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    • Thank you. Please will you repost your images in one single multipage PDF file – the right way round et cetera.  
    • 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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      On 15/1/24 booked appointment with Big Motoring World (BMW) to view a mini on 17/1/24 at 8pm at their Enfield dealership.  

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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.

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      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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I bought a laptop for my son from this company. It was cheaper than most others. I now know why.

 

After 13 months the display failed, so I contacted them by E mail as this is their

preffered method of contact
It took three months to have it repaired!!

 

Less than 8 months after that the display failed again. This time it 4 months and numerous E mails, Letters to trading standards etc.

 

Their customer services was a complete joke, If you phoned, not only were left in a queue for ever but what they didn't tell was that you were charged 8p/min for the pleasure. In the second case I exchanged 93 E mails with them.

 

Since then the power lead became so hot, that is now permanently welded into the laptop!

 

I sorry to say that I have given up with them and bought my son a desktop.

 

On another general consumer note, go to the

Grumbletext
website before you buy from a retailer and you will get a good idea how that retailler operates.:D
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Thats harsh - sorry that happened, the thing is with sites like youi mentioned is that someone is always going to have had a problem (in their eyes at least) with a shop and if you believe all the complaints you'd never end up shopping anywhere.

 

One shop that I would reccomend for things like electronics etc is John lewis - now they may be a bit pricier but they price match any UK land based shop and give a free 5 year waranty, which for laptops (which never last 5 years) is indispensible.

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I have to agree re: savastore I ordered a monitor from them 2 years ago and it disappeared from Amtraks tracker I called Amtrak and they had no record of it (ie they lost it) I emailed Savastore no reply they say allow 48 hours for a reply errrr WTF??

 

I called and spent 90 minutes on hold and was eventually told they would ship another one but would take longer (ie they were hoping the other one would turn up in the meantime)

 

Would not deal with them again but phone no worse than ebuyer for example another co I wouldnt touch

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savastore was fast catching up with YesCarCredit for complaints, and we know what happened to them.

 

I just think it is well worth reading reviews of companies you buy from, Only read independant reviews, not those on the companies website

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I bought a Printer/Fax/Photocopier/Scanner I'm sure there are other things it does but I can't remember, from them. It was reduced in price but they said it was in full working order. It arrived and the display on the front was not working. I e-mailed them and got a reply saying basically what did I expect it was reduced in price.

 

I pointed out that they said it was working and there were no problems with it. A lot of e-mails went back and forth. To cut a long story short I asked for a refund of part of the price as I felt that they had not been truthful.

 

They refused saying I should send it back to be repaired, boxed and in original packing and in the condition it was delivered in!!! The printer had not been packed in the correct packing when it came so I couldn't do that.

 

I was just about ready to get on the phone and tear them off more than a few strips when I looked at the little LCD on the front and it slowly came to life. This was after weeks and weeks of it showing a blank screen.

 

So, I left it alone and it has worked without any problems since. Maybe the threat of going back to Watford/Savastore scared it into working.

 

But as far as their After Sales service, what can I say, It's the pits.

Oh yes this isn't the first time I have had dealings with this lot, it's the second. The first time I had to go through the hoop to get them to change a motherboard that was DOA, and a badly damaged PC case.

 

I should have remembered what they were like. Still you can always hope that they have finally got their act together :rolleyes:

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