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Curry’s delivery charge
So I went to buy a condensing tumble dryer from Curry’s today on line, no option for free delivery, ranged for £35 down to £20 I kept scrolling and no free delivery, the tumble dryer was a 9kg Beko for £299, plus £20 delivery was the cheapest, so I went on EBay and saw a Hoover 9kg for £289 with Free delivery, guess what?…
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New scam: Fake Martin Lewis interview
Just came across this website when I opened Microsoft Edge browser. Its front page or Home page generates all sorts of "news" from all kinds of sources among which this headline caught my eyes: "Martin Lewis is being sued by the
Bank of England...". Basically this article (screenshot below) says during an interview with…
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Strange PayPal Fraud or Scam
My OH has just received 2 emails, the first purporting to be from PayPal saying someone has sent him €20 (we're in the U.K.), the second one inviting him to message the sender of the €20. He's checked his PayPal account and the money is there even though he's not expecting any money from anyone. He has blocked the sender…
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Cheap electronics - is there a catch?
I may be paranoid, or just learning lessons from mistakes of others. Not needing repeating them myself. What concerns me: there is a flood of cheaper 'brands' of electronics on the market, whether it is e-bay, Amazon, and others (not even bothered going on Temu and alikes). I have been looking for a compact camera, for…
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Praise for Railcard Helpline
I just purchased a replacement Railcard online and having gone through all the right steps, when I downloaded it had a blank space where the photo should be and I need it for travel in 2 days time. I was able to speak them - a real person, not a chatbot - and email my photo through, they added it and it was sorted out in…
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Google's New Crackdown - Good News For Martin!
I was pleased to see Google's new rule regarding ad misrepresentation and people falsely claiming to be famous people. https://www.wordtracker.com/blog/ppc/google-cracks-down-on-misrepresentation-in-ads I was always seeing fake ads of Richard Branson endorsing bitcoin and Martin Lewis recommending you part with your money…
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Disgraceful response from Facebook regarding deep fake advert involving Martin
I really do hope that one of your team reads this and shows it to
Martin.....and that you take it up with Meta/ Facebook and demand some
answers. A few days ago I saw an advert on Facebook which was obviously a deep
fake one showing Martin speaking and also introducing Elon Musk.. It
was obvious (to me) that it was a fake…
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Scam operating as www.mymanuals.net operated by Squirrel Web Ltd registered in Dublin
Please read all the reviews on trust pilot about "mymanual.net" .I was looking for a manual for my TV. "mymanuals.net" came up first when I seached on Google .I did a search on the site and they said they had the manual to download .It was £1.49 or I could get monthly access to it for for £4.95.I tried to pay but it would…
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EDF Energy - Smart Gas Meters Not Suitable for Purpose?
I recently (after many months of trying) had my Smets 1 smart meters upgraded to Smets 2 by EDF. I'm grateful for this. The Smets 1 meters were installed by a previous supplier (British Gas) after I expressly asked them not to fit the meters unless they were Smets 2. After the new meters were installed by EDF, I discovered…
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247Home Rescue
I have tried to cancel my contract with this company which was taken out in March 2018. There service was poor and always geared to buying a knew central heating system. They refuse to cancel the contract and keep trying to reinstate the direct debit. We informed them in March, as the contract was from April to April. They…
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Toothpaste prices and whitening claims
Not a vent per se but an observation of the fairly recent and rapid doubling in the big name toothpaste prices. (From £2 to £4.50 is quite a leap). Noticed it a few weeks ago in Boots, Superdrug, supermarket. Surely this can't be linked to the Ukraine conflict??? Also ticked of by the fake claims that toothpaste will…
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HMRC got the tax wrong on my new State Pension
I'm raising this because I think it might affect everyone receiving the New State Pension for the first time. My pension started in Jan 2023, and HMRC rightly included it in my taxable income for the year to 5 April 2023 - but I recently spotted that the figure was overstated by £450. When I looked at it, I could see why.…
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Am I being unfair to Lakeland?
I welcome any constructive criticism because I am not sure if I am being unfair to Lakeland. I received a mini booklet in the post which included, as part of the booklet itself, a page of date limited money off tokens. I was unable to use the first 20% off token as I had other bills to pay at that time but I wanted to use…
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Gold / jewellery bank scam
It appears the "give your money to us fake police" scam has been updated:https://www.express.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/1866600/hsbc-scam-warning-gold-jewellery Please don't fall for anythinglike this folks. If your bank rings you on any pretext, thank them then put the phone down, and call them on a different line (or…
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Driving Licence Renewal
Hi I need to renew my Driving Licence. My Passport had expired also so I renewed that first, got a photo taken at a local photo shop with a code to input on the passport site. it went great and only took a week. a week or so later I've then gone to renew my driving licence under the impression they would use my passport…
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TOOTH EXTRACTION - V - SKY
Hi all, I just had to post this, because I have just had the most laughable and painful experience, ever, with SKY. Not to mention wasting 30 minutes of my life. I have, what 'they' call, ultrafast fibre 145Mbs to the property. Trust me, it is by no means fast and I have 'never' had 145 download in the 2 years of being…
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Boots Advantage
Thanks for the warning but I didn’t know they could rob all the points if they weren’t used. I just found my £15 worth of Boots points were stolen in 2021 as I haven’t shopped at Boots since 2019! I could never use the points anyway because I never bought Boots branded products; so I guess it’s no loss. I have cut up the…
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Annoying Pot Noodle Ad
The new ad with the woman noisily slurping a pot noodle just makes me cringe every time it’s on Vent over
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Annoying Smoking Neighbour
Ok, so I have a neighbor who lives in the flat above me and he goes outside for a cigarette quite often, like maybe every 15–30 minutes when he is at home, which is quite often as he doesn’t really have a full time job. I don’t mind the fact that he goes outside for a smoke but what makes it annoying for me is he’s unusual…
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Any ideas or help with John Lewis terrible customer service
We're really struggling with John Lewis at present and wonder if anyone has any tips for actually speaking with them and getting an answer to various queries before Christmas (this year). The customer service number rings and rings (with the irritating holding music) and then, when someone does pick up, they can't help…
