right:Friday evening, The present Mrs. Architect has a small prang in the car, nothing major, she just reversed and caught the front wing and drivers side door of a peaugeout 306.
Small dent, and scrape along side. Swapped insurance details.
Saturday morning, rang up Direct Line. Went through all the gabble over what had happened.
'But Lo'! They cry 'The Present Mrs. Architect isn't on the insurance policy'!
As you can imagine, alarm bells start ringing.
I went on to explain that I knew she was because I had rung on XX date, at roughly XX time (The BT bill proved this) spoke to XXX operator and organised TPMA to be put on the insurance because I had my ankle in plaster, therefore could not drive.
They ummmed and ahhhhed, and wouldn't budge, until I asked them to find the telephone recording of it, and asked for a transcript.
3 hours further on, they came back - full of apologies, and retrospectively put her on the insurance, they had indeed f*cked up 5 weeks previosuly, and hadn't put the info through properly.
it was worrying as she was driving for 5+ weeks without insurance!
Then, saturday afternoon, the driver's side door gets stuck in the 'locked' position - a completely unrelated incident, that takes an hour to get sorted, but not before I have to drive back home with TPMA in the seat behind me holding the drivers side door to as it won't shut... Thankfully its fine now, and was easily recitified
Sunday... oh it doesn't end here. The side which TPMA 'pranged' (although to be honest, it was just a small dent, the result of reversing at 3mph) decides to play up with the exhaust, and now I need to spend £250 on a new exhaust cat. and pipe - which now won't be available until tomorrow. GAAAAAAAAAH!
(Small dent, and scrape along side. Swapped insurance details.
Saturday morning, rang up Direct Line. Went through all the gabble over what had happened.
'But Lo'! They cry 'The Present Mrs. Architect isn't on the insurance policy'!
As you can imagine, alarm bells start ringing.
I went on to explain that I knew she was because I had rung on XX date, at roughly XX time (The BT bill proved this) spoke to XXX operator and organised TPMA to be put on the insurance because I had my ankle in plaster, therefore could not drive.
They ummmed and ahhhhed, and wouldn't budge, until I asked them to find the telephone recording of it, and asked for a transcript.
3 hours further on, they came back - full of apologies, and retrospectively put her on the insurance, they had indeed f*cked up 5 weeks previosuly, and hadn't put the info through properly.
it was worrying as she was driving for 5+ weeks without insurance!
Then, saturday afternoon, the driver's side door gets stuck in the 'locked' position - a completely unrelated incident, that takes an hour to get sorted, but not before I have to drive back home with TPMA in the seat behind me holding the drivers side door to as it won't shut... Thankfully its fine now, and was easily recitified
Sunday... oh it doesn't end here. The side which TPMA 'pranged' (although to be honest, it was just a small dent, the result of reversing at 3mph) decides to play up with the exhaust, and now I need to spend £250 on a new exhaust cat. and pipe - which now won't be available until tomorrow. GAAAAAAAAAH!
The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:32,
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Oh you poor sod.Hope things work out soon. :)
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Bela Lugosi's Dad,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:35,
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I'm glad I now just run a very cheap and cheerful old car- The roads in this part of the world don't really warrant anything but a cheap and cheerful old car,
and the price for the exhaust isn't too bad, all things considered, but the direct line thing really wound me up.
(and the price for the exhaust isn't too bad, all things considered, but the direct line thing really wound me up.
The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:36,
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Without wanting to offend call-centre staff presentIt's almost the default position to be in before they've answered the phone. Especially after a problem like that.
( Bela Lugosi's Dad,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:38,
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I've worked in call centres as a student - 2 years of it, and I have great sympathy for what they go through.As well as sales, I was also elevated to the lofty position of debt receovery for Great universal back in student days of old.
- Now THATS an area that requires balls of steel and nerves to match.
BUT, when the chap at the other end of Direct Line - appropriately named 'Sham' says 'Well, you can't claim because she's not insured and then goes on to joke 'Well, good job she didn't get stopped by the coppers, innit"! it just elevated my normal 'composed' demeaour - but I didn't shout - oh no.
(- Now THATS an area that requires balls of steel and nerves to match.
BUT, when the chap at the other end of Direct Line - appropriately named 'Sham' says 'Well, you can't claim because she's not insured and then goes on to joke 'Well, good job she didn't get stopped by the coppers, innit"! it just elevated my normal 'composed' demeaour - but I didn't shout - oh no.
