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DIRECT DEBIT INDEMNITY FRAUD
:'( :'( :'( A famous music artist from London (Swarmz) advertised on his snapchat a guy who could help you make money. I thought I could trust this promotion and under pressure, naively handed my details over to the guy. The guy befriended me and manipulated me , he even went to lengths to say I was pretty and he would…
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Cardon Construction, Cardon property & Construction Ltd. Avoid, None payers
Cardon Construction Ltd - Cardon property & Construction Ltd is formally Excell construction. The 2 directors owe us £40k. Made us work through xmas to get a new leading supermarket chain up and running. Kept making excuses that they had not been paid. So we rang the client direct. They had infact been paid! Once we…
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Over 70 Driving License Renewal
Firstly thanks for this site telling my wife I would get an automatic renewal notice from DVLA! So I typed DVLA Renew License Over 70 into Google and clicked the first link This was ukdrivinghelp dot co dot UK (Being 'new' I can't post links) They wanted £69.99 to process my application!!! (And all the others there as…
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Homeaway Woes
We are a small holiday rental and take many of our bookings through Homeaway. We are concerned that we have not received payment from Homeaway for our recent guests. Our communications with them have been met by obfuscation and excuses of ‘technical issues’.. After the huge hit of COVID-19 on our business, we can’t take…
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eDecks AVOID!
AVOID this online company. www.edecks.co.uk Provide misleading information about product, when called the sales person, again, giving misleading information to their customer. I felt that I have mis-sold a product. When ask for refund or exchange, that is when I am clear that this company has no interest in customer…
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Trouble contacting Ebay
How on earth do you contact Ebay customer services? I have danced around the website for ages, All I want is an email address or phone number without having to go through all the pre-listed questions and remedy's.
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Tools Bar Ltd - what's your experience of them?
Hi MSE Gang, "Long time listener, first time caller" here. Tools Bar (Woking address) offered the cheapest price I could find online for 12 genuine Brita Maxtra water filters, with free delivery. The website looked decent (you'll have to search for it, because I am an MSE Forum newbie, I am not allowed to post links). I…
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Warning on Leovegas delay in verifying account
I opened an account at the start of June. I have a number of other online accounts and have been around for a long time! :-) My account has been fully verified - immediately and then by sending id (address and bank card) I have made 5 to 6 deposits and played using no bonuses- I lost money and did not withdraw I have then…
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Topcashback Do not rely on it !! - Try asking retailer first instead !!
Based on ineffectual service over the Iast 3 years (and still on going!)I advise that if you are contemplating a large transaction through Topcashback (or any other similar) IE:- A holiday (TUI in my case has been particularly troublesome) Its worth first trying to negotiate a discount directly with the supplier/company…
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Punchbowl digital greetings cards: data harvesting and fraudulent marketing. Avoid.
American e-card provider Punchbowl has been trying, ever since it launched, to monetize its "free service". Fair enough. You can choose to pay to remove ads from the card you send; can choose to pay to schedule the time the card is sent; you can choose to pay for a gift card to accompany the greetings card. Evidently, none…
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SCAM police@internetsweep
Hi all My OH has had a couple of voicemails now from a clearly automated source at around the same time each evening asking to send / validate his bank details and Passport information The first stated - Call was from ‘Geoff from Internet sweeping system’ ‘Criminals using his name to commit traffic offences’ ‘This is…
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Tesco home delivery, over doubled delivery costs for their vulnerable customers
Tesco have decided to increase there delivery cost for vulnerable customers from £2.00 to £4.50 from 3rd August, I only discovered this when logged on to do my mothers shopping for her. This is really not on Tesco !!
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Get off the phones
People need to be a bit more patient in the current crisis. A friend of mine is a manager in a call centre and I was talking to him last night asking how things were going. He said he was down to about 70% of his team and everyone was still working from home (which means they do not have access to certain systems that they…
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Getting really Fed up with Kitchen Installers
Just have to vent this! I've been trying for the last two month to get someone to replace a kitchen in a rental property I own in Manchester All I am looking for is a budget kitchen to be fitted, everything will remain in the same place. It is only 8 units and all appliances are electric. I feel I have a decent budget of…
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Scam Calls from this code 3885
A question. We all get scam calls from time to time. However, during the last six months I have been receiving calls from this code +44 20 3885 xxxx. I was just wondering if any of the forumers have received similar calls. Because it is prefixed by +44 then the calls have been coming from outside the UK. Also in order to…
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Multiple unsolicited calls recently
I've been receiving calls from various telephone numbers (mainly 0330) about online trading recently. I did not opt to receive such calls and don't know how they got my number. Does anyone know if there's been a hacking incident of any institutions which might hold such details recently?
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A Virgin Media response to watch out for
I was changing my bank account at the start of the pandemic. as I was switching within the same bank, I though it would be straightforward. It was not and the bank closed my old account without transferring direct debits or anything else to the new account.. When my Virgin Media payment with the closed account details was…
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Tomorrow never comes
Hi, I ordered an item from Amazon Prime for next day delivery > :'(
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Rebel-lotto via 20 Cogs - beware!
Recently I started completing 20 cogs and have almost got to 20. However, one of the offers I had to complete was a lottery syndicate called Rebel-lotto. It was only £1 for 5 tickets in the euromillions draw, after which it is a subscription of £5 per week, and you could cancel if you gave 48 hrs notice via their online…
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Discrimination for asking for a refund
Bit upset. My child’s dance school, (which we have paid thousands of pounds too over the past few years) have kicked us out. Because we asked for a refund for dance lessons that could not be held due to the virus. Anyone else having their children discriminated against? I hear that lots of school trips have been cancelled…
