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Vent - stupid me & stupid council :(
I was walking to the doctors earlier, and decided to cut across some land to get there. A bit of background. The land joins on to the local park, separated by just a 1m wide footpath, and was a row of houses until last year. The land was then fenced off and used for storage of building materials in the local regeneration.…
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Praise for Tesco Direct.
Pre ordered Skyfall when HMV went bellyup. Delivered exactly on time 18/02 then I got an email that as someone else could have sold it to me for £2.99 cheaper they will refund this amount. Can't ask for more.
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TVs with patronising informertials in doctors waiting rooms
Have just had the pleasure of a visit to my GP where the waiting room has two giant flat screen TVs playing a continuous loop of informertials (usually narrated by the extremely annoying Julie Peasgood) at full volume, patronisingly telling me to 'brush my teeth twice a day', eat my 5 a day', 'try and do some excercise…
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Waitrose praise
I bought a punnet of nectarines and a punnet of peaches the other day (2 for £3). Yesterday I noticed that the nectarines were going mouldy and the peaches were brown inside. I've never had a problem with Waitrose food before, but thought I'd better take them back for a refund (£3 is £3 after all). A lovely lady at the…
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Praise: Geary's Bakeries
I had marmite sandwiches made from Geary's Bakeries '100% Rustic Wholemeal Loaf' today. Despite being wholemeal, the bread was as light, soft, and fluffy as a cake. And the slightly crunchy crust set it off just right. Marmite is what I use on sandwiches when I don't feel up to preparing a well thought out filling, but the…
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Broken kindle - 5 star service from Amazon and Square Trade
Just thought I would report my experience after my beloved keyboard kindle suddenly died on me on Sunday evening. I was reading it, put it down, picked it up and the screen saver had frozen. I tried rebooting and charging, but all that happened was the screen developed a tartan effect of stripes across and down the screen…
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Praise Carphone Warehouse and Apple
On saturday afternoon I dropped my iphone on the floor and smashed it. Oops :( . I quickly went to carphone warehouse as my insurance is through them. They sorted my claim, took my phone off me (felt like I'd lost my right arm!!!) and said my new phone should arrive on tuesday. I got a call today it had arrived!!…
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‘Have you been a Victim of Cheque Fraud?’
Have you had a cheque go missing in the post, your chequebook stolen or your chequebook counterfeited? Then a TV Company would like to hear from you. Television Company Wild Pictures make a documentary series for ITV 1 called ‘Fraud Squad’. As part of the new series we are making a film on cheque fraud and we are very keen…
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Daily Mail/Mail On Sunday Rewards Scheme - Moving Targets!
Last September (2012), Itraded 6800 points collected over a long period for a £25 Tesco voucher. Uptil then, I have traded only 1500 points at a time for £5 Tesco vouchers, (4times in all). Other than that the only other trade in was for a Zavvi voucherwhich when I tried to use it on line I found that the catalogue of…
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The Hut returns - advice please
Bought a DS game from The Hut for my son for Christmas. It developed a fault in January so I emailed them and they replied saying I could return it for a refund. All ok so far - they sent me a returns authorisation number and a link to a pre-paid label. However, the prepaid label comes up blank with no address, and in the…
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British Gas HomeCare Problem...
Another one of these! I took out HomeCare 400 on 3 flats (separate agreements on each one) that I'm the landlord of (all in one block) in mid-November. The lady on the phone told me that I was covered from that moment onwards, and that they were too busy to do an initial check on the boilers till mid-January. I came away…
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Why do Compaines Ask how they can help then don't?
I get increasingly irritated by companies who answer the phone and in there initial blurb ask "how they can help" only to find that generally they have to stick to a rigis script and so usually can't or won't. Today for examle i contacted IKANO, they are a company who provide credit facilities for furniture stores etc (but…
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coming over here, taking our
i'm appropriately outraged
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sky refusing to take my months notice
to start with let me state that some off this is my fault. i put the sky money into the wrong bank account, didnt realise till today when i couldnt get some channels and checked to see what was happening. paid the missed bill straight away, set up dd again. then rang sky. i appologised and asked to be turned back on. they…
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Gumtree Scam - Mondeo ST TCDI
Car forsale on Gumtree. I ran a search through google with the email address, no returns came. Therefore here we are.. The car was a 2006 Mondeo ST TDCI for £2000. A little cheap, but had high mileage. The reply - from [EMAIL="mike.f1885@gmail.com"]mike.f1885@gmail.com[/EMAIL] 100% Scam.!
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Help with unwanted mail
Hi there, First, I hope I've posted in the right place, the "no cold callers" thread went to this forum, so I assumed this would be relevant. I bought something from a website at the tail end of last year. I was having issues whilst trying to order and sent an email to them and got a response from someone (important for…
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Petrol up 4p a LITRE - is there another war on??
seen at local Esso petrol station.. thats about 18p a gallon rise in past couple of weeks, in old money. this will have knock on effect for everything.. travel, food deliveries etc..
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New oven STINK would not go away
So we got this Beko electric oven- http://www.appliancesonline.co.uk/product/OIF22300X-Beko-Electric-Single-Oven-Stainless-Steel-16973.aspx last October,heated it up for the first time- horrendous run-out-of-the-room kind of smell, but fair enough, instructions mentioned first time there might be smell and smoke. But guess…
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Vent against the moaners re Valentine Day deliveries.
Stop whingeing!!!!!! Are you such sheep that you have to follow Hallmark and other tatty companies in giving your partner a gift on 14th Feb? What about the other 360+ days of the year - quite frankly, a bunch of flowers on a dreary October day (twice the amount, half the price), totally out of the blue, means so much more…
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Debenhams flowers ruins valentines...
Furious with Debenhams Flowers, order flowers, email back 9.34pm on 13th to say their delivery had not arrived from Holland, but could deliver on 15th - reluctantly agreed, next day another email no explanation other than they would not be able to deliver and I could have a refund and some vouchers. Not good enough from…
