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    • Hello,

      On 15/1/24 booked appointment with Big Motoring World (BMW) to view a mini on 17/1/24 at 8pm at their Enfield dealership.  

      Car was dirty and test drive was two circuits of roundabout on entry to the showroom.  Was p/x my car and rushed by sales exec and a manager into buying the mini and a 3yr warranty that night, sale all wrapped up by 10pm.  They strongly advised me taking warranty out on car that age (2017) and confirmed it was honoured at over 500 UK registered garages.

      The next day, 18/1/24 noticed amber engine warning light on dashboard , immediately phoned BMW aftercare team to ask for it to be investigated asap at nearest garage to me. After 15 mins on hold was told only their 5 service centres across the UK can deal with car issues with earliest date for inspection in March ! Said I’m not happy with that given what sales team advised or driving car. Told an amber warning light only advisory so to drive with caution and call back when light goes red.

      I’m not happy to do this, drive the car or with the after care experience (a sign of further stresses to come) so want a refund and to return the car asap.

      Please can you advise what I need to do today to get this done. 
       

      Many thanks 
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    • Housing Association property flooding. https://www.consumeractiongroup.co.uk/topic/438641-housing-association-property-flooding/&do=findComment&comment=5124299
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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

      Please note that a recent case against UPS failed on exactly the same issue with the judge held that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 did not apply.

      We will be getting that transcript very soon. We will look at it and we will understand how the judge made such catastrophic mistakes. It was a very poor judgement.
      We will be recommending that people do include this adverse judgement in their bundle so that when they go to county court the judge will see both sides and see the arguments against this adverse judgement.
      Also, we will be to demonstrate to the judge that we are fair-minded and that we don't mind bringing everything to the attention of the judge even if it is against our own interests.
      This is good ethical practice.

      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

      OT APPROVED, 365MC637, FAROOQ, EVRi, 12.07.23 (BRENT) - J v4.pdf
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Usually a fairly expensive supermarket.

 

I have found in 3 local branches that if you fancy a shopping trip around 2pm on a Sunday you can pick up some real bargains. They seem to do a mass reduction about that time ready for the new week.

 

Our best saving which included two massive joints of Aberdeen Angus topside was £47. We paid £17 at the till for virtually a trolley load of shopping. Make sure you check out the butchery, fish monger and deli counters as they clear it all.

 

Other day we bought 3 x chorizo sausages for 49p each reduced from £6.99, scallops for 39p from £5.99, and you can always get decent bread for about 15p a loaf.

 

They do the best reductions I have seen out of all the supermarkets.

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Thanks for the tip. I used to go to Tesco's around that time on a Sunday but have progressed to Sainsbury's as I prefer their meat. Might give Waitrose a try tomorrow.8)

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I agree with that. Plus, if Waitrose have a 342 offer or similar but then reduce the item, the original offer is still valid so you get a double discount.

 

Our best one was when we just popped in for milk but luckily must have got there just as they did final reductions on the meats and other bits and pieces. We ended up with £140 worth of shopping which we paid just over £30 for:D

 

You do have to work out the times for your stores reductions though as their normal ones throughout the day are pretty pants, especially when you consider the price is higher in the first place.

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Wow, I can't believe you all saved so much, what a great tip. I'm definitely going to check out my local Waitrose next Sunday. Thanks :)

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Thanks for the tip. I used to go to Tesco's around that time on a Sunday but have progressed to Sainsbury's as I prefer their meat. Might give Waitrose a try tomorrow.8)

 

I couldn't agree with you more about Sainsburys meat! We buy 95% of our meat from there, and they always have offers on too - their meat is such high quality, we get the Silverside joints for half or two thirds off price (around £10 rather than £20/£30) , they're huge and we cut then in half making to large Sunday joints, sometimes they're so big we get either three joints or two joints and a few nice steaks out of it (you need a good sharp butchers boning knife mind you). We also get their full legs of lamb for around the £10 mark too, and can quite easily get a Sunday dinner, a curry and some other concoction of a meal out of that lol!

 

Then there's their chickens, 3 for £10, their chicken breasts, 3 packs for £10 - and their lamb steaks are roughly the same! They even had Grassington duck crowns going for £5 each the other day, so I snapped up two of those :oops:

 

I do love Waitrose too, but as we all know it can be obscenely expensive - however, having seen these offers I will be giving this a go! So thank you very much!

 

Oh, also - Waitrose do offers on the best basmati rice ever, Tilda, and it's a 10kg bag for £18 - you'll not get that cheaper anywhere else!

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