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    • I haven't heard of them asking for photographic evidence in this way before – but I don't think it will really pose a problem. Have you got a history of sending parcels which were then lost and you had to claim for? When you send your letter of claim? Was the item properly declared? Was the item correctly valued? Please answer these questions and then take at least a couple of days reading very thoroughly the stories on this sub- forum. There are lots of them. Read some of the pinned topics at the top which will explain the principles and then read the stories to see other people's experience. Post up your letter of claim in PDF format so we can see what you sent.  
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    • Hi all.   I've just cancelled my Virgin Media because my Wife and I are going abroad for 12 months or so. My Son will be staying in our home, and wishes to start a contract with them. He signed up to a great deal for New Customers online, and a Contract Agreement was signed online. He had a delivery date for a Self Installation Kit but it never arrived. After speaking to numerous Virgin Media Staff online, they are insisting that he calls their Pre Installation Team (I presume that is their sales Team to try and get more money). He doesn't want to speak to them over the phone. He doesn't mind doing a Live Chat, but he hasn't got an Account Number yet, so that's impossible. He even had a chat with a Team Member on Whatsapp, who say they don't have access to the information they need, so he has no option but to call them. Why can't they just be straightforward with their Communications? Is there any other option other than calling them?   TIA.
    • Hi All, I'm looking for help with a P2G claim for another lost parcel. Given the wealth of information on this site, I'm hopeful that this should be an easy one to fix, but want to be sure I have everything. On the 6th March, I contracted with P2G to send a parcel (a £600 Pioneer AVH-Z7200DAB car stereo which is not on either P2G or EVRi's excluded from compensation or prohibited items list) using EVRi, sent it off, and that was the last I heard of it. The EVRi tracking showed that the parcel had made it to the national sorting hub at 2:12 on the 7th, and then vanished. By Friday, I had started to get nervous, and so, raised an enquiry. And then another, and another - well, they weren't responding, and I couldn't get their telephone one to work, I think in all, it was more than 15 enquiries. I also raised an investigation with P2G as well. EVRi closed the enquiry confirming a loss on the 19th March, and P2G near the end, although P2G closed it claiming that I needed to send photos of the parcel as proof - which I didn't have, and I also do not have an account with P2G so couldn't upload anything (I did test, just in case), and this is why despite receiving advice on the EVRi Fb group to send the letter before claim, I haven't yet acted. I have proof of the eBay listing, and the refund, to demonstrate that which was being sent, but P2G's insistence that I have no photographic proof of the parcel with the label - I have the photo of the goods in their box before sending, but this is for the eBay listing, and so does not show it after the fact. This I fear is what P2G will seek to rely on as a defence, hence my 10 week delay on progressing with this. But, I am more than £600 out of pocket for the loss: £600 for the item and £8.04 for the delivery fee, although my claim will actually be for an initial £611.09 to cover the cost of the loss, their delivery fee, and my 1st Class Recorded stamp for the Letter Before Claim to P2G, rising to £681.09 to cover the additional £70 cost of opening the court case if they fail to respond within 14 days. This question mark surrounding P2G's request for photographic evidence, is this likely to cause me a problem? Steve
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Oh, don't get me started on students and their atrocious spelling, grammar, punctuation, style, presentation ... :o science students tend to be the worst offenders. What they have been learning in their English lessons I just can't imagine!!! And I work at a really prestigious university :rolleyes: ;-)

 

Well, I'm Arts Faculty. Sorry, I'm very confused - was not aware that science students ever studied english grammar.

 

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... and don't get me started on where, were, wear, ware..............

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... and don't get me started on where, were, wear, ware..............

 

.........and we're:rolleyes:

 

Don't get me started either - I hate apostrophes in plurals - ie potato's, tomato's, leek's, cabbage's, cucumber's......

