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Praise for credit cards.
i was out with a friend and when he went to pay his MBNA credit card had been blocked, turns out someone had got into it and was trying to use it fraudulently. I also recently had a text about unusual activity on my M&S credit card, this also was unauthorised by me. So it seems CC companies are at last taking an active…
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Confused.com
Can anyone share any info on what is happening at Confused.com regarding their rewards incentive. Bought & paid for insurance, obviously verified, voucher for £20 received via app, went to choose participating Vendor and now all I'm getting is 'rewards not available'. Contacted them and given excuse, we're working on it!
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Tesco Advert Torture
I've been watching quite a lot of ITVX recently and they have the SAME adverts at every commercial break including the Tesco Clubcard one (I've got the Power). Now I quite like the song but seeing the same advert at every commercial break (and there are quite a few in the ITVX series), is like torture. But what I find most…
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John Lewis - "Never knowingly Undersold"
Just a heads-up for anyone relying on John Lewis’s “Never Knowingly Undersold” / Price Promise. I’ve been a John Lewis customer for over 40 years and, until now, had never tried to price-match anything because I trusted the policy. This week I tried for the first time after finding an identical product (same model, colour,…
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onlinecarparts.co.uk using Evri for scam?
I foolishly ordered some expensive (£460) car parts from onlinecarparts.co.uk (actually a German company AKA AUTODOC AG) on 20 March. AUTODOC charged my card (unfortunately not a credit card) on 26 March, and soon after showed the parts as 'delivered' on their website with a tracking number I tracked down to Evri. The Evri…
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your local Window Cleaner
We had a lad turn up last week in a “your local” van enquiring about window cleaning. Agreed to clean but received no bill, said it would be by message but only later realised we didn’t give him our phone number. Feeling it’s now a scam. Anyone aware of them? Don’t event have a business card but I do have some CCTV. Trust…
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Currys Price Match Promise/Guarantee: A Warning. A Complete Disappointment
I posted this originally as a response to another comment here, but I felt this experience warrants an exclusive thread as it might give adequate warning to others. So, I have decided to rewrite this and improve it with slightly more detail and information. I hope it proves useful to someone who is researching Currys and…
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Youtube Premium free trial scam
I was offered a 2 month free trial for Premium when I signed in to my account (I have had this last year for a free ad free month which worked fine) I gave my credit card details which is a standard procedure only to get a confirmation email from Google Play and Youtube thanking me for purchasing a month's worth which will…
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ONEPLUS TRADE-IN EXPERIENCE INVOLVING MONDO AFFARI AND FEDEX
Posting this to share my experience in case it helps others. I bought a new OnePlus 15 and used OnePlus’ official trade-in programme to return my 10-month-old OnePlus 13 (512GB), in excellent condition and worth roughly £900. The return was done using the prepaid FedEx label provided by OnePlus, with Mondo Affari as the…
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Today's phone scam.
I received a call on my landline this morning. The guy greeted me by my name, then confirmed my postcode. Told me a call blocking device was going to be sent out to me within the next 3 days. The asked me to confirm I was the bill payer. All good up to now. Then he said the price was reduced from £379 to £179. At this…
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Amazon account hacked advise please?
This happened earlier this month 7th April. My Amazon account got hacked and they bought £200 gift cards I saw it first as a pending payment in my Barclays Bank account. Stopped my cards and spoke to both Amazon and Barclays immediately. Amazon have been no help so far just saying they’re investigating and Barclays…
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Don't fully trust r/BenefitsAdviceUK on subreddit.
I hope i don't get any hate for this as it's just meant as a warning. I'm not into internet drama at my age. I'm sure they do good work and have given good advice but some of their advice has been very miss rather than hit. Early last year I joined their reddit with a question about Pension credits. I am 68 and had 6k in…
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Good result: Amtech warranty replacement
I bought an amtech 12V air compressor from my local hardware shop. It came with a 3 year warranty. I got home and went to use it but it died after 2 minutes. "Oh dear" I thought. Anyway, I went inside and registered the warranty and put in a claim. A few days later*, a new compressor arrived through the mail. No questions,…
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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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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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Escalating magazine article?
Is there a way to escalate a complaint about a magazine article? I've already raised the complaint internally whereby they are not prepared to recognise their failings in what I feel is a misleading article. I don't normally step in but I feel that "Which?" have unfairly criticised Easyjet without looking at the full facts…
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Lloyds Bank brings fictional fraud to life?
Lloyds Bank shows characteristics of Great Benefit, the
insurer that never pays, in John Grisham’s novel, The Rainmaker. Except the denial in this case, is denying mathematical
reality, with full support from the FOS. Like Great Benefit, Lloyds Bank are relying on the fact that
the majority will not be able to afford…
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De'Longhi UK coffee machine repair
I sent my coffee machine for repair to De'Longhi, paid £190 and, despite claiming to have fixed it, they returned it with exactly the same faults. I have sent a recorded letter to their UK head office, and I'm now about to send a follow-up one "LETTER BEFORE ACTION". I have tried calling them, using the Chat, emails, and…
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Someone put bagged dog waste in my bin
Hello Put bins out for waste collection and someone put bagged dog waste in my bin have evidence off our cctv. Our council have said no offence has been committed and the contents he put in our bin are un known. It was clearly bagged dog waste he had his dog with him which was peeing up our neighbours bin when he did it.…
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Litfad Company?
Don't know if this is the correct section but here goes. I am looking for info on the company "Litfad". I have seen a desk that I would like to buy but am wary of the company. Put it in Google and it wasn't good reviews and some saying it was a scam company. I was originally looking if it was a British Company as I didn't…
