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  1. Thanks very much to y'all getting back about this - I haven't contacted Sky yet but should I decide to cut my losses completely at this point, I guess I may as well kiss goodbye to the Sky+ box now! I have heard that cancellation threats will encourage Sky to offer an alternative sub of around £10.00-ish /month to continue using the box to record and access catch-up and which may .... just ..... be justifiable for a few more months until the existing telly packs up. That would at least save £250 pa on the existing deal! Otherwise, options like Amazon Prime and Fire TV also deserve exploring but which I'd overlooked before posting the thread. When this current, rather old TV does pack up, the most obvious answer at that point would be to scrap the box anyway in favour of a replacement smart TV with built in Freestat receiver, also with the advantages of extra bells n'whistles and far superior picture quality. So I guess I may as well bite the bullet now to do that anyway! Interesting thing is that Sky's quote to upgrade to the new Q box of around £50/month is exactly what led to me completely reassessing the value in the first place! Cheers!
  2. The 'Variety' sub I pay Sky to use the Sky+ box for their satellite signal has gone through another price increase and is now near enough £30/month. To say the least, I've had enough of that and want to boot Sky out and switch to using their box with the Free-Sat service. I gather it's possible to get bog standard reception, but there's a problem that you can't record or use catch-up. So what's the solution? Get a new TV with the built in box perhaps? Just wonder if anyone else has been through the same loop. Cheers!
  3. I live on a small estate served by LPG gas supply from a central bulk tank provided by Flo Gas. Being miles out in the country and the service already installed on this new estate, we have no alternative! We have just received an unsolictited letter offering us a price reduction for 6 months on condition of our signing a new agreement, effective from receipt of this document. The current charge is £2.541 ppm3 against the offered reduction of £1.7325. No reason is given for this apparently spontaneous generosity , so forgive me for looking into the proverbial equestrian mouth, but there seems to be something decidely fishy about this! Can anyone please point out what I'm missing? Thanks very much = BOB
  4. Sadly, I've also just been caught out by a similar grey import [problem] ... on a Nikon camera again ... my motive being to save nearly £100 against other deals going at the time to purchase a Nikon D7000 camera at the eventual knock-down deal of £713. A very false economy and I really should have known better! Also, I only discovered this supplier anyway through their being listed as a 'seller' on Amazon's website and then thought that this made the deal all perfectly safe! (Obviously that's not the case and I wonder if Amazon should also be made aware of the situation?) After placing the order, the camera actually arrived earlier than expected (at least there's that to be thankful for) but the registration and warranty paperwork was missing from the carton. I reported this to the supplier, who replied: For further reassurance we have attached a copy of our Warranty Terms so that you are able to see the full details of our warranty coverage. >>[/font][/color][/font][/color] No, this was no reassurance either ... my purchase was for a camera, not a lens!! I haven't responded to the message at all at the moment and, when considering the following, I'm unsure whether I ought or not. Not surprisingly, there's nothing about this waranty situation mentioned at all on the supplier's website and all their documentation also omits to specify any postal address, thoughIhave since found one listed on their website. Had any of this been clear at the time, my suspicions would have been lit up and I'd have definitely pulled out of the transaction. Otherwise, everything else led me to believe that the organisation was genuine and bone-fide. Even if their reply (above) seems to have a sniff of credibility about it (why did they bother?), it's just a bit too naive to expect anyone to be taken in easilyby such empty, worthless garbage. At the moment, I'm unsure what to do ... or even what's really worth doing. Right now, at least I have the camera I wanted for the £700 I initially parted with - plus it seems to work OK and I'm thankful (relieved) for that, so maybe I should write it all off against experience. The risk in that is that if something serious does go wrong (ie: if the sensor needs replacing - £500+) in the next couple of years, then the kit becomes totally uneconomic to repair and all my money's gone down the pan. If I fight to get the money back, I can equally forsee a long, bloody and energy-sapping legal fight and that doesn't feel too palateable either. All like rocks and hard places again! Does anyone have any thoughts to offer please?
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