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  1. It's more than misleading as they have clearly employed psychologists and market research to deliberately trick their customers. Something similar happened to me earlier this year when I ordered a small item from Amazon UK. You are correct in the that the prime offer always comes up and you make a particular point of NOT signing up to it. However they seem to have changed tack and offer instead free one delivery without mentioning the automatic sign up to prime... (especially as some of us have explicitly ticked box against it for the last 9 years). They must tailor careful people accounts too deliberately in the form of a computer program that hides the prime sign up to careful customers. There a Amazon prime complaints page actually on amazon forums strangely and boy everyday there are scores of complainants some of which say they aren't even Amazon customers that have been signed up to Prime. Amazon must have some form of mailing list from the credit card companies they are using. I may have originally not noticed the free one day delivery box which is filled by default but changed it back however despite this I was still signed up as Prime customer...I am a person that orders a couple of times a year btw. Luckily for me I did notice my Prime sign up because they e-mailed me about the benefits of my new prime membership ... perplexed by how this came about I frantically searched the internet eventually found the very very obscure cancel page. So I wasn't charged but they had started my FREE? months membership .... which like many thousands of others hadn't actually knowingly signed to at all. The laughable and odd thing about is that the item I had ordered didn't arrive the next day! Misleading is an understatement .... It is a deliberate contrived CON based on their American model where the consumer law isn't so tight and it where the onus of proof is on the customer. Luckily we have the direct debit guarantee and consumer law that at this time of writing allows you to get your money back in the UK. Things could change with Tory ethos of allowing companies more power to sign people in by verbal contract etc. and softening of trading standards regulation (which is pretty limp even now) For many the first thing they know about it is when Amazon takes a £79 payment from your card. And now looking on the complaints forum Amazon have tweaked their con... it is now apparently £7.99 a month... crafty s c a m designed so the smaller figure won't be noticed so easily.
  2. I had a neighbour a few years that got in a similar pickle, he was bombarded with calls from banks and creditors. All starting from a relatively minor amount which compounded with their various charges and interest fees etc. Anyway getting rid of the phone... matter of fact BT cut him off.. but it was a relief to him not to nagged on a daily basis by these people. And in the end it was a successful outcome.
  3. Well I suppose does show the inherent problems with paypal.. a horrible system. Credit cards are better as they will pay the buyer their money back if $cammed. Ebay and paypal seemingly don't want this for some reason and force you to use paypal which I think may actually be illegal. Moving on... The first thing is change your phone number so that they can't hassle you via that. I'm wondering also whether you ought to report the whole affair to the local plod,.. . not that they will do anything but at least it is on record that you have been $cammed. Still you imply it has put you out over your own bank account ... and you know they will add interest so we're going have to come up with a plan to deal with that too.
  4. For some unknown reason the text in your system has changed the word s c a m to the word problem. Please read the above with this in mind.
  5. I have been thinking about this issue of [problem] phone calls and it probably doesn’t affect mobiles but home phones where until fairly recently you could not cut-off someone you phoned and if they didn’t put the phone down. The scenario goes something like this: Elderly Agnes gets a lot PPI calls and salesmen for double glazing and indeed silent calls. So Agnes decides on the recommendation of her local trading dept and BT to see who is calling by dialling back the number displayed on her caller display. So she inputs the 0844 or variant and it rings a couple of times and goes silent nothing appears to happen it is blank. Agnes puts her phone down and goes about her daily business as usual. However unbeknown to Agnes the computerised [problem] has still got her phone connected at the highest rate per minute that they can charge. And this remains so for the next few hours or until the system times out. The first thing Agnes finds out about it is when she receives her direct debit from BT and her bill. In Agnes mind it is too late and she has been scammed! Reminiscent of the computer diallers [problem] a few years ago. But there is an answer to this to resolve the issue…..?!? Mobiles you surely simply switch off. I only ever use payg and top up only with £5 top ups so these £3000 bills (roaming) can never happen but the mobile companies hate these and are doing their best to phase them out and discourage people using them. To Didlum… The moderators have removed your post reply to mine as it was off topic OK…it didn’t directly address phone problems but what you said had a lot of truth and does resonate with me and probably a lot of others here too. I feel they overreacted when they took it off. In answer to you and to anyone looks closely at the courts Police and government you can see that it is a bit of a charade that looks like and appears that deals with the public in a fair manner and to some extent it does; except when it comes up against a council, local authority, Police, judiciary or government or agent of a government…and ultimately acts to protect those in power and privilege and will never act against them whatever crimes they commit. Even though the crimes by these so-called guardians of the public actually are often enemies of the public and contravene the English bill of rights and Magna Carta. Very suspect in the parking charges industry... A fine example of this is the Barry Beavis case which ultimately threatened the councils and very dodgy debt collecting agencies around them. The old TV and movie quotes echo in my mind …. “We are the Law” And that’s really what they believe….
