We all know, or do we? that signing up for stuff can be a minefield of lies and corporate bullshit..
“When Neha paid for an online CV builder, she thought she was only making a single transaction.
“In order to download the CV, you have to pay. So I did that, and I just thought it was a one-off thing.”
But two years later, she discovered she had been signed up to a monthly subscription with the service, LiveCareer, and over £500 had been taken from her joint account with her husband.”..
Then “When Carmen, from London, took out a free trial of Adobe Creative Cloud, she wanted to subscribe for three months.
But she found herself on an annual contract, with a £250 cancellation penalty.
After a year, she tried to stop it from auto-renewing, but was told she had missed a “very specific” cancellation window, so was locked in for another year.”..
What a load of cunts,it seems these halfwit have never heard of the Direct Debit Guarantee..
And now the dead hand of govt has stepped in “regulate” this nonsense.
Fuck the companies and stop the payments.
The country is rammed full of idiots.
Anyway,
Please sign up for my 3 month trial of Full Oven.
No refunds allowed.
Nominated by Unkle Terry.
That link doesn’t work Unkle T, try this
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/consumers-to-save-around-400-million-every-year-from-government-crackdown-on-costly-subscription-traps
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My Grindr subscription ends up being a pain the arse.
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I say Thomas, do you give Trustpilot reviews for the gentlemen you meet on Grindr?
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Thrustpilot…
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Internal rupture gets a 5 star rating.
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I have been paying for this subscription for nearly forty years, didn’t really mind it in the early years..
But now all I seem to get for my money, is unlimited chimps and sand woʻgs.
Anyone know how I can cancel my payment?
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Become a pıkey?
Morning Bz/all.
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I know what you mean Barry. When we first paid the rates we thought it outrageous that the bill was £70 per annum. The standard complaint was that we paid all that money for which all we received was street lighting and the bins emptied once a week. We now pay well north of £3,000 per annum, the street lights (and even motorway lights!) are switched off at night and the bins are emptied once a fortnight.
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@arf… once a fortnight, you lucky boy ours are ’emptied’ every 3 weeks and normally the Muppets who do it leave the bin as far away from the property as possible after the ‘service’ 🖕
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The good thing about companies is that if they take you to court, even if they win, they can’t claim costs against you.
So cancel any subscriptions.
They will send you threatening emails and perhaps letters.
Tell them that you dispute the amount owed (even if you don’t) and that you are prepared to defend yourself in any proceedings that they want to instigate.
For amounts up to a few grand, it’s doubtful if you will hear from them again.
Good morning!
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The only thing I’d pay a subscription to is ‘Is a Cunt’. But I won’t mention it because I don’t want to give Admin ideas.
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Oh shit
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@geordie….you cunt 😩…🤣
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Big mouth Admin Geordies paying for all the regulars.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Full oven Unkle
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No doubt if the airlines start cancelling flights due a shortage of jet fuel they’ll try to fob people off with some sort of “credit note”..
This is where the Consumer Credit Act steps in,always pay for things via credit card as the company is obliged to refund if the airline doesn’t.
They are all cunts.
All the best from the That’s Life team.
Be Careful out there.
Good morning.
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Morning Unkle, have you considered opening a continental branch of your oven business? Switzerland seems the place to go to off one selves these days. Esp as the coffin dodgers in House of Lords talked out the assisted dying bill yesterday.
Could be lucrative side hustle for you.
Get Esta RatsArsen to advertise the benefits.
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Good morning LDC,
Those cunts at Dignitas have cornered the market unfortunately.
I suspect I’ll be quite busy just in this once green and pleasant land.
A day for cider outdoors I think.
Cheers!
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Thanks Unkle.
Now show us a photo of a vegetable that looks likes a cock and balls.
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Thank goodness “that sort of thing” has been phased out🤡
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Didn’t somebody do a spoof where someone cut off their cock and balls and sent it in as it looked like a wonky carrot?
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All my dealings with money transactions are done by shoe leather and buses if its too far to walk.
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Biggest cunt in this vein is the ‘auto renew’ … the likes of .. well was gonna say Amazon prime, but it’s every fucking where. A dirty-pool ruse to ‘catch’ folk out into another months/years payout, as per the woman quoted in the nom.
If they had a shred of decency, it would be a simple option upon signing up for whatever .. (a) do you wish to activate auto renew or (b) would you like a renewal alert at the relevant time.
I have *never* seen a site/company offer the polite choice.
Although the husband/wife duo quoted who missed a 20ish quid debit for 24 + months are a pair of dozy cunts too.
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Tesco insurance cunts tries to do this. For my convenience apparently. And the fucking wankers had doubled my insurance- no changes, no accidents.£400 to £800.
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You had plenty of accidents to pay-for via your premium hike.