The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:41,
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Ayayay, debt recovery- you poor man.As of yet I've never been involved in it, although the salary for a DR agent is about £5 grand above mine, it seems. At least.
Sorry to hear of your woes, chap.
(Sorry to hear of your woes, chap.
Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:44,
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It's frightening. We're going back to '96/'97 here.worst case scenario dealt with:
Women had catalogues - lots of them - all owned by Gt. Universal (Kays, GU, etc etc)
total credit allowance - £65,000.
She had run up the ENTIRE allowance after building up that credit over 20+ years in a little over 3 months, then didn't pay. It got aound to us, and me specifically.
"But I can't afford to pay all that per week" she wailed.
"What CAN you realistically afford"? I reply.
"£5 a week, no more" - and at the time, we were legally obliged to accept that. She knew it, and we knew it, and it was left at that...
It's no f*ckin wonder the country has ended up in the state it is.
(Women had catalogues - lots of them - all owned by Gt. Universal (Kays, GU, etc etc)
total credit allowance - £65,000.
She had run up the ENTIRE allowance after building up that credit over 20+ years in a little over 3 months, then didn't pay. It got aound to us, and me specifically.
"But I can't afford to pay all that per week" she wailed.
"What CAN you realistically afford"? I reply.
"£5 a week, no more" - and at the time, we were legally obliged to accept that. She knew it, and we knew it, and it was left at that...
It's no f*ckin wonder the country has ended up in the state it is.
The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:48,
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I'm not sure if the law has changed now, I hope to god it has,but at the time, the minimum repayment we could accept, which covered ANY debt, was £5 per week.
The interest on that amount alone meant she'd never pay it off, and probably end up with double the debt by the time she died.
(The interest on that amount alone meant she'd never pay it off, and probably end up with double the debt by the time she died.
The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:52,
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Arg....and I thought I was bad for having spent a total of £452 on my credit card.
( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:52,
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hehthe first credit card I had, I spent like crazy on it, 2 grand in about 3 weeks
took me four years to pay it off
good way of being taught not to get into debt
(took me four years to pay it off
good way of being taught not to get into debt
Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:57,
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I've decided mortgage doesn't count as debtso I'm still doing alright.... :D
( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:58,
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hahah yeahmine's gone right down though, so I'm happy
( Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:01,
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Cunt!I just signed up for another 2 years fixed rate about a month ago :(
But yeah, I agree with Cpt. W - the mortgage is the only debt that I ever want to have...
(But yeah, I agree with Cpt. W - the mortgage is the only debt that I ever want to have...
Barbarossa is not my real name,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:08,
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No it isn't.Not in my team anyway. However I've never worked for an insurer.
( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:43,
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Insurance companies are such fuckersLady S' wouldn't give her the courtesy car she was suppossed to get when cunts smashed her windows because it would take 48 hours to arrange it... the same 48 hours it took to get the car sorted
( Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:38,
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That's not good!:(Well you'll have to get a couple more images in The Sun!
Talking of which how fucking cheeky is this!!!
Totally unshopped. This is what happens if you right click on an image on the Sun site.
(Talking of which how fucking cheeky is this!!!
Totally unshopped. This is what happens if you right click on an image on the Sun site.
riverghost servicing your mum since,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:40,
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Hang on.Isn't lying about copyright ownership all against the law and that?
( Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:45,
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Not if you're a large corporation and ownership is not to another large corporation aparantly. riverghost servicing your mum since,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:48,
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hmmm, dare we have an anti-murdoch compo?
doph no time like the precedent,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:00,
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I think you could really be that specificI think it'd have to be generally against the entire A Team.
( riverghost servicing your mum since,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:03,
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Silly BelaIt clearly says it belongs to News Group Newspaper LTd. How can it be yours?
( riverghost servicing your mum since,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:49,
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pff the old right-click trickhow cunning! how will people ever get rou...oh, Ctrl+Print Screen
( Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:53,
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Can you rally do that?!I've been using tracing paper!
( riverghost servicing your mum since,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 10:55,
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In the advanced javscript settings in firefoxYou can disable a website's ability to replace context menus, so even though you still get that message displayed, the right-click menu then appears and you can save it as normal.
( Barbarossa is not my real name,
Mon 8 Dec 2008, 11:05,
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