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Amazon Delivery
Seems to be a number of Amazon delivery posts here! I bought a present, through my own account, for a friend living in sheltered accommodation. An attempt was made to deliver it today but the driver could not get into the building, an email said they would make another attempt, unfortunately my friend has to be away. I can…
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Tesco Petrol Station Lottery Tickets
This is a post with both venting and praise. On Friday morning I filled up with petrol at a Tesco petrol station, and decided to splash out on a EuroMillions ticket on the off chance of winning £171 million. The ticket was not an ordinary lottery ticket - it came out from the same printer as standard till receipts. And the…
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Scam energy bill reduction claim text
Beware! I've just received a text from "The Government" urging me to apply for my energy bill reduction by following a link. I've marked as spam and blocked but feel it may not be the last one I, and others, get. Don't forget that we don't have to do anything to get it - it automatically comes to everyone. And shame on…
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Paper tiger
Time after time I see people being advised of their consumer rights and told how they can apply to the small claims court. But what does that actually mean in reality? Doesn't it give false hope that all will be well. That you have the right in law for such and such? You may well have the right but that is no guarantee…
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Waste
Is there any reason why my Nivea Black and White antiperspirant has to be in such a heavy glass bottle? White meter / Economy 7 electricity.There are many variations of personal circumstances but I don't want to go into my living room at 3 am and find it heated to maximum. Presumably, the suppliers want to unload…
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Is it ONLY me ? : O ( Shell Energy Broad Band and Phone
Telephone bill Rant Is it only me ? I
regularly/always receive my Shell Energy Phone bill LATE : O ( Shell want it usually paid E.G. ( 9/9/22 )
before the date the bill ( 12/9/22)
arrives ?!! I have complained every time for months ( So before the blame on Royal Mail
Strikes ) and they are not interested! ( They have even…
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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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Ryanair Praise (yes I cant believe it!)
Flight home from Malta, was delayed 3.5 hours last Thursday. Filled in a EU claim on Ryanairs website when I got home. , Had confirmation of successful claim yesterday and £347 (€400) compensation was in my bank account this morning !
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HMRC praise
Having recently retired and taken my pension early to go with a pension that was already being paid I found that the tax codes that had been automatically allocated for both pensions were not doing the best job - one was a M1W1 so wasn't recovering previously overpaid tax, and the split was such that one pension didn't…
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Unwanted Account-Scottish Power
I have an account, currently in credit, for gas and electricity with Scottish Power. I have recently been receiving increasingly threatening demands, from them, for a separate account at my address for electricity only. Despite numerous phone calls, letters and emails telling them I have no connection to the account,…
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Paypal Australia - possible scam?
Hi, I have just received half a dozen emails supposedly from Paypal Australia suggesting I have set up a business account. I have not, so I suspect something has gone wrong or this is a scam. Anyone else out there had similar? Kind Regards, Bill
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Parcelforce - email to sent VAT exemption certificate?
Not sure if this is the right section to ask. Anyway, is anybody aware of an email where to sent a VAT exemption certificate like the one UPS has with ukpostclear@ups.com? Thanks
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Praise - Swift Cover home insurance
I moved house 4 months ago and thought it prudent to get decent home insurance including home assistance (as you never know what may be lurking under the floorboards when you move house). Insurance was still only £200 all in for home contents, bike, assistance on a 4 bed house. At 7.30pm we had a partial powercut, I did…
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Is LeisureGuard breaching GDPR rules?
LeisureGuard emailed me to say my travel insurance would renew automatically and I wanted to make sure the payment method they had for me was not, say, an out-of-date credit card. This proved to be impossible online nor was it possible to establish that I had in fact authorised automatic renewals. So I emailed them with no…
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Evri
I, after waiting almost a year, was able to order a Steam Deck from Valve. I spent almost £600 on this, and was, therefore, horrified when I discovered that due to the Parcelforce strikes, my delivery was going to be handled by Evri. I received notification of it arriving at my local Evri depot on the morning of the 1st…
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RightMove website.
Why are park homes such a major feature on RightMove. Why
can’t they give you a option to filter out such homes when perusing newbuilds.
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Money Moral Dilemma: Should I return the 100+ stamps that Royal Mail sent to me by mistake?
This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks... I sent 45 non-barcoded stamps to Royal Mail under its swap scheme, and it sent me back four envelopes, each containing 45 barcoded stamps - 180 in total. I called Royal Mail, explained the error, and was sent an envelope to return the 135 extra stamps. I posted them back,…
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'Amazing' prices ? Martsew.com.
Another ad for an air fryer popped up on a Facebook page at an amazing price of £32.61, (normally £200 or so}, and I wonder if anyone has had experience of Martsew.com? Scrolling down the ad, there is a contact phone no and the URL is 'https' which I believe is secure, I put the URL in the search bar rather than follow the…
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Heaterprox - AVOID !
https://heaterprox.com Is confusing me It appears to be a cheap Chinese manufacture - doesn't state where it is made There are custom fees to pay and It doesn’t even state the
power rating (which I have discovered is 350 watts - so its heat output is negligible)
and a single years warranty costs an extra £5 it also states…
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worldtourstore.co.uk not refunding money
I am having a really bad time with worldtourstore.co.uk to get my refund, I explain in few steps to make it clear how I got into this. 1) They Came up with very low price in the comparison web site2) I clicked the link and provided the card details/passport/address of our details.3) Next day they Called me and said the…