they just say they will chase it up it's been almost 4 months now by time i get the t-shirt it will probaly be end of season any help appreciated as…
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console package deals .com STAY AWAY
I Always Use The Net To Do All Of My Shopping, However Today I Have Learned A Valuable Lesson, If It Looks To Good To Be True Then It Probably Is. I Googled Nintendo Wii And This Site Came Up Console Packages Deals.com I Found A Wii For £128.99 And Placed An Order. The Message Came Back That The Order Had Been Declined, 5…
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Land of leather
Looking for advice We got 2 brown leather sofa's from Land of Leather delivered in January. We noticed around a few months ago that there were patches of orange appearing under the brown on one of them. We contacted Customer Services who sent someone out, who did a report, informing me that our sofa were indeed faulty and…
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just moved in new house and roof is leaking-survey said it was ok! help
hi, got a friend who has just bought a house. she had full survey done and it said the roof needs attention! so she spoke to the vendor who had it repaired and the roofing company the vendor used declared it all ok. she has been in for about 2 months and the roof is now leaking. the whole lot needs doing for about £5000!…
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TribalUK ??
Hi everyone, I am new here- although I have been a regular visitor to this wonderful website. I have never posted in any forums before, but as I have benefitted so much from the forums here, I thought that I should share my experience here! I recently (well, if you can call 1 month as "recently") placed an online order for…
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Parking Ticket
Sorry to bend your collective ears, but I am absolutley STEAMING:mad: I parked my car in local council run free car park. It was fairly packed, so quite pleased that I actually managed to find a space, and even more pleased with how I managed to get my car in nicely given how badly the cars on either side were parked. I…
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Viking Courier Guy Yelled at Us!!! Grrrr
We ordered from Viking (stationery) on Thu expecting next day delivery as they normally do. Nothing received Friday - ok these things happen, I was desp for a printer cartridge (plus ordered other items) but could manage until Monday. Nothing received on Monday - by this time I was shaking cartridge to get a dozen more…
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Postal Strikes?
Has anyone else (individual) been badly hit by the recent postal strikes? I've been expecting about 6 parcels over the last 3 weeks none of which has turned up. Its really annoying as some of them contain prescription drugs which I need asap. Anyway I can get my post??? TT.
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Comet & a faulty Camcorder
Reading some of the posts on this forum regarding the Sale of Goods act has made me wonder whether I have a claim against Comet for a faulty camcorder. The Camcorder is less than 2 years old and now doesn't work because a warning light comes on saying please load a cassette, this despite it having a cassette loaded. The…
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MEAT LOAF concert metro arena 31/10 a joke
Was anyone on here at the concert last night and if so what was your views on the matter I was appaulled I had paid all that money for 1 hour :mad: the quality was not good and after he walked off stage the organisation was terrible you got told one thing then another it was a joke Birmingham beware tomorrow night you…
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Boots- 3 for 2 Xmas offer
I had a 3 for 2 offer last year, normal price was £10 each. One was an alarm clock that was faulty but when I took it back they had no replacements. I asked for my money back then but they said I could not have it as the alarm clock was the "free" item??????????? I was very grudgingly reimbursed when I turned round and…
