The Debt Monster Must Die!

Kepp

:mad: to the flight!

I have seen flights like that before when booking and always wondered who the hell would want to book them.

There's my answer :rotfl::rotfl:

Sorry Am really gutted for you, hope the complaint gets you somewhere, they should refund it, it's not like you didn't cancel it as soon as you realised the mistake.

Keebs

Happytogetdebtfree wrote: »

Maybe you have clicked the short one ?

Smart thinking, have double checked but still on full system scan. Maybe the updated version is just way more efficient. Hope so anyway

beccie wrote: »

:mad: to the flight!

I have seen flights like that before when booking and always wondered who the hell would want to book them.

There's my answer :rotfl::rotfl:

Yup! I am indeed that plonker. Who'd have thought I'd so easily confuse 4 hours for 4 weeks :rotfl::rotfl:

chevalier

hey aren't you covered by the distance selling regulations in this case so that you should get 7 days to cool off and ask for a refund? I think they are indeed trying to play you.

oh and hi by the way been lurking on your thread
chev

Happytogetdebtfree

Good point chev try that keebs, thanks for popping into my diary land off to bed now catch up soon xxxx

Keebs

Happytogetdebtfree wrote: »

Good point chev try that keebs, thanks for popping into my diary land off to bed now catch up soon xxxx

Morning Happy, hope you're feeling better today

chevalier wrote: »

hey aren't you covered by the distance selling regulations in this case so that you should get 7 days to cool off and ask for a refund? I think they are indeed trying to play you.

oh and hi by the way been lurking on your thread
chev

Hey Chev :hello:

Lovely to see you drop by. Good idea but it seems the powers that be decided to exempt things like flights, hotels etc. from this as they determined it would be detrimental to such businesses. Fair enough but they should also have decreed that airlines cannot then sell more flights than they have seats on the plane, just to make things fair you understand (not because I’m bitter or anything ).

Also, it would seem I was wrong about the refund. Misread the email (who me, misread things…. Never :wall:), apparently the £14.80 refund is after LM have waived their fee, which means had they not been so kind hearted they would have charged me £30.20 for the privilege of cancelling the flight. No wonder the first lady I called hung up on me :rotfl:


Have spent ages playing around with flights (paying very careful attention to dates! ) in an effort to minimise my losses:

Original Plan
Edinburgh-KL-Edinburgh (£569), KL-Siem Reap (£66) , Bangkok-Yangon-Bangkok (£114), Bangkok-KL (£63) Total Cost £812

New Plan
Edinburgh-KL (£569), KL-Siem Reap (£66), Bangkok-Yangon (£63), Yangon-Singapore (£63), Singapore-Glasgow (£400) Total cost £1161 :eek:


On the surface it looks like a deficit of £349. However, had the original flight been booked correctly the price would have been £660, bringing the total cost to £903 and reducing the apparent deficit to £258. So, by hook or by crook I need to claw back £258 from somewhere :think:


Have also overshot my budget of £1800, mostly due to underestimation of flight costs, new budget is a staggering £2209 :eek:. However there is a lot of buffer accounted for in that so I hope at least some will remain unspent upon my return

Payday to day :T:j:T updated figures to appear below.

Keebs

End of month figures

Payment made to debt: £344.63
Money to savings: £565

Outstanding debt:[STRIKE]£20970.85[/STRIKE] £10949.04 (47.79% paid :beer:)
Holiday fund:[STRIKE]£1800[/STRIKE] £1650 + £559 flight (123% of target )
Extra flight clawback:[STRIKE]£258[/STRIKE] £16.70 (6.47% of total )

370 Days to go :T

Happytogetdebtfree

Well done keebs xxx that's really good and at least flight sorted I'm sure thy deficit can soon be sorted sell items etc etc xx catch up soon off back to bed xxx

clippy_girl

o no, sorry to hear about your flights must be so annoying but when you are there it will be so exciting!

i will need to join in your holiday excitement as i am now back and will be a long time before i go again

Keebs

Yay Clippy's back! :j

But what's this?

As soon as I saw your post I beetled off to your diary expecting to revel in holiday tales galore. What did I find....


stories about bumped cars and cheap specs, very disapointed

C'mon Clippy, feel free to share. There's no one here who'll object to a travel tale or ten I can assure you

Keebs

Been a relatively productive day for me today.

Collected prescription from pharmacy (been meaning to do this for a fortnight now), only cost £3, forgot the prescription prices had gone down. So further £1 winging it's way to clawback fund

Also done a spot of batch cooking:

Lemon chicken in slow cooker, 5hrs to go :drool:
Nearly 2Litres of hummus made.
Pot of French oinion soup done
Huge vat of Curry Queens base curry mix cooling on hob
Tandoori chicken marinading in fridge :drool:
4 tubs of mashed potato cooling
7 large fishcakes resting in fridge

I was going to make a lasagna, pita bread, pizza bases and some raisin bread but have run out of steam. Those will have to wait until next week.

Still need to make caramelised onions for hummus, cheesey croutons for soup, 2nd part of base curry mix, cook fish cakes and make risotto to go with lemon chicken once cooked Begining to wish I'd never started

LOL. Dog is running around with dinner bowl in her mouth (not her bowl but the other dog who's a GSD, bowl is almost the same size as the dog :rotfl:) stopping at intervals to scrape maddly in the bowl then looking up at me with piteous eyes when it transpires the bowl remains empty. Think she may be trying to tell me it's time for dinner :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: