Make Money, Rants

My house will be repossessed on January 21st

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I had made an agreement with my ex-wife (through our solicitors of course, she won’t speak to me) to purchase her share of the house for £14,100. This means I get the house and the items within it, plus I keep my BMW (not that it’s drivable anyway) and my wife gets £14,100, keeps her car and I continue to pay the loan on both cars.

The deal was agreed. Simple.

I had to raise the mortgage within 14 days, which thanks to Lloyds TSB and the C&G I managed to do that. Everything should have run smoothly you’d think? Then she got greedy.

Her solicitor drafted the financial settlement and added in 3 extra points that I had to agree to.

I wouldn’t post any further mentions to her on the Internet

Well that’s that one broken already, so you can see where I’m going with this. Plus I’ve had far more important and intelligent people than her and her solicitor try to stop me posting on this, and other websites in my cannon. They’ve all failed, without exception.

I wouldn’t suggest to Direct Line that they pursue my ex-wife for the money she defrauded from them for my car

Hmmm… as I’m actually pursuing Direct Line myself for compensation because their original offer of £200 compensation to me was unacceptable, I can’t promise this one. She knew what she was doing when she claimed on a car that wasn’t hers, if they chase her for the money good luck to them. They do so with my blessing, and where necessary, my assistance.

If Direct Line demand she pays back the money, I will agree to pay half of it

You have got to be fucking kidding me?

She defrauded them out of the money for my car, when I was still paying for it. They gave her £6,500 for a car she didn’t own and then they demanded I surrender the car to them because she’d spent the money and they saw me as the only way they’d get the money back. I paid £190 per month for over a year on a car I couldn’t use or sell, that’s over £2,000 I’ll never get back because of her fraud; now she wants me to pay off her debt?

No fucking way. She knew what she was doing. She committed fraud, she can pay it back. As a result of her money grabbing it looks like the deal for me to buy the house is off and now the property will be repossessed at the hearing on January 21st.

Could I do any more? Would anyone pay her debt for her in my situation?

I honestly can’t believe the cheek of it. What do you think?

Royal & SunAlliance, Stolen Car

BMW engineers stumped by my car

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It’s December, which means the saga of my stolen car has rolled over into its SEVENTEENTH MONTH. That’s One-Seven, 17.

17 MONTHS!

Beat that! I’ve just heard from Royal & SunAlliance who have spoken to the BMW service centre. It appears that they’re having trouble getting the new lockset to recognise my car. They’ve been trying since last week with no luck. Surely it’s a BMW Z3? It can’t be hard to recognise it.

Well, I have a courtesy car now from the folks at Enterprise. They’ve given me a Ford Focus, hardly a replacement for a convertible Beamer, but better than nothing. It’s a good job for RSA that they didn’t give me this car when I first asked about one in July 2006. It would have cost them an absolute fortune.

In fact, it makes me wonder why didn’t they give me a courtesy car in July 2006, when they have now forked out for one? I wouldn’t have had to spend my own money on a replacement car if they were liable, which they evidently were as they’ve now admitted that. What’s changed? Maybe the power of the Internet and the bad press they’ve been receiving on this blog, but it’s a question I will be asking when all this over… if all of this is ever over.

Internet

Oakridge Steel ask “Dude, where’s my website?”

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I just had an email from a former colleague at Black Sheep asking if I’d heard of the business ‘Oakridge Steel’. The name rang a bell to me and after some research I remembered.

It seems that Oakridge Steel have contacted him asking where their website has gone. When I worked at Meridian Design we hosted their website, which was designed by Darren Joslin before he moved to another company. As you can see from the Internet Archive, the site was somewhat poor. Piss poor in fact. Oakridge Steel never renewed their hosting with Meridian Design, so I deleted their website.

Something of a service to the Internet as a whole, I’m sure you’ll agree. This was in February 2005. Then Meridian Design was taken over by Black Sheep. Now, nearly THREE YEARS LATER Oakridge Steel have noticed their website doesn’t work!!!

I’m staggered, truly staggered.

How poor must this company’s website have been performing for them if it took them nearly 3 years to notice their site had gone down? Sadly this is an all too familiar tale with the websites built by Meridian before I joined them.

If you have a website for your company ask yourself this; would it take you 3 years to notice if your website disappeared?  If the answer is yes, you should look at getting yourself a new website.

Rants, Torfaen Council

Torfaen Council want to take me to court

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I often ask why does this shit keep happening to me, yet it does. Constantly. Now, because of some retards at Torfaen Council it’s happening again. I just had a letter telling me that I’m to appear in Abergavenny Court on December 12th at 11:00am for non payment of council tax.

The problem is I telephoned Torfaen Council on September 3rd and explained that I DON’T LIVE THERE ANYMORE!!! Abergavenny is 200 miles away from where I live! Fuckwits.

