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Fitness First
I moved into a house near my university and joined the local Fitness First. They offer two memberships, 4 months or 12. I opted for the 4 month which he told he is £42 a month for students (if I took 12 months, he said £34 a month). Even though I knew it was expensive, I signed the forms etc. He asked me for the numbers of…
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Next flowers
Just a vent and a warning really. I've just come out of Hospital and my parents sent me some flowers using Next. When the flowers arrived they were dreadful, half dead, bashed up and far less than the picture. It ruined the whole thought of someone sending flowers. To be fair to Next, when my mum rang to complain they…
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Bus drivers are pure evil
My city has recently acquired a guided bus system, and many of the stops on the route require you to buy your ticket from a machine before boarding. This is fair enough, as the machine (when it's working) is easy to use. Now, quite often somebody will be trying to buy a ticket just as the bus is pulling up, because they…
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Awful Customer Services at Carpet Right
Can Someone please help with an email address for someone high up in customer service at Carpet Right? I brought carpet from the Dartford store and was told that it was discontinued so had to buy enough for 2 bedrooms and hall stair and landing. Which we did even though we were not planning to have it all fitted just yet.…
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Mobility Assistance Consultants Ltd Derby
I am enquiring whether anyone else has experience of the above company? In late July my wife's elderly aunt, who is confused & vulnerable, was visited in her home and persuaded to purchase a chair to assist her to get up more easily. The price was £2500(!!), 50% payable immediately as a deposit. (The cheque was cleared…
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Warning Stealing Money From Bank Account
I've just noticed an unauthorised debit (£800 odd) from my bank account "Jacobs 0151 6910100 Withdrawal". I googled around and the number is the old telephone number of the legitimate Jacobs bailiffs who did have this number when they were at 120 Victoria Road Wirral.I rang a nearby hotel and the owner seemed to think the…
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Unsolicited text messages - Payday 31 & Skypayday
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone has ANY idea how I can stop constant spam text messages? I am getting at least three text messages every single day from Skypayday, Payday 31, LastminutePayday - all similar text messages, but different names as per the above. There is no number to call just a web address, and when you go…
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Virgin Media recycled phone numbers
For a Year since having our Virgin phoneline installed, we got fed up of constant phonecalls from debt agencies for the previous user of our phone number. Fair enough we thought, these things happen, so we rang Virgin (after calls from debt agencies at 3-4am) asking them to change our number. They did so, I was satisfied…
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Cats!
Oh, why do people have so many cats that they make other people lives a misery! I love animals but can't have any pets because I am allergic to them. My next door neighbour has 17 cats who use my gardens as a toilet. I clean up at least 10 poos everyday. This morning, my children were late for school because as they walked…
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Experian - security issue ?
I recently applied for my statutory credit report from Experian. The process requires that you enter your details and credit card info on their website, so they can collect the £2 charge. They then send you a letter by post which contains a passkey to allow you to log in and see the report. When the letter arrived, I duly…
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Thinking of writing a will?
Just thought I would draw peoples attention to a scheme called "Will Aid", participating solicitors write your will and take no fee, you make a donation to a charity called Will Aid instead. The scheme lasts for the whole of November so mark it in your diary! We did this last year. This is from their email: "Here's how…
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Warning: 'Property Guardian' schemes (sorry, long post!)
These schemes sound great on paper (they're a cheap alternative to renting): stay in an unusual property for just £270 pcm (all bills incl.)!! The property company charges you (the ‘guardian’) to stay in a vacant building (old people’s home, pub, office, residential, etc) in order to deter squatters and thieves on behalf…
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Ideal World - unbelievable
My wife ordered some card crafting kit from Ideal World, and also took annual membership of their club to get a discount on it. Payment was in 4 instalments, first taken immediately. The stuff arrived a couple of days later, but she was off-colour so opened the box but didn't get any further. Early the next day, she died.…
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Very offering me insurance for products I might buy ??
Just got a call to say thank you for purchasing products with Very. When I told him I have never ordered from you so I don't need insurance on them then he said "Well the insurance will be for things you might buy " What the boggles is that about ? I might just go and insure myself on a Bugatti Veyron encase I ever can…
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GOk WAN at TU-Don't bother!
Rushed there this morning to check it out after seeing the dresses in the paper! The sizing is pants! Nothing fits well. I am a standard size 12 , sometimes go down to an 8 in trousers because they make the waists and hips so big these days There was no way I could get on the slimming top that goes with the advertised…
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Vertbaudet - i give up!
never mind
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Praise: Oyster/TFL
I reported my card lost on-line last Friday at 3pm, and at 8am Saturday morning the new replacement one had arrived! Might not be praise of the century, but I was impressed!
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Dell Packaging
Has anyone ever ordered any computer components from Dell? I ordered a internal wireless adaptor for my laptop. The chip is about 2cm square, very small... however dell sent me FOUR boxes to pack it in! Each box being about 25x15cm One box was for the chip One box was for the CD/install instructions One box was for a…
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shop online NOW for christmas
left it late last year and the year before , by late i mean 4 weeks, load of things didnt arrive in time ! Just my experience , hoping posting this will help me remember
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Poundworld complaint
Below is the reply I recieved from my complaint about the queues in Poundworld. I thought my spelling and grammar was a bit dodgy:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: It has come to my intention that you werent very happy with the service you recieved at the poundworld store in Walsall. Our ques do get very big throughout the day…
