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And the far superior, dynamic, thrusting, private sector, great value-for-money alternative is.......?
...paid for by advertising.
Am I right in saying that he went to school in Beverley?
No, (with the caveat that they may have had more than one CEO prior to their current one).
Any bank, but specifically the Natwest. They couldn't give a flying **** about customer service. In fact, they seem to revel in their lack of a service ethic
+1 for NatWest.
Officially the most useless company I've ever had to deal with. And because of their inability to perform normal administrative tasks, I can't close my account and withdraw the tenner I left in there.
druidh - Member
binners »
And the far superior, dynamic, thrusting, private sector, great value-for-money alternative is.......?
...paid for by advertising.
Ha the BBC don't do advertising.
...paid for by advertising.
Brilliant.....
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Snob, thats proper culture.
[quote=binners ]...paid for by advertising.
Brilliant.....
[i]The public gets what the public wants....[/i]
Any energy company. Hiking prices up in winter, forcing 1000s into paying over the odds for a necessity makes me sick, especially given the profits they make. Knobjockeys
There's no way power, water or transport should be privately owned.
The public gets what the public wants....
with headlines like "Towie returns for series 7 with lowest audience ever" who can argue. The difference between ITV, Sky and the BBC is that people actually watch the BBC. At primetime there are instances where one BBC programme can have more viewers than all of the other channels' output combined
You must be joking - they're the jewel of the British High St. Innovative and customer-orientated company - also an ethical one. They righteously saw off the government's pastie tax as a very regressive piece of tax legislation.philconsequence - Membergreggs the bakers.
They righteously saw off the government's pastie tax as a very regressive piece of tax legislation.
and added to the smoke screen that allowed much, much more regressive and frankly horrifying legislation to slip through without [i]any[/i] comment
the smell of a greggs shop makes me gag and nearly throw up. for that reason mainly, but also because the country would have less thunderchunks roaming the streets... it should close down.
greggs the bakers.
Oh dear lord!
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Yodel. Hopefully it's not far away either!
Quite possibly the worst courier company of them all.
Any bank, but specifically the Natwest. They couldn't give a flying **** about customer service. In fact, they seem to revel in their lack of a service ethic
The whole RBS group. Don't want them to fail as it would take down the whole economy but am one push away from telling them to shove their accounts and moving everything to the Co-op/Nationwide.
Andy
Crank Bros
Cooper BMW franchise
Virgin/NTL
Student Loans company
The major energy suppliers hopefully, then they will need to be re-nationalised and run for the greater good of the people rather than the major shareholders
Any energy company. Hiking prices up in winter, forcing 1000s into paying over the odds for a necessity makes me sick
The practical problem with this is that as there's not enough North Sea gas to fulfil the countires demand anymore even if this were re-nationalsed at the same time as the 'Big 6'. This means that a re-nationalised industry would have to trade on the international market as the current private companies do, so prices wouldn't improve.
Basically, it's the Tories fault.
tthew - Member
The practical problem with this is that as there's not enough North Sea gas to fulfil the countires demand anymore even if this were re-nationalsed at the same time as the 'Big 6'. This means that a re-nationalised industry would have to trade on the international market as the current private companies do, so prices wouldn't improve.
Basically, it's the Tories fault.
Hence my 'Like that'd happen' comment.
The Officers' Club? I thought that they'd died a long time ago.
Superdrug. What are they still there for?
And any business that litters the public pavement with stock spilling out on the street or A-boards.
the smell of a greggs shop makes me gag and nearly throw up. for that reason mainly, but also because the country would have less thunderchunks roaming the streets... it should close down.
didn't you used to be a thunderchunk? is this reverse psychology?
I used to think you were alright.
Superdrug. What are they still there for?
Got a really cheap Braun Oral-B leccy toothbrush from them last week, less than 1/2 price. Fancy toothbrush heads to go with it were 75% off as well.
Perhaps that's the first sign?
didn't you used to be a thunderchunk? is this reverse psychology?
I used to think you were alright.
i still am a thunderchunk 😀 but i'm acutely aware i'm stealing space from you weird skinny cycling types and i want to make a difference, going around sucking my belly in isn't enough for the scale of change needed to make britain a sexier place
Blockbuster - I just have no idea how they are still in business
HMV.
Blockbuster - I just have no idea how they are still in business
HMV.
