3 December, 2009 (02:31) | Consumer Watch, Scams, Television & Film | By: admin
1080P DVD Video Players are NOT Normally HD!
Many people are being mis-sold DVD players in the UK believing that they are able to watch HD (High Definition) movies in high definition, but unfortunately this ISN’T usually the case. Many of these people will be watching DVDs and unless they’ve actually experienced true HD in the [...]
Tags: Blu-ray, DVD, HD, High Definition, Scam, Scams, Television & Film
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29 July, 2009 (12:10) | Consumer Watch, General | By: admin
I live in a small block of flats and various residents aren’t receiving any parcels from The Royal Mail at our premises even when they are in all day, they clearly don’t even attempt to deliver at all. Instead a few days after the so called delivery date, the normal postman delivers a card and [...]
Tags: News & General, phone system, royal mail
Comments: 1
22 July, 2009 (02:34) | Consumer Watch, General | By: admin
(A suspicious circular hole found in the packaging on a sandwich brought at Tesco Express)
I am utterly disgusted by the way I’ve been treated by management at new local Tesco Express store based at 165 Granville Street, Birmingham, near Bath Row in the UK. In the store’s favour, all the other staff have provided a [...]
Tags: Complaint, shopping, tesco
Comments: 3
18 July, 2009 (16:10) | Consumer Watch | By: admin
Quite I few months ago I signed up to a totally free service where one gets a 0871 that can be directed to any landline with a company named 4Tel. As agreed if anyone calls my 0871 number, 4Tel are supposed to pay me a minimum of 4p per minute out of the total call [...]
Tags: 4tel, ofcom
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23 February, 2009 (08:02) | Consumer Watch, ISPs | By: admin
I have had to write yet another complaint to BT, this time they can’t seem to get my direct debit payments correct on the monthly payment plan for my BT Total Broadband option 3. It was messed up when I moved flat and now it’s messed up again since they changed me over to a [...]
Tags: bt.complaint
Comments: 8
17 February, 2009 (12:05) | Consumer Watch, ISPs | By: admin
For the last 4 months at the time of writing I have been experiencing very slow speeds with BT Total Broadband during heavy usage hours, mainly in the evening, for more details please see Is BT Broadband betting overloaded and read all the comments.
About 4 months ago at the time of writing when I was [...]
Tags: BT, overload
Comments: 4
17 February, 2009 (08:49) | Consumer Watch, ISPs | By: admin
BT have 2 paid services for BT Broadband customers:
BT Home IT Support: This is supposed to be PC technical support, but I have reason to believe that BT refer people to this service who have broadband problems caused by BT. They charge £24.47 per call to their support team or £8.80 per month plus a [...]
Tags: BT, excuse, overloading
Comments: 2
6 February, 2009 (07:00) | Consumer Watch, Scams | By: admin
(The top memory stick is a counterfeit, while the bottom is the real Sony product. Notice the square of a different texture inside the front side of the product on the genuine Sony memory stick! Photo is courtesy of an Ebay guide by username dbgb2k.)
There is a number of fake counterfeit memory sticks being sold [...]
Tags: fake, memory stick, sony
Comments: 9
5 February, 2009 (01:58) | Consumer Watch, Hosting | By: admin
After having numerous problems with my old website host, Freehostia and their servers going up and down on an hourly basis week after week, I decided to pay for hosting with Hosting24 for this website and for http://www.birminghamiu.com which is my paranormal group.
The service has been fairly reliable so far, with a few exceptions when [...]
Tags: Hosting, server
Comments: 10
26 December, 2008 (07:28) | Consumer Watch, General | By: admin
I fell asleep on Christmas night 2008, leaving a compact energy saving light bulb on and was shocked to be woken up to a loud bang. I noticed that all the lights had gone off in my property and I couldn’t turn them on at the normal light switches. Luckily I had a torch at [...]
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