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Are supermarkets extorting customers now?
When supermarkets came about they were a great way to reduce your shopping bill. You could go to a supermarket and do all your shop in one place, you'd benefit from bulk buying. In comparison if you went to the grocers, butchers, bakers etc it would be more expensive because each small outlet had more overheads per £ of…
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TomTom Summer Fuel
Hi Has anyone given their bank details to the tomtom summer fuel promotion. I am a bit unsure about giving these details.
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Ambulance drivers
Do ambulance drivers have any form of advanced driving? In the past two months I`ve seen some really dangerous driving from ambulances. I would`nt be 'venting' if the ambulance had had it`s sirens on but on two occassions when I`ve had a green light an ambulance has came across my green light without it`s sirens on. Both…
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Car Parking
I have only once received a fixed penalty, that being for parking within 15 yards of a road junction. Fair enough. Does anyone know if that law has been repealed? In my locality drivers now park wherever they choose , on road junctions , on the pavement , opposite other parked cars leaving little room for moving traffic…
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Nasty people in ipswich
Blimey, where do I start!! We had friends visiting this weekend and we decided to take them to Ipswich yesterday (Saturday) for a day out. We usually go to Bury St Edmunds so I'm not overly familiar with the place. The first thing that nearly gave me a heart attack was the cost of the bus fare. We couldn't take our car as…
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Tesco Luggage Offer
Are Tesco artificially overstating the normal price of the luggage that being included in their latest offer? The reason I was asking is that I was intending to buy one of the 24" suitcases - which Tesco claim is £116 RRP - but flicking through the Argos catalogue, its about the same price that Tesco's offer price so long…
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Apple Sucks
My 8 gig 3GS iPhone does not register the SIM card so no longer works. The Genius Bar manager at Regent St said that if I read the terms before uploading 5.1.1 I would have read that this might happen and they wanted me to pay £119 to replace the phone. When I bought the 4S phone I was advised to add the Cloud to the 3GS…
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Laundry Detergent Praise
JEYES EASY LIQUID DETERGENT Liquid £1.20 for 1litre (including 33% extra free) Softener £1.10 for 2litre We tried this laundry liquid detergent from our local cheepy shop and the results were incredibly good. Much better than the brands we normally use (persil and surf). The softener is not a concentrate so you have to use…
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Panini Magazine Subscriptions - AVOID
Just a warning to people who may be considering a subscription for a Panini Magazine. Be very wary. If the magazine usually includes free gifts, you will probably not receive them if you subscribe directly. We subscribed for the Club Penguin magazine, which as per their subscription webpage clearly said "includes a chunky…
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Royal Mail Recorded Signed For (RSF)- Biggest Scam Ever?
99% of the time the recorded items I send or receive are not processed correctly and not tracked or even signed for. This has happened for several years and I am amazed that nothing has ever been raised about this with the regulatory bodies. RM did improve things a little and do now scan the item when posted. At this point…
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Firefighters - An Overrated Job?
I used to think firemen had a terrible job, pulling burn corpses out of buildings and risking their life on a regulare basis. I became friends with one several years ago and it was a standing joke by him and his colleagues of the praise they received. On nights he slept most of the time, occasionally waking to play pool…
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Royal Mail! Aaaaaargh!
I moved house 3 weeks ago into a new build property. I changed my address with all the relevant people, and also gave my family and friends our new address due to my son's birthday approaching. Well, after a week, I noticed that, despite knowing that several letters and cards had been sent, nothing had been delivered. I…
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BAD Property Letting Agents? Any suggestions
HORRENDOUS COMPANY:- MW (Michael Wood) Homes Bury and Bolton Lancashire http://www.mwhomes.co.uk any more?
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Do the Police Suck? Share bad (and possible good) Experiences
Had terrible service repeatedly both as the victim and perpetrator, what about you guys? Lets have a nice debate - PLAY GOOD!
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Lakeland - the best!
Last august I bought a barbecue un the Lakeland sale - it was £299 and so by no means cheap - as I still have not got round to putting it together and the weather being so miserable so far this year I called Lakeland today and rather cheekily asked them if I could return it to them - Ann in customer services could not be…
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Beware TCB/Quidco - they can direct to more expensive versions of the same website!!
Everyone may already know this but I've just discovered that you get different prices for the exact same offers on redletterdays.co.uk, depending on where you click through from. If you type in the url or click through from google, there are a number of offers on the spa breaks page. For example the one night De Vere break…
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An amusing incident....
Took a 6 bits of internal door and some green waste to the dump today, on arriving I saw that the council were being their usual efficient selves - the queue was out of the entrance and everyone had their engines off and were milling around chatting. Clearly they had been there for ages! I could see in to the dump and…
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"The man from the Pru" and his tall stories
Sorry if this is long winded...but feel it's important to raise for other MSE users. Sure that those amongst us old enough will remember some bad press about the Prudential and AVCs. My partner was a teacher in the 90s and like many others, was strongly encouraged by Prudential to invest in AVCs (which at the time was a…
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Wowhd.com
Watch out when considering buying from WowHD. They think nothing of breaching any contract they make. Further they take the money from your card account before they despatch the goods. They do not keep you informed about what is happening to your order. I ordered some dvd box sets (4) and heard nothing for about 3 weeks…
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Currys/PC World selling used TV's as new
I know this is my first post and I hope this doesn't sound like i'm a real moaner but I had to let people know about the awful service I received from Currys/PC World in Cambridge. To make it a bit easier to understand - I've added the letter I've decided to write to them today.
