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Archives for January 2011

Not happy with Ken Hom's Sweet and Sour food in Tesco
Went to golf today. Forget to defrost my chicken before I went for a curry tonight. So went in Tesco to buy a Chinese dish as an alternative. Saw Ken Hom's sweet and sour chicken on shelf priced at £3-00. Opened sleeve to look at meal to see big tomatoes, very little chicken, etc. Very disapointed until I saw Shanghai…
What are my legal rights regarding a parcel not received?
Hi, first time posting on Forum, so bear with me :) I ordered a T shirt from an online company called TShirtSubway on the 13th December 2010, paid by Barclaycard. Didn't receive the parcel, but assumed that due to the weather over Christmas, delayed mail,etc I would eventually receive it. Finally on 4th January I contacted…
Itunes fraud
I need to know if anyone else has had this problem in the last 24-48 hours with itunes. They have taken out of my bank account in 16 speperate transactions £20.00 my bank states they did this ever 10 seconds from around 9.25. they got 16 b4 my card was stopped and then proceed and failed to take a further 11 £20.00. now…
Debenhams direct have messed up gift from wedding list
My mum just got an email 2 days ago to say that most of an order she placed from a wedding list in October had not been fulfilled?! :eek: The wedding was in October, and now we dont know if the recipients ever got their gifts. I called Debenhams direct and they said I needed to deal with the store. I spoke to the store…
John Lewis -Very poor customer service
I recently ordered a camera online from John Lewis for store pick up the next day. The day of collection I checked my email and found one from JL saying the order had been cancelled due to "failure of security checks." I called customer services and was told they had no idea why and that that was that. I therefore…
discountpetcare.co.uk has anyone used?
hi a bit like shutting the stable door,:( but i placed an order yesterday from the above and am a little concerned and wondered if anyone else had used this site and received there order ok, any replies really really appreciated. many thanks kim
discountpetcare.co.uk has anyone used?
hi a bit like shutting the stable door,:( but i placed an order yesterday from the above and am a little concerned and wondered if anyone else had used this site and received there order ok, any replies really really appreciated. many thanks kim
Road Works until 1am??!
Ahhh rant rant rant! I live in a residential area and last night at 11pm they decided to start digging up the pavement with some petrol based nightmare-tool! Why oh why would they do that?? It went on until gone 1am. To add insult to injury the road works are still there this morning so it's not like they were doing it at…
Mysurvey are they a con??
I recently joined ukmysurvey, Things have been going great, have done loads of surveys, have had to email them a couple of times about missing points, surveys crashing etc. Last week i was invited to a text survey worth £6, have started doing it, i tried to log in over the weekend and found the board was down due to…
Mobility Scooters - Ripping off the Disabled
Hi all, I just wanted to warn people about ripoffs concerning mobility scooters even by so called "[STRIKE]reputable[/STRIKE]" companies. I rang up Road Knight on the web to enquire about their mobility scooters advertised at about £500 which is a good deal. I was told that they did not sell directly off the Internet…
prescriptions
Northern Ireland - prescriptions are free of charge. Scotland – the prescription charge is £3.00 and will be reduced further every year until 1st April 2011 when prescriptions will be free of charge. Wales – prescriptions are free of charge. England £7.20 Surely this is not fair.
Debenhams internet shopping problem
I've occasionally ordered clothing from the Debenhams website and never had any problems returning things that weren't suitable until recently. Over Christmas I ordered 3 items from their website that were in the sale. The items were delivered in 2 separate deliveries and I was disappointed when the main item I had wanted…
Sky Football Commentators
Is it really so offensive for Andy Gray and Richard Keys to state their views about the female assistant ref. at the Liverpool / Wolves game. Can people no longer say what they think ?
Break Free Holidays
:mad: I am really rather annoyed with the total lack of customer service I have received from this company. I booked through the Daily Mail a short break in France, which supposedly came with Ferry etc. However on receiving my email confirmation with codes for booking the ferry I found this wouldn't work and my booking ref…
Inflation that doesn't make the news!
Found the stick-on floor tiles that we liked in Homebase today, but there were two box sizes on the shelf. One contained tiles to cover 1sq/m, costing £11.99, and the others were for 0.56sq/m and cost £9.99. Of course the larger boxes were discontinued old stock. I haven't bothered to work out the actual price increase,…
GlobalTestMarket-RIP OFF!
I have been a member of GlobalTestMarket for many years now and have completed their surveys and have always received my cheque with no problems. I was very pleased with them until 2010. I reach a payout of 2000 points and cashed out as usual. I received an email to advice the cheque would be sent and I would receive it…
Window cleaning
Those of you who have their window`s cleaned with the new (water fed pole) system! Do you mind if the windows are left wet to dry on their own! Or would you prefer the windows be left dry by the window cleaner! I offer both trad cleaning and wfp, I am about to offer the new water fed pole system cleaning! But your windows…
floggadgets
http://www.floggadgets.co.uk/index.php thieves, wont answer any emails,no other way to cotnact them:mad:
Sanitary product advertisers
now the team of clever individuals who make these adverts must be on another planet!! A sanitary towel as a rollercoaster ride? Yeh that really makes bloody sense. Id cry if it wasnt so funny
New Carpets......
I am pretty peeved right now, I've just forked out for brand new carpets all over the house. I specifically asked for silver rails to divide the carpets in each room as there is old knackered bits of wood there. Anyway they ahve just finished laying upstairs so I have moved up there while they do the down stairs and I have…

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Energy complaints to be dealt with more quickly and Energy Ombudsman to get new powers under Government plans
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