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Do you want your receipt at the till warning!
Ever since the pandemic i now get asked if i want my receipt or not at the till in some cases i am not even offered it at all, pre pandemic a receipt was naturally just given to me in all stores. Unfortunately i found an item from a frozen food store was rotten inside and i tried to return it but of course i was never…
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Warning: AirBnB / Fake Tripadvisor Site Scam
Malwarebytes have sent out a link to subscribers with this information: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/02/airbnb-scam-sends-you-to-a-fake-tripadvisor-site-takes-your-money
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Someone using my details to sign up on gambling sites for free bets
On a couple of occasions recently I've had an email in my inbox welcoming me to a gambling site which I've never signed up for. These are well known gambling sites (Pokerstars was one) and in each case I went to the site and contacted their customer service to get the account blocked. On one occasion I used the forgot…
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quidco rubbish!
Fed up with Quidco , - once again they've refused a cashback for home insurance. Topcashack are always fine, so bye,bye quidco, it was good while it lasted!!!
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Curry’s delivery charge
So I went to buy a condensing tumble dryer from Curry’s today on line, no option for free delivery, ranged for £35 down to £20 I kept scrolling and no free delivery, the tumble dryer was a 9kg Beko for £299, plus £20 delivery was the cheapest, so I went on EBay and saw a Hoover 9kg for £289 with Free delivery, guess what?…
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"Complete savings"...scam??
I recently went online to book some airport parking. Somehow, during the process I managed to "sign up" to Completesavings??? Not sure how this happened, as at no time was I advised of an ongoing monthly fee. Luckily I got a message from my bank telling me I had signed up for this. I managed to log in to my "account" and…
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New scam: Fake Martin Lewis interview
Just came across this website when I opened Microsoft Edge browser. Its front page or Home page generates all sorts of "news" from all kinds of sources among which this headline caught my eyes: "Martin Lewis is being sued by the
Bank of England...". Basically this article (screenshot below) says during an interview with…
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Strange PayPal Fraud or Scam
My OH has just received 2 emails, the first purporting to be from PayPal saying someone has sent him €20 (we're in the U.K.), the second one inviting him to message the sender of the €20. He's checked his PayPal account and the money is there even though he's not expecting any money from anyone. He has blocked the sender…
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Cheap electronics - is there a catch?
I may be paranoid, or just learning lessons from mistakes of others. Not needing repeating them myself. What concerns me: there is a flood of cheaper 'brands' of electronics on the market, whether it is e-bay, Amazon, and others (not even bothered going on Temu and alikes). I have been looking for a compact camera, for…
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Praise for Railcard Helpline
I just purchased a replacement Railcard online and having gone through all the right steps, when I downloaded it had a blank space where the photo should be and I need it for travel in 2 days time. I was able to speak them - a real person, not a chatbot - and email my photo through, they added it and it was sorted out in…
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Google's New Crackdown - Good News For Martin!
I was pleased to see Google's new rule regarding ad misrepresentation and people falsely claiming to be famous people. https://www.wordtracker.com/blog/ppc/google-cracks-down-on-misrepresentation-in-ads I was always seeing fake ads of Richard Branson endorsing bitcoin and Martin Lewis recommending you part with your money…
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Disgraceful response from Facebook regarding deep fake advert involving Martin
I really do hope that one of your team reads this and shows it to
Martin.....and that you take it up with Meta/ Facebook and demand some
answers. A few days ago I saw an advert on Facebook which was obviously a deep
fake one showing Martin speaking and also introducing Elon Musk.. It
was obvious (to me) that it was a fake…
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Scam operating as www.mymanuals.net operated by Squirrel Web Ltd registered in Dublin
Please read all the reviews on trust pilot about "mymanual.net" .I was looking for a manual for my TV. "mymanuals.net" came up first when I seached on Google .I did a search on the site and they said they had the manual to download .It was £1.49 or I could get monthly access to it for for £4.95.I tried to pay but it would…
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EDF Energy - Smart Gas Meters Not Suitable for Purpose?
I recently (after many months of trying) had my Smets 1 smart meters upgraded to Smets 2 by EDF. I'm grateful for this. The Smets 1 meters were installed by a previous supplier (British Gas) after I expressly asked them not to fit the meters unless they were Smets 2. After the new meters were installed by EDF, I discovered…
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Marks Electrical extremely poor if anything goes wrong.
Ordered a damaged washing machine at reduced price. Delivery spot on with about 9 emails sent by them. On arrival everything went smoothly. Once I had unwrapped the many, many layers of bubble wrap as it was sold without original packaging that's when you find what their after sales service is really like! The machine had…
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247Home Rescue
I have tried to cancel my contract with this company which was taken out in March 2018. There service was poor and always geared to buying a knew central heating system. They refuse to cancel the contract and keep trying to reinstate the direct debit. We informed them in March, as the contract was from April to April. They…
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Toothpaste prices and whitening claims
Not a vent per se but an observation of the fairly recent and rapid doubling in the big name toothpaste prices. (From £2 to £4.50 is quite a leap). Noticed it a few weeks ago in Boots, Superdrug, supermarket. Surely this can't be linked to the Ukraine conflict??? Also ticked of by the fake claims that toothpaste will…
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HMRC got the tax wrong on my new State Pension
I'm raising this because I think it might affect everyone receiving the New State Pension for the first time. My pension started in Jan 2023, and HMRC rightly included it in my taxable income for the year to 5 April 2023 - but I recently spotted that the figure was overstated by £450. When I looked at it, I could see why.…
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Amazon refusing to refund on a phone that wasn't in a parcel
Hi, I'm new to the forums but have joined to get people's opinions and to find out if they've had similar experiences. My son bought a phone from Amazon last week. It arrived, the courier was given the security code and my son was given the parcel. The parcel was in one of the Amazon cardboard envelopes that had not, as…
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Am I being unfair to Lakeland?
I welcome any constructive criticism because I am not sure if I am being unfair to Lakeland. I received a mini booklet in the post which included, as part of the booklet itself, a page of date limited money off tokens. I was unable to use the first 20% off token as I had other bills to pay at that time but I wanted to use…