WAMT....what annoyed me today!

Meant to post this one yesterday but forgot

My favourite wine is Barolo. Ordered a bottle from Ocado a few weeks ago for opening non Christmas day. Given it was £20, rather disappointed that it tasted like a cheap bottle of plonk. I've had way better for a fiver from Aldi. My own fault really as I didn't read the reviews before buying.
 
Amazon doing that trick where they make it hard to complete purchase without accidentally signing up to Prime.
This happened once before but after a month it just expired so I let it run again but they charged £7.99 on the 12th with no warning you had to log-in to their site to find any mention of it.
 
When that's happened to me, I've unsubscribed as soon as I've noticed. I've still had the month's free trial and not been charged thereafter. I understand that if you complain to them, they'll refund the charge. Pees me off that they're still allowed to make it an opt out rather than an opt in process.
 
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Nod said:
When that's happened to me, I've unsubscribed as soon as I've noticed. I've still had the month's free trial and not been charged thereafter. I understand that if you complain to them, they'll refund the charge. Pees me off that they're still allowed to make it an opt out rather than an opt in process.
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I've been on to them via the chat bot thing and they have refunded the Prime charge made on 12th December but not the November one I hadn't noticed or been informed about either.
To be fair I bought a couple of things and might have got reduced or no shipping charge.
I don't use any of the other prime features apart from allegedly faster delivery and I suppose not having to pay carriage if less than £20.
Not worth £7.99 for that though as I buy an item less than once a month on average.
 
I use Amazon Prime not just for 1 day deliveries (which don't always work, depends on the delivery bloke) but also for the video content, I bought season 4 of the new Star Trek last week!
 
My local doctors surgery.

I need to drop off a request for a prescription but they're closed and there are no details about when they'll open again on their website or on their answer phone message so I suppose I just have to go every day until they're open.
 
Incompetent insurance company :(

I've been with Churchill for a good 5 years for my house and contents insurance.
( they said it was 3 :rolleyes: )

I received an email the other day telling me that its due in 10 days.
They told be me that they had sent out renewal details and it was set to auto renew.
Every year I have to phone up and ask for the quote as I have never received it, and every year they tell me it was sent at the end of Nov.
And blame the Christmas post if I hadn't got it.
Every year I tell them NOT to auto renew, they don't take any notice of that either!

I stayed with them because I had a claim on a 2K lens and they never queried it, in fact it was all sorted in less than a week.
I was dreading the following quote, but actually it went up £3!

This year it seems gone up £30, not outrageous I agree, but its the sheer incompetence by them,
of me having to chase them every year, and every year they are going to auto renew despite the fact that
I tell them every year not to..
I got through to live chat and that's sorted, live chat? so I have it in "Writing"

I said I was going to compare the meerkat, because I was fed up with casing them, year in year out.
Fortuitous as it turns out, the most most expensive ones ( save the silly ones at twice the price) the new quotes for same or better
were between £50 & £100 less.
 
Cobra said:
Incompetent insurance company :(
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We've been using the brokers A-Plan for 20 years or more and they've never let us down. Every so often, we compare their offer with alternatives and they haven't been beaten on price yet. On the few occassions we've made a claim, they've handled the whole thing for us and done a good job.
 
I check for a better deal every time but if you find a better deal your existing company may be willing to match it. Staying with them might save time and hassle changing to someone else.
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
A-Plan
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About 15 years ago, I had a van insured with them, well over 10 years ago, I told them I no longer owned that vehicle.
Every year they send me a renewal for the van :D

woof woof said:
Staying with them might save time and hassle changing to someone else.
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No hassle especially if I can save £100 > £50 the quotes are in, I just need to click accept...
 
MrRichAllen1976 said:
The shockingly poor grammar on Facebook! FFS, your equals you're! How hard is it?!
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Your ( :lol:) right of course but sometimes it’s the autocorrect changing what you‘re typing to what it thinks it should be and some of the ‘corrections’ are mysterious non-existent words :(.
 
woof woof said:
My local doctors surgery.

I need to drop off a request for a prescription but they're closed and there are no details about when they'll open again on their website or on their answer phone message so I suppose I just have to go every day until they're open.
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As today is still a bank holiday, you will probably find they are open from tomorrow until Friday as normal, and then back to normal from Tuesday next week ... unless you are in Scotland!
 
woof woof said:
My local doctors surgery.

