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store card bullies
Firstly let me say this is probably in the wrong place but hopefully it can be sorted to the correct place. My daughter (18yrs) works on Saturdays at a local well known DIY store and yesterday she told me that to meet his targets for a store card last week her manager had kept on to her and eventually co-erced her into…
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UK Parking Control Ltd @ Mcdonalds!!!!
This has really made my blood boil!!!!!! The other week I stopped at a McDonalds (Holywell, off the A55, North Wales) for some breakfast, and to take advantage of thier free wi-fi. Having purchased a Sausage and Egg Mcmuffin meal, I sat down and surfed the net to my hearts content. I was in the restaurant for just over 2…
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Alliance & Leicester - Recommend a Friend
I have a new current account with Alliance & Leicester and if you recommend a friend you receive £50 to share as soon as the friend opens the account. You can only access via the link which is sent to the friend by email otherwise you cannot get £50 - this is not working and has been like this for over 3 weeks. Anyone else…
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TV licence inatlments refunded?
got behind with tv licence monthly payments, so was paying double each month to keep up- just had letter saying as no longer part of the monthly scheme (arrears?), they have sent money back- want full amount straight away!
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Additionsdirect
:mad: I bought a panasonic hifi, paid with credit card, arranged delivery for today. Checked e-mail for confirmation last night, nothing there phoned them up to be told it had been declined by the bank. Spoke to them this morning not a problem there end. What grates me is additions have said we have sent you a letter, i…
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Refund of flight taxes
Airlines are legally bound to refund fight taxes if you cancel your ticket. Well, that may be what the law says but beware, the airlines can, and do, charge an 'administration fee' (per person, per flight) that can add up to more than the refund. It happened to me recently when I cancelled a return flight from Birmingham…
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Link Finance hassle low morals
Anyone heard of a company called Link (could be Link Finance or Financial) and had a problem with them. My wife received a knock on the door from a neighbour earlier today saying.. sorry to trouble you but I have just had a call from some one called XXX who has asked can you ask your husband to call us as it is urgent to…
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Batteries Plus
http://batteriesplus.co.uk :mad: I ordered some batteries off this company some time ago. They emailed me regularly to say that the order had been received and then that the order was deferred and then to say that it was on its way. Suffice to say, the batteries didn't arrive. They don't answer their emails and their phone…
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***WARNING***Website posing as BT try to phish your account details
I have received an email today which i'm almost sure is a phishing email. If you get and email that starts "Urgent - BT is making some changes to its email service. Emails you send from alternate BT Yahoo! Mail addresses may be blocked" press delete. I have reported it to BT. It is very convincing. It waffles on about…
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Miami Hospital Phone Call
Guys & Martin Phone call from an 097......... number and the caller asked for me by name. He sounded far away with American accent. Asked if I had stayed at a Miami Hospital recently. I said no and he accepted it without a pause. Appologised for troubleing me. Any ideas? Were they just checking my name for future reference…
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Royal Mail Complaint
Hi Does anybody have a contact name & address for the chairman/chief exec. As i am currently getting nowhere with their customer services. Thanks
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Readers Digest, is this a rip off?
hi there i have had a letter from them this morning, saying a large orange envelope with a green tracking label due to arrive through my front door in the next few days , and when it does i have 72 hrs to reply, and i could win up to £250,000 if my number is picked out. i take it, this some kind a rip of ?, thanks for any…
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my order with asda canceled?
Anyone buy the ZANUSSI ZRD233W 8.27CF 'A' WHITE last week on asda deal of the day,i read somewhere that it was a miss price,and im sure i read some people got canceled. Did anyone not get canceled? I checked my account and see that payment was taken from my account,order was placed online and i got confirmation. Today i…
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Take a bow SCREWFIX
Towel rail broke Sat am (an under-surface retractable jobby) Went to BigShed diy - none on shelf, assistant looks it up "order only; could be three weeks plus; cost £15" Tour of other diy outlets - nowt. Hot day so home for a brew. Googled 'towel rail' - BigShed site says 'Yes in stock' at depot just visited!! Another link…
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PenyBanc Car Centre
Otherwise known as Penybanc Trade Centre. Just a warning - be careful buying a used car from these jokers. We put a deposit down on a car, subject to test drive. We decided the car was not for us. They are now denying all knowledge of the "subject to test drive" part and are refusing to refund our deposit... unfortunately,…
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Character Reference
Not sure if this is the right forum but I'm trying to find out how to get a character reference about someone, ie, do they have previous convictions or had charges against them. any help would be appreciated. Ashes
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Money 'softwhere'?
I am interested if anyone has any other software that you use for managing money. Currently I use an old version of Microsoft Money. MS have kindly fogotten about the UK and have not developed the software any longer and only seem to think the US use it! I also note that Intuit Quicken software is no longer being developed…
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vision express rant
In the mood for a complete rant about vision express... I went for an eye test 2 weeks ago as i wanted a spare of glasses for my honeymoon and thought i would get a new pair for the wedding. So anyway I went for a test, and as i'm so blind i need them thinned down. The ones they recommended (glass lenses) would take up to…
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H.O.T (Helen Of Troy) UK Straightener Makers
Helen Of Troy (HOT UK) make all of the UKs straightening irons for the Uk market. When my pair of Vidal Sassoon Pro Elite Cream 25mm irons broke down a month after I got them. I decided since I hadn't got the receipt anymore that I should leave my irons back to HOT UK. Found their consumer email address for their customer…
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Complaint with currys!!
Hello I would really appreciate some help on this matter! I purchased a bilken wireless router on sunday from my local currys store, I took the item home opened the box and checked that all parts were in the box as instructed to do so. I set it up but it didnt connect properly even though the bilken riuter was working it…
