Latest from Dear Jac – Page 43
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Zoned in or out?
One of the unexpected perks for me in this job is learning to read back to front, as it were
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A smart switch or a turn off?
Mick Overton, the Corner Shop, seems to think he got amazing results from his energy supplier when he copied me and the ombudsman onto his emails
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Now it's 'ladies' turn
Last issue I reported on Hitendra Patel’s revelation that dodgy callers trying to pull off terminal scams had British names but were actually fluent in Hindi swearing.
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A bilingual exchange
My south-east correspondent Hitendra Patel (I have a northern one, but could use a few others: Midlands, Scotland, Wales, N Ireland, the West Country) had an amusing run-in with a bogus caller to his Costcutter store in Romford, Essex.
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Ribenagate - the thirst for no win, no fee
In our last issue (C-Store, June 22) I featured Jaya Babykumar being targeted in what looked very much like a ‘trying it on’ scam…
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Justice at last on the Horizon?
As this is being written, I am reading (yes, multi-tasking, me) all about the technical problems NatWest has had on its wonky-banky computers.
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Stand and deliver
I could tell how strongly Raj Sood felt about his late deliveries from Smiths News by simply adding up the words he sent me.
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Popular Paypoint stories
I don’t get called ‘brilliant’ very often. Last time I can remember was a decade or so ago when I rushed to rescue a burning dinner and dropped it all over the floor.
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Is the price right?
One of my more astute observations is that no one knows the true price of anything (aired in this column more than once but it is a universal truth that I don’t think anyone other than me makes a fuss about).
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Smoking gun
I’ve been exchanging emails with a retailer who wishes to remain anonymous so as to not jeopardise what was an ongoing police investigation on a neighbouring shopkeeper.
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Soft drink damages
No win-no fee may be one of the most supposedly democratic yet abused practices of the 21st century.
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More clunk than click
One of these days I expect modern technology will become so advanced that you’ll be able to fix any wrangle with your supplier by, say, plugging your smart phone into your supplier’s website and shouting
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How much? Not enough
From time to time people ring up without any specific problem peculiar to their store with PayPoint but with a very long-held resentment over the amounts of money collected for the group in return for poor commission rates
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You can't win at this rate
Hitendra Patel rang about business rate relief for small businesses
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Bad wiring leads to alarming results
Watch out if you are installing broadband…I’ve had three complaints now about BT screwing up redcare alarms
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An on-off relationship
Sudesh Gupta has an on-off relationship with his supplier Dairy Crest
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What are the benefits?
Ajay Parehk’s family was told by their Paypoint rep that their Londis business in Radford, Nottingham, had been identified as a premium outlet to do benefits (it’s in a very poor area)
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Smoke alarms
Tobacco is still the topic de jour. But while most ongoing debating concerns whether indies benefited from the mults going dark, Satish Thakrar, Maypole Estate Store in Bexley, Kent, has a radical take on the subject.
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Did you hear the one about?
When most people hear themselves on tape they go, ‘No! Do I sound like that?’
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Stalled on the superhighway
Yet another cautionary tale pointing out that what the rep says and what the contract stipulates may just differ a tad