I need to drop off a request for a prescription but they're closed and there are no details about when they'll open again on their website or on their answer phone message so I suppose I just have to go every day until they're open.
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Mine has a letterbox for prescriptions. Maybe you could suggest one :)
 
sphexx said:
Your ( :LOL:) right of course but sometimes it’s the autocorrect changing what you‘re typing to what it thinks it should be and some of the ‘corrections’ are mysterious non-existent words :(.
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2 things:

1) Stop trolling
2) As I'm sure most people are aware, autocorrect can and should be turned off on the majority of phones.
 
sphexx said:
Mine has that but online is so much better ;).
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I just call the pharmacy. They request the prescription, make it up, and I collect it a couple of days later. They deliver too, but it's five minutes walk along the road, so it's more convenient for me to pick it up rather than having to stay at home waiting for the delivery.
 
New annoyance with PayPal. It appears I can only add a certain amount of money to my account, which means it will be a long month for me to clear my negative balance up.:mad::mad:
 
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Cobra said:
Incompetent insurance company :(

I've been with Churchill for a good 5 years for my house and contents insurance.
( they said it was 3 :rolleyes: )

I received an email the other day telling me that its due in 10 days.
They told be me that they had sent out renewal details and it was set to auto renew.
Every year I have to phone up and ask for the quote as I have never received it, and every year they tell me it was sent at the end of Nov.
And blame the Christmas post if I hadn't got it.
Every year I tell them NOT to auto renew, they don't take any notice of that either!

I stayed with them because I had a claim on a 2K lens and they never queried it, in fact it was all sorted in less than a week.
I was dreading the following quote, but actually it went up £3!

This year it seems gone up £30, not outrageous I agree, but its the sheer incompetence by them,
of me having to chase them every year, and every year they are going to auto renew despite the fact that
I tell them every year not to..
I got through to live chat and that's sorted, live chat? so I have it in "Writing"

I said I was going to compare the meerkat, because I was fed up with casing them, year in year out.
Fortuitous as it turns out, the most most expensive ones ( save the silly ones at twice the price) the new quotes for same or better
were between £50 & £100 less.
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I think you're being rather generous with 'Incompetent insurance company' Call me a cynic but... the less time you have to look round for a quote at renewal time the more likely you're going to stay put so, I would be sceptical about a company telling me they'd already sent out a renewal. They must send out a renewal 21-30 days prior to renewal. Ok.. let's give them the benefit of any doubt when it happens once but you say they are failing year in and year out to give the required notice and additionally, fail to heed your request that you be taken off auto-renewal I hope you're 'Live chat' has really sorted it otherwise next time I'd be making a complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) ....that would be my course of action. You've certainly got a great deal more patience or rather tolerance than I have.

I think you'll find the £30 premium increase is to mitigate the loss of income now that they can't offer a new customer a better premium than an existing one but as you've discovered, it's worth looking around. If I'd understood your last paragraph correctly it seems you've changed providers anyway ..£50-100 less premium.
 
I spoke to Mastercard this afternoon after Googling the phone number, spoke to some annoying Scottish woman who didn't understand my accent (I know I have a strong Yorkshire accent but come on), I was rapidly on the verge of getting angry so I put my support worker on, I now have to get Dad to speak to them, as he has access to my main Mastercard on which most of my monthly transactions go out, so he knows all the security stuff etc... I wouldn't mind but both the accounts are in MY name and the damn Mastercard and Bank won't talk to me! SO annoying.
 
JohnC6 said:
I think you're being rather generous with 'Incompetent insurance company' Call me a cynic but... the less time you have to look round for a quote at renewal time the more likely you're going to stay put so,
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That's my thoughts too :(

JohnC6 said:
They must send out a renewal 21-30 days prior to renewal
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They claimed one was sent on the 30th Nov.
And again on the 8th of Dec. Why would they send it twice anyway? as at that point it was on auto renew.
So I'm going with less than truthful illegitimate's

JohnC6 said:
If I'd understood your last paragraph correctly it seems you've changed providers anyway ..£50-100 less premium.
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I've not changed yet, I still have a few days, but half a dozen of the quotes I received range from £50 - £100 less than the existing premium.
But I'll certainly be taking one or the other.
 
