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Unreliable boilers and customer service
My boiler is 3 years old. It's already given up the ghost. 'Customer service' the great oxymoron of our time, utterly predictable and uninterested.
I cannot recommend this product.

I have recently specified three bathrooms from HR, although i have yet to buy anything from HR personally; as an interior specifier the website is clunky and could do with a major overhaul. Images without technical drawings is just frustrating. Links from head office that don't work infuriating. It take four times as long to specify HR products. Good price point, but weighed up against my time it ends up cheaper to use something more expensive as it's a quicker specifying job.!

They won't take the old fridge away, and expect pensioners to remove an old fridge by themselves. Had I known at the point of order I would have gone somewhere else.... disappointing

Ghastly

I use Wise, and Revolut make them seem amazing.

Politically motivated racism at the heart of the bank.
Confirmation from phone calls with senior staff at the bank that they will prevent purchases from Turkey, despite it being in NATO, that it is now on a terrorist list and payments will be prevented.

Verified reviewer...
I see from my recent post Trustpilot are now coercing us to become a verified reviewer, submitting our ID so they know exactly who we are - I would refer you to the The Hundred Flowers Campaign used by Chairman Mao to discover all those dissenters to his murderous plan..... Some similarities here me thinks.!!

Institutionally Racist...
I'm trying to purchase some very dangerous cushions with feather interiors from a merchant in Istanbul... Because Turkey is a muslim country, taking sides against the West's favourite apartheid regime in the current generated crisis in the Middle East, the purchase has been stopped, and the bank will nt allow this purchase to proceed. All my other purchases have gone through for much greater value purchases, and despite spending over three hours on the phone with the bank instructing them to make the purchase and going through all the 'security' protocols 'for my safety' they will not allow the purchase.
This is blatant racism against countries that are rebelling against the hegemonic power of the USA, and Britain as its supine lapdog.

Item was delivered damaged; then the fun started.
If you can find it elsewhere, it will undoubtedly help your stress levels.
Three weeks in and I'm still waiting for the replacement.
The level of incompetence at Skroutz is beyond imagination.
Never again.!

I tried very hard to purchase a light from this store. I sent a purchase order, and was told no invoice was able to be sent back to me to pay by BACS. I could apply for a trade account, and that would take 7 days (business days, of course) and this on top of the lost 4 (business) days lost from my application to purchase a light on the website. The illusory promise to "get back to you" never materialized, and the straw that broke the proverbial camels back was the unprofessional response to someone who has worked over 30 years in the interiors world. Clearly Nkuku aren't hungry for orders, and are resting on their newly formed laurels. I went elsewhere, fortunately, and found something much nicer! I suggest you might want to as well.....

Corporate blackmail.
Despite having enough documentation to sell my house, PLS require a 'selfie' with a bank statement to release my funds.
Corporate blackmail and digital slavery.
A disgusting show of being a govt stooge, blackmailing people into the age of digital slavery - do as we ask or we won't release your funds. 'it's for your safety' of course!!

General Register Office
The expected and arrogant 'service' from those we the people pay to do our bidding. Yes, we the people are the paymaster general for these indolent and idle bureaucrats who have no incentive to do a good job.
The only thing they are good at is moaning, whining, complaining and being ineffective and inefficient.
So long as we allow them to continue this shameful ineptitude it will continue.
Look at the reviews here on Trustpilot. 92% terrible and what do they do about it - absolutely nothing, because we allow them to get away with it. If they were a private company they would be out of business and we would say good riddance.
Enough of this shameful misuse of public money. To everyone who works at Gov.UK, do your jobs and take some pride in the work you are paid to do by we the people and serve us in the manner we expect.

'Customer service' oxymoron
What ever you want/ need/ require from Lloyds, and it's sibling banks, you won't get. There is NO customer service at this or any other bank. Their policy is to make things as difficult as possible, including sending electronic copies of statements as opposed to paper copies - and I thought an electronic copy would be 'greener' than printing a years worth of statements and sending them through the post. Clearly printing at Lloyds is a green issue, as is the postal system. Hypocrisy on a gargantuan scale.

