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DFS Furniture Store

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It’s payback time for DFS furniture store. I swore blind after I bought a sofa from them in 2001 that I’d never use them again, and sure enough I haven’t. The problem was when they ripped me off back then I didn’t have this blog so had no way to voice my discontent at their wrong doings.

Now however, things are slightly different. So, DFS Furniture Store. Here is my story for the UK consumer market to read.

I ordered an Italian leather 3 seater sofa and an armchair from DFS back in 2001, but pointed out to them at the time that I lived in a first floor flat which may be difficult for them to access. The salesman, in true DFS ‘we don’t care’ style promised there would be no problems and they’d sort something out.

I also said I’d need the sofa before March 20th as my first child was due and we’d obviously require seats before he was born. No problems again.

3 months later the sofa arrived, and surprise surprise it didn’t fit through the door. I phoned DFS about this only to be told that I could order a 2 seater to replace it but I would have to wait a further 3 months for it to be delivered from Italy. In addition I would have to still pay for the 3 seater!!!

Say what now?

That’s right, despite the promises from DFS I would now have the PAY for the 3 seater that they couldn’t get into my flat, instead receiving the 2 seater 3 months later. I’d already signed for the sofa so couldn’t cancel the order completely.

They lied to me in the sales room then ripped me off over the phone, forcing me to pay above the odds for an item I didn’t receive and wait twice the delivery time for it anyway.

DFS are thieving scum bags and I implore everyone to avoid them like the plague. Don’t believe Linda Barker and Martin Kemp, DFS are not be trusted.

Has anyone else had any bad experiences with them?

Affiliate Marketing, Rants

Paying foreign cheques into Sterling accounts

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I went into Lloyds TSB on Saturday morning to pay in my latest Affiliate cheque from Amazon.com. Unlike Amazon.co.uk, the US version won’t make any direct deposit to a non US account, so cheques are my only means of payment.

When you pay a foreign currency cheque into Lloyds TSB you have to fill in an A4 form which has 5 pages! Yes, 5 sodding pages!

It always takes the staff ages and usually involves at least two cashiers as few people know how to do it. Then when it finally does get filled in, I have to wait several days for the money to appear in the account AND I get charged a huge commission on the amount.

Why can’t Amazon.com combine the account with Amazon.co.uk and pay one amount via direct deposit each month? It would make it so much easier and I wouldn’t have to spend my Saturdays in Lloyds queuing up with people who only seem to be asking for a balance.

A balance!?!

I HAVE to go into the branch to pay this US Dollar cheque into my account. Why do these morons need to be there if they’re only after a balance? Use the cash machine, it will tell you. Use online banking, use anything. I don’t care. Just don’t queue up in front of me, wasting my time, just to get a sodding balance to your account.

And they were queuing up outside waiting for the bank to open for this.

Imbeciles.

Rants

Public Transport fails me for the last time

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Right, Saturday night I left my car at the pub and intended to get the train back to pick it up Sunday morning. I even checked the times online the night before to make sure there was a train. Sure enough, every hour and roughly 20 minutes past the hour there’s a train due from Heald Green to East Didsbury.

Sorted. I’ll do that then.

Naturally you can’t trust public transport, and my first foray into using it for some months proved my suspicions correct. The train never showed up. It wasn’t late, it just didn’t turn up.

I gave public transport one chance, one chance to prove it could work. One chance to show that I can use it as a viable alternative to my car… and it failed. It failed by not even showing up.

I’ve later learned that other people know about this. Seems the timetable at the train station, and the timetable online are both wrong. There are no trains on the Sunday, at all.

This has seriously pissed me off. What’s the point in public transport? The timetables are bollocks and public transport doesn’t work. So Mr Brown, rather than pissing on the motorist by increasing fuel tax, road tax, congestion charges and any other fucking charges you can think of to get motorists to leave their cars behind and consider using public transport, why not actually make some fucking public transport that works?

I tried your trains and they didn’t fucking show up.

Stick your fucking trains up your fat Scottish arse you twat.

Internet, Make Money, Rants

eBay boss quits amid disappointing $500 million 53% profit increase!

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Meg Whitman, the boss of eBay and person who guided them from humble beginnings in 1998 to become the giant they are today is to retire as a result of their ‘poor’ performance in Q4 2007, the Guardian reports.

