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Received a Civil National Business Centre Claim form
Hi, I received a parking ticket from dcbl whilst I was at a charging at a Tesla bay. Apparently I was meant to ‘sign in’ in the hotel. Parking charge was for £170.00, which I disputed in an email with the following: Dear DCBL, I am writing regarding the above parking charge. I dispute this alleged debt. I was using the EV…
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Compers Challenge 2026
Hope everyone is okay with me posting this, @lucinad usually is in charge of the challenge but they have been offline for some time now (really hope they are okay, and are just taking a break!). ALL credit for this fun challenge goes to Lucinad 2026 league January 🥇1st. 🥇 🥈2nd. 🥈 🥉3rd. 🥉 Booby prize (lowest value prize)💩💩…
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Can someone recommend a 5G router
I'm having problems finding a network that works at home and at my place of work so I'm thinking of buying a separate sim card for at home so can someone recommend a 5g router. I'm thinking of buying the TP-Link Archer NX500 but is this worth £220.
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APCOA Parking PCN - Guildford Station Long Stay
Hi all, I've been reading lots of posts on this forum for the past few months, for personal interest, and now becuase a family member has a PCN... Basically I'm starting to doubt my self wether the wording of the appeal below was actually correct... My understanding at the time was the land the car was parked on is railway…
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Onestream increasing tech support charge
I’ve been with Onestream less than a month but would like to return to Plusnet as I can now get full fibre and the Plusnet package offers far more for less cost, and will probably be a better service. Onestream have sent notice that they’re increasing their tech support charge; is that grounds to avoid early termination…
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Liverpool Airport Parking
Travelling from Liverpool to Fuerteventura for 8 days in May. I always park next to the airport with cheap parking/park smart. But over the last couple of years the costs have soared. It's around £100 no matter what discount code I use. I'm coming back at 2am so don't want to be parking on someone's drive in the area and i…
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My Experience with Dial Direct Car Insurance
Following the following experience I have now had a sympathetic response from Dial Direct who will be investigating this situation and reporting back to me afterwards. Have also hade a phone call (which I unfortunately missed) to discuss this. Watch this space. I was already insured with Dial Direct and as I was buying a…
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Window cleaning
I stay in a quiet area facing trees and not much traffic I usually get a 4 weekly window cleaner but twice I switched to a new one who stopped turning up. Anyway there’s a few can sign me up some have 3 month minimum contacts and are more expensive. I am tempted to do a one off clean spring summer winter it costs more but…
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Pensions problems
Hi, Not sure whether this should be under pensions or probate as it’s both kind of. My dad recently passed away and left me as executor. He left me a list of his assets in which was included a large pension with Aegon target plan which he had got through working for United utilities. My dad was under the impression it…
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Aegon pension fund - fee overcharge since June 2020
For attention of anyone with an Aegon pension plan I have today received notice from Aegon that, from June 2020, Aegon took more than the 1% charge my plan was meant to be billed at every year. I do not know if this is a problem specific to my account, or everyone with the same plan. (I don't recall doing anything around…
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Mass copy files to Azure Blob
Dear experts, we are looking for a way to send a lot of data from SharePoint to Azure blob. Basically we want to archive old files so we do not run into quota issues with SharePoint as it is getting very expensive. Anyone has found an easy way to do it. We need to be able to filter based on modified date as access date is…
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Santander Hard Search
Hi I had an alert from Experian today that a hard search had been carried out by Santander on 31st December. I don’t have any accounts with them and as far as I can remember never have. The only thing I can think it is is fraud as I know I definitely didn’t do anything banking related on that day. Does anyone have any…
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Claim Form Ibis budget hounslow
Hi all. I’ve recently been sent a claim form from the Civil National Business Centre, claimant is Civil Enforcement Ltd from Liverpool, re an unpaid parking charge at Ibis Budget Hounslow. funny thing is I did not use or enter the car park at any point, I simply carried out a U turn on the main public road, and during that…
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What are you making for dinner?
There were problems with the original thread in that it disappeared and could not be reinstated. So a new thread was created and we all started again, unfortunately that thread also seems to have joined it's predecessor. So here's a new one. We need to hear about Suki's lamb casserole and Island Maid is back from Amsterdam…
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Evri parcel was wedged in my porch and I couldn't open the door
This discussion was created from comments split from: Evri - compensation for returning shipment to company without trying to deliver?.
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Hsbc online login
Hi Usually when you go on their website to login to online banking it asks you to generate a code from your mobile app. But now it asks you to login to the app and scan a QR code that appears on the website. I have tried scanning the QR code several times but nothing happens... Anyone else had this issue?
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UKCPM - Should I complain? - Over £500
Hi all, First I would like to apologise. I found this forum way too late and so have already committed some of the "sins" such as responding when in Scotland and going to the IAS. A lesson learnt, but might have worked out in my favour (see below). I have also read all the stickies. I am here at the "waiting for LBC…
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Water Bill - United Utilities
Hi My water bill has increased to £1150 p.a. which seems very high when comparing with the national average. My house (4 bed / north west) does not have a water metre and has 2 soakaways so I have applied for a reduction re rainfall / sewage costs. Not very familar with water bills but does that appear high? I have asked…
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Appealing payment not taken with POPLA
A couple of months ago I parked in the car park at Wycombe Rye Lido in High Wycombe. I entered my number plate, paid with Google pay the 50p for my parking, then received a notification of payment on my phone and thought no more about it. 7 days later, I received a fine for "Payment not made in accordance with notified…
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I finally received the County Court claim after 5.9 years
This is the third time I'll be asking for help here, which has been invaluable so far. As with my last post, here's a TL;DR of the situation: * Drove onto the named car park. * Passenger got out to pay at the machine. * Huge queue at the machine. * Passenger finally get to machine, machine won't accept the reg. * Passenger…
