You know what boils my piss?
Well, as I get older, virtually everything, I'm afraid.

Seriously though, part of the problem with these wins over authoritah is that you have actually only succeeded in making them do the CUNTING JOB THAT YOU PAY THEM TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE (and breathe...)It's like when you get a tax rebate from the HMRC after 3 hours of your life wasted on/hold/on the website/filling in forms only to realise when you get the cheque that it was always your money in the first place. And do they pay interest? Do they fuck.

The problem here is that the vast majority of us cannot be fucked to actually take our problems to the stage where we actually have to give up our hard-earned time to get what we rightfully own. Companies rely on our "ah, fuck it" factor when something becomes too complicated.

Let me give you an example.

The Carrothusband is one of these weird inbred people who has not past his driving test (car or Honda Accord). As is required and expected, I roundly mock him for his lack of driving skillz. So anyway, he decided to go for lessons with a particular driving school (think of a company that drive bright yellow breakdown trucks). His instructor persuaded him to pay £220 for a block of 15 lessons. Unfortunately, after the 3rd lesson, his instructor either took a seat on the carousel or was abducted by aliens. Basically, he disappeared. The...company refused to accept that Carrothusband had paid £220, even though he had a receipt for it and it went through the...company's central computer. I know. I was there when he phoned up to pay. They refused to offer any more lessons or do anything for him.

It took us 3 cunting months, a good dozen letters, a phonecall to Trading Standards and eventually the threat of legal action before we got to the stage of "you know what - our lives are not worth this." So we let it go. Part of me wishes we hadn't, but you know what...sometimes you just cannot be arsed.

So, please avoid AA Driving School like the plague. They have all the business acumen and customer service abilities of a pile of donkey vomit, without any of its picturesque charm or joie de vivre.
( Undercovercarrot got done for gross misconduct on..., Fri 18 Jun 2010, 16:37, 9 replies)

Just
sue the fuckers.

Not only does it give you a smug feeling of self satifaction when they capitulate (usually just before the court date), but you get your money back (with interest at 8% APR if you start proceedings).

You can even do it online now.

I used to think "It's getting like America, everyone suing everyone", but you go to America and you get excellent service from everyone and his dog.

Here, you get pissed on.
(dchurch bah, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 16:56, closed)

I
absolutely agree. But to be honest with you, it's too much work. I'm just that lazy.
( Undercovercarrot got done for gross misconduct on..., Fri 18 Jun 2010, 17:00, closed)

It's not as hard as you might think
Assuming the money has been owed to you for less than 6 years and you are in England or Wales, I'd consider taking them to the small claims court.

Unless a couple of hundred quid is like small change to you? :)

Advice here: www.adviceguide.org.uk/index/c_starting_court_action.pdf
( in vino veritas, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 21:15, closed)

moneyclaim.gov.uk
(potato123, Tue 22 Jun 2010, 12:53, closed)

The AA driving school are thieves and liars.
They have a guarantee that if their driving instruction is below standard they will refund the cost of the lessons. This is a lie.

I had a man called Cliff. He wouldn't let me turn right, go faster than 10 mph, screamed at me for damaging HIS alloys if I went anywhere the curb and was generally a prize cunt. One day after being screamed at too much I asked to go home, I was feeling so nervous I thought I was going to be sick (being only a mini little girly teenager at the time). He told me he wouldn't be cheated out of money and that we'd sit there and do test theory questions until the lesson was over. We were in the middle of nowhere, he wouldn't let me out of the car and I was absolutely terrified.

What felt like hours later (but was probably only an hour, couldn't go over lesson times!), I got dropped back home. I called the AA as soon as I'd calmed down. They told me they'd get back to me as soon as they got the refund authorised. A couple of weeks later I hadn't heard anything and so called them back. Apparently, you only get your money back if the instructor agrees that the lessons were substandard.

Took me 5 years to get the guts up to get back in the driving seat, then only took me 3 months of weekly lessons before I passed first time.
(Nightviolet, Mon 21 Jun 2010, 15:33, closed)

I feel your pain.
I hate to admit but I once got to the check-in desk at an airport in Southern Spain to find I had managed to use the airline's website to book a return flight one year after the date I wanted.
I'm pretty sure that this ought to be impossible due to company policies but I never persued it.
Now I just spend less on gadgets and use KLM, SAS and other reputable airlines rather than Jet2.
(Me, I'm not... in any way intoxicated, Fri 18 Jun 2010, 18:05, closed)

I thought Jet2
Just did freight?

At least the jacks they buy from us are for freight aircraft...
( snee held his breath since, Mon 21 Jun 2010, 13:52, closed)

Umm...
www.jet2.com/

Maybe now we know why they are so cheap!
( Undercovercarrot got done for gross misconduct on..., Mon 21 Jun 2010, 14:48, closed)

Have a click
For reminding me yet again why I have absolutely no desire to learn how to drive
(williamthebloody, Mon 21 Jun 2010, 22:56, closed)