  6. Absolutely correct about 08x numbers .... originally designed to confuse with 0800 Freephone numbers but were anything but "Freephone" then when 0870 numbers were exposed as the rip-off that they were...they then made a big song and dance about how they were allowing these for free .... but every company and BT simply got around this by quietly changing the number slightly to 0871 and variants. (and didn't tell anyone that these were still chargeable at the rip-off rate), and hoped the public didn't notice which in general they did not.. Outrageous that such a confidence trick should ever possibly be allowed without serious criminal charges. But then in country where we now have seriously bent courts, bent judges, bent police, bent corporations and councils, bent governments. They have successful created a society where they have encouraged everyone to go about ripping off everyone else. I would like to call for a complete ban on ALL premium rate numbers ... in particular ones like 118 ... that according to my telephone provider Post office phones is NOT a premium... and as I said to them "if £6 plus to a number that lasts for a few seconds isn't a premium rate number then what is?" The reason I say 118 numbers is that you can elect to block outgoing calls the various 090 type numbers etc. but not 118 type numbers .....as I said in the my previous line if 118 variants are not premium then what are? Characters like Simon Cowell have made 100s of millions £s by these numbers so what do BT make?... outrageous. Just simply a goldmine for thieves, conmen, rip off merchants, unscrupulous people and organisations. As for international premium numbers BT and the other companies need to either pay them from their profit or block the numbers. Or don't pay them ... it not down to the public to do so. We need people like Martin Lewis the TV celebrity money expert to petition the government to ban ALL premium numbers of at least allow the telephone customer to be able to bar any number they wish including such rip-offs like 118.
  7. All these MPs that spent time in "prison" if you can call it that spent in fact merely 1/4 of the term handed down by the judges. Do look that fact up. Furthermore every last one of them served their time in a very soft open prison. And I have a relative that works at Leyhill open prison and it's a standing joke that it's more luxurious than more pay for fitness/health boot camps that exist throughout the country. Open prisons are really the wealthy and powerful version of a free health boot camp similar to the tv programme for naughty teenagers shown on mainstream tv. Lord Archer spent much of his time in prison writing a book and spending weekend time at the opera and fine restaurants with the prison governor. Why hasn't his title been removed and surely a fine of £1,000,000 and a prison spell in somewhere like Strangeways as a penalty? To honest most of these toff dicks need a very hefty fine related where possible to their personal wealth. It is a waste of time putting them in prison. It's like former MP Margaret Moran (never prosecuted for major fraud) and indeed recently the tory MP Patrick Mercer ( brushed under the carpet and very likely never to be prosecuted). These of course are only the ones that have been caught numerous other MPs including Cameron and Clegg, Ed Balls and his wife were doing very dodgy deals "within the rules" - (their own rules) making tens of thousand by flipping properties and yet the likes of Tory boys like Cameron and his fag Osbourne with allegedly offshore accounts in the channel islands yet criticizing companies like Google for working "within the rules" too. Quite honestly you've got more chance of the IPCC finding the Police guilty of malpractice and as you are well aware that hasn't happened in the history of the Police. For the same reasons why these MPs never get properly punished. This lady is wasting her time and money bothering to take the DWP and Atos to court as true as IPCC is as about as independent to the Police service as my head is to my body, and ultimately the courts will always rule a nine bob note is legal tender if the government tell them to do so.
  8. I've been watching this tv programme and I'm wondering whether there is any breach of law too. The repo agent Sean on some levels is quite personable but when you look the links to the tailgating incident in 2008 and the fact his wife is in prison for wheel clamping related blackmail. And the general slant of the programme is to promote a positive view of the repossession business when it is shady to say the least shows quite a bias from channel 4. The legality of this is very dubious. see below links..... http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/4915825/Star-of-TV-bailiff-show-Repo-Man-beat-driver-with-a-hammer-in-a-road-rage-attack.html#ixzz2Sdd7DHZo http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2008/04/29/mother-faces-jail-for-clamping-con/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7415331.stm http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2008/04/24/i-didnt-make-1000-an-hour-clamper/ http://www.expressandstar.com/news/2008/05/23/clamper-boss-gets-four-years/
  9. I think this will carry on until something extreme happens, may I suggest along the lines of a clamper or clampers being shot dead preferably by some yardies or something; however an on the edge motorist might do the trick somewhat better - roll on!
  10. If by that you mean all the various parking agency staff statements as well the drivers statements then yes.. That I agree should happen and make it a criminal act too.
  11. I think the court (if you can properly call it that) does accept proof of delivery with a recorded delivery signature.... I've already done a trip to an adjudicator and this was the case. Look green and mean ... we're on the same side aren't we? The councils parking depts. do pull dirty tricks OK... The point about perjury is that outright lies are regularly told by all levels of the parking depts. from the parking attendant right up to senior admin just to get you to pay. So what essentially is the difference? Just make sure you make duplicates, record phone calls, where you can get signed and stamped receipts, as you can't trust these depts. at all. They exist principally to extort money by government backed racketeering and that's the plain and simple truth.
  12. Indeed the envelope could contain anything but what would be the point of sending nothing? I mentioned the postmaster/mistress/teller .. you could take a digital photos of them packing the items into and countersigning facsimiles as exact copies of what went into the envelope. With some strokes the traffic dept pull this would be advisable. Now the recorded delivery signature shows that the right and proper dept (ie the one they put on their tickets) did receive a copy - now whether or not they bother to read or respond is irrelevant as they received it We all are pretty familiar with the Town hall or dept of transport and the rackets Al Capone would be proud to get revenue. By the same token a bent judge or mayor might just get a wake up call at 3am with 8 guys in balaclavas wielding heavy pick axe handles and baseball bats to teach him and/or his family and to illustrate the true meaning of justice.
  13. there seems an annoying advert linked into my posts here for "small claims procedures in the county court" It has not been placed by me and can you please tell me how remove it as it doesn't seem to appear on anyone else's post?
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