Comet

On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:42:05 +0000, David Woolley
wrote:

Martin wrote:

Is it impractical for you to have stuff delivered to your work address
assuming you have one?

Many suppliers, particularly for first time orders, require delivery to
be to the card billing address, as an anti-fraud measure.

That may have happened when someone got hold of my debit card details
some years ago. They set up an account with Maplin and ordered a fan
heater. It was delivered to my address. It was a few days before I
realised that the delivery of the item was the result of fraudulent use
of my card details. Initially I assumed that it was a mistake by Maplin
and didn't take immediate action. I then discovered that my card details
were being misused and contacted the bank who did a good job of clearing
up the problem and refunding money fraudulently taken from my account.

I contacted Maplin about the unexpected delivery of the fan heater. They
told me to keep it if I wanted to, and closed the account that had been
fraudulently opened in my name.


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Peter Duncanson
(in uk.tech.digital-tv)

In article en.co.uk,
Roderick Stewart writes
In article , Martin wrote:

An alternative to Scientology?

The eagerly defensive way they respond to criticism is creepily similar.

Just don't call them a cult.

That's not how it's spelt, at least not what I call them! ;-)
--
Kennedy

In article , Graham Murray
scribeth thus
Martin writes:

Is it impractical for you to have stuff delivered to your work address
assuming you have one?

For large white goods it would be impractical for most people.

Had to deliver a new washing machine to one of our tenants recently.
Couldn't find the poxy sack barrow anywhere, was raining lady needed it
for baby nappy washing etc so I thought if I could get it of the back of
the tailgate and I "migh"t be able to shuffle it..

When out came a friend of the family, this guy just grunted put his arms
around it and picked it up and carried it thru several doors and put it
down as if it didn't exist!.

Picked up the old one just the same, offered to give him a hand no
problemo! up out and in the car in one sweep and up the scrapyard, they
pay a bit form them now must be a few bobs worth of copper therein...

You just would not want to pick a fight with him, arms like hydraulic
rams on a JCB;!!...

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Tony Sayer

On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 19:08:08 +0000, tony sayer wrote:

When out came a friend of the family, this guy just grunted put his arms
around it and picked it up and carried it thru several doors and put it
down as if it didn't exist!.

You just would not want to pick a fight with him, arms like hydraulic
rams on a JCB;!!...

We've got a bloke like that at work. He does do all the moving and shifting
of stuff!

Paul Ratcliffe wrote:


We've got a bloke like that at work. He does do all the moving and shifting
of stuff!

Thus he will get stronger whilst you wither away and become even more weedy!

Bill

"Martin" wrote in message
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On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:34:13 +0000 (GMT), charles
wrote:

In article ,
Martin wrote:
On Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:42:05 +0000, David Woolley
wrote:

Martin wrote:

Is it impractical for you to have stuff delivered to your work
address
assuming you have one?

Many suppliers, particularly for first time orders, require delivery to
be to the card billing address, as an anti-fraud measure.

I've never experienced that restriction. I send everything to my son's
work address. I've never had a problem yet.

strickly speaking, it is one of the conditions that credit card companies
place on retailers. - to prevent fraud, you know.

In that case most of the major Internet mail order companies & M&S
totally ignore it.

more fool them then!

tim

Martin wrote:

We've got a bloke like that at work. He does do all the moving and shifting
of stuff!

We had one too.
My wife has one.

Bill

On 04/11/2012 14:28, tony sayer wrote:

Tried John Lewis next. Young lad there very well informed and
knowledgeable and enthusiastic about what he was selling and no bull or
other clap trap.

The last time I was in JL there was an assistant spouting bull**** to
customers. I don't believe that they are any better than any of the
other high street retailers.


Didn't bother to look in Comet or Curry's as I knew what sort of clap
trap I was going the get there anyway!.

I've purchased from Comet when the price has been within a few quid of
what I found on the Net. I always decline to buy the extended warranty
or consumables.


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On 06/11/2012 09:47, Mark wrote:

I use both physical stores and online retailers as appropriate. There
are many products I just can't get locally.


For white goods and larger items a lot of stores just take orders that
the manufacturer delivers.

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On 07/11/2012 11:31, Roderick Stewart wrote:
In article , Mark wrote:


Indeed. Although they do sell through any store that sells computers,
they also run their own exclusive stores with the Apple logo outside,
and those are the ones where the queues form.

However they sell their stuff, it only seems to be bought by those who
will never speak any ill of them, despite their products costing
considerably more than anybody else's, and occasionally having
technical problems just like any other. It's a wonderful business plan
from Apple's point of view, but it does seem to depend at least as much
on psychology as the quality of the products. Religious allegiance is
what most readily springs to my mind when I think of it. I am telling
the absolute truth when I say I have seen with my own eyes queues of
people outside an Apple shop two hours before they open, but never
anything of the like outside any other shops.


And how many people swear by a brand because they purchased something 20
years ago and it's still working? These day the ethos of the company
changes overnight when purchased by some holding company based in China.



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