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Praise, Vent & Warnings sticky
Please keep in mind the MSE Forum rules, notably that: * We cannot accept active calls to boycott organisations. * If a post is reported to the Forum Team as being defamatory, we’ll follow a legal process set out in Section 5 of the Defamation Act 2013. 📢 Here are some threads from this board which you might useful: *…
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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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Tote SCAM
I join Tote spent money to get promotion offer and they decided to close my account and not issue the promotional stuff i should have got, I feel totally scammed they seem to think i need a break from gambling (sent information on gamcare). They then sent £12 to my bank account as a gesture of good will while i spent £280.…
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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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WARNING and help?: Debenhams and daylight robbery /misselling protection
I was shopping at Debenhams online and upon checkout a delivery protection fee of £15.99 was added to my order. I did not realise this until I had checked out and paid, despite carefully reviewing my order before placing it. It must have been a ticked box somewhere, Debenhams describes this charge as optional, but I never…
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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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Today's Biggest News Story ?
Tuned in to the ITV news at 6 and the lead story is ........ the World Cup draw. Must be a slow news day with nothing important going on in the world :s
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Easylife rewards club - preying on the vulnerable
My 87 year old mother was recently signed up by Easylife to their rewards club which she did not want. She had previously bought items from them. Gets a phone call from a very persistent salesman, tells him repeatedly that the rewards club is of no interest to her but he would not take no for an answer and unfortunately…
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Royal Mail - help needed quickly please!
Hi, I'm an ebay business seller, selling over 100 items a week. I always send my parcels, pre-paid and posting them in a Royal Mail parcel box. Almost everything I send is tracked and I've never had a problem until now in around 2 years of posting this way. On Tuesday this week, I dropped around 40 parcels to the parcel…
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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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Ur.co.uk
I stupidly send them my phone after reading a few good reviews about this website. They offered decent quote to buy my phone, I even avoided the higher quotes with bad reviews. Anyway short story is they ghosted me since I send my phone in, their phone line just rings out with no answer. Emailed them with no reply. I just…
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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…