My WAMT is WAMED (what annoys me every day) each Christmas through to New Year. The TV listings go to pot. I miss news bulletins and when I do catch them they are reduced to 10-15 minutes with no Regional News. Even Channel4 News tonight was only 10 minutes. Sorry to see Jon Snow leave/retire. Favourite programmes are either not shown or the regular times have been changed . Films in which the actors have long since been dead. Freddie Mercury..unseen footage. Really ? So that will last about 5 minutes,then. ABBA..The Magic Years. Film..'Mama Mia'.. 'Guns of Navarone'- 'Where Eagles Dare'. 'The Great Escape'-'The Heroes of Telemark'- Morecombe & Wise- The Two Ronnies.. At least the two latter shows are about humour but why so many WW2 films at a time that is supposed to be about peace to all ,love thy neighbour and giving ? .I suppose that Netflix now gives people an alternative. The Breakfast Show programmes ..BBC ' Breakfast' 'Good Morning Britain'on ITV..have Christmas trees and decorations as props and presenters wearing Santa Claus hats. Christmas trees stand behind news presenters, too. Every time I switch channels sometimes all five have people dressed up in Santa gear ho-hoing it around the studio or a Game show (not that I watch them) that has the host and contestants dressed as Santa/pixies/elves. Having to endure 'Away in a Manger' ' Good King Wenceslas' The Holly & the Ivy -Hark the Herald Angels sing..etc imposed on me in supermarkets..Cashiers wearing christmas hats and wishing me a 'Merry Christmas' "Merry ?" I said to one young lass..I'll Google that.Is it with one R or two ?" ."Eh ?" "Merry..does it have one R in it or two ?" At least it made her laugh.

Christmas Day and Boxing Day and that should be it. Decorations down, trees down at least those in public spaces. Definitely lights on houses taken down. I have to close the doors between the living room and dining room so I don't see the garish very bright light blue flashing lights adorning the front of a house across the other side of the close behind.I suppose their kids enjoy them.

Not long to go, though, until sanity returns for 12 months along with the January transfer window for football. :)

Not so fast. I suppose it will be fireworks on New Years Eve. :rolleyes:
 
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JohnC6 said:
My WAMT is WAMED (what annoys me every day) each Christmas through to New Year. The TV listings go to pot. I miss news bulletins and when I do catch them they are reduced to 10-15 minutes with no Regional News. Even Channel4 News tonight was only 10 minutes. Sorry to see Jon Snow leave/retire. Favourite programmes are either not shown or the regular times have been changed . Films in which the actors have long since been dead. Freddie Mercury..unseen footage. Really ? So that will last about 5 minutes,then. ABBA..The Magic Years. Film..'Mama Mia'.. 'Guns of Navarone'- 'Where Eagles Dare'. 'The Great Escape'-'The Heroes of Telemark'- Morecombe & Wise- The Two Ronnies.. At least the two latter shows are about humour but why so many WW2 films at a time that is supposed to be about peace to all ,love thy neighbour and giving ? .I suppose that Netflix now gives people an alternative. The Breakfast Show programmes ..BBC ' Breakfast' 'Good Morning Britain'on ITV..have Christmas trees and decorations as props and presenters wearing Santa Claus hats. Christmas trees stand behind news presenters, too. Every time I switch channels sometimes all five have people dressed up in Santa gear ho-hoing it around the studio or a Game show (not that I watch them) that has the host and contestants dressed as Santa/pixies/elves. Having to endure 'Away in a Manger' ' Good King Wenceslas' The Holly & the Ivy -Hark the Herald Angels sing..etc imposed on me in supermarkets..Cashiers wearing christmas hats and wishing me a 'Merry Christmas' "Merry ?" I said to one young lass..I'll Google that.Is it with one R or two ?" ."Eh ?" "Merry..does it have one R in it or two ?" At least it made her laugh.

Christmas Day and Boxing Day and that should be it. Decorations down, trees down at least those in public spaces. Definitely lights on houses taken down. I have to close the doors between the living room and dining room so I don't see the garish very bright light blue flashing lights adorning the front of a house across the other side of the close behind.I suppose their kids enjoy them.

