Dear Jac – Page 19
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Dear Jac
Not all banks are equal. Neither are their policies
Some do check for signatures and dates; some are in denial.
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Dear Jac
A petition for small businesses on cold calling
If you all sign the government will have to respond.
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Dear JacA gagging order
Moni White, who runs St Erth Post Office in Hayle, Cornwall, had her business on the market with RTA Business Consultants for four or five years.
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The only one to suffer voucher credit problems?
Not by a long chalk… but now this retailer’s getting special treatment.
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Dear Jac
If a machine won’t work there will be fewer transactions
But nobody told admin this, so the bills kept coming and coming.
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Dear Jac
If you sell tobacco is Facebook your biggest rival?
This problem is very murky and might be difficult to regulate.
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Dear JacTrack & trace crooks
Premier retailer Richard Johnson is on a mission to get independents to put GPS devices, disguised as cigarette packs, among their stock to track stolen goods.
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Dear Jac
A cancelled order and no delivery, but payment taken
The chargeback has also not been delivered – yet – so another dispute
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Dear Jac
Who is getting this extra fee to protect rural ATMs?
It’s all in the way you define the term ‘operators’
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The collapse of this coffee firm left a lot high and dry
And they were stuck with too-long leases for the equipment.
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There’s no one to notice a post-dated cheque these days
It’s all automated now and the machines can’t read
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Dear JacTop tax tip
This tip, on the Very Awful Tax that HMRC is insisting upon making digital, comes to you from the BBC Radio 4’s Money Box programme via Ian Phipps, who describes himself as a newsagent from Bolton.
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The error had been admitted but still no refund
Instead it was to and fro, back and forth, for months and months
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Dear Jac
How can this retailer remove a display stand he hasn’t got?
And why are they chasing him for a debt he doesn’t owe?
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Dear JacDoing the sums
When we last featured Taranjeet Singh in this column in mid-May, he was waiting for the rep’s visit from Hermes to decide whether or not to continue with the parcel service.
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Dear Jac
A couple of tips about PP terminals old and new
Don’t panic: you’ll get time to decide, and then shop around
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Dear Jac
What to do when your delivery gets mixed up?
Especially when you are trying to take a bit of a break
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Is the answer to great service to outsource to India?
Retailers may take some convincing when the product is perishable
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Dear JacWhat’s in a name?
Samir Patel sent me a picture of his shopfront. It says Londis, but you can see it has been stuck over another sign which reveals just two letters, a B at the beginning and an E at the end.