The fact none of said accidents INVOLVED you matters not to the insurance cunts …
I often imagined back in the day(my early 20’s) when cunts wanted 3 grand a year *3rd party* to insure me in a new car .. if y’found out you had something terminal & short term ; to step it up to fully comp, pay an installment then go out find a million quid Bugatti/Ferrari out & about in thr big smoke .. and drive full-on into the thing, handing over your insurance details happily to the owner afterwards..
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Cancel all direct debits and pay monthly on the day the payment is due.
Never subscribe to anything, especially if it involves the ‘media’, sports wankers or charity.
Avoid signing up for anything if it can be avoided, if it can’t scrutinise and check everything. Assume every one is a cunt and out to get you and your money.
Probably most of this is common sense to certain generations, but sadly we’ve become a nation of mongs and chavs since the mid 1990s and are sinking fast, as a glance at the Waily Fail on-line edition (not subscribed) will show you this morning. A story a some no-mark ‘celebrities’ arguing on a TV show. Me neither.
We are so fucked. Have a great day cunters, I’m off to drink cider in the sunshine.
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The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.
(Cuntelation, 6:8)
🛐
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I remember, Pubis Mons, being signed up to Filmfour and they abandoned it. Didn’t trust anyone else.
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This place is my only contact online with the outside world, other than with personal individuals by emails.
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I have a direct debit with Octopus 🐙 the most annoying purple website.
Slightly off topic but going back a couple of years they were mithering me to have a smart meter because my leccy meter was out of date, a few months later my gas meter packed up and had to be replaced, with a smart meter. Strangely I haven’t heard a peep from them about my ‘out of date’ leccy meter since then.
Every fucking thing you buy online these days wants you to either subscribe, open an account, or agree to have your email bombarded on a daily basis with offers and to get ‘all the benefits’ download the App
FUCK RIGHT OFF.
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Quite so.
Octopus Energy are indeed mithering cunts,desperate to flog shitty “smart” meters etc onto unwitting customers.
Thay can indeed Fuck Off sharpish.
Your health sir.
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Are they the company that have radio adverts with “real customers” arse licking them? Ffs.
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EDF have been mithering us for years to have a smart meter Soi. We have always refused because although they offer a slightly cheaper tariff for having one we regard the few pounds extra we pay as the price of avoiding surveillance. You have the right to demand they disable monitoring on a smart meter but you have no way of confirming it and I wouldn’t trust them to do so. When we are forced to have one I shall find out how to disable the comms on the fucking thing.
On the subject of energy bills, in recent weeks since Donny and Netty started bombing Iran all the consumer advice people have been advising you should take on a fixed rate tariff immediately. We have just had notice from EDF that our payments are to be reduced by £18 a month. Just think, we could have avoided that by fixing.
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@SOI Was it a smart gas meter they put in? The electric meter does all of the communications for data transfers. I cant see the point of putting in a smart gas meter to install it in dumb mode.
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Lady Guzzi likes to buy most of her clothes online returning those that don’t fit. A large order from Next delivered by Evri had a couple of items she wished to return. Evri were due to collect the items on the 18th of this month but failed to show. Collection rearranged for the 21st was also missed as was the rerearranged date of the 21st.
Yesterday l made a 32 mile round trip on the Guzzi to the nearest Next shop to return the goods and tell the manager what l thought of their customer service. The manager said that the complaint would be passed up the chain of command and Lady G would get an email. Cunningly , l said that l did not know her email address so they would have to write a letter and send it through the post. Small victory but quite satisfying.
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I wonder why the BBC link is dead.
Was it another one of those articles where the ‘victims’ were ethnic and racism was sneakily implied with absolutely fuck all evidence?
Whatever, they’ve got some front calling out corporations for taking people’s money in an immoral manner.
I don’t recall Adobe demanding nigh on two hundred quid a year because I own a telly.
Cheeky cunts.
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Dear BBC.
Thank you for your recent story highlighting unfair subscriptions.
I recently checked my direct debits and discovered I’ve been conned for the last few decades.
I was forced to pay a corporation for ‘the best news, entertainment and sport’.
But every time I tune into their television or radio stations, I’m told I’m a white male racist bigot!
Can I get my money back?
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Starmer – Ukrainian Rent Boyz Monthy
Doreen Lawrence – Simply Wigs
Jess Philips – Horse & Hound
Diane Abbot – Mensa Monthly
Wes Streeting – Twinks Voice
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KTM, the Austrian motorbike manufacturer of shit bikes with camshafts made of toblerone started to introduce subscription costs for things like quick gear changers, heated grips etc. i believe you got all the options free for a period of time, then they would be turned off unless you coughed up. Needless to say people stopped buying them – oh, and the build quality was crap and they were made in china. A ratner moment.
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