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Commemorative Plates
Franklin Mint and Danbury Mint. I'm moving home soon and stumbled over over 30 commemorative plates that I bought from these people over 30 years ago. Each is a limited edition with a certificate and, at that time, cost £15/20 each. Promises were made at the time about how these plates could increase in value over time.…
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Donations for charity raffle
Hi, my daughter is raising money for Mind in memory of her best friend who tragically ended her life in March of this year aged 19. She is organising a big raffle and people are being very kind and donating prizes. What we really need are a couple of biggish prizes to get people to buy tickets, does anyone know of any good…
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My dad’s cancer treatment suddenly halted. re NICE guidelines
**We need your help** Please sign, like and share this petition. You have to confirm your vote via email in order for it to count. As a newbie, assume I can’t post links yet, address as follows (remove spaces) https : // petition.parliament.uk/petitions/319308 Or search Fund Cancer Drugs Fund immunotherapy drugs to extend…
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Odeon Cinemas: freeze or refund Limitless members who don't feel safe to return to cinemas yet
http://chng.it/DCvyt5kx Odeon Cinemas say they're reopening in July. Regular cinema-goers have the choice to spend three hours inhaling the exhaled breath of strangers, or to stay at home, save their money, and wait till they feel safer. Odeon aren't letting Limitless customers make that choice. Odeon have told Limitless…
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Libra markets Scam
Libra Markets appear to be using Martin Lewis as though he was endorsing them as 'Almost guaranteed get rich quick' crypto currency investment brokers. This appeared On-line in an a very convincing advert. I personally didn't believe that this was genuine and Martin Lewis would never make such an endorsement. I had already…
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JustFab - again.....!!!
Hi there I see LOTS of activity here from either people like me that did not realise that by buying some shoes would wrap me into the subscription agreement - yes I know I should have realised - and there are lots of people telling those people that they were crazy stupid not to realise. However - does anyone have any good…
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Petition to stop the extra charges on Vehicle Tax
Hi I've started a govenrment petition to remove the extra charges when paying vehicle tax in installments. We can all pay council tax in installments and it costs nothing more than paying in one go, but for some reason with vehicle tax, the DVLA are charging extra to do this. I get the reason it was started - they had…
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Unlawful TV Licence Enforcement
Many FMs will be aware that I don't have/need a TV Licence. In fact, I've been in that situation for a number of years, and during that period have gained a lot of information and knowledge about the TV Licence, TV Licensing and the legal context for enforcement and prosecution. One slight disclaimer is that I've always…
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Google pop ups
I've been in debate with Rugseller.co.uk about Google pop ups that offer discounts of up to 70% on their rugs. They say that they only offer 10% discounts and that the pop ups are automated by Google, over which they have no control. A couple of examples are attached. Is it worth a MSE campaign to end this misleading…
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Bonus for Supermarket/Essential Shop Workers
Both Marks & Spencer & Aldi have agreed to give a bonus to staff manning shops to enable us the ability to continue to buy food once the lockdown is over. I've contacted Lidl & received the standard reply of comments being passed on etc, but no promise of yet. What I think would be nice is if more people were to contact…
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MSE guide discussion - shyster sites
Hi all, We've written a new guide to Shyster Sites and we'd love your feedback. Search for an EHIC, driving licence, passport or similar and you risk paying a shyster site for doing nowt. These sites appear high up on Google and dress up like legitimate sites, then charge you extra for what’s normally just easy…
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Campaign to improve the reporting of account fraud to banks and building societies
As part of my research into romance scams, I was given six bank accounts by scammers which they wanted me to deposit funds into. I immediately tried to report these accounts to the banks in question. What I found was that the majority of these banks didn't have appropriate mechanisms in place to support this type of…
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Pub companies
Pub companies ( some are) still charging full rent despite the pub companies basing rent on fair reasonable trade some pub companies are charging up to 1000 a week isnt it time we shamed these companies no pub no rent lots of pubs won’t reopen and are hardest hit by the virus its about time we stood up for our local some…
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Lobbying against ABTA campaign to relax Package Travel Regulations and right to cash refund
I am due a refund from a package holiday - over 5K and I do not want a refund credit. I have been doing lots of research into this and have sought legal advice. Currently we are entitled to a full cash refund within 14 days which has now passed for many people and Companies are mainly stalling. ABTA are trying to get the…
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Bank Account closure
I know that the last thing a bank wants to advertise when you log on to a site is how to close accounts but I have been trying to do just that with several old accounts on different bank sites and to say it is difficult is an under statement. I think we need some sort of action to ensure that closing accounts is given a…
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Gift Card Expiry Dates
I do not know if I am posting this in the correct place. What I would really like to see is longer validity periods or the end to gift card expiry dates. People pay good money for these cards as gifts for others, in good faith. The card expires if not spent within a year and the business eg ‘Intu’ just say well the card…
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Petition establish a national day commemorating the significance of 15th August 1945.
Commemoration of VJ Day A petition has been started to establish a national day commemorating the significance of 15th August 1945. Thousands of servicemen were held as Far East prisoners of war from 1941-1945, caught up in a conflict that endured long after the celebrations for VE Day. The contribution of those who had…
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Leap Year Birthday Offers
Not sure this is the place to post this, but... My daughter is a leap year baby (2004). I have joined a couple of Facebook pages for Leaplings, most of which are based in the US (although I have found one in the UK). All the US sites post about companies giving either offers/discounts/freebies for those that are born on…
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FedEx problem, not happy!
I ordered an item from India via EBay which was £39.50 including shipping. FedEx delivered it very promptly, but 10 days later I get an invoice as follows:- Vat on item £7.90 which is fair. Admin fee of £12 which I am disputing. Vat on the shipping fee which FedEx have inflated to £142 so vat of £28.44. Which I am…
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Argos reviews manipulated
Hi, I bought this Darla bed from Argos (Can't post a link as am a new user!) In fact I bought four of the beds for my kids. Largely based upon its stellar >380 5+ reviews on the Argos website. However the beds all quickly became faulty- the metal slats in each of them became bent. My complaint is that I'm not able to leave…
