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Discussion List
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VENT - 1st Class Heating MK
Hi All, not been on this forum before, is I'm breaking any rules I do apologise. Wasnt sure if I was able to name the company but having read others posts I thought it ok. I moved into my current house 5 years ago and have used the above company to service my boiler yearly. The company sticker was on the boiler when we…
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Tesco Jumble sale!!
I swear I am never going to Tesco in Caister on a sunny afternoon in the summer holidays AGAIN. It was full of people aimlessly strolling along, the shelves were a mess with empty boxes everywhere and could I buy a box of eggs?? very nearly failed as most of the boxes were smashed! Do people not have respect for the staff…
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whats with all the spam today
seems there is a hell of a lot of :spam: this afternoon, and badly spelt spam at that.think i have spent the past 10 mins reporting post after post.
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Vent - Debenhams Weddings
:mad:Just have to get this off my chest, so angry do I feel! :mad: We're getting married on september 10th this year, and decided to use debenhams weddings for our stationary (i.e thank you cards, place cards, invites, orders of service). BIG GODDAMN MISTAKE. It took them 4, yes FOUR attempts to get our invites and thank…
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Pickled Cabbage Vent (seriously!!)
I'm laughing as i type this but it seriously naffed me off at the time. Popped down to the local corner shop for a jar of pickled cabbage to go with some leftover hotpot a friend had brought round for me. Got it home, and could I get the lid off the jar? Not a chance in hell! My son (who has hands like shovels and can…
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Pointless Rant-Broken Cash machines
RANT They annoy the hell out of me. Yesterday in Waterloo it took me 20 Mins to find a working cash machine. Out of 4 cash machine only 1 was working and that had no paper or £10 notes in it :mad: Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - POINTLESS RANT OVER.
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Grrr! BT automated "customer services"
Grrr! I have just been half an hour on the phone to BT ( I decided not to opt for ring-back as I was in a 5-10minute queue and the ring-back although saying it would keep my place in the queue said it would be within an hour(!) ) FINALLY managed to talk to a human - he said I needed to reduce my direct debit amount and he…
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Euroseal Windows (Stoke-on-Trent) old style sales tricks
Just a quick note to say that Euroseal Windows (Stoke-on-Trent)seem to use those old techniques of the price starts stupidly high....halves.... as you're throwing the salesperson out through the door it halves again.... I thought that sort of thing had died out!
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Praise: Waterstone's in CREWE
Hi all, Just a note to say that I've received excellent customer service at Waterstone's in Crewe. All the staff work excellently as a team and nothing was too much trouble to get me sorted with a book I'd been trying to track down for a while - on top of that the manager is lovely too! A big thank you to them!
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Windows Technical Support phone calls
I have been receiving multiple phone calls from an Indian bloke who claims he is from Windows Technical Support and is contacting you about a virus/malware or hacking. If you let him follow his script (it's funny) he'll try to charge you a small fee and get you to set up remote access to your computer so the scammed can…