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Filed Under: LONDONPOSTED by: barclaybasher on 20 March 2008 at 9:14 pm
THEY ARE CRAPI have recently been made redundant and had to find a new job very quickly. This has happened prior to the end of my rental period. i’m happy to pay rent for the next two months even though I’m not going to be living in the property. I have to move into my new property by the end of this week (moving to London) and Northwood are stalling gving me a reference to the new estate agents for no reason other than they have an arrogant twat working there. I need to move as i start my new job next week and they’re being really difficult about inspections/refernces etc. I’m 30 yrs old, am married and a perfectly good tenant, go after the people who don’t pay the rent and look after the properties and stop penalising the good tenants.
Filed Under: LONDONPOSTED by: suth29 on 3 March 2008 at 2:35 pm
THEY ARE CRAPThere’ve probably been numerous complaints like this. About estate agents who use bully tactics and the fact that most people are ignorant of the law to unlawfully retain deposits. Mead Estates in Walworth Road London is such an estate agents. Due to incompetence on behalf of the letting agents we were facing losing our deposit due to our notice only reaching the landlord on Nov 3rd. We mistakenly gave notice to our letting agents 6-8 weeks in advance. They did not inform us it had to be handed to the landlord. The landlord, Mead Estates, said we would lose our deposit for two reasons: 1) we hadn’t given them one months notice, we were 3 days shy of one month, and, 2) we had not met the requirements of the lease. Apparently our lease stated that we had to have been residing at the premises for 6 months before we could hand in notice. This effectively ties you into 7 moths as opposed to 6 which is accepted by law as the get out date of any lease. We’ve read the lease and it says nothing of the sort. We were told by Mead that we would get our deposit back if a tenant was found before our tenancy ended and received an e-mail to that effect telling us a new tenant would be moving in on 09/12. This was mid-november so a holding deposit must have been taken from the prospective tenant in order for the property to be removed from the viewing market. On 30/11 i was informed that the tenant had pulled out and we were once again facing the threat of losing our deposit. I have since sought professional advice and have been told that we are not liable for the property as Mead had found a tenant and had told us so, in writing. Mead is aware of this but is still prepared to go to court, probably in the hope that I will fear the cost of leal council and take the loss. I won’t. I will sue the, and not just for the deposit. i will also sue them for the interest accrued by my deposit while they have held, legal costs and for the traumatic cost. You see, my fiance and are expecting a baby at the end of January and we are in dire need of this money. Mead Estates is aware of this but do not seem to care and are prepared to go to court even though they stand to lose. This has caused a considerable amount of stress as my fiance worries constantly about money.
Filed Under: LONDONPOSTED by: MR LIKELY on 10 December 2007 at 4:02 pm
THEY ARE CRAPBad service. Bad account management. Bad customer services.
In short. After chasing us on an account that we had held with them for water and then settled and paid. Water for work then proceeded to pass us on to a debt collection agency. We then provided evidence that we had paid in full, and in the mean time paid an extra amount to call off the debt agency. It has subsequently become apparent that we are over-paid and they owe us close to £50. Which WATER FOR WORK are unwilling to return.
WATER FOR WORK are bad… don’t use them use POWWOW instead they provide much better customer orientated services.
POSTED by: MG on 13 August 2007 at 12:07 pm
THEY ARE CRAPGoods I bought from Aria Technology Limited (Aria PC Technology –aria.co.uk, an online computer components distance-trader based in Manchester UK) were misdescribed, faulty/unfit –it said they were not.
Shown so, it simply varied on its website the technical specifications, without more.
It wrote that I damaged the two items returned worth some £100; reminded that it had said there was nothing wrong with them when, despite their return within the cooling off period, it refused to refund, it claimed a right to credit only, and only in respect of its house brand, avoiding reference to another brand. It claimed a right to automatically deduct 10%-25% ‘testing & re-stocking fee’ –even for an item never returned it!
POSTED by: eren on 28 July 2007 at 3:00 pm
THEY ARE CRAPIs it just me or has anyone else found Property Agents complete idiots?
After viewing and agreeing to rent a flat in manchester through the lovely Hugh Grant-Esque fop agent called James (emphasis on the ‘Agreeing’ part of that sentence), we asked him how the credit check system worked. He wasn’t sure about what details we needed so we were assured that “the office will call us to confirm the cost and documents needed”. We shook hands, then confirmed we wanted the flat in a phone call to him the next day.
