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  1. How to Win Friends and Influence People - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  2. a> the car was removed even though it was not causing an obstruction - Yes, it was. It was stopping a disabled person from parking in a spot reserved for them. Whether there were other avaialble spaces is irrelevant. b> it seems as though the car was towed within a very short time of it being spotted. Maybe within an hour - Irrelevant. They could tow you away after 5 mns, and still be totally right to do so. c> the parking sign did not have any times marked on it, it simply said something like "disabled parking only", the rest of the street is free parking after 6pm. - A disabled space is 24/7, because disabled people are disabled 24/7. I wouldn't normally bother too much about it as I was parking illegally and certainly deserved a ticket but being towed away late at night when there were loads of other empty parking spaces (standard and disabled) on the street just seems a bit extreme. - Irrelevant. The other thing which was on my mind is that if the same thing had happened to my girlfriend she would have been stuck in a dodgy area of Manchester, on her own in the middle of the night which seems like a very harsh punishment for such a small mistake! - Small to YOU, not small to the disabled person who might not have been able to park. The fact that there were other free parking spots is, yet again, irrelevant. One would hope that your g/friend would be less careless, for her own safety.
  3. You carry ads on your site all over the place for commercial companies that charge fees for IVAs and such like, how do you reconcile the two?
  4. Cancel your d/d asap and set up a standing order instead, otherwise, their "payment arrangement" will mean they can up your payments to pay off your debt in 3 or 6 months, and they can help themselves as they like, and there'll f*** all you can do about it. Don't give them that power!!!
  5. Yes, hundreds. Not just on the 3 series either. It's one of the common problems on BMW, that and the computer thingy, the name of which escapes me right now.
  6. And who made you God? Moral guardian of all? What do you know of other people's circumstances? The person posting has said they are under mental health, which is a brave thing to say on an open forum, do they need your kind of judgment on them? As for the reasoning of: "I'll take a debt, then run scared for 6 years so as not to pay", that is nothing short of absurd. This forum is about helping one another, not coming down on the weakest elements with a holier-than-thou attitude. Lookinforinfo's advice is sound, should change name to givinoutinfo, hehehe.
  7. Top Marks to FD! Letter received today, bla-bla-bla... irrecoverable costs, no liability.... Refund of £30 to account once we sign the letter agreeing full & final settlement. That was EASY!!!
  8. No, you're paying for a "service" - allegedly. Yoiu can reclaim it if it was added on without your knowledge or consent, or you were self-employed, etc... But if you knew it was on, agreed for it to go on, and let it go on, you're screwed. Do you have it still as I type this? If yes, why? Cancel it asa soon as you can, and start saving yourself a few pounds! Don't forget they charge interest on that too!
  9. If you do it by hand, make sure you get a receipt.
  10. Your branch will do nicely, they'll soon pass the hot potato on.
  11. They obviously don't expect bank to go through then? There is no way it could be dealt with in 10 mns if it was going to be a full hearing! Oooh, goody, money in your pocket just before Christmas then!!!
  12. 0800 777 111 if your car is under warranty, that's BMW emergency services. Make sure you say you want one of their own techies to check the fault, they carry a very sophisticated portable diagnostics machine. Or if you don't have the assistance package anymore, call them anyway, explain the problem and tell them you want Head Office number to complain (in Bracknell). BMW want to keep the image of the product where it is, they hate it when they get complaints about their franchises. Making a BIG fuss, especially is staff's been rude, is more likely to get you somewhere with BMW than with most companies. ;-)
  13. No. Not Barclays. Can you start your own thread instead of posting at the end of someone else's? This way, your story and theirs won't get mixed up. Go to Barclays main page, at the top, it says "new thread", click on that, give it a name, type your message, post, and you have your own thread. You can use it in future like a diary to put your questions or let people know how you're getting on.
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