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Newcastle City Council over payment on parking ticket machines
So I parked in a Newcastle City council car park on Tuesday 7th Feb 23 You can only pay now by app or by tapping your debit card no longer takes cash you then tap out when you leave Your parking charge is confirmed on leaving in my case £8.12 upon checking my bank account I find I have been charged £17.89 the council…
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Amazon account - Someong just bought gift cards using my account.
This evening on the computer just got an email saying £50 had been put on my Amazon Gift Balance. Straight away went onto Amazon and yes its been added from my Current Account card thats in there. Whilst I was frantically figuring out what to do a £50 Google Play gift card appeared in my basket. I managed to cancel it out…
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Virgin Media Changing Phone to Fibre Without Notification.
I usually get an incoming phone call at least once a day on my Virgin Media landline, I never make outgoing calls on it. After a week without any calls I was beginning to think that the telemarketers had finally given up when my mobile rings and my wife is screaming at me as to why I am not answering the phone, she was…
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Car hire scam charges
I have recently returned from Malaga, Spain where I hired a car via an internet booking with OK Mobility ( 1.7 * on Trustpilot) for the period 31/12/22 - 5/01/23. I had previously hired a car long term with this company without incident, hence I ignored the rating. After leaving the airport and travelling to my hotel a…
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Crypto scam
I was scammed aug 22 out of £10000. I authorised the payment from my bank to my Binance account under instruction from the scammer. Whilst in my Binance they withdrew it. Long and short first direct would not do anything saying it was a me to me and not covered by the APP code. It is being investigated by Financial…
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(Via Instagram) How can scam victims rebuild their trust?
We've received a few questions via MSE's Instagram account. Here's one of them: "Parents in 70s scammed. 6 mths to sort out. They're mortified. How to rebuild trust?"
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In praise of John Lewis and Evri (well, someone has to!)
Hi, I've praised Evri on here before and our couriers are still doing a fabulous job, it has to be said. Recently I had to return something to John Lewis and all I had to do was go to my online JL account page, click on return, choose the method of return - Evri collection from my home - and a label was ready for me to…
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Praise for Royal Mail
I ordered a Christmas jumper on Tuesday using tracked 48 delivery, knowing strikes were happening and it may be quite delayed - I still hoped that was plenty of time to get it to me. It arrived this morning, just four days later. Considering that for two of those days they were on strike, it's right on time! I've seen…
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Sainsbury's overcharging Beware check your bills and keep them
Yesterday I purchased 3 Items in Sainsburys Slough and had already placed a £5 note from my wallet on the table ready to bag them up. When I saw the amount displayed I immediately challenged one item and the cashier called for assistance to verify the price. After some delay I asked her to cancel the item due to the…
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BEWARE-mobile phone contract fraud
A person cold calls you purporting to be from a well known organisation. Maybe a phone network or retailer such as currys. They sound convincing and offer to beat your current contract AND send you the latest model phone, ie something nice from samsung or whatever. Put the phone down. Its a scam, they will sign you up for…
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BEWARE-paypal fraud
Guys watch out for this scam,, You get a legit email from service@paypal.com detailing a request for payment. You login to your paypal account and see details of the request. It normally details something outrageously expensive like a mac book air for $850. You obviously panic and think, i didnt buy that ! There are two…
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Be careful with Love Sales website - no privacy notice
This week's newsletter featured Love Sales. Be careful with this site as they currently have no privacy notice so we have no idea what they will do with the personal data they get from users. (I work in data protection so I always read the privacy notices of websites I don't know to see what they will do with my data and…
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WARNING AUDIBLE HAS CHANGED ITS RULES on RETURNS
I’ve been a member of Audible for many years. Part of the membership included being able to return books whether you paid by credit card or credits from the membership - so it meant if you didn’t like a book you could return it and have money credited back. They do a daily deal usually £1.99 or £2.99 - these are a fair bit…
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Everything is always more expensive when single!
And its also annoying that all government help always geared to being a couple or with children!
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Scam Facebook sellers...
Has anyone had these ads crop up on their Facebook feeds in time for Christmas?! 🤯 I've seen at least 5 different 'businesses' advertising this stuff. They link to websites that sell clothing and shoes, a lot of which they also push personalisation on, such as names on trainers. Their websites show TONS of stuff on there,…
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Amazon packing joke - never gets old
Maybe I accidentally clicked the 'Gift' checkbox - pretty sure I didn't though ! Ordered same item a few weeks ago - and just the small box arrived
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Doctors vs embedded pharmacy - alignment vs separate entities
c. 5yrs ago our (large) village GP practice built an extension and inserted it's own pharmacy 'selling' it to patients as an aligned service and encouraging us to use it vs the original, independent village pharmacy During Covid/post-Brexit things have been challenging with out of stocks etc but in recent months service…
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Commercials and advertising.
Why do they synchronise commercials to come on the same time
on tv channels? So, I go on YouTube for my entertainment via my tv ( can’t
install adblockers) Now they get me here, I’m bombarded with commercials. Then I have
to go through my post to sift out the junk mail. To any advertising executive please
read this - Now…
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Things I wish someone had told me!
With costs spiralling out of control, I can see my Mum in the same mindset that I was when I purchased "the chair" She's got a lot on her mind worried about how she will be able to afford to live soon, and she's in a spiral of thinking if she spends money on stuff that she will save money with no proper thought of…
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NFU Mutual car insurance
I changed my circumstances earlier this year. I was with M&S Bank for my car insurance - fully comp, driving 30k miles per year, heavy commute on the M25 paying about £700 p.a. I then relocated to rural Oxfordshire to enter full time residential professional training and M&S said they could no longer insure me. It felt…
