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    • Hello,

      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.  

      Car was dirty and test drive was two circuits of roundabout on entry to the showroom.  Was p/x my car and rushed by sales exec and a manager into buying the mini and a 3yr warranty that night, sale all wrapped up by 10pm.  They strongly advised me taking warranty out on car that age (2017) and confirmed it was honoured at over 500 UK registered garages.

      The next day, 18/1/24 noticed amber engine warning light on dashboard , immediately phoned BMW aftercare team to ask for it to be investigated asap at nearest garage to me. After 15 mins on hold was told only their 5 service centres across the UK can deal with car issues with earliest date for inspection in March ! Said I’m not happy with that given what sales team advised or driving car. Told an amber warning light only advisory so to drive with caution and call back when light goes red.

      I’m not happy to do this, drive the car or with the after care experience (a sign of further stresses to come) so want a refund and to return the car asap.

      Please can you advise what I need to do today to get this done. 
       

      Many thanks 
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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.
      We will be recommending that people do include this adverse judgement in their bundle so that when they go to county court the judge will see both sides and see the arguments against this adverse judgement.
      Also, we will be to demonstrate to the judge that we are fair-minded and that we don't mind bringing everything to the attention of the judge even if it is against our own interests.
      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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For a free firewall test I use Shields Up at GRC.com - he's got some useful freebies as well.

 

Some other free favourites

 

Songbird - good alternative to I-tunes - free

VLC Media Player -free

 

CDburnerXP - Free CD and DVD burner - alternative to Nero

Infrarecorder - Free CD and DVD burner - alternative to Nero

 

Teracopy - program designed to copy and move files at the maximum possible speed

 

Wordweb - free dictionary program

 

PSpad - free and customisable notepad. Really useful to anyone programming as it will auto-color reserved word. (Has downloads for those coding Cisco IOS )

 

Abouttime - free timesynch program

 

Wireshark - free network analyser

 

Ebay tools - Auction Sieve - allows you create and customise searches filtering out unwanted results.

 

Bid-O-Matic - ebay bidding/sniping tool. Very easy to use. Available at Sourceforge.net

 

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If you have young children they will love these free educational software titles:

 

TuxPaint - Free drawing programme for kids in KS1&2 (5-11)

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TuxMath - Numeracy game for children aged 4 - 10

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TuxType - Typing game for children 5 - 11

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Older Children may like Scratch - A programme in which you can create your own games -

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Other free games/educational titles can be found at:

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Make sure you choose the Windows version if asked, or Linux/MAC OS if you are running that!

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If you work for certain companies (and can prove it) you can get Windows 7 for £10 after completion of a short online test, however this offer ran into problems recently when lots of people applied who were not eligible and the offer was pulled for a while, I think its still there but its quite strict about how you now prove you work for a qualifying company.

 

Its called Expert Zone.

 

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