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I know - it drives you mad doesn't it... I was staying in a hotel a few months ago and there was a sign on reception saying "would guest's please ask for a car park disc on arrival" when I asked guest's what? they had no idea what I was talking about!!! I pointed out the mistake and they still stared at me as if I was an alien. However, the sign was corrected later in the day.... and this was in a 4 star hotel !!!

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Well, I'm Arts Faculty. Sorry, I'm very confused - was not aware that science students ever studied english grammar.

 

My university does not claim to be prestigious, we're just one of the oldest. :razz:

 

English lessons at school!! ... they will have had to study english grammar, etc whether they liked it or not :rolleyes:

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English lessons at school!! ... they will have had to study english grammar, etc whether they liked it or not :rolleyes:

 

It's a nice and quite sweet misconception that English grammar is still actually taught in schools. I'm 22, and can safely say that my standard education, in 'decent' state schools, from infant to primary to secondary to A level to Uni, left a lot to be desired. We were never even taught what a preposition, or a noun actually was - the only reason I'm good at it is that I can eat books at a rate of five a minute :rolleyes: Similarly, we were one of the first years to use calculators in infant and primary school. We didn't learn by rote and repetition, something I now consider essential to absorb the basic building blocks of a subject. I blame my slight mental hiccup with numbers on this - I can do the maths, but I'm slow to work out, and if someone pressurises me to do it quickly, I fall to pieces. Don't even talk to me about times tables higher than five.

I fear the same is happening with science lessons, too - and tbh, I really don't blame the children for being unwilling to learn in this particular subject. The science lessons I encountered were always unbearably dull, and I love science and the natural world. Experiments and dissections were out of the question; the videos we were forced to endure were grainy 1970s humdrum. I listen to James O'Brien's Mystery Hour on LBC FM with my mouth agape sometimes, as people call in with questions that are so unbelievable it's untrue. "James, my question is: Did cavewomen have periods?" "James, the Earth spins, right? So why don't we all fall off?" Keeeeryst on a bike.

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One of the questions we asked first years in our assessment exercise was:

 

"What are the parts of speech?"

 

Most of them did not even understand the question and waffled about how to give a speech.

 

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I have noticed in our area that more schools seem to be teaching the basics i.e what a noun, verb, pronoun etc. is but why do they bother? A few years and they will be talking in text speak which will probably become the English lesson in schools.

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One of the questions we asked first years in our assessment exercise was:

 

"What are the parts of speech?"

 

Most of them did not even understand the question and waffled about how to give a speech.

 

:eek:

 

 

Haha! beginning, middle and end? :D ... of course!

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I know - it drives you mad doesn't it... I was staying in a hotel a few months ago and there was a sign on reception saying "would guest's please ask for a car park disc on arrival" when I asked guest's what? they had no idea what I was talking about!!! I pointed out the mistake and they still stared at me as if I was an alien. However, the sign was corrected later in the day.... and this was in a 4 star hotel !!!

 

? you have a spelling mistake in your profile, not very professional :rolleyes:

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Haha! beginning, middle and end? :D ... of course!

 

That would be funny, if it was not the case that so many of the anwers were exactly that.

 

:-?

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well, you know what they say........ the person who never makes a mistake - never does any work!! lol;)

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And what about when people say " that'll learn ya". However the joy of the English language is that the word order of a sentence does'nt make much difference as to the understanding. . . . . "the man goes down the street" . . . "down the street the man goes" . . .

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And what about when people say " that'll learn ya". However the joy of the English language is that the word order of a sentence does'nt make much difference as to the understanding. . . . . "the man goes down the street" . . . "down the street the man goes" . . .

 

what about people who write does'nt instead of doesn't

 

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It gets better!!! A weather forecaster on the BBC couldn't even use the right words to descibe the weather movements,... apparently rain can meander. I thought that rivers or streams meander so do people sometimes but rain!!!! I have this image of rain drops wandering all over the place.

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tortology(sp)!!!!

 

What's that - logic for tortoises?

 

:p

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