Called my mortgage provider to offer them the chance to price match. They were adamant they don't pricematch but agreed to get a guy to give me a call about it.
The guy called later and started the conversation by making it clear they don't pricematch.
However, what they *were* willing to do was to reduce the cost of their product to the point where it was the same as the product I'd been offered.
Obvs, I would have preferred them to price match, but I was happy with that compromise. 🙂
An above mentioned organisation spending BILLIONS on a state of the art new Telecoms network that is so out of date BT stopped using to in the 90's.
The same then spent £3000000 on replacing defective standby batteries because the above project failed to power up the chargers and aircon the rooms they were installed in so the batteries spent 3 yrs baking and freezing in unpowered rooms.
I could go on, but the sums we've squandered are nothing compared to the F-35 and its under defended carriers
Mike Ashley
Keeping Raybanwomble on the forum.
Not business but local govt. I was selling a caravan in Spain,and because it was over 750kg it had its own registration plate.We had a solicitor type of person to handle the sale because its not as straightforward as here. She asked me for proof that i'd paid the road tax to the local council before the sale goes through.I said caravans don't have road tax.which she knew,but insisted i get proof that i hadn't paid anything.
So it was off to the local council offices where a bill was printed out in my name with the amount zero on it.
BT
X one billion.
This forum. I’ve got my P and it still doesn’t work even as well as the old hamster powered pre-hack one!
I'll give the admins a nudge and get you an invite sent to the P-only forum.
the asda 24 next to manchester velodrome opens like 11am to 5pm on sundays
Living in Scotland I get caught out by quaint English Sunday trading when I'm travelling. Working in York I popped into a 24 Hour Tesco on my way into work on a Sunday morning.
Trundled round, filled my basket, headed to the checkout..... 'Sorry sir you can't buy those until 10am' - that was more than an hour away.
Seemingly although they can only sell between fixed hours on a Sunday but the shop was open anyway 'so that people can look around' and what was weird was... loads of people were. There must have been at least 100 people happily milling around a supermarket that wasn't selling anything.
matt_outandabout
beryl....
That is quite astounding.
but the shop was open anyway ‘so that people can look around’ and what was weird was… loads of people were. There must have been at least 100 people happily milling around a supermarket that wasn’t selling anything.
I remember popping into the 24hr Asda in Hulme straight from the maternity ward after our little one was born and we needed some smaller baby clothes. It was about 1am on a mid-week morning and there were loads of groups of lads just wandering around. No shopping, just wandering around chatting in the way you'd go for a sunday afternoon walk in the countryside!
Currently waiting for a DHL delivery. It was meant to be delivered between 8.08am and 9.08am. Got a message at 9.25am saying Your DHL Parcel UK driver is delayed in getting to you, but we do expect to be with you later today.
Let's see how this goes...
Drac
Keeping Raybanwomble on the forum.
and a few others I could mention (but won't)!
Johndoh, i had exactly that yesterday from dhl.
The guy turned up less than half an hour late, but the poor ****er looked like he’d been half drowned.
I’ll emphasise that he did turn up.
Living in Scotland I get caught out by quaint English Sunday trading when I’m travelling.
I get caught out by the quaint Scottish alcohol sales laws. I'll be in a supermarket in the morning stocking up for a camping trip but any alcohol sales can't go through until 10?
Signed for. It won’t get scanned anywhere in the system between him dropping it off at the counter and you getting it. Costs 50p on top of the postage. Actual tracking costs quite a bit more
Thanks. That explains it. But it would be clearer if they didn't allocate a tracking number in that case. Also better if, having said they would deliver on Monday, actually did deliver on Monday.
Privatised utilities.
Trains - travelling from Glasgow to London a while ago, 1st class was £20 cheaper than 2nd class
Insurance - got a renewal notice for the van which included a £40 "renewal fee". Called to ask why, surely it's less work for them this year as they have the details and nothing's changed. Not prepared to move on it - ok, bye then
more train ticket oddity; when pricing up a trip from London to Durham one time, there was a promotional cities away days poster nearby including Edinburgh. The ticket for KX-ED was cheaper than KX-DUR.
The daft bit being that the ED train stopped in Durham but the bloke at the ticket window told me I couldn’t get off at Durham and that if I bought a ticket to Edinburgh I had to go there.
Visions of a GNER guard frogmarching me back to the train…….
Or an £155 fine.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11420790
The BBC; I have to pay them for the privilege of watching someone else's content.
What was the point of that raybanwomble? If C-G's experiences with Lymes gets one person to take a target bite to their GP then fair play to her.
Rayban has to prove himself superior - and he was actually proved wrong on lyme anyway as NICE has updated its guidence in the light of new data.
joshvegas
Member
I can’t think of an asda near you?!
This is the livingston one, it's just down the road. There's another one nearer in Slateford but it takes longer to get to
It was a few years back now, getting towards 10, but my car broke down. I smartly had no breakdown cover, so I give the AA a call, They wanted some ridiculous amount for the years membership (I know! It's prime supply and demand, so they can charge what they want).
Instead I went on their website on my phone, and purchased membership for almost a third of the price they quoted on the phone, and had a driver with my just as quickly.
I'm sure they've realised this now, unless they still prey on the people that panic and phone.
Rayban has to prove himself superior – and he was actually proved wrong on lyme anyway as NICE has updated its guidence in the light of new data.
They added an extra round of 28 days of antibiotics for people who still showed symptoms.
However, low and behold - there's still loads of people complaining all over the web that they've still got it and want it for even longer.
