Category Archives: Commerce

tasting the air – thwarting the robber barons

Posted on October 10, 2011 by

For once, I’m thankful for the thieving profiteering utility companies. Being reluctant to put on the fire, hence supporting their practice of extortion, I discover that it’s a more pleasantly comfortable temperature outside and, a walk in the rain (hand … Continue reading →

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Respectable Crooks

Posted on November 9, 2010 by

Well, it certainly makes a change for a daytime radio programme (in this case Jeremy Vine – Radio 2)to look at the business of tax evasion. There’s certainly been overkill, and Osborne inspired exagerration, on the issue of benefit cheats. … Continue reading →

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Customer Dis-service from a Bailed-Out Bank

Posted on January 6, 2010 by

Today, my beloved decided to check a current account online to ensure that a payment (due to go out on the 4th January) had been made. This check seems necessary since late last year one such payment failed to go … Continue reading →

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A Thread of Incompetence

Posted on July 12, 2009 by

Sometimes life can be so unpredictable, especially when technology should have ruled out some of these glitches. A case in point was a recent online order with Cotton Traders; of the items we’d decided to order from a new Summer … Continue reading →

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Firms’ secret tax avoidance schemes cost UK billions | Business | The Guardian

Posted on February 2, 2009 by

    I’ve always known that there’s one law for the rich and another for the rest of us! Indeed, I suspect that a very fine margin separates the (nominally) legal tax avoidance and the (definitely) illegal tax evasion. The … Continue reading →

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Tesco Jersey – “immediate” means when they can be bothered!

Posted on November 21, 2005 by

On Sunday 13 November I placed an online order with Tesco Jersey for a  CD which was “available for immediate dispatch”. The confirmation e-mail quoted “Estimated dispatch date: Tuesday 15 November 2005 (Your order should arrive within 2-3 working days … Continue reading →

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When Will They Ever Learn

Posted on November 7, 2005 by

Some ten months ago, 19 January 2005 to be precise, Heterocon posted the following two items:  ‘The Tale of the Incompetent Bankers’ and ‘More from The Bank of Errors’. The Halifax having “resolved (?)” this issue, at that time, my … Continue reading →

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Caiman – came up with the goods!

Posted on October 14, 2005 by

  Quel joie! Further to my items ‘Caiman – came and went’ and it’s predecessor ‘ZIP – the trials and tribulation of an alien system’, the clunk of the letterbox this morning saw the arrival of the ordered item, well … Continue reading →

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Caiman – came and went!

Posted on October 7, 2005 by

Further to my item, "the trials and tribulations of alien systems", I received an acknowledgement from Caiman.com, approximately five hours after I contacted them, stating that the item had been despatched and, quoting 4-14 days delivery. As the estimated delivery, to the … Continue reading →

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ZIP – The trials and tribulations of alien systems.

Posted on October 5, 2005 by

This morning, after a somewhat weary start to the day, decided to order an item from Amazon (USA) for delivery to an address in the USA. Being a mere Brit, I’m not totally au fait with American codes and mores … Continue reading →

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