Naturally, I recorded the phone call. For those of you wondering why I keep recording my phone calls, this another example of why it’s necessary. The idiot took down my information, understood that I don’t live there anymore and that I’d canceled my direct debit.

Yet the morons seem to have forgotten, and want to take me to court for not paying.

Fuck me!

I’m going to have make one of those infamous phone calls tomorrow to Torfaen Council, where no doubt they’ll say they have no record of me telling them I don’t live there anymore, and I point out that ‘not to worry’, I have a record of it. A recording of it in fact.

British Telecom

BT finally say they’ll reduce my direct debit

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I had another email from the idiots at BT today. This wasn’t a reply from my email yesterday, I’ve been trying to contact two different departments at the same time, this reply was from my query dated November 1st. So this reply has been 30 days in the making.

Considering I’ve waited 30 days for this, it’s funny then that they reply saying changing the direct debit takes 7 days, so it won’t go into effect until January 2008! I last asked 30 days ago. It takes 7 days. What about the other 23 days they’ve sat with their thumb up their arse?

Anyhow, read the letter…

Dear Mr Daz

Thank you for your e-mail dated 26/11/07 regarding changing your direct debit amount.

Please accept my apologies for the delay in replying to you and for any inconvenience this may have caused.

In response to your email, I would like to inform you after going through your account in detail that BT requires 7 days advance notice to make any changes to your direct debit. I can change your direct debit amount to £40.50 but that would take effect from 01/01/08.

In the future, should you wish to change your Monthly Payment Plan you can do so yourself via our automated service. Please dial 0800 44 33 11 and follow the prompts.

I trust that this email will have helped to provide you with the information needed and I hope that it has also demonstrated to your that your concerns have been looked into thoroughly and professionally.

Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience you may have been caused and my thanks for your patience and co-operation in this matter.

If you should have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact us again via e-mail.

Thank you for contacting BT.

Yours sincerely,

Anjelina Morre
eContact Customer Service

Obviously this isn’t good enough. I’m not paying another £68.50 when I’ve requested this direct debit be changed so many times lately. I’ve had enough. I have now cancelled the direct debit and I want nothing more to do with the thieves and liars at British Telecom.

My reply:

I’m afraid that is too little too late. I requested this months ago and you chose to do nothing about it. I have cancelled the direct debit already and will be cancelling my BT broadband this weekend.

I have two recorded phone calls where your operatives told me my direct debit would be £38 when I signed up, then someone else telling me it will be £33. It was instead increased to £68.50.

I was lied to, twice. pure and simple. Your delaying this so you can reduce my direct debit AFTER you have stolen another £68.50 from me is unacceptable.

If you would like to call me *********** to explain yourself, feel free to do so. Otherwise I consider my involvement with BT at an end.

Good riddance to the lying bastards.

British Telecom

BT once again fail miserably

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My deadline to BT of this Friday to sort out the mess they’ve made with my billing is approaching fast, and they’ve responded with yet another irrelevant and incompetent email.

Dear Mr Jamieson,

Thank you for your e-mail.

Please accept my apologies for the delay in replying to you and for any inconvenience this may have caused.

I am sorry that the offer has not been made clear to you. The offer to reduce the cost of your broadband service applies credits to the account. On each statement or bill the amount in credit (£5.00 per month) will be shown in the credit section of your bill. Excluding vat this will show on your bill as £4.26.

Your broadband charge remains the same at £26.99 or £80.97 per quarter. Therefore, minus your £5.00 credit you are paying £21.99 per month for 12 months. Please note that the loyalty discount includes a further commitment of 12 months.

Should you require additional information please call 0800800030.

Yours sincerely,

Paul Hutchinson
eContact Customer Service

Interesting, but not what I asked the moron

You have not answered my question, but then am I surprised? No, not at all.

I asked for my direct debit to be reduced to what it should be. I am paying £68.50 when that is more than I need to pay. BT have failed miserably to understand this simple fact, as you have once again failed.

Congratulations. I commend you for your useless response. You have just lost yourself a customer.

As for my having a further 12 month commitment… No, I don’t. I did not sign for a 12 month commitment, nor was I notified of one. The discount given to me was because you cocked the whole thing up in January this year when I tried to get broadband from you.

I am cancelling my direct debit as of Friday 30th November and refuse to pay BT another penny until someone sorts this woeful mess out. If you think I’m going to phone your customer service number and receive more insulting feedback from you you’re very much mistaken. I’ve already had one idiot pretend he couldn’t hear me and then hang up midway through the conversation.

That’s on my website by the way, soon to be added to YouTube as well.

Good bye and good riddance.

I think I’m better off without them to be honest. Considering the trouble I’ve had even getting broadband installed I should have learned there and then not to proceed with them. They randomly increase their charges without warning, lie about costs and take weeks to respond to emails.

Time for operation Web Assault.

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So much anger, so little time