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Post by Slinger on Jul 28, 2022 17:52:36 GMT
EVRI have just emailed me, asking if I'd like to leave a Trustpilot review. I obliged. I was going to say that you wouldn't believe how many other 1-star reviews they've garnered, but you probably would.
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Post by MartinT on Jul 28, 2022 18:17:22 GMT
Thanks, I've just left them a choice review of my own.
How have they acquired such a high score?
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Post by julesd68 on Jul 29, 2022 6:14:20 GMT
I went to Heathrow this morning only to find that you now have to pay £5 just for the privilege of dropping someone off. "The scheme helps to prevent a car-led recovery and to reduce airport-related traffic."
What is a 'car-led recovery' and how on earth is this charge going to reduce traffic - if you need to go, you need to go ...
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Post by MartinT on Jul 29, 2022 7:32:40 GMT
So the uniformed f*ckwit who presses you into moving off even while you're visibly unloading a large case onto the ground wasn't enough?
Did they think we take a drive to the drop-off area for fun?
Good luck Emirates, I hope you sue their arses off.
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Post by MikeMusic on Jul 29, 2022 8:42:52 GMT
I went to Heathrow this morning only to find that you now have to pay £5 just for the privilege of dropping someone off. "The scheme helps to prevent a car-led recovery and to reduce airport-related traffic."
What is a 'car-led recovery' and how on earth is this charge going to reduce traffic - if you need to go, you need to go ... Revenue is all Martin's money tips had a way around it. Google to find as I can't remember the detail
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Post by Slinger on Oct 18, 2022 13:22:31 GMT
Amazon emailed me on Sunday to say that they believed my account had been breached, and not to worry, they'd cancelled any purchases made during the times they thought somebody was buggering about with it. I was to change my password, and ignore any email confirmation of orders.
What they actually did, was cancel the 4 books I'd ordered recently (one of which I was reading when it suddenly disappeared from Kindle, telling me I didn't own it anymore, which was my first clue that something was up. I re-ordered the books after checking the refunds had already hit my bank account.
What they had NOT done, was cancel the order I knew nothing about, as I was ignoring it, as they told me to. It was for two items, a £3.90 deodorant spray I buy for mum, and a £100.00 gift card. I first realised there might be a bit of a fuck up when I double-checked my bank account and saw £103.90 sitting in the "Pending Transactions" tab.
Last night I chatted with Amazon's customer service assistants. I say "assistants", plural, because the FOURTH assistant I was handed off to told me he couldn't open the transaction, so couldn't deal with it, and it would require yet another party, who would email me "tomorrow". Well, it's tomorrow, no email, but I have got a deodorant spray that isn't listed on my Orders page, and I do have a nice email confirming its delivery. The links to the order number on the email take me to my Orders page, with no sign of the actual order.
What concerns me now is that as "part two" of the order, the spray, has been delivered Amazon will suck the whole £103.90 out of my bank.
If they hadn't told me to ignore things I would have been all over this on Sunday,m as it is, I've lost a day and a half or more and I'm no further forward.
Why can't these organisations have bloody email addresses? It's so much easier to set things like this out in "letter" format than it is to reel it all off piecemeal in a "chat", or try to explain it a bit at a time over the phone, especially when the person one is talking to may not have English as their first language.
The money is still in my Pending Trasnsactions tab, and I'm still waiting for an email.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 18, 2022 14:23:14 GMT
especially when the person one is talking to may not have English as their first language. Sadly, so often the case. Nor will they say they don't understand you, you just get a telltale long silence.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 18, 2022 20:15:59 GMT
Similar ish to what just happened to someone I know
Virgin Media rang with a query seemed ok until they relieved said person of £25,000 from his bank account. Yes, not Virgin Media
He's hoping Santander will be helpful
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Post by Slinger on Oct 18, 2022 21:51:08 GMT
A quick follow-up. The whole £103.90 has been put back into my bank account, but I've still not had any contact from Amazon to explain what happened, apologise for the confusion, or tell me why I've got an apparently free deodorant spray.
