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Warning CHURCHILLS BUILDINGS INSURANCE
:mad: Warning Churchill buildings contents insurance part of the DIRECT LINE group Please all homeowners be aware of their policy exclusions. I have had a pipe go buried in my kitchen wall it's damaged a wall unit as well as work top oven and 3 units out of the 8 in my gallery style kitchen .Its a MFI schreiber which is…
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Praise for Asda and N/wide BS (You just can't beat the CEO email escalation) !
Complained via email to CEOs at ASDA and N/wide Building Society : ASDA...Selling wine with a competition ticket that was out-of-date. Asda sent me a £10 gift card so I got the wine effectively for free and am £5 in profit. N/wide BS...Problems closing one of my accounts. Credited my account with an extra £25 before…
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A Vent.... At Life!!!
I am needing to vent, as I cant cry just now...... Yesterday for a friday morning when you have teenagers it started well.... youngest dd (13)got up in a fab mood... hugs for me, and she popped through to see her grandad n his bit of house, gave him a huge hug when he gave her some pocket money (she was to go to a friends…
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Fake UK site http://www.procamerashop.co.uk/
I came across this site http://www.procamerashop.co.uk/, and found out it's not a UK business, but from Hong Kong (:D - I can just imagine how many people got a surprise when they tried to return an item...). Just wanted to mention it as people sometimes search MSE before making a purchase... well.. don't! :)
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Red Spotted Hanky
I exchanged Tesco Clubcard points for vouchers for this lot last week. The Tesco e-mail said the voucher would be available in 72 hours. Five days later (i.e. 120 hours), no voucher so I e-mail RedSpottedHanky asking when can I expect the code. They say they have been overwhelmed and will try to get all codes out by 24…
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My bad amazon review was removed
Got some sea monkeys for my 6 year old dd, It was delivered quickly but the sachet that contained the powdered eggs was wet resulting in the powder being more like a gel.will have to wait and see if they will hatch which I doubt they will. So this is what I wrote on the amazon review for the sea monkeys, And I had an email…
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santander - PRAISE!!!!
I recently got a 0% balance transfer offer from santander, so I took them up on it, to the tune of over £1600. My direct debit just came out for the full amount! As you can imagine I was having kittens! Especially as I am weekly paid at the moment so there was nowhere near enough there, just a large arranged overdraft. I…
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Studio (24Studio.co.uk) APR Variances Warning
Just a heads up. If you have an account with these guys: http://www.24studio.co.uk/ Like me, you may have received a small note in with your latest statement and usual rainforest of clearance catalogues which is a "Notice of variation" regarding an interest rate increase. They are saying that they will be keeping their APR…
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The Garden Centre Group - junk waste of time
Wanted an item from this place. The only way you can buy is by signing up first. Only after I'd done that could I try to checkout and at THAT point I find out that what I want isn't available from any of their stores. Really hate waste of time sites like these & will definitely never be using them.
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Please Press 1 - New Website
Mght be of some help to those in the future http://www.pleasepress1.com/ A frustrated IT manager who has spent seven years making 12,000 calls to automated phone centres has launched a new website listing 'short cut' codes which can shave up to eight minutes off calls. Nigel Clarke, 53, has painstakingly catalogued the…
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Henderson doors. Worthless guarantees!!!
So we bought a new build with garage doors supplied by the well known firm of Hendersons. They are plastic coated with a ten year guarantee. There are rust spots coming through the coating, but Hendersons say only the original purchaser can activate the guarantee. As the original builder went bust and the builder who took…
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Vent - on hold with HSBC
Been on hold with HSBC for over 45 minutes now, trying to clean up a mess that's not my fault. Wow, these guys are competent :(
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Cheap battery websites - Beware!!!
Ok –I needed a new battery for my robotic vacuum cleaner so I go to the various websites like the manufacturers , partsmaster, amazon etc and see that the price is between 60 and 70 pounds. I’m not paying that for a battery I say, so I’ll let google do the searching. Well a few websites later and I’ve found one at £35 incl…
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John Lewis failure, Curry's success!
Last week I ordered a washing machine plus installation online from John Lewis. Their website couldn't finalise the order so after a premium rate phone call to John Lewis, I was then given a delivery slot of between 2-9pm on the Friday. On Friday, I rushed back from work to get home at 1:30pm and waited and WAITED and…
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red spotted hanky praise
Bought a train ticket from them, for May 10th. It was an un- refundable ticket as i knew. Unfortunately DH suffered a couple of strokes a few days before,and was really ill (still is )in hospital The ticket was £20 and i emailed red spotted to ask about a refund, not really expecting anything. I had an email back that said…
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GFK Mobile Study - Spamming my Phone
Has anyone heard of this before? I am careful about sharing my mobile number and I don't remember signing up to any study but I am being continuously spammed by this organisation. This morning I have received 205 text messages asking me to reply to sign-up and undertake their questionnaires. Each text message comes from a…
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Problem registering with My Hermes
Can't find anywhere else to post this, but I have just spent over 30 minutes attempting - unsuccessfully - to register with the My Hermes courier company. What a way to run a business. Every time I opted for my parcels to be collected from my local collection point, I was given an information pop-up showing the local…
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Praise for Homebase
I have to give a big thanks to the staff at Homebase. I had tried to do a bit of decorating and managed to knock the glass off a down lighter fitting in my bathroom. The glass smashed on my sink and I was left with an odd looking light. I checked in store and the new fitting was £20 ..I only needed the bit of glass .. I…
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Vent - Vue Cinema allocated seating
Went to watch Star Trek at my local vue cinema and they've introduced allocated seating for the whole auditorium. Not just VIP but standard as well. It's very annoying as we like to position ourselves away from disruptive people who talk or eat noisily. Now you've got no way of knowing when you get your seats who is around…
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The Range are doing my head in!
About 10 days ago I received something I'd ordered on-line from The Range. I also received another parcel which I wasn't expecting, but which had a label with my name and address on it. Inside it were some very nice curtains and and an invoice to someone I'd never heard of. Ok, so far, just let the company know, I thought,…
