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Archives for March 2012

Argos
:mad:Recently bought a mattress from Argos after seeing their advert for upto 50% off silentnight mattresses. Pretty sure it showed a pre discount price of £550 (not a RRP), and an after discount price of £294. Had reason to look at website after purchase and the mattress reference was no longer valid but the same mattress…
Direct Legal and Collections
jayship Today, 11:38 AM MoneySaving Convert Join Date: Aug 2010 Posts: 143 Thanked 46 Times in 27 Posts Direct Legal and Collections. Northants. NN13 7DNI have today received a demand from the above company which is a trading name of Hillesden Securities Limited based in Buckingham Rd. Brackley, Northamptonshire. They are…
Dunster House BEWARE!
I have registered with this site specifically to warn of Dunster House. Be warned there is NO GUARANTEE on their cabins and any problems will be met with 'wood is a natural product - see our disclaimer'. We bought a double thickness Hudson cabin and paid £1500 for erection on top of the price of over £4000. Within 2 weeks…
Domestic and general warranty.
About 5 years ago, I purchased a Sony TV that came with a 1 year manufacturers warranty and as part of a Sony promotion, it also had an extra 4 years free warranty cover provided by D&G (taking the free cover up to 5 years in total.) This TV went wrong a couple of weeks ago whilst I was out of the UK, (it failed 8 days…
Is Apple advert misleading?
You've all seen the advert where they talk to their phone (odd concept that) but does it work? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/29/second_siri_lawsuit/ Should the advert be pulled as misleading?
Dulux non drip gloss paint- I am not not going mad after all!
Did anyone else see last nights watchdog programme about the dulux non drip gloss pure brilliant white paint going yellow in a matter of weeks? If you didn't you can watch it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2012/03/dulux.html Anyway was after for some experts in the painting and decorating trade to give me some…
Harveys Price Guarantee
Just thought I would post this to see if anyone else had been having the same problem. Me and my partner purchased a leather sofa from Harveys furniture store in Bournemouth and were told that the price was guaranteed not to reduce further and if it did we would receive a cheque through the post for the difference. Upon…
Tesco complaint
Hi, does anyone have an email address for tesco home delivery please?
Help - urgent dispute!!
(PS - posted this in Consumer rights too, but not sure which place is appropriate - mods please merge/remove so in right place!) Hi, I hope somebody can help with this problem. Rather complicated! I'm currently a tenant, renting in a terraced house. Just before christmas the fence between ourselves and the house-owner next…
Where do I look?
I will be after some advice regard pensions, but do not know where to look. It took me an age to log in and register, that it kept saying I had not acccpeted terms and conditionns etc, that I kept ending up with a screen back at the start, urgh. Well, I am here know so panic over. I do not know if this is the right place,…
blockbuster high street dvd rental price increase
well i ocasionaly rent dvds from blockbuster dvd rental but in the high street as i live vry close to astore and got fed up with dvds getting lost in post( or stolen by royalmail but thats another vent). anyway i went in store today and there pricing policy has changed a couple of weeks ago you could rent the latest dvds…
"Free" Acuvue Lenses
The recent voucher for a free months' supply of Acuvue lenses is not all it's cracked up to me. Hardly any opticians will do it - and the ones that do, well they tried to charge me £75 for a contact lense fitting as I hadn't been fitted for that particular lense before. How is that free? It will only work if you are a…
Lakeland - Praise
Bought a set of ironing board cover clips last weekend. Got them home and attached to the ironing board but one broke. Emailed on the off-chance they would send me a replacement clip. Emailed back straight away to say "We've put another pack of four in the post to your home address". Well done, Lakeland :j
baumatic outlet
Ive ordered a spare part from what i thought was Baumatic but apparently its from their outlet shop in Didcot, has anyone ever dealt with them ? they aren't answering the phone so i can get an update on my order and Ive not had any communication from then since the payment confirmation.
Simplehuman - great customer service
I would like to praise Simplehuman for their exemplary customer service. We bought a butterfly lid bin about 3 years ago. A few weeks back the hinge pin retainer on the (plastic) lid broke and the lid would still open and close but was a nuisance. This weekend past it just got worse to the point of my lovely wife insisting…
T.K.Maxx's inconsistent price structure policy
Just thought it's worth to bring this up here to share... I went to a T.K.Maxx store in Warrington on Saturday (24 Mar) to look for some travelling accessories. I found two Samsonite luggage straps in this store being sold at £4.99 (RRP £9.99). I thought that was a very good price (50% off from the RRP), so I bought them…
unbelievable PayPal scam!! Be Warned!!!
Ok this is an extremely long post and i understand many people will neither have the time or even want to read a post this involved. The whole expereince is and has been so confusing it is very hard to explain it and get it to make sense to some one with out going into full detail. The bottom line is PayPal are making it…
Travel lodge Brighton vent/warning
My wife and our two friends booked the Travel Lodge in Preston road Brighton for one nights stay last week, what a dive, we were asked to wait in the bar/lounge because we were early, it was like an old well used transport cafe, very grubby, the ladies toilets were dirty , had a broken seat there was toilet paper and water…
I know this has been said elsewhere in these forums.....
but I wanted to add my tuppence for what its worth.......It just shows what society is like these days when charities are not immune from people trying to use them to save money. Hope everyone who was using the voucher to save money and not for the charitable purpose it was intended enjoys their bread. And as for trying to…
15 years of thinking
the tax on hot food,according to tv today,has been kicked aaround by every chancelor and decided it was a bad idea,then who aarrives on the scene,mr osburne,who probably wouldnt know where is nearest gregs etc are,never mind buy something from them

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