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    • And just to reiterate – I'm sorry if the message above sounds a bit harsh. We have to get the message out to other people who visit this thread as well. I realise that you are having a difficult time and we will do our best to help you, of course
    • The last photo shows the overflow carpark looking at the block which our room was located. When we got out of the car my partner thought that the building was for staff accommodation.  The unsecured bedroom window opened onto this car park.
    • Also I see that you are doing a lot of this on the telephone – and without any written confirmation. This is a big mistake. You need to start taking this matter seriously and so everything should go in writing. If you have telephone calls then they should normally be recorded. Read our customer services guide. You should make notes about every telephone call and then you should send an email to your telephone correspondence confirming what they have said or what they have agreed. It is important that you keep detailed paper trails here. Of course we may be jumping the gun and maybe big motoring world will step up to the mark – but I'm afraid that they have a lousy reputation has you have seen and so you need to start practising survival techniques and protecting yourself. You say for instance in your letter of rejection that the mechanic told you on the telephone that the gearbox needed replacing. Do you have any other evidence of this conversation? This is going to sound a bit harsh – but other people will be visiting this thread as well for their own purposes. You conducted their research about this company before you bought the vehicle. You now are fully aware that this is a company which can be very difficult to deal with and causes a lot of problems for many of their customers and yet you are still taking a telephone/verbal approach. Do I need to say any more? Also one of the documents you put up is an email exchange but it is not clear who is writing to who or what dates. If you showed this email to somebody in a pub they would be asking lots of questions about who sent the first message, who sent the second message, what dates were they sent et cetera. Please think about this before you post things. Please can you clarify the details of that email exchange. Please will you present the information carefully. We are all volunteers here and we have to rely on you to do the spadework
    • I told the DM that the room was not acceptable because of the reasons already mentioned. He informed me that they were full that night and that they could move me to the room next door (would not solve my problem with the rooms location). Told the DM that I could not stay in the room provided for the night so left no option but to leave. DM did not reply and I walked out.  
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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

      Please note that a recent case against UPS failed on exactly the same issue with the judge held that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 did not apply.

      We will be getting that transcript very soon. We will look at it and we will understand how the judge made such catastrophic mistakes. It was a very poor judgement.
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      This is good ethical practice.

      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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OK heres the deal ive been a member of AOL for 9 years and im looking for a change can you recommend the best ISP my line gives me around 6megs i live in the north east of Scotland so cant get the best deals that are out there.....:confused:

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I can't believe i am going to say this but i work for sky as a broadband tech rep and i think they are the best i used to be with virgin and i always thought sky were the worst obviously because i always saw the worst side of things because if people are phoning me it can't be good ut they have over a million customers and they have great support as i now know because i am now a customer of them aswell lol :D

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There is 'no' such thing as the best. As the saying goes, 'one mans meat is anothers poison'.

 

Someone who has never had a problem (like me and Virgin) would be likely to recommend the one they are with, but others may have had nothing but problems with the same supplier, so really it's you pays your money and takes your choice.

 

Nothing to do with the supplier, but cable is definately the better system.

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Nothing to do with the supplier, but cable is definately the better system.

 

I'd phrase that "cable is definately the less rubish system."

 

If you consider there are faster mobile broadbands in some countries than we get though our landlines, and some countries have 100 meg broadband for less than we can get 10 meg broadband, you then come to think that if you want good broadband... Emigrate!

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But that is not the fibre cables fault, that is the supplier.

 

You are correct in the other things though, I can just imagine a conversation - "sorry, when you said how much should you charge for BB and I said £2pm, I didn't realise you were talking about the UK, you had better make that £30pm".

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Well mate i have to disagree with virgin even thinking about virgin makes me sick i was paying £37 a month for 20 meg bb that i never got and i am a gamer and the latency was over 100ms everytime which was not good for the games and then they would not fix it and then they would not let me cancel because they lied and said that i had set up another contract with them when i did not and then i had to send a letter and then they had to admit to me that they had lied so considering that sky has the best customer support, the cheapest broadband an more customers than any other provider in the uk i would have to say sky are actually the best as there is always a best of something :D

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there IS always a best of something but that would be qualified by saying that each persons experience is individual.

I know several people who wouldnt let sky within 50 feet of their house.

Just because one person has had a good or bad experience with a company doesnt make that company the best or worst of anything. its all a matter of opinion and experience.

I personally am with bulldog (pipex) who have consistantly lied to me and as soon as I am out of contract with them will be changing supplier.

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there IS always a best of something but that would be qualified by saying that each persons experience is individual.

I know several people who wouldnt let sky within 50 feet of their house.

Just because one person has had a good or bad experience with a company doesnt make that company the best or worst of anything. its all a matter of opinion and experience.

I personally am with bulldog (pipex) who have consistantly lied to me and as soon as I am out of contract with them will be changing supplier.

 

Yes but sky have won awards and got so many customers that have been with them for years so that makes them the best because people have voted them the best.

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I'm on AOL.8M connection (BT line) realising about 5.5 to 6M with NO capping.I have no AOL software on my PC, whatsoever.Using the AOL B/B connection, only.

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there are 2 types of sat bb.

1 is where you download via satellite link but all your uploads and requests are actually sent via phone line, the other type is true 2 way satellite connection.;

 

VERY expensive to set up but very fast.

 

however it may be weather dependant - just look how difficult it is to get sky sometimes if it rains heavy.

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Yes but sky have won awards and got so many customers that have been with them for years so that makes them the best because people have voted them the best.

Sky probably has the most customers, but this is probably more because they offer it for free to their TV package customers, not because people think they're the best. If Virgin Media had the same coverage as Sky, they would probably have as many / more customers.

postggj Some of the USB dongles are getting great speeds now. I know a new one that T-Mobile have launched is 7.2 meg download and 5 meg upload speed (even though the network cannot constantly provide these speeds!) and mobile broadband technology is currently capable of peak data rates to 42 Mbit/s on the downlink and 22 Mbit/s on the uplink via a technology called HSPA+ (currently in use in parts of Australia... guess we're gonna have to wait a while before we get it... Yet another rant against rip off britain!).

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Well mate i have to disagree with virgin even thinking about virgin makes me sick i was paying £37 a month for 20 meg bb that i never got and i am a gamer and the latency was over 100ms everytime which was not good for the games and then they would not fix it and then they would not let me cancel because they lied and said that i had set up another contract with them when i did not and then i had to send a letter and then they had to admit to me that they had lied so considering that sky has the best customer support' date=' the cheapest broadband an more customers than any other provider in the uk i would have to say sky are actually the best as there is always a best of something :D[/quote']

 

My comments were directed at the means of delivery ie fiber optic cable and not the ISP.

Virgin have won as many awards as any of them:

 

LONDON, February 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Virgin Media - scooped the most coveted award for consumer facing ISPs at the annual Internet Services Providers' Association (ISPA) Awards, held in London last night.

That was last year.

 

You will probably find that just about all the providers have won awards at some time.

 

Do a search on Google and you will find a million complaints about Sky just as you will about 'all' the service providers.

As others have said, some have no problems, others have nothing but problems.

 

Aol probably have the most moans about them of all, but Rooster UK is very happy with them and having no problem - #13 - so it is as I said before, you pays your money and takes your choice.

 

Sky are nowhere near the biggest. In order of size it is BT, Virgin and AOL. If AOL was as bad as the moans make it appear they are, would they still be the third largest supplier?

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I agree with you about the complaints because as i said i work for them so i take complaints but there is not as many about sky as you think. We work of a ticket system so i can see exactly how many customers have had a problem now i am not going to say but i can tell you that it is a very small no. :D

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