The company’s profits for the three months to December jumped by 53% to $531m (£271m). But its guidance on its prospects for the year fell short of analysts’ expectations, prompting concern about a slowdown in the volume of merchandise put up for sale on the site.

What sort of World do we live in where a 53% increase in profits leading to £271 million can be considered failure?

If however eBay are looking at ways to increase the number of items listed on their auction site, I have a few ideas.

Firstly, allow people to list PS2 games if you don’t have a PayPal account. You currently must have PayPal and offer it as a payment option when listing PS2 games. I presume this is the same for other video game formats.

Secondly stop charging people FOUR times when they list items on eBay and accept payment through PayPal. I’ve already ranted about this before, so if eBay is serious they should take note. Charging me a listing fee, a final sale fee, a PayPal transfer fee and a PayPal withdrawal fee when I sell a DVD for 99p is not going to tempt me to do it again.

Home Delivery Network, Rants

Home Delivery Network toss my parcel over the gate

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I returned home last night when it was pissing down with rain (in Manchester, go figure) to find a card through my door from the Home Delivery Network. There was no order number on it and none of the fields were filled in, but there was some pen scrawled on the top displaying the words ‘Round Side’.

Not sure what this meant I figured maybe there was a parcel left round the side of the house, so I looked. There was nothing there. Then I thought what if they’ve chucked it over the 6 foot hight gate? I hope not, it’s a very high gate, a long way for a parcel to fall and it’s been pouring down all day.

I went out to look and sure enough there was a parcel from Amazon sat a pool of water next to our bin. Jesus Christ, what sort of arsehole does this?

I decided evidence was in order so I took photos of the parcel as I opened it, you can see from the pics that the water had seeped into the box. It would, it had been there all frickin’ day.

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I also have a computer coming from Amazon. I hope to fuck they don’t use the Home Delivery Network for that one. I doubt it’ll stand a 6 foot drop into a pool of water. What a bunch of fucking morons. Come on Amazon, sort it out.

Affiliate Marketing, Podcasts, Rants

The moron phoned back

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Just like he promised, the idiot who wanted me to tell him how he could make money online phoned back. Trouble was this was just as my flatmate was coming in pissed up. You’ll notice his voice, he’s the one I had to bleep out twice.

This moron started by saying how he has websites and he’s making some money, but then reveals he was lying. He doesn’t have any sites at all.

Still, this makes for a great podcast, so thanks mate!

Idiot phones me back about making money [ 10:16 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1416)
Affiliate Marketing, Podcasts, Rants

Tell me how to make money online NOW!

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I’ve just had a phone call from some guy who I’ve never met asking me if I can tell him how to make money online. It’s Saturday night, he’s withheld his number and he’s getting angry that I won’t spare my time to tell him how to get rich from the Internet.

For a second I thought this was the Fonejacker, some part of me thinks it maybe, but who knows.

I’ve had emails before from people asking advice on affiliate marketing and if they’re good questions from people who are trying but need help I’ll reply. If they’re just from people asking me how they can make money I don’t. When I get a phone call from some moron demanding to know how to make money…

Anyhow, listen to this idiot and the crap he comes out with. I missed the beginning of the call, but I recap for you. Then I’ll post the second call where he phoned me back and my drunken Stoke house mate got involved. He wasn’t as tolerant as I was.

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Rants, Transformers

Transformers don’t kill people, Americans do

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I just heard on Sky news that there’s another public outcry trying to stop children playing with toy guns. The BBC takes a different slant on it, saying the British Government are in favour of boys playing with toy guns.

In guidance for nurseries in England, the Department for Children, Schools and Families says staff should resist a “natural instinct” to stop such play.

This has often been a source for annoyance to me, especially after the USA stopped selling the Transformer Megatron when he was reissued by Takara in Japan. The Americans don’t like the idea that Megatron is a realistic replica of a gun, a Walther PPK to be precise, yet in the stores that won’t sell Megatron in America you can actually buy a real Walther PPK.

Something’s not right there. What the yanks fail to realise is that nobody in the history of human kind has been shot and killed by a Megatron. You see, he’s a toy. Made of plastic. He turns into a robot. He does not shoot bullets.

Real guns however are not toys. They are not made of plastic. They do not turn into robots. They shoot bullets.

I’d suggest that America doesn’t ban Transformers, but instead concentrates on banning the things that actually kill people… Americans Guns.