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Price promise-Currys
Ok. I saw an item in Carphone Warehouse for £69.99 but 3 doors down the street at Currys the item was £119. I told the sales person and pointed out their price promise (match the price and 10% of the difference). The chap went to Carphone Warehouse and checked that I was right (I was). He spokke to his manager and he said…
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Nationwide - really, really helpful
:o I knew I was going to go over my overdraft limit, due to dear heart's payday being a little erratic. :o And I lost my passbook so I couldn't immediately transfer money to savings, I was really upset. I applied on line for the extension to the overdraft, which is going to take 48 working hours, and this was on Friday.…
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Toshiba`s Warranty Service Pain
Late last year my beloved laptop took a bit of a knock of a train and died. I mourned it, but fortunately it was covered by my Home Insurance with Tesco. As they could not supply that model, they offered me a new Toshiba laptop instead. I smiled and said thank you, and all was well. Unfortunately, a couple of months later…
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Virgin Media - They Are Utterly Useless
Sorry if this is a bit long, but here goes... We were due to get 1 x V+ TV Box, 1 x Normal TV Box and our phone line and number swapped from BT to Virgin. We are already on 20Mb broadband. Simple enough? How wrong could I be.... The `Engineer' was booked to install between 1pm and 6pm. He phoned my father in-law at approx…
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Should I Complain? ~ Dominos not-so-loaded potato skins
So I just ordered mine and mister's usual Saturday night takeaway, ordered a dominos online and saw they had some new 'loaded potato skins'. I LOVE potato skins so ordered and used a 25% off code :j Sat in anticipation, waiting for Mr Dominos delivery guy to bring my grub, once it arrived I opened my box of potato skins at…
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Never use "Woodworks/Pine & Cane" Ltd
Warning to all..........Terrible, terrible company. Order £1000 table/chairs/sideboard in May 2008, item still not recieved! After weeks of detective work on our part, staff in other branches admit they can not get this furniture and have been told not to sell it anymore. Company will not refund my £250 deposit !!!!!…
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Block Paver on a scam and conning ELDERLY people
an individual is carrying out work under PLAS PAVING he claims to be specialist in block paving etc,he has printed advertisement sheets and has been distributing it, with plas paving ltd I had some work carried put on the front garden for block paving , initial price quote was £1000 and few weeks later to £850, block…
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Webuyoldgold.co.uk - fabulous!
Hello Just thought I'd share this company with you MSE'ers. I saw a thread on here last week saying about this Scottish company who buy old gold so I had a look on their website and ordered an envelope. It came the next day and I bundled up all my old jewellery, tangled chains, odd earrings etc and sent them off (they send…
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** Postal Scam **
**** THIS IS A REAL SCAM **** Information received from PC 8382 MacCORMACK - Medway Intel, Kent Police Can you circulate this around especially as Christmas is fast approaching - it has been confirmed by Royal Mail. The Trading Standards Office are making people aware of the following scam: A card is posted through your…
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Amazon cop-out !
I bought a Canon printer from Amazon earlier this year, it now refuses to feed the paper through. I e-mailed Amazon and asked them what they were going to do about it - this was the reply ! "Dear Mr *******, Thank you for contacting Amazon.co.uk. Unfortunately, due to the fact that Canon have the warranty for this item, we…
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Can i get my money back - PC world related
Hi all I bought a graphics card from pc world on the 09/10/08 and it has started to give me trouble. After asking users on an IT forum I use, it seems the card is on its way out. Ive also been advised to get a refund as the card was overpriced in the 1st place, should have asked the experts 1st I suppose :) Im planning on…
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Currys misdescribed ipod advert
Mild vent, looking to get an ipod touch and saw a curry's ad in todays paper of £30 off a ipod touch 16G, normal price £209, sale price £179. It states that it's the 16Gb Touch Generation 2 model and to go to the website, go to the website and it's actually the 1st generation they are selling for that price. The 2nd…
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M and S Flowers - Order before 5pm
I ordered this bouquet for my mother's birthday as a last minute change of plans meant that I would not be able to see her on her birthday. I had several options open to me for flowers (other websites and also the local interflora) but as I have always had excellent service and quality from M&S and didnt hesitate to use…
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FREE help & advice scam reports, downloads
The main thing buyers do wrong when they want to import products and loose their money is: Make little company checks, Try to buy Brand products, Pay direct to private accounts, Look for the lowest prices, Don't understand the real delivery cost to UK from China, Don't search enough before they send money, Please vist…
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Royal mail redelivery problem - help
Hi there I have been having issue with Royal Mail over the last couple of weeks about 2 Fee2Pay items I received notice of on 10th October. I paid both fees online but they have never been redelivered. I have called the relevant delivery office who said they would deal with it and have been on the phone to Customer…
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Acai Berry Power "FREE" trial
Has anyone else been sucked into this "free" scam thats online about Acai Berries???? I heard good things about the health benefits of taking acai berry power and decided to order the free trial from their website as you only have to pay about £2 p&p..... anyway I put all of my details in and clicked submit, by which time…
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Halfords - Bike tyre rip off prices
I need a couple of new tyres for my bike - just plain bog standard 26" x 1.75" was put off by Halfords prices of £12.99 for a tyre and £4.99 for the inner tube. Stuck my head into a Wilkinsons and got tyres for £4.99 and tubes for £1.99.
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Sweet Cred Ltd
I am on a roll today, crawled out of lurkdom to actually post some messages! I've been reading the warning's thread and I'm a bit depressed after that so I thought I'd post a nice thread to balance it out! I bought a biiiig bag of sweets from a classy shop (nah, it wasn't, it was Poundland!) for the neighbours kids along…
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Telebilling TBS Telecom Billing Service Scam
I have been hit by a scam that has been previously mentioned: here (MSE thread 1) here (MSE thread 2) here (mirror blog 1) here (mirror blog 2) here (Grumbletext forums. Note - in this thread, the most recent post goes to the top of the first page, as opposed to the system on MSE forums where the most recent post will go…
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Wink Bingo problems
Hi, First, sorry if this is posted in the wrong place. My partner and I have accounts with Wink Bingo. Both of us use my bank account to play as I am the only one with a bank account. Today I wanted to make a small deposit into my account but my card had expired. I couldn't remove my old card details so I messaged the live…
