New wardrobe update

Today they picked up the wardrobe, the original price was £999 but I got it in the sale for £599.54 they said the pick up would be between 15.00 and 18.00 they turned up at 13.35, so much for time slots I bet they were hoping I wouldn't be in.
Well unluckily for them I was in, they had to take it including the back that had dropped off when I moved the wardrobe to get into bed. One slat dropped out when I picked up one end the others when I put it down.
They called at 16:37, I missed the call, but if it was to offer me a replacement they can forget it as the quality of the product wasn't worth £200 never mind the £600 I paid, I was told it was an end of line product but on their site today they have them in stock at the price I paid, I bet the call was to arrange a delivery of a replacement, if so they can feck off I want a refund, if that's their game they have got a battle they will never win.

New wardrobe

about a week ago I ordered a solid wood wardrobe, it was delivered today, my son was in for the delivery. My son unpacked the wardrobe to put together, he shredded the packaging as he went but when he got to the double wardrobe he noticed that the back was smashed. He called me while I was out doing some shopping to tell me he had called them and what I had to do, simply email customerserviceATjdglobal.co.uk and send photo's of the damaged item, simple I hear you say!

Well it was anything but simple first I went through their site but the broken item the 2 door top wardrobe would not let me click on it and choose 1, it's as if they had not put this part in the set or deliberately sent the faulty item in the hope I would not send it back due to their stupid rules like paying return costs, well they have another thing coming, no one should be out of pocket for damaged goods.

Second attempt I used the email address given to my son, customerserviceATjdglobal.co.uk, I wrote out the email attached the 3 photo's the full item photo was not possible because in the first one then sent it within 5 minutes I had a delivery failure notification

Attempt number 3 this time I sent a general enquiry, but with no photo's, possibly goes to the same office, and is just responded too, or as maybe the case not responded too. I found a face book page, oak furniture land problems  knowing what I know after this delivery I wouldn't have bought from them.

I also hit on the idea of emailing the CEO of oak furniture land as well so sent him an email with the 3 pictures I had put in the bounced email. If it only pisses him off it will be enough, and if they say I have got to accept a repair them comes the master stroke I will contact my bank for a chargeback claim citing faulty goods and send them the pictures and the amount I want to claim back if I lose I will then go to the financial ombudsman service and if necessary take action in court against the CEO of oak furniture land.
 £600, minus a few pence is a lot of money for an item that should last a lifetime. It didn't make it to my home undamaged, it either got knocked over and broke in a warehouse or in transit somewhere

One thing about oak furniture land is that after the delivery you don't see any items as previously ordered. The Phoenix Shabby Chic Solid Mango Triple Wardrobe 2 Door Top, is the damaged part that is the one that won't let me put a 1 next to the item and follow on to next and say it's damaged, this leads me to thinking they knew the item was, or may be damaged, before they sent it and altered it on their site so I couldn't report a damaged product.

Today I got 3 calls all missed from oak furniture land then around 16.30 a 4th one, I get that one, they have been told to contact me about the wardrobe by the CEO after I contacted him so some good has come out of it. They ask if I would like to look on their site for another 3 door wardrobe but they have none in that price range of £600 the next one is £699 then £750 or £799 more than I wanted to pay because I also have a new bed coming.
I am stuck with the busted wardrobe until the 27th when they will collect it then when they have it back give a refund.  

DAILY SIGNING ON

Some people are now asked to sign on daily and in some cases they miss out attending places that, unlike JCP (Job Centre Plus) actually has the means of allowing people to look for work.
These drop in centres, as they are known, have computers so people can browse agency sites where many jobs are advertised but don't get put in the universal jobs match site because they only offer a week here or there, sometimes only a days work.

You are paid by the agency at the end of each week/month, just a weeks work every other week can mean you get more then signing on many people do this rather than sign on there are times when you go weeks without any work, but there are times you are never out of work going from one temp job to another.

I knew someone who did this work but they used to tell the firm they were working for to call them direct if they wanted someone for a day or week, they now work full time for one of the employers but they still get calls to go in and work for other employers. This person cut out the agency by getting a day/weeks work at a place and giving them their mobile number, all employers took the number as they could get someone to do the job and cut the agency out of the picture.

The cost of petrol/Diesel

The cost of fuel petrol/diesel has been on my mind for some time with a barrel now costing about £50 maybe less. It is said that the price of a barrel would have to hit £25 for just 8p to come off the price of a litre.
I believe they will let it drop but not to get below £1 a litre, unless the supermarkets go on a price war, then it will be who can hold out the longest at the lowest price.
If you take £1.34 as the price of a litre, I'm using this because it is all worked out for you here, for both diesel and unleaded duty is 58p, but they make out the cost of the oil for diesel is more 51.1p compared to 45.2p for unleaded, it's the same oil yet they say it costs more to produce. VAT is 22.4p compared to 23.1p for diesel the production cost is the same at 1.5p but the retailers profit is 7.1p compared to 4.7p for diesel.

So unless there is some additive they put in diesel to increase the production cost, which would really come under refining then it costs no more to produce a barrel of diesel than it does a barrel of petrol, or should that be a tanker!
Then there is the price of electric and gas they say it is related to the price of oil well we should see a massive cut in the next few months as it's related to the price of oil but the corrupt cunts won't drop the price they will give it out as a bonus on profits. 
Whatever you think about the price of fuel the UK consumer is getting ripped off,
The 1908 Finance Act introduced a petrol duty in the UK, with the rate being set at 3d (£0.013) per UK gallon, bringing the price of a typical UK gallon to 1s 1½d (£5.92 as of 2015^[2]).^[3]
It was then abolished by the Finance Act 1919 after several years of steady petrol price rises and replaced by vehicle taxation, and the tax disc based on horsepower,^[3] after which the cost of petrol was about 4s^{[citation needed]} (£8.02 as of 2015^[2]) per UK gallon.
In 1928, following market reductions in the cost of a UK gallon of fuel to about 1s 2½d (£3.18 as of 2015^[2]), the Government introduced a tax of 4d (£0.017) per UK gallon^[3] bringing the cost of a UK gallon of petrol to 1s 6¾d^{[citation needed]} (£4.1 as of 2015^[2]).
In the 1993 Budget during the Major ministry Norman Lamont introduced a 10p rise and also a 'Fuel Price Escalator' whereby the cost of fuel would be increased annually by 3 per cent above inflation in future years; the Petroleum revenue tax was reduced in the same budget and later abolished. Kenneth Clarke, the new chancellor, increased the escalator to 5p in November of that year. These increases were introduced at a time of considerable change in government transport policy, and followed major UK road protests, including the M11 link road protest and the protest at Twyford Down.^[4] The escalator was increased in 6p per year in 1997 by the Gordon Brown, chancellor for the new Blair ministry.
The escalator was effectively cancelled by the Brown ministry follow severe disruption caused by the fuel tax protests in 2000. Since that time more cautious increases have been applied.^[3] A planned 3.02p/litre rise which was confirmed by the 2012 United Kingdom budget to come into effect on 1 August 2012^[5] was later deferred until 1 January 2013 as short notice

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