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[Rant] Job agency types
Right, I wish to offer my future apologies to anyone who gets offended by this. These are my opinions which have formed looking for a job since August. There are several types of job agencies about: 1) Those who actually give a **** about you. The ones who actually have real jobs that their clients need filling. You guys…
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Claire Mackintosh on 08445591651 another text to voice call they've started already
Who is Claire Mackintosh on 08445591651 with her ref no jb sse0013196? because she is beginning to piddle me off. and something about verlisity or vesisity? whoever designed that text to voice software made a right a r s e off it. Does anyone understand it? 2 calls today And I refuse to spend my money on phoning her back.…
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leapster 2 leap pad
a yandheld game thing for very young children. a nightmare for adults. comes with 1 game and an 'art' activity and you can download rewards and more games online. thus far it has taken 24 attempts before it acknowledged that the most recent flash player had been installed on mr ants laptop. got an sd card for it today and…
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I really wanted to Stand and Fight them!
At my local BnQ store, I was not made to stand and fight for my rights to get a replacement product. Although I only bought the darn thing at the begining of December, I had already lost the packaging for it, but as I run a business and for the Tax man's purposes, kept the recipet, why on earth did the staff at BnQ insist…
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stealing toilet roll from supermarket
Apologies if i should not have posted but not been on here long! but have had to post this as i was left gobsmacked:eek: I nipped into the local supermarket today to grab a few things, but before I started my shop I called to the toilet, whilst in there I could hear the lady in the next toilet what I can only describe as…
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Car Audio Direct & Car Audio Centre
After a search for ‘car audio’ in Google, this company and their sister site are listed as the top two hits, although I struggle to understand how, because it’s definitely not repeat custom, here’s why.. I placed an order for some audio equipment from this company after also realising that they are the only dedicated car…
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Walkers crisps ( multi pack)
This is not a huge problem or issue or anything that requires compo or anything as extreme as that but it is a bit of a bug bear. Several times now I have bought a multi pack of Walkers crisps (co-op do great £2.00 deals on the big packs sometimes) and one bag of crisps has been heat sealed to the main packaging and the…
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I booked CeFa and Cemap Course with a company called Beacon Financial
I booked CeFa / Cemap Course with a company called Beacon Financial Training Ltd. and the director called Brendan O'Neill was the one who dealt with my enquiries by emails. Brendan refused to refund my £500 deposit; the total cost for cemap/cefa Brendan was charging is £1,000 with the hope to pay another installment of…
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Leeds city council are dreadful
i wear I am not a person to complain but LCC are a joke, i pay £74.00 per month in tax to them without fail. I have as others had to endure nearly 8 weeks of rubbish not collected due to strike. Then coming up to xmas we are told to put bins out on Sunday (a day early) and whilst it snows it it transpires they canot get…
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Annoying "public information" phone calls - Money Saving Advice Centre
I'm getting plagued by recorded "public information" calls from the "Money Saving Advice Centre" despite having told them to remove me from their database, being ex-directory and having signed up for the TPS ages ago. Does anyone have a website/fax for them so I can advise them of my annoyance in writing and copy it to the…
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British Gas Homecare - what a joke
I have had no heating or hot water since new year's day. On Saturday British Gas agreed to come out to mend my boiler. They said that they would come between 8 and 6 today. I phoned them just now because I have been reading such bad things about them on the web and I was told that sorry, I was not a priority and that they…
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McDonalds TV ad
Has anyone seen the new McDonalds ad? The one that says "A pound, also known as a bob, a quid and a squid." Excuse me, but when the hell was a pound EVER known as a bob? A shilling, or 5 new pence to you youngsters was a bob. Does anyone know who the morons behind the ad are? :mad:
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abbey making me wait 3 weeks for money an atm didnt dispense!!!!!!
this is the final straw, my bank are shocking 30th december- withdrew money from an atm, wanted £60 got £40 spoke to indian call centre :rolleyes: 'wait 24 hours it will go back in' 31st december- spoke to indian call centre again- they wouldnt look into it as it was not 24 hours, only 22 hours or something stupid 1st jan-…
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Asda food complaint
I didnt know where to write this but i was hoping for some opinions and advice regarding what to do with this complaint and what may be the outcome. I have just opened a pistachio from an ASDA's own brand roasted and salted pistachios bag and found a very much dead and roasted maggot inside! I have just written an email to…
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Capital 1
COMPLAINT> The time to contact Capital 1 customer service is excessive. I had to listen to repeated recorded messages about services available on the internet and my balance, minimum payments etc before I could speak to the call centre. The lady I spoke with had a very strong (indian:confused: ) accent and was unable to…
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Misco - avoid
Never had such an appalling attitude. I wanted a Hannspree netbook which had cashback until midnight new years eve. The website said open until 5.45pm. Telephone message stated closed. Tried to order through website, IE8 and Chrome would not allow purchase, eventually managed through firefox only to find that as they would…
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why is there a monopoly on taxis at stanstead airport , wrong way to treat visitors
returned from ireland new years day , needed to get a taxi to the hotel where i had left my car , the original taxi i took to the airport cost £15.00 i asked for a price for the same journey from the taxi desk at stanstead and they quoted ...... wait for it ......£38.00 !!!! !!!!!! whats going on there ? i went to the…
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friday-ad: refunds for dupe charge may take up to 10 days??
i cant understand why a refund could take that long, when they take yer money for original ad straight away..
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Coors Light - Discriminating against beer drinkers!
I recently picked up a couple of four packs of Coors Light (the one that has a label which turns blue when you put it in the fridge) from Home Bargains. The packaging advertised an offer to get 'freebies' including t-shirts. To be fair you don't need to buy too much beer to get enough points to claim a free t-shirt however…
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The "3 million Free Smiley T-shirts for signing up to a facebook group" scam
this got posted yesterday on freebies but a little digging showed that :_ 1)the email address given is for a domain that does not exist ,thealamoclothing.com , see here http://whois.domaintools.com/thealamoclothing.com 2) the form you have to fill out http://smileyshirt.110mb.com/ is not only hosted on free web space…