Although they don't seem competitive agains online retailers... not everyone is online
And those infinite number of energy resellers, PPI claims companies, and no-win-no-hope solicitors who keep sending out spam texts... DIE YOU F*CKERS! DIE!
Ryanair
Starbucks
Santander, woeful customer service. They can't even let me close the account I have with them.
and they want let y ou withdraw any of YOUR MONEY , when you close the account,because you dont have the cporrect id and paperwork, thayts because youve closed the account.
Shouting match at 12.30 mid day in a very busy branch helps ive found.
As for new failures,
Post office, who close for lunch every day and close on wednesday and saturday afternoons,
any energy supplier, or water company,
waitrose and m and s, overpriced for the affluent shopper,homebase,sainsburys,
1. Estate Agents. - They don't sell houses, they just put pictures on the internet. Offer nothing to the process other than website exposure, you can get that elsewhere. Standard contracts attempt to tie you to them, even if they fail to actually sell your house.
2. Anything owned by Donald Trump
3. Daily Mail - it should be illegal
4. Nestle
Channel 5. Would anyone notice?
waitrose and m and s, overpriced for the affluent shopper,homebase,sainsburys,
You missed John Lewis and a few others, now off to Lidl with you.
Channel 5. Would anyone notice?
Richard Desmond's whole media empire could vanish and I don't think anyone would notice
John ****ing Lewis are expanding ffs! What does it say about our times that such affluent middle class smugness is on the rise?
Next will be WHSmiths and/or The Bodyshop.
i forgot wonga - shoulg be an illegal business model
+1
I think there should be a few candidates in the care homes 'business'. Have a read of this...
[url= http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/31/who-profits-from-being-in-care ]Who profits from being in care? It's not the children[/url]
So if you look at the cases of sexual abuse recently reported in Rochdale for example, the 'care' of these children was farmed out to private companies, who then charged between £200,000 and £400,000 per child in their 'care', per year. While all the time allowing those children to be exploited and sexually abused without doing a thing to stop it!
But hey ho, someone made a big fat profit on it, so who cares? Hurray for privatisation!! Lets look forward to similar arrangements in the NHS to come. Got to love our brave new world, eh?
Amen brother! and Quikqwid, payday £oans... and all of the others...
This one already has failed...
i forgot wonga - shoulg be an illegal business model
Wonga are completely upfront about what they do, I've no problem with that model. Brighthouse is a worse offender than Wonga. They have similarly high interest rates but their credit is tied to their own overpriced stock and they are guilty of including unnecessary insurances with their credit, so buyers end up with loans costing far more than the value of the goods they've bought. But the blame for that lies with mainstream lenders and retailers for creating the void that Brighthouse has filled.
They can be as upfront as they like but its pure profiteering from those least able to understand the potential consequencies and then to extricate themselves from those consequencies.
But the blame for that lies with mainstream lenders and retailers for creating the void that Brighthouse has filled.
Avoiding those with bad credit scores?
What annoys me about the likes of Wonga etc etc is they dress their ads up and say things like 'car broken down- need a loan fast till payday'?
Don't people have an overdraft or can agree a loan with their bank quite quickly? Same with PPI claims- companies are there to offer a service for work the punter can do off their own fat ass but can't be bothered thinking for themselves.
Don't people have an overdraft or can agree a loan with their bank quite quickly?
Yes Hora.... ever single person in the country, in the present financial climate, can simply pop into their local branch and ask for a loan or an overdraft. A smiling bank manager will ask how much, and hand them a cheque for that amount, asking only a very reasonable interest rate in return, and a fair payments schedule.
By the way... how is the cave you've been living in for the last five years? Comfortable, I hope
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What annoys me about the likes of Wonga etc etc is they dress their ads up and say things like 'car broken down- need a loan fast till payday'?
Don't people have [s]an overdraft or can agree a loan with their bank quite quickly? Same with PPI claims- companies are there to offer a service for work the punter can do off their own fat ass but can't be bothered thinking for themselves.[/s] savings?
I'd add any and all debt collection agencies to the list. To a man, uninterested in whether you're even responsible for the "debt" you have supposedly "incurred" and all full of knobbers who don't know when to back off.
Tremendously satisfying it was, to get a small claims court judgment against one, whilst charging THEM £20 for each letter I had to write to them (that was their "admin charge"). I had to write a lot of letters.
Bar stewards, the lot.
John **** Lewis are expanding ffs! What does it say about our times that such affluent middle class smugness is on the rise?
presumably that other middle class shops aren't doing very well
