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What's going on with Robert Dyas??
I need a new office chair for computer work....well play. One of the options that came up was from Robert Dyas. I thought that's a well known name so it should be fine - it did state only a 6 month warranty though, which I found odd. I Googled some reviews, and I was shocked by what I found. Almost every single review is a…
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Moved: New VAT number scam
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Free tv?
The powers that be (mostly very wealthy) are trying to get us all to use the internet to watch television. Using names like "Freely" to kid us that there`s no cost at all. "Freeview " was always a bit of a misnomer. Telling us how great it will be not to need aerials or satellite dishes. Not mentioning that once you`ve…
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John Lewis online incompetence
Wanting to buy Apple Mac mini M4 for Xmas during Black Friday/Cyber Monday discounts 01-Dec-2025 JLP and Amazon both discounted the item to £499.00. Regrettably I ordered with JLP: paid with VISA credit card 15-Dec-2025 still not received item. Neither JLP nor their selected delivery partner DHL appears to know where the…
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HMRC
hello all I have been. trying to renew/update HMRC account but I am having bad time time, they send me a sms to my iPhone but they only have my old number. I tried to phone them and gave up. I tried scanning the chip on passport nothing happens, why can they not just supply an acsessible postal address. is it not us tax…
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Curry's Black Friday Price Guarantee. Scam?
Bought the TV and signed up for this. Without much optimism, but just had an email offering £79 back. Yhe email provides a link for ne to enter bank details. Is this a scam email? No evidence in original email to prove hhry know me. Like receipt number or item purchased.
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Marks and Spencer Hamper
M & S delivered an empty hamper for my birthday. My son says he filled it with gifts and food chosen from their store. He wouldn't send me an empty hamper! Very odd. M & S customer service are unhelpful and not going to do anything about it. I have an empty flimsy hamper full of shredded paper?! How weird. M & S lost my…
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QS Supplies Feedback
I wanted to post some feedback on my recent experience of shopping online with QS Supplies. It has been a stressful and unsatisfactory one. I purchased a bathroom suite, taps, shower tray and door. Paid delivery and followed my order up with a telephone call and to check on the delivery date. Agreed a delivery date and…
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Marks Electrical TV wall mounting – unsafe install and refused reimbursement
We paid Marks Electrical for a professional TV wall-mounting service and unfortunately had an extremely poor, stressful and costly experience that has still not been resolved nearly three months later. From the outset, the process was problematic. The first installation visit failed completely — the installers did not even…
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Royal Mail - Praise
On Tuesday 9th December, in the late afternoon, I went onto the Royal Mail website to check Christmas posting dates because I had 3 parcels and some Christmas cards to send but I'm not well and was worried I might not get to the Post Office in time. I spotted the Royal Mail collect service and decided to give it a try. I'm…
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How often do you pick up other peoples rubbish?
What I'm mostly referring to here is arriving at some local spot to walk the dog or go for a walk yourself and finding a drinks can, plastic bottle, fast food container just discarded on the ground. It really annoys me that people defile such beautiful places in nature! I was always brought up not to litter as were many…
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Postage Cost
Postage costs, the real reason…… The reason for over pricing of postage is due to big business, eBay, Amazon using Royal Mail as their own courier service. It’s the reason eBay can now afford to let you SELL FOR FREE…. No chance, they would disappear !! They can allow you to sell for free as they have signed up to Royal…
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Dead end …is it a scam
Had an e mail from a company saying my order was being sent with an invoice . It was for a bracelet set £89.99 my name , address , phone number and e mail . It had been paid with a Mastercard . I never ordered it so ignored it thinking it a scam . The parcel arrived , lovely bracelet but I never ordered it . What’s…
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How to raise complaint with DPD that doesn't involve waiting in a phone queue for 30+mins?
My DPD account is set up so that any DPD delivery is dropped off at a pick up spot locally because there's never anyone at the address to receive during delivery hours because we both work. Apparently my parcel has been delivered yet the app says nothing. No pick up QR that they need to scan. Nothing. I check the tracker…
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Purchased a tumble dryer
Purchased a tumble drier oct 2021 and company installed it in an outside garage Only used about 10 times so immaculate Three weeks ago it started fusing the electrics in the garage where it had been installed by them I paid for installation I paid for electric check and paid for new sockets and dryer initially started…
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Fraudster got my email and credit card details.
So some low life somehow got my credit card number and ordered some apple air pods and had them delivered to an address in north london. first I knew of it was when my bank phoned me and asked if I had used my card the previous day at 2am in the morning. The company they ordered it from sent confirmation to my email…
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No Hobbycraft Birthday voucher??!! Ring them!!!
Having been a member of the Hobbycraft club for a few years now I've always loved getting my £5 birthday voucher knowing that if I don't get a very necessary crafting item for a present I can go into the shop and get it myself. This year there was extra expectation as there's 25% in the Black Friday sale so I was lining…
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WILKO
Bought a Delongi coffee machine in June this year. Milk dispenser started to have problems with the connection to the machine which meant standing beside the machine to hold the dispenser into the machine whilst making cappacino or latte. In mid november this year asked Wilko to assist in getting new dispenser from…
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Think twice about buying Eufy S120 Solar Wall Light Camera Black - my experience / warning
I bought this last year and it was fine until autumn /winter came and then it started to have problems charging, Eufy were of no help and it was out of warranty. The issue is that around this time of year i.e. November the strength of the sunlight is not enough to charge it therefore it automatically shuts off leaving you…
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Europe Books?
I'm in the process of signing up with them. They seem very professional but one of the email from them had a couple of spelling mistakes which rings up alarm bells. Has anyone heard of them? TIA