Not long to go, though, until sanity returns for 12 months along with the January transfer window for football. :)

Not so fast. I suppose it will be fireworks on New Years Eve. :rolleyes:
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Who let Victor Meldrew in? :LOL:
 
JohnC6 said:
My WAMT is WAMED (what annoys me every day) each Christmas through to New Year. The TV listings go to pot. I miss news bulletins and when I do catch them they are reduced to 10-15 minutes with no Regional News. Even Channel4 News tonight was only 10 minutes. Sorry to see Jon Snow leave/retire. Favourite programmes are either not shown or the regular times have been changed . Films in which the actors have long since been dead. Freddie Mercury..unseen footage. Really ? So that will last about 5 minutes,then. ABBA..The Magic Years. Film..'Mama Mia'.. 'Guns of Navarone'- 'Where Eagles Dare'. 'The Great Escape'-'The Heroes of Telemark'- Morecombe & Wise- The Two Ronnies.. At least the two latter shows are about humour but why so many WW2 films at a time that is supposed to be about peace to all ,love thy neighbour and giving ? .I suppose that Netflix now gives people an alternative. The Breakfast Show programmes ..BBC ' Breakfast' 'Good Morning Britain'on ITV..have Christmas trees and decorations as props and presenters wearing Santa Claus hats. Christmas trees stand behind news presenters, too. Every time I switch channels sometimes all five have people dressed up in Santa gear ho-hoing it around the studio or a Game show (not that I watch them) that has the host and contestants dressed as Santa/pixies/elves. Having to endure 'Away in a Manger' ' Good King Wenceslas' The Holly & the Ivy -Hark the Herald Angels sing..etc imposed on me in supermarkets..Cashiers wearing christmas hats and wishing me a 'Merry Christmas' "Merry ?" I said to one young lass..I'll Google that.Is it with one R or two ?" ."Eh ?" "Merry..does it have one R in it or two ?" At least it made her laugh.

Christmas Day and Boxing Day and that should be it. Decorations down, trees down at least those in public spaces. Definitely lights on houses taken down. I have to close the doors between the living room and dining room so I don't see the garish very bright light blue flashing lights adorning the front of a house across the other side of the close behind.I suppose their kids enjoy them.

Not long to go, though, until sanity returns for 12 months along with the January transfer window for football. :)

Not so fast. I suppose it will be fireworks on New Years Eve. :rolleyes:
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We've never had a TV and we don't appear to have missed anything :D
 
MartynK said:
We've never had a TV and we don't appear to have missed anything :D
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I said a very long time ago, all these reality programs can't get any worse..
I've been proved wrong, masked people dancing, masked people singing and a panel guessing who they are.
It actually wouldn't now surprise me if there were worse ones, but these seem to be the ones most raved about on FB.
And some of the people raving about them, I thought were actually sensible people :thinking:

Edited to add, along with that we seem to be creating a whole batch of faux celebrities that I've never heard of, should they appear
when I occasionally watch something certainly not reality orientated
 
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Cobra said:
And some of the people raving about them, I thought were actually sensible people :thinking:
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As a wise old Scotsman may have said: "They're aw' mad save thee and me - and I'm nay sae sure o' thee!"
 
My Mrs goes crazy over that dance thing, and even she doesn't know who the c list celebs are...
 
Bobsyeruncle said:
Everytime I happen to see a celebrity thing on I'm always asking "who the f*** are they"?
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I agree, Bob. I assume young people will know them,though. There are also too many 'celebrities' who have no skills and no talent. Whilst channel-hopping I see them on these chat shows and I'm left wondering that if these people are deemed worthy of celebrity status then what is the criteria and what kind of people do they appeal to that gets them their celebrity status ?Their appearance on TV as entertainment value is an insult to anyone with just average intelligence. A crow ..any corvid...has more intelligence than the collective IQ of half a dozen randomly-selected Love Island contestants. Most are nacissistic, too. In interviews these talentless so-called celebrities get an OTT introduction too from the host and after the interview is over the host will often say....." ladies and gentlemen..."The fantastic, the fabulous, the great." .etc..(whoever) and I'm left wondering if I've missed something.
 
This is why I hate stuff like X Factor, it's all false, they put through kids who have the vocal talent of a Frog with a throat infection but they "look" the part, nobody buys or downloads records for what someone looks like, there's YouTube videos for that.

Like I still haven't forgiven Will "I suck but I won Pop Idol" Young for ruining The Doors' "Light my Fire" a few years back.

Also WAMT? My support worker insisting on ordering a Taxi from Cineworld back to the Flat this lunch time despite Dad's express orders for us to get the Tram back, flippin' students! I'm only Rich by name ya know! Fortunately she paid for the Taxi.
 
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