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Amazon kindle download.
sillygirl1 replied to Consumer dude's topic in The Bear Garden – for off-topic chat
You can also do it from your Kindle. Right click on the item and you will get various options, including cancelling the book from your account. Sometimes the downloads are actually software updates which you don't pay for. There was one recently on my vintage keyboard kindle. I much prefer that one to the more modern ones! -
I wish they could cure my dodgy neck in an hour, hurts to eat today. I've got four collapsed vertebrae and a couple of bulging discs - makes it very difficult at times to manage ordinary things. These benefits shows should be stopped - I think they are beginning to run out of themes for them.
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I believe Channel 5 goes for the 'lowest common denominator' ie people who are 'milking the system' in their Benefits series. If they showed the other side of the fence people would feel differently, lots of people existing on the basic amount and not borrowing or getting stuff from the likes of Brighthouse you would get a very different picture. I don't watch these programmes much as I feel they are heavily biased and don't serve much benefit to either side of the arguement about 'are benefits going to the right people'.
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Ridiculous New "Rules"
sillygirl1 replied to Lady Python's topic in Employment and minimum wage problems
I once worked where they said you could wear teeshirts but no designer logos - every time somebody saw a member of HR breaking ANY of the silly 'behaviours' they implemented they got reported - after two weeks a new slimmer 'staff behaviours' book was implemented. Again at school we had to have stripes on the tie in school colours showing, so me and a couple of friends who were good at needlework dismantled some old ties and beaded the stripes in school colours...the rest of the tie was dreadlocked in school colours! Plenty of ways of upsetting petty management rules - I like the idea of everybody putting their hands up at the same time. -
Noisy neighbours.
sillygirl1 replied to Consumer dude's topic in The Bear Garden – for off-topic chat
There is a bug going round small children at the moment. One of my nieces was up at 2am with my 4 years old great nephew as he was sick. I agree that if it goes on then you do need to report it - why not report it to the housing association as they could do something about it. -
Given that many councils only use liability orders as their main means of collecting once a debtor has missed a payment this can only lead to more poverty amongst the poorer debtor. Council tax needs to be taken OUT of the priority debt status and they need to make councils negotiate with the debtor BEFORE getting a liability order - not the other way round.
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Don't forget there is a bunch of people (being polite here) called Phillips & Cohen who specialise in 'death debts' http://www.credittoday.co.uk/article/18153/online-news/phillips-cohen-set-for-record-growth-as-10th-anniversary-approaches Wonder how many poor people they have managed to fleece who did not know of their rights in this already difficult time they are having.
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I like Windows 10 - it made an older laptop far more useable and solved a lot of driver mismatch problems that laptop had. I only update mine as and when, some of the updates have nothing to do with what I am using.
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Your friend will also have to fill in an ESA50 form for a face to face assessment by an independent organisation and that in itself is quite a hurdle to overcome if she is going to claim long term sickness. It is not an easy avenue to go down.
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What Made You Want To Swear Today?
sillygirl1 replied to ukaviator's topic in The Bear Garden – for off-topic chat
Why not ask for an adult social worker - explain you are finding it difficult to cope and a support worker would be able to help you through the minefield. It is quite daunting sometimes when you find you know more than the organisations who are supposed to help you. I know a lot more about debt and debt collecting than the local CAB - and have asked about volunteering for them but they are 'fully covered' now by 'trained' people - 'trained' people who tell you to 'pay up or bailiffs will call' when the debt is statute barred and no payment should be made! -
Why not get the local MP involved, the council won't like it one little bit and may have to back down. Whenever you phone, back up your call with a written letter, otherwise things may be 'forgotten' by the council.
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GP's don't 'offer patients' sick notes unless it is painfully obvious they are sick. The system allows you to ask your GP for a Fit note. Don't forget they don't pay now for the first week of a fit note - another nasty sneaky change they have slipped through - considering a lot of people will already have self-certificated for their sickness before hand. I would use the injections as an opportunity to claim ESA for the duration of the period you are having them, and then the work provider can do very little. They cannot have precedence over medical issues - no matter what they want you to believe. The Government need to have people in it who suffer from long term remitting/relapsing illnesses so that their policies are fairer and more transparent - at the moment ALL people who are sick seem to be tarred with the same brush and treated as equally unfairly.
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Not if you have an alternative account, an anyway if you are overdrawn and money goes in it should help keep the overdraft fees to a minimum. If you sit on the cheque it may bounce and cause you more problems.
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If he does bank to bank transfer it will be difficult to reverse the payment. Plus the money would be yours as soon as it hits the account, if he does a cheque it could bounce and also take up to 10 days to clear. I'd go for bank transfer. Set up a new basic account if you feel this would help and not get the money tangled up in a different account.
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I've been using Amazon Prime for a while now - it's saved me a fortune in postage for various items. It depends on if you watch the TV part of it - I find there is a better selection of the films and shows I like on Prime rather than on Nextflix. I got my Amazon Prime when they had an offer to get it for £59 instead of the usual £79.
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Get your doctor to do a letter stating your condition makes it difficult for you to maintain a steady work record due to the number of injections you have to have done - and that you are not able to give yourself these injections.
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Bookies fixed odds machines.
sillygirl1 replied to Consumer dude's topic in The Bear Garden – for off-topic chat
These machines are in pubs and clubs across the country, the people who have the machines have to pay a licence fee to have them. If you have problems with them you can complain to Trading Standards about the machines. -
Well done. Shows how these shark like companies try to abuse the legal processes whenever they think they can get away with it. Why not remind the judge that he said they should come to court to explain their actions?
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@btcare late default placing by BT
sillygirl1 replied to tezza1234's topic in Telecoms - mobile or fixed
I'd leave it alone as it is only 6 months til it goes. It may stir up a hornets nest and accompanying paper trail which could rumble on much longer. -
You are not their customer, the person sending the item is, you are just a third party recipient - at least that is what was explained to me when my parcels kept going astray when they were responsible for delivery. I find normal post is very effective round here.
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Yodel and MyHermes are both useless...they never turn up when they say and I've had parcels dumped outside when they could have left them in the front porch of the building. If they can't park they say they couldn't access the building. We proved with CCTV that a Yodel courier hadn't been to the building - the local manager went ballistic when he saw the footage - found out the guy was stealing packages and selling them at car boot sales.
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I love winding up environmentalists and the PETA mob. Very easy to get them on their own policies. I pointed out to the green mob that the planet will decay naturally and nothing we do will stop this happening. I pointed out to PETA the most environmentally friendly piece of clothing was human skin and we should all go round naked. That would save the planet a small fortune!
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Argos agreed refund but DCA got my credit!!!!!!
sillygirl1 replied to uselesswithcredit's topic in Argos
Yes, state that they are unable to produce a CCA and therefore should not be reporting on the alleged debt. Can't help much further on this though. -
If the CCJ's were obtained whilst you lived abroad they can be set aside and dealt with appropriately.
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Argos agreed refund but DCA got my credit!!!!!!
sillygirl1 replied to uselesswithcredit's topic in Argos
If they can't find the original CCA tell Argos to remove all details from the CRA's, they cannot prove the debt exists and should not be reporting on it.
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