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Warning to anyone withdrawing money from Paypal.
I've just been speaking to an advisor at Paypal regarding some money I have withdrawn and she advised me that there's a major problem with the faster payment system which got escalated about 30 minutes ago. According to the advisor people choosing the faster payment system rather than the regular withdrawal system are…
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End Of No Win No Fee Working Class Screwed Again
The Justice Secretary will today promise an end to the "no win, no fee" deals that encourage unscrupulous lawyers to take spurious cases to court. Kenneth Clarke will set out plans to force them to accept a 25 per cent proportion of the damages they win for their clients, rather than huge success fees. Critics of "no win,…
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ikea pax
Didn't know where to bragg, so thought i shared are good visit on here. Having chose our new wardrobe solution on the ikea site, we toddled down to Ikea bristol to first see it in the flesh before buying it. As it was fairly expensive, we thought we'd leave the doors for now, as they were almost £400, taking the total cost…
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searchforcompanies
Working as a manager in a small business I was this morning handed a document that had arrived in the post, my boss asking me what I had signed us up to as he did so. The document was from a company called Hansa Media and was headed searchforcompanies. searchforcompanies.co.uk appears to be an online database of…
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Passport costs
My mum and dad are pensioners and on a limited income. Despite that, they scrimp and save and manage to have one holiday a year, usually a cheap late deal. This is their one 'treat' in the year and do without other things to afford it. I spoke to mum today on the phone and asked where they were going on holiday this year.…
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Fake Income Tax emails
Just received an email from "Inland Revenue". It starts Dear Taxpayer and continues that I am entitled to a rebate of £238; except that there is a small blank box where the £ sign should be! Watch out people!
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Mobile Phone Manuals Urghhhhhh!
I think I'll start a campaign for plain and concise phone manuals. I bought a new mobile last week and what they tell you in the manuals is very basic. It really only tells you how to make and receive calls. I have been trying to download my email contacts from my PC to my phone and there is nothing in the manual about how…
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Has your child been a victim of a scam? New CBBC kids' consumer show may help
CBBC is doing a new consumer show for kids. The aim of the programme is to empower children, by giving them consumer advice. They hope to highlight scams aimed at young people and help those who have been ripped off. From dodgy modelling / acting agents to buying pets over the net, they are looking to find as many ideas /…
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Facebook problems (again!)
Any Facebook fans on here? I am trying to find out how to disable posts to my wall WITHOUT losing people's posts that have already been posted. When I go to my admin section and unclick the 'enable friends to post to wall' button, it takes all PREVIOUS posts made by friends off my page. Is there any way that I can close my…
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Hate 2 for 1 deals
I hate 2-for-1 deals, they are completely discriminatory! I like going to the cinema on my own, do an activity on my own, even going for a pub lunch on my own, but I always have to pay full prices. Couples using 2-for-1 only pay for one person. Why can't companies replace them with 50% discount vouchers? It's exactly the…
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"So what" stories in the press
Sort of a rant, but more an expression of confused bafflement. I really don't get celeb stories in the press. I mean I'm not interested in the tittle-tattle about people's private lives, but I can see how others might be. No the stories I mean are the "So What?" type, typically a picture of a famous person doing something…
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The Hut (.com) very poor service
Hi, I just wanted to share my recent experience of The Hut. I ordered the Lord of the Rings Trilogy from them on January 26th and despite being 'dispatched' received nothing. I emailed them in Feb and was asked if I wanted a refund or dispatch, and I informed them I wanted dispatch. Still after another few weeks I again…
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Not impressed with BT!!!
I had my broadband and phoneline with Virgin Media and decided I wanted to go over to BT and I was due to go over to them today (29th March) my phoneline has gone over no problems I received my home hub and tried to connect and it won't connect so I rung up BT to see what the problem was and they said that there was a…
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I need help with Sky / Halifax
sorry if this is the wrong forum, I just dont know what to do or who to ask for help as stuck between a rock (sky) and a hardplace (halifax). On Friday last week, £35.80 was taken from my husbands debit card account on his online bank statement it just said (Sky debit card payment) firstly we havent had sky ourselves for…
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drivers penalised in tyres
My mum's car had developed a puncture through the tyre wall. As it's through the tyre wall, it can't be repaired. My brother who works as a mechanic got her a price from a local dealer. The new tyre will cost £85 per tyre. As my brother knows the manager, he can get it for £70. These are not the premium tyres as it's for a…
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Is this fraud? What would you do if so?
My boyfriend works away, in the military. He pays child support direct to his daughters mother, but she also claims from the government, not declaring the money she gets from my boyfriend? I'm strongly against benefit fraud, and would report it only what would the consequences be on the mother, and how would it knock on…
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Praise for Parcelforce!
I had a web order sent out to me yesterday via Parcelforce Express48. According to the tracking details it was collected yesterday from Aldershot at 4pm. Much to my surprise and delight the box arrived today in Suffolk at 9am! I wasn't expecting it until tomorrow as previous orders from the website always come on the…
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signsealedelivered.co.uk But not likely to be delivered.
Im so fed up with the above website. I looked for recommendations for some ant killer that was pet friendly and on my google search came across a thread on HERE saying they sold it. I paid for two items at the beginning of the month and heard nothing until three emails later. My fault for not looking for a contact number…
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Mcdonalds' Terrible Customer Service
Weeks ago I visited a Mcdonalds branch and had terrible service, I wont go into too many details, but basically we ordered our food, they made our drinks, then we were left waiting for over 40 minutes! Obviously by then the drinks were cold, but they didn't even make us new ones. There were alot of others also left waiting…
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Census website is badly designed
Just getting round to filling in the census, but got stuck at the second page where it asks for names - my wife's surname doesn't fit in the box provided, although the actual text box is big enough, they've limited the number of characters to about half the size of the box, which is a bit useless. Hugh…
