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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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Hi All,

 

This has probably been raised before, and I believe is on MSE, but I thought I'd post it here, as I just came across this section of the forum and couldn't see it at first sight.

 

As many of you know there are numerous loyalty cards - Tesco Clubcard, Nectar, Boots, GAME.... Even a local Kosher supermarket has it's own loyalty card scheme.

 

Some of you probably believe that its all a con to get us to spend more, and most likely more money is made by the stores because of the loyalty scheme. I don't encourage people to deliberately spend more because of the loyalty scheme, or deliberately spend on more expensive alternatives with a store that has a loyalty scheme because of the loyalty scheme.

 

BUT, if you are already spending money, why not benefit?

 

Nectar offers a similar scheme to iPoints. Besides for the basic get points at BP, Sainsburys and a few other places, and spend in Argos, Sainsburys and a few other places, there is eStores.

 

If you anyway buy stuff online, why not check if what you want is available through an online retailer that you can get Nectar points from? They have numerous stores in their list - some have double & triple points at times.

 

The way it works is simple: Many of these online retailers subscribe to affiliate schemes, so Nectar sets up an affiliate scheme with the online retailer, and uses the commission it makes to give you Nectar points. iPoints works the same way with iPoints - but is an exclusively online system.

 

True, Nectar points are worth a lot less than most other loyalty schemes, but if you're anyway buying stuff online, you may be surprised to know that a lot of retailers are members of Nectar eStores, probably some of them you use frequently. Even Amazon & eBay are members!

 

To make sure you don't get caught out by the common catch, you MUST click through Nectar eStores [whilst logged in] to get the points (same goes for iPoints and all other similar schemes). If you just type the webpage into your browser, then you will not get the points. It's probably best to go to the website and find everything you want to buy, make a note of it, then close the site, clear the cookies relating to that site, and then go to Nectar eStores and click through.

 

Have a credit account with Littlewoods? Buy DVDs on play.com? Often participate in auctions on eBay or buy stuff on Amazon? Looking for a new mobile phone contract? For all of these and more you can get Nectar points.

 

I save up my points till I can use them to get a good large shop at Sainsburys or buy something I want from Argos.

 

Note: If you reserve something to buy instore, like from Argos, and don't pay online, you will NOT get points.

 

Enjoy,

legalpickle

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Nectar points are all good and well but be careful. It is now possible to get into debt with a nectar card! If you say shop at more than 1 Sainsbury's store to redeem your points in, you could use the points in lots of different stores (in 1 day) and then get a minus points balance the next day there slow computers update, owing nectar money!! So be careful people.

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Nectar points are all good and well but be careful. It is now possible to get into debt with a nectar card! If you say shop at more than 1 Sainsbury's store to redeem your points in, you could use the points in lots of different stores (in 1 day) and then get a minus points balance the next day there slow computers update, owing nectar money!! So be careful people.

This is unlikely to happen. You really need to shop a lot at Sainsbury's and have more than one Sainsbury's near you.

 

I was told that you need to nominate your Sainsbury's store - this is how it used to be - in order to spend Nectar points there. This may have changed though.

 

Either way it is interesting, however unlikely, and might be relevant to somebody out there, so thanks!

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Yes! It all changed.I'm sorry for not giving the full story- NOW you can have lots of 'home' sainsbury's stores. All you need to do is spend £1 in each one and 1day later it's another store you can redeem your nectar points in!

Interesting.

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This is unlikely to happen. You really need to shop a lot at Sainsbury's and have more than one Sainsbury's near you.

REPLY:"Trust me people this does happen!" - I have spent £12.50 worth of nectar points in 10 different Sainsbury's in 1 day when I only had £12.50 to start with. Then I owed nectar £112.50 the next day!!

 

I was told that you need to nominate your Sainsbury's store - this is how it used to be - in order to spend Nectar points there. This may have changed though. REPLY:"Yes it has all changed - some years ago! Your not uptodate"

 

Either way it is interesting, however unlikely, and might be relevant to somebody out there, so thanks!

REPLY to this comment: "This isn't true & I'm sorry but this is very relevant to everyone that has a nectar card and if they have more than 1 store near them! In London there are 20 that are within 6miles of my home!
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REPLY to this comment: "This isn't true & I'm sorry but this is very relevant to everyone that has a nectar card and if they have more than 1 store near them! In London there are 20 that are within 6miles of my home!

I must disagree. What are the odds of one going to 6 Sainsbury's stores in one day? Low! And personally I think you are to blame for that. You already knew you had spent the Nectar points! You shouldn't have gone and spent them again so many times!

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Some people do shop at more than one sainsburys in one day. It is clear that you don't value my comments. I'm not getting into this type of backwards & forwards with you. If you want to reply & get the last word thats fine with me. You seam to me as someone who is trying to be honest and in this day and age thats very refreshing but that's not the world we are now living in.

Good luck my friend - Good luck!

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Some people do shop at more than one sainsburys in one day. It is clear that you don't value my comments. I'm not getting into this type of backwards & forwards with you. If you want to reply & get the last word thats fine with me. You seam to me as someone who is trying to be honest and in this day and age thats very refreshing but that's not the world we are now living in.

Good luck my friend - Good luck!

Excuse me! I do value your comments! Why would I give you rep (click on your scales) if I didn't value your comments!

 

I am well known on CAG and rest assured if I didn't value your comments I would be making that opinion known and loudly - the mods and other members know this very well!

 

We are all entitled to our own opinions, and I was purely stating my own. I do agree that there is a chance of this happening but believe it's low, and even lower to happen in 6 stores in one day - one or two additional stores maybe, but then the defence would be pretty strong from a legal angle in my opinion.

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