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« Reply #1110 on: 09:38:44, 24-04-2007 » |
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I'm grumpy too!  I fell for a scam. I got a couple of letters addressed to me and my mother, saying that my satelite equipment was now out of warranty. I sent the money off for us both last October without checking the name of the company. I now keep getting phone calls saying that they're Sky and my warranty has run out.....so last night I rang Sky and all was made clear. Sky never ring you regarding the warranty and they only deal with one company in that regard. When I looked at the paperwork and the company I'd paid the money to - it wasn't the right one. I googled Companies House and the company doesn't even exist. A fool and his money are soon parted obviously.  My son has been very kind about it and has assured me I wasn't stupid, just naive - but all the same I feel a complete charlie.  |
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I was attempting a holiday over the weekend, some great assistance from hotelier etc and nice bits incl a paddle,but travel in Sussex is
almost indecipherable-bus route splits umpteen different ways and trains ditto. So instead of 2nd hand bookshops
in Arundel I got Bognor Regis, which was shut. One of those moments when you either do the primal howl or you hoot, and you can't show either. Inside I was hooting, then you see some doughty old bird on two sticks progressing up the prom, which is 300 miles long, and you feel a mixture of delight she can do it and dispparoval at the indifference of theplace to its ageing population staggering about with shopping etc in the usual blizzard. Butlinz(thank you Gerald Wiley) looks very Soylent Green I have to say. The worst cup of coffee I have ever drunk served by a Russian would-be diplomat. I felt a
cinematic epic looming, of which there may still be a spark on the waffle thread perchance?
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« Reply #1112 on: 10:11:30, 24-04-2007 » |
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Well, you know what George V said about Bognor.
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« Reply #1113 on: 10:32:52, 24-04-2007 » |
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exactly Mary-nothing's changed. Whomsoever seems to have made an awful porridge out of town planning and
sprawl along much of the coastline there, though there are conservation areas (mostly private estates beyond even London service charges evidently). Thanks for noticing my plight therewith. What's your feeling about the
cinematic potential in waffle terms?
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« Reply #1114 on: 10:47:47, 24-04-2007 » |
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I'm grumpy too! I fell for a scam. I got a couple of letters addressed to me and my mother, saying that my satelite equipment was now out of warranty. I sent the money off for us both last October without checking the name of the company. I now keep getting phone calls saying that they're Sky and my warranty has run out.....so last night I rang Sky and all was made clear. Sky never ring you regarding the warranty and they only deal with one company in that regard. When I looked at the paperwork and the company I'd paid the money to - it wasn't the right one. I googled Companies House and the company doesn't even exist. Going to take them to small claims court (or whatever it is you call them over there) get your money back, and justice? The process probably wouldn't do anything for your good humour, though. Might provide some additional fodder for this thread though, so. |
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« Reply #1115 on: 11:09:23, 24-04-2007 » |
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Going to take them to small claims court (or whatever it is you call them over there) get your money back, and justice?
The process probably wouldn't do anything for your good humour, though. Might provide some additional fodder for this thread though, so.
That's just it - I can't! They don't exist. They'll be long gone since last October. Apparently the scam is to start a "company" for a short while which doesn't exist except on your paperwork, do the scam for as long as possible - then disappear. You can't take them to small claims court when you don't know who they really are. I was just an idiot! It is so unlike me as well. I'm usually pretty savvy. It had been very professionally produced - but I should have checked it out. My only excuse for being so ridiculously trusting is that I've a lot on my mind. Not much of an excuse though. |
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« Reply #1116 on: 11:27:58, 24-04-2007 » |
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Milly, you have my sympathy. These things do happen to people who are normally pretty savvy, but of course it's the one time it does happen to you that you remember! - that's why you're kicking yourself. I get so many email scams and I nearly fell for one once, asking me to update my Amazon account details (including my credit card number - that's when I realised something was up, because it was for my Seller Account not my Buyer Account and they shouldn't have my credit card on file for that!).
It always amazes me that most scam emails etc. are full of spelling mistakes and thus pretty transparent. I can easily imagine I wouldn't bother to check one out if it was more professionally produced.
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« Reply #1117 on: 11:33:07, 24-04-2007 » |
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I like the ones purporting to be from ebay, which even reproduce the standard ebay reminder that they have included your details to assure you that the email is genuine, except they don't actually include those very details, since they don't have them to include.  |
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« Reply #1118 on: 11:33:20, 24-04-2007 » |
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Thanks. This wasn't an email, it came through the post by way of a printed form which I filled in and paid for 12 months for both of us at two separate addresses.
It gets worse. I was told last night by the woman I spoke to at Sky, that they never ring you up about the warranty. Well I have at least one cold-call every week from people calling themselves "Sky Television" telling me my warranty has run out. I must be down on a few scam mailing lists as a complete twit who is good for a quick £60 per person.
You're right about one thing though - it will never happen again!
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« Reply #1119 on: 11:47:58, 24-04-2007 » |
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I don't mean to make you feel even worse, Milly, but when my Sony Skybox got stuck on standby recently, I was able to get one to replace it via ebay for £39.95 including p&p. Now I can search around on the Internet for guidance as to the probably cause of the problem with the old one, so that I can have a go at fixing it, and thus have a spare. Apparently, it's most likely to be just a couple of diodes that need replacing.
On a lighter note, I rang Sky during the Easter weekend to enquire how to get the replacement box to accept me as a legitimate subscriber to Sky. I got nowhere near to getting anything other than an engaged tone. Fortunately, Anna (currently suspended form these boards, IIRC) came up with the solution. Unplug from the mains, wait for five minutes and try again. It worked.
A week or so later I got what seemed to be a sales telephone call from Sky. I quite forgot about having tried to contact them over Easter, and went into automated "I don't accept sales call over the 'phone" mode. The caller seemed happy with that, and I hung up. Only then did I associate the call with my earlier attempt to contact them. Too late to apologise by then. There was not useful response from 1471.
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« Reply #1120 on: 11:48:49, 24-04-2007 » |
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Milly, don't even get me started on cold calls! I could grump for hours about those. Sometimes it's about 20 a day. I just don't answer the phone most of the time. And I know, I know, you can sign up to some servive which will eliminate them. But what if it's another scam?!  |
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« Reply #1121 on: 11:52:47, 24-04-2007 » |
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There are some vile people out there. My old mum got stung for a holiday she'd "won" a few years back. Sent the money - and of course that was the last she heard. I thought when I moved her up here I could safeguard her from that sort of thing - and then I go and fall for it myself!!! Times like this I really miss my husband because nobody ever got one over on him. He was very clued-in. Ah well, one born every minute.... |
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« Reply #1122 on: 11:58:44, 24-04-2007 » |
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Milly, don't even get me started on cold calls! I could grump for hours about those. Sometimes it's about 20 a day. I just don't answer the phone most of the time. And I know, I know, you can sign up to some servive which will eliminate them. But what if it's another scam?! The Telephone Preference Service works 99% of the time. Give it a try! I can't quote the number, but I'm sure it'll be online somewhere. |
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« Reply #1124 on: 12:04:04, 24-04-2007 » |
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It might be worth getting outgoing 09*** calls blocked for your 'phone, too, of there is someone vulnerable to scams in your house. I had to do this when my late mother got stung a couple of times. Fortunately the losses were lower than dodgy bank penalty charges.
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