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vision express
I booked an appointment with vision express in Ipswich for the 10th Aug. I asked how long the glasses would take as I would only be in town for a couple of days. I was told the glasses would be ready in 30 mins. So I had my eyes tested and chose the frames,after paying £99 for the frames the assistant then told me the…
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Are we being scammed?
Hi guys, long time lurker who's always thought the forums on here were superb. I was just reading other threads about scams on Car Buying. We just put our car up on Gumtree and got an email asking if the car was still available. We said yes, and then got this email: Now, the dodgy things: - Quick response to new listing -…
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My worst Gift Offers ??????
For two years I collected Nescafe Coffee Beans. This year I submitted 42 along with cheque for postal charges only to find that the promotion had been discontinued the very year I received my Bean Card. Yet the jars have been displaying these beans and nowhere on my card was there an "End now" date. When I was told to…
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Praise: Sony Vaio
Just a short one but thought I'd give a mention to Sony. Laptop wouldn't turn on one morning, called them up to let them know and told they could send a courier whenever I was free. UPS came on Monday at 3:50 to collect the laptop, just received it back repaired today at 1:10! Less than 48 hours. They even buffed the…
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Jean Patrique and the dodgy pepper mills.
Macuser magazine have be flogging my email address to more dodgy companies. Today I got the offer of buying a salt and pepper mill set for just £1.99 - according to the email, originally £19.99 Intrigued, I click through. It was indeed £1.99 - for one. But on this page they had suddenly become £49.99 *EACH* originally! But…
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Praise/Review for Wheelers Luxury Gifts
I purchased a pendant from Wheelers website https://www.wheelersluxurygifts.com which arrived the next day with free delivery. Upon inspection I noticed that there was a cosmetic fault where one side of the pendant looked a lot bigger than the other half due to excess enamel. I contacted them straightaway with pictures,…
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rottweiler attack - police useless........
absolutely fuming - a friends little girl got attacked by a rottweiler last night - shes 3 years old and was playing in the garden making lots of noise as little ones do...her mum was sat on the bench watching her.......suddenly next doors rottweiler jumped over the fence and grabbed the girl - luckily her dad was in the…
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Timpson: Don't let them near your watch!
Caution: it's a biggie. I'm currently awaiting a response to my complaint re: THE THIRD TIME IT HAS BEEN TO THEIR SERVICE CENTRE; and I never wanted it sent in the first place. My watch battery died so I went looking around to get it replaced. Most of the jewellers I visited wanted to send it off, and charge me up to £50…
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Estate Agents
Apologies if this is in the wrong section, but I'm posting more out of frustration than the need for advice (although any given would be greatly received!) Just moved to a new area with my partner after getting a new job and we've been living with his parents temporarily for the summer until we find somewhere. I am…
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PM's from Scootar??
Just had a couple of PM's from Scootar.. claiming hes from a us university.. a copy of these pm's can be made available. Just wondering if this a MSE sanctioned thing? wanting to ask questions etc.. also not sure if ive posted this in the right bit.. if not sorry
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Will changing phone number stop them?
Since we have been with TPS the UK cold phone calls have more or less stopped and its been great. The foreign calls however are getting more frequent..... not to mention the very inconvenient times that they call (they are all inconvenient times but some more than others). Their favourite time is about six or seven in the…
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Interparcel rant / warning
I sold an old Amiga on eBay a few weeks ago. I was advised by someone on another forum that Interparcel is the way to go when it comes to sending heavy stuff within the UK. When the Amiga arrived, it was damaged. Not destroyed, but the front was a bit broken. Since the purchaser wants a partial refund, I decided to claim…
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CEX fury!
Sold 4 phones to CEX for £101... My original selling order included some DVDs so I emailed them informing them that I would just like to sell the phones and they emailed me back saying I had to start the order again, so I did. A few weeks later they emailed asking if I'd sent them and I replied that I had and straight away…
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Alert From Federal Bureau of Investigation
Now Lets play along with this crazy fool and I will post his replies From email : [EMAIL="infofbi81@nams.ru"]infofbi81@nams.ru[/EMAIL] Federal Bureau of Investigation Anti-Terrorist and International Fraud Division. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Seattle, Washington. This is to Officially inform you that it has come to…
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Exploding Caeser dressing
Treated myself last night to some Tesco Finest Caeser salad dressing:o Got home all excited, sad I know, prepared my salad. Picked up the bottle and tried to shake as instructed on the bottle. No movment in the contents, so undid the foil wrapper and started to twist the cap off and ****BOOM***** Bloomin' salad dressing…
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Nominet New Sign-In Procedure
I received the following e-mail from Nominet today... I always use two-factor authentication where possible - I use it for Facebook, GMail, Youtube and on-line banking. But what is wrong with Nominet's 2-factor authentication? The fact is it is not 2-factor authentication whatsoever!! 2-factor authentication usually…
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Don't you just love
When you get members from the bankruptcy forum following you.
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Double glazing company cut through BT wire! £140 repair charge! Not Happy!
Hello, I'm looking for advice on behalf of my mom & dad and would be very grateful if someone could guide me in the right direction with this. They had a double glazed front door fitted by a small company last week, ever since then they could not access the Internet. Today their Internet provider sent someone out to have a…
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Go outdoors dire customer service
Just a warning to any online buyers. Been chasing a tent for a while, saw it was in stock in local stores but then went out of stock very fast. Rang head office thursday and i gained very little information on delivery dates and decided to watch the website. Yesterday i saw the tent in stock for home delivery and also in…
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Injured while shopping
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