Bullies!
This company, who you will remember has been found guilty for corporate fraud and which has so far cost VW €30 Billion - with a B!, uses coercion and intimidation to get its way; never is it possible to speak with the same person twice. They send intimidating letters with threats that if settlement isn't made VWFS UK will make sure your credit rating is damaged. Not content with threats, coercion and intimidation, they falsify documents and cause distress to those people who put their trust in the reprehensible company.

Dismal
In todays electronic and digital age, not being able to perform a CHAPS payment through the web based portal is about as backwards as an Italian tank.
When you call the bank through the app (as required), they tell you to call through the app. Explaining you are, you are told you can't be verified, despite already having been verified. This corporation couldn't tie its own shoelaces.
I've been on the phone for 15 plus minutes and the advice from the 'advisor' is to call back... Duhhhhh!
The supervisor is too timid to take the call and instead leaves the front line operative to field awkward and irate questions due to their own pusillanimity. This is the worst of idiot bank. May it crash again without the taxpayers' bailing it and it's incompetent management out.

Appalling!
Apparently the senior team at OVO are so important they refuse to customer face. They are also so important they are unable to ask their own questions and their minions have to reap all the unnecessary information they tell you they need before they will consider continuing the conversation.
Eventually, if you're lucky, you get put on hold and are forced to listen to radio OVO, a dreadful collection of 'muzak' where the volume has been artificially turned up, so that even if you turn your phone volume to the minimum radio OVO is still too loud. Perhaps the idea is to zap out any remaining brain cells left from the banality of the conversation so that acquiescence guaranteed.
I've tried 5 times to call OVO today, I've spoken to the 'senior' team of non-sensical customer service - the greatest oxymoron of modern times - and been left hanging on hold for forty minutes before getting bored and hanging up.
Time to change... I've now left this appalling company and gone elsewhere. I don't expect it to be much better, but surely anything is better than OVO. I would advise you to steer as far clear of this bully corporate as you can - remember, you hold the power. If you let them behave like this they will continue to do so. Wield your power powerfully.!

Typically prescriptive bully-corporate unwilling to discuss anything they disagree with.
Senior teams too cowardly to speak with the people who keep this institution going, viz, the public who lodge their money with them. It's part of the great reset where banks control every part of our lives, and tell us where and when we can spend our money, and how far from our homes we are allowed to access our funds.

False and misleading information, and discrimination.

I called Direct Line to enquire if I was insured. I was told categorically I wasn't insured by Direct Line. In a moment of confusion I looked up on the MIB and confirmed the vehicle was insured, and I then had to do an extensive trawl of my bank statements and emails. I found the evidence that, yes! indeed I was insured with Direct Line, contrary to their information.
When I finally got through to someone, I was told they were unable to put me through to anyone senior to discuss this misleading information as they were working from home. Apparently this wasn't an excuse, and they weren't going to get into an argument...
Interestingly, when adding a second driver to the policy, occupation seems to be a discriminating feature. What anyone does for a living seems to erroneous to how they drive.

Data Piracy
Why does Dreweatts not allow the customer the right to chose which cookies are used on their site, how their details are stored and used, which third parties are party to our information, and generally how our data is used and abused.

Is this a scam?
I paid my subscription to the person I want to listen to. I've sent 'support' at subscribestar correspondence showing screen shots of the payment and yet, they won't respond, won't rectify the error and the only way to proceed seems to be to pay more money again for the same person I want to follow... I advise caution!

Unsolicited spammers
I have never heard of Smarthost, never done an internet search for them, and never spoken with them. Receiving emails from them, with no unsubscribe link - which I understand is against the law - shows them to be phishing agents without conscience, targeting people from purchased mailing lists.
I advise caution when dealing with companies like this.