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Holiday cancellation / Distance selling
Just cancelled a holiday booking with Hoseasons. I paid a 'low deposit' of £100. I cancelled because of a mix up with summer holiday availability with our son. I was perfectly willing to let £100 deposit go when I cancelled. It's fine to lose a deposit. But then they said there's an extra cancellation fee of £150 to make…
Does anyone know how Hastings Direct did this?
At 3.55pm today I got an email from Hastings Direct with the subject line "Getting a new car? Here’s something worth knowing…". Today I have been browsing Autotrader. How can Hastings Direct possibly know that I have been looking at cars, and doesn't that constitute a massive breach of privacy? Furthermore, there was NO…
Aviva to NEST? Good idea?
I am 47, and have a pensions problem. I dont have big enough pension and am only now considering my options. I know, too late. Anyway, I have NEST workplace pension and an AVIVA pension which I dont contribute to. I am considering moving my Aviva pension pot into NEST so its all in one place. Good idea or a bad idea?
TV Licence - Rip Off
For a start, let's just ignore the issue of whether I should pay my TV Licence or not. I'm just on the TV Licensing website to renew my TV Licence. The cost of the licence is £147. If I want to pay by direct debit on a monthly basis I have to pay £24/month for six months and then £12/month thereafter. What a scandal. Why…
Household admin / paperwork - how do you do it?
How do you manage your household paperwork / filing? I currently have 3 piles. One in the kitchen. One next to my computer and a load of really old files in a filing cabinet that's full up. I keep saying to myself I'll tackle it one day and do a proper filing system but never do :) Also, I have many different logins for…
How do you manage your household paperwork?
Hey all. I was wondering how most people managed their paperwork. I have a filing cabinet, with old agreements, sorted into categories. I have a pile of opened letters on my computer desk and I have a pile of opened letters in the kitchen. I keep telling myself one day to sort it out, but I never get round to that fateful…
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