Filed Under: LONDONPOSTED by: Rememberthelittleguy on 2 February 2007 at 11:52 am
THEY ARE CRAPDear Cineworld,
When I think of the word ‘Cinema’, it conjures memories of yesteryear, a bloke at the front playing the piano while black and white people fall over and hang off buildings in an amusing way, the velour curtains sliding, nay, sweeping majestically to the edges of the screen as the lights fade. The time when the film would have an interval half way through and a woman with a torch and a tray would mill randomly around the cinema selling choc-ices for 15p (That’s about 15p in today’s money), then when the film finished, you could just sit and wait for ten minutes, then watch the whole film again for free!
Filed Under: LONDON, UK, SOUTH EAST, SOUTH WEST, NORTH EAST, NORTH WEST, WALES, SCOTLAND, MIDLANDSPOSTED by: urbanfox on 16 January 2007 at 3:31 pm
THEY ARE CRAPI recently wrote to Nestle and recieved a less than lukewarm response!!
Dear Nestle,
Filed Under: LONDONPOSTED by: urbanfox on 16 January 2007 at 3:18 pm
THEY ARE CRAPI’d like to think, as a healthy hot-blooded young woman, my biggest enemy wasnt 30 cm wide with a 32MB memory. Did you know that statistically the numbers of middle aged men desperately clinging to their childhood has risen alongside the development of the playstation? The number of men who buy flowers for their better halves, and cook romantic meals has drastically dropped alongside the rise in sales?
I hate the damn things, okay i admit to having button bashed along with tony hawk or whatnot on rare occasions but my inexperienced fumblings in comparison to those of my other half are somewhat similiar to the actions of a child with finger paints sitting next to Dali.
Filed Under: LONDONPOSTED by: definitive on 8 October 2006 at 11:58 am
THEY ARE CRAPIt’s not a tube!
What fool decided that it was a good idea to scrap the old Smarties tube packaging for a hexagonal box of thick paper? More importantly who let them scrap the plastic tops with the letters on them. Collecting the tops to see if I could spell my name, popping the tube so the tops flew off, shakin’ them around like maracas when I was half way through a packet; these things are more than packaging perks, they are the stuff that childhood memories are off! The first time I saw the new packs in the shops, I felt like someone had changed the locks on my front door. The old tube is gone, and it’s not coming back.
Filed Under: LONDONPOSTED by: oldhector on 5 October 2006 at 10:15 am
THEY ARE CRAPThese bus routes are hands down the worst I have experienced on LT - a company not known for its punctuality. I frequently rely on at least one of these routes being reliable in order to get to uni on time. Nine times out of ten, neither bus can be relied on to arrive at the correct time - as an example today, the 418 was 20 minutes late and the 406 did not arrive when it was supposed (having waited for 20 minutes, I was forced to arrange alternate transport at extra cost to myself). While I can appreciate that traffic can delay a journey during peak periods, the recent bus routes which have been provided for these buses seem to, if anything, made the buses even later than before!
Filed Under: LONDONPOSTED by: jbinc on 4 October 2006 at 1:07 pm
THEY ARE CRAPAs well all know, all banks are crap! My experiance with natwest was terrible, however when you get an unauthorised overdraft fee through your door, or if you’ve had one in the past few years then you can get it back, visit this bbc news article for details and then google around for a good guide on what you need to do. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4940250.stm
Filed Under: LONDONPOSTED by: unknowndomain on 3 October 2006 at 6:17 pm
THEY ARE CRAPI have been a customer of Barclay bank for 12 years and overall they’d always been alright. Admittedly Barclays fraud prevention squad have cancelled payments to my Barclaycard before now causing me to get late payment charges but I’d rather they were over zealous than complacent. My quibble comes is over a standing order & the most ridiculos conversation I’ve ever had with a bank.
Filed Under: LONDONPOSTED by: Paton on 17 September 2006 at 10:27 pm
THEY ARE CRAPHaving had a MINT credit card for over a year I decided I wanted to change the nominated account from which MINT would take my monthly payments. After around 4 months of MINT failing to reset my direct debit information, MINT assured me that when the DD was finally set up a large payment to cover the payment arrear incured over the previous months would be debited in one lump which I was happy with. I received a call on a Friday night from somebody at MINT asking if that was OK and the debit would be made in 3 days. The payment wasn’t taken for some unknown reason and a month later I received a similar call. After that, payments continued in the usual manner.
Filed Under: UKPOSTED by: MG on 23 August 2006 at 9:04 pm
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Filed Under: LONDON, UKPOSTED by: MG on 22 August 2006 at 11:30 am