Besides that - the decision to give the option for four week and second rounds appears to be based on risk management as opposed to clear evidence that it works.
The committee considered evidence from the PLEASE trial to be particularly relevant when
developing clinical recommendations for people with ongoing symptoms related to Lyme
disease. In the study, all participants received open-label intravenous ceftriaxone for 2 weeks
followed by their randomly assigned study drug; 12 weeks of oral doxycycline, 12 weeks of
oral clarithromycin, or 12 weeks of oral placebo. Although the PLEASE trial showed a quality
of life improvement in all treatment arms, there was no difference between treatment arms.
The committee considered that any quality of life improvements could be due to the initial 2-
Lyme disease: management of ongoing symptoms
Management (ongoing symptoms)
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week treatment of intravenous ceftriaxone with no clear additional benefit from long-term
treatment with oral doxycycline or clarithromycin. To determine the effectiveness of long-term
antibiotic treatment, study participants should have also been blinded to the intravenous
ceftriaxone treatment, and a fourth treatment arm consisting of only placebo should have
been introduced. The committee considered that the evidence did not provide support for
long-term antibiotic treatment.
Taxing UK residents to enable one of the richest families in the UK to live in obscene luxury - and then charging the taxpayers money to go and see it for themselves.
then charging the taxpayers (And thousands of tourists from outside the UK) money to go and see it for themselves. (Thus creating a net benefit to the country)
FTFY.
omhoward
Subscriber
then charging the taxpayers (And thousands of tourists from outside the UK) money to go and see it for themselves. (Thus creating a net benefit to the country)FTFY.
So it is estimated by Royalists.
... but of course there is no actual proof that tourists wouldnt come to see Buckingham palace if the royals were there or not.
I don’t particularly care either way for the royals, I also assume that if there were no financial benefit to keeping them around, they’d have been pensioned/sold off years ago.
And then the state would have to pay the entire cost of keeping their estates fit to bring in tourism. Because right now, I believe the royals fund at least some of the upkeep with their own personal wealth do they not?
Have you been near my Hebe?
No mate, I just shit in peoples pools and kitchens.
and forums
raybanwomble
Member
And then the state would have to pay the entire cost of keeping their estates fit to bring in tourism. Because right now, I believe the royals fund at least some of the upkeep with their own personal wealth do they not?
No - not a penny of their own personal wealth ... the Duchy`s are often said to be a private income, but look a bit closer and its clear its just assetts skimmed off a long time ago to secure the royals; Charles has generously volunteered to pay some tax on his earnings and the Queen pays some, but its never audited, so I guess who can really say/know if and what they pay is fair? .. and sovereign grants are pretty much tax money.
Why would the royals be so reluctant to disclose their costs if they had nothing to worry about - especially if they generate so much from tourism? unless tourists would go visits other great buildings with or without a King or Queen ... France, Russia, etc ...
Surely the ultimate lunacy must be big businesses doing voluntary redundancy programmes.
Thus shedding their best and brightest with inevitable results.
Oh dear Rayban - can'teven admit when you were wrong - and thats not actually the point you were proved wrong on. It was two things - 1) that the medical paradigm was changing and 2) that untreated lyme can cause life long effects.
But still - nice to see you doubling down after your rather snide attack of CG. Be another on me now I bet.
Oh dear Rayban – can’teven admit when you were wrong – and thats not actually the point you were proved wrong on. It was two things – 1) that the medical paradigm was changing and 2) that untreated lyme can cause life long effects.
I've never denied that medical paradigms can change and I've never denied the latter - it's just the antibiotics I take issue with in terms of evidence. The evidence for a course lasting more than two weeks is still iffy - but I can understand taking a risk based approach.
Also - if this was on the topic of bicycle helmets you wouldn't have quoted a policy based on dodgy evidence but risk based common sense.....
still at it. You completely denied both the points. Invoke hattersleys rule
Taxing UK residents to enable one of the richest families in the UK to live in obscene luxury – and then charging the taxpayers money to go and see it for themselves.
Do you know how much money you pay, personally, in tax, the fund the the Royals each year?
No - but the figure thats often thrown around is around £1 each per UK resident.
So if the 66 million UK residents all want to give me just £1 a year to ensure I can be funded to go to expensive and exotic places that would be great; I would get very bored otherwise.
I thought it was taxpayers, not residents, that paid for them? I hate to break it to you but there are a lot fewer taxpayers than residents in the UK...
Taxpayers yes and it's less than £1 iirc they also generate millons which goes predominantly back to the government.
We should make everyone "Royal", then we can all live in palaces, not have to work and make loads of money for the country - JUST BY EXISTING - which will fund our new Royal lives!
THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you know how much money you pay, personally, in tax, the fund the the Royals each year?
Do you know how much money you pay, personally in tax, to fund the purchase of F-35 Lightning jets?
Ol' Betty is a bargain in comparison
there are a lot fewer taxpayers than residents in the UK…
This is where it gets a bit complicated because 'tax payers' aren't just people. Theres two people resident in my house but three tax-payers. The non-human one pays more tax than the two humans ones put together. And it doesn't even get to vote.
No – but the figure thats often thrown around is around £1 each per UK resident.
Look at what that £1 per year creates - even if you hate the whole royal family thing with all your heart its a pretty remarkable thing to have created for £1 a year. (and I think on a per head rather than per tax payer basis its something like 56p - that's less than the price of a stamp isn't it?)
If you eradicated the the Royal Family and got your £1 back... what would you do with it instead?
I entirely don't care about the Royals but imagine what we could all achieve just by paying a few more £1 per years