The correct result, but poor customer service.
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Post by MartinT on Oct 18, 2022 22:05:22 GMT
Something has happened between my domain service provider, my ISP and Microsoft so that e-mail has stopped flowing. No settings have been changed but Microsoft say my domain SP is on a blocklist and they say they aren't. The result is much frustration trying to establish why people can't e-mail me and how to get it fixed. I think this is one of those silent changes that Microsoft made to Outlook.com to tighten up security and I'm just collateral damage.
Having to switch to using Gmail for the moment. Grrr!
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Post by Slinger on Oct 18, 2022 22:10:54 GMT
It might be worthwhile asking for the details of the blacklist and then appealing to them directly. It's not unusual for people to accidentally end up on email blacklists, and most of them have a relatively prominent "if you don't believe you should be on the list..." statement on their front pages.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 19, 2022 9:09:52 GMT
The boss was thrown off Ebay for breaking the rules. Odd as she hardly uses it She was worked up about it
Couple of days later she was back on
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Post by MartinT on Oct 19, 2022 10:31:55 GMT
It might be worthwhile asking for the details of the blacklist and then appealing to them directly. It's not unusual for people to accidentally end up on email blacklists, and most of them have a relatively prominent " if you don't believe you should be on the list..." statement on their front pages. I've gone through the headers and there is no clue as to which blacklist/blocklist they are using. Ive written again to my domain SP CIX to investigate as they are the mail forwarders and I believe they are on the list.
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Post by Slinger on Oct 19, 2022 13:52:30 GMT
It's going to be a lot more awkward if it's your mail forwarder at fault. It's quite possible that another of their clients has breached a condition somewhere, and you - obviously - have no control over that. Again, I would ask for the name, and web address, of the blacklist your domain SP, is supposedly on from Microsoft. At the very least you can check for yourself if you get that information.
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Post by rfan8312 on Oct 20, 2022 17:42:02 GMT
People on social networks who use the terms 'sick' and 'dope' to mean something good. I wonder about this one. I am a bit of Stephen Fry on this issue. Language evolves. I am blessed (or afflicted) with 4 children in aggregate who have only recently left their teens, and have a fair few "feel like / sound like my own father" moments - especially over modern language. I try to remember that the English language wasn't permanently perfected for all time at Dartford grammar school in 1945, as I was brought up to believe. I struggle with "like" - but keep telling myself to "man up" Sick seems so wrong. Why would that signify something good? Surely that should be "wicked" (which obviously signifies something "well good") And language needs context - social and historical. Jesus was allegedly "skilled at the plane and the lathe". I wonder where exactly he qualified as an airline pilot... What is happening to our language? (Or should that be "what happens to our language"? as it would have been before the 19th century introduced the continuous present tense to English?) What thinkest thou? Wow. Oldie but a goodie here. I believe the term sick signifying something good came from sports like skateboarding and snowboarding. My whole life I watched skate videos. Some of the tricks they do are not just amazing but also look so dangerous that you can hear people exclaim in the background that "that was sick" like it was good but demented to even try. I think it began being used so often in extreme sports including dirt bike motocross That it eventually bled into the lexicon of daily life in society.
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Post by MikeMusic on Oct 20, 2022 20:12:03 GMT
Ahahaha !
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Post by ChrisB on Oct 27, 2022 17:50:21 GMT
Dog owners More specifically, the ones who carry their dogs in public. The ones who put their dogs in a bag. The ones who put their dogs in a pram. The ones who put their dogs in a papoose.
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Post by petea on Oct 27, 2022 18:14:44 GMT
Where do you stand on dogs in a hod, Chris?
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Post by julesd68 on Oct 27, 2022 18:57:53 GMT
The BBC has a headline today 'Should you stop kissing your dog on the mouth?'
Ugh.
Since when would that seem like a good idea anyway??
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Post by Slinger on Oct 27, 2022 19:17:35 GMT
The BBC has a headline today 'Should you stop kissing your dog on the mouth?'
Ugh.
Since when would that seem like a good idea anyway??
" Tongues" would definitely be out.
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