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<blockquote data-quote="apprentice87" data-source="post: 374493" data-attributes="member: 13534"><p>I had a run in with an insurance firm once. I got insurance in installments. They told me the interest rate was "X" percent. I few days later, all this stuff came in the post from a finance company i had never heard of, AND they set up a direct debit without telling me [Yes, after a change in the law they CAN do this] Interest rate was more like double.</p><p></p><p>Now, i had the written bumpf from the finance company. I went back to the insurance company and based on the idea that there is no law in britain anymore, but i am bigger, stronger, and MUCH more aggressive than you are, [well, i was back then 10 years ago!], i marched round their office confiscating all the notices off the walls that gave their "terms of business" complete with the false interest rate.</p><p></p><p>I took the whole lot round to trading standards, who were interested initially, but once they had been threatened by the insurance company, just gave up, and i had ALL the written evidence they needed.... They are simply not interested anymore.</p><p></p><p>I had a friend that owned and ran a chip shop once. She told me, [and her husband was iranian but did not work in the shop] that they used to get regular inspections from the trading standards to do with health and all that, even though their shop was spotless, but that other chip shops near by, ones that were owned and STAFFED by foreigners, got left alone, as the trading standards people are scared to go to them, lest they are accused of being "racist"</p><p></p><p>If anyone doubts this, all i can say is bradford....... what went on there then....</p><p></p><p>You will find if the shop you got the lamp is owned by foreigners, nothing will happen; If they are british, they MIGHT be in big trouble.</p><p></p><p>By the way, what OnOff says about how the TSO works now, is exactly right...</p><p></p><p>john...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="apprentice87, post: 374493, member: 13534"] I had a run in with an insurance firm once. I got insurance in installments. They told me the interest rate was "X" percent. I few days later, all this stuff came in the post from a finance company i had never heard of, AND they set up a direct debit without telling me [Yes, after a change in the law they CAN do this] Interest rate was more like double. Now, i had the written bumpf from the finance company. I went back to the insurance company and based on the idea that there is no law in britain anymore, but i am bigger, stronger, and MUCH more aggressive than you are, [well, i was back then 10 years ago!], i marched round their office confiscating all the notices off the walls that gave their "terms of business" complete with the false interest rate. I took the whole lot round to trading standards, who were interested initially, but once they had been threatened by the insurance company, just gave up, and i had ALL the written evidence they needed.... They are simply not interested anymore. I had a friend that owned and ran a chip shop once. She told me, [and her husband was iranian but did not work in the shop] that they used to get regular inspections from the trading standards to do with health and all that, even though their shop was spotless, but that other chip shops near by, ones that were owned and STAFFED by foreigners, got left alone, as the trading standards people are scared to go to them, lest they are accused of being "racist" If anyone doubts this, all i can say is bradford....... what went on there then.... You will find if the shop you got the lamp is owned by foreigners, nothing will happen; If they are british, they MIGHT be in big trouble. By the way, what OnOff says about how the TSO works now, is exactly right... john... [/QUOTE]
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