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	<title>Crass Stupidity</title>
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	<description>Ineptitude from the Corporate World</description>
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		<title>Sky and Domestic &amp; General Services Ltd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m getting more than a little bit pissed off with unsolicited, nuisance telephone calls on a daily basis from a company called Domestic &#38; General Services Limited who claim to call on behalf of Sky TV. Their number for those of you doing a Google search is 0800 1218143.
Contrary to what you may read elsewhere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crass-stupidity.com/2010/02/24/sky-and-domestic-general-services-ltd/</link>
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		<title>More Dodgy Invoices From 1&amp;1&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, they&#8217;re at it again: 1&#38;1 Internet are again invoicing me for domain names that:

Are not due for renewal anyway; and
Were transferred away to a different host ages ago &#8211; see this link for proof.

Maybe it&#8217;s time to get trading standards involved? I had to threaten to report them to the police for fraud before [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crass-stupidity.com/2010/02/22/more-dodgy-invoices-from-11/</link>
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		<title>DVLA Registrations Fail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m looking to buy a plonker plate through the DVLA Registrations website. This requires you to set up an account and log in. So this morning I registered on the site which then immediately fell over:
&#8220;service unavailable
sorry&#8230;
This service is temporarily unavailable. Your last action cannot be completed and details have not been recorded.
If you have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crass-stupidity.com/2010/02/18/dvla-registrations-fail/</link>
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		<title>Credit? What Credit?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fed up as I am with Barclays&#8217; Currency Call Account &#8211; you give them your US Dollars, they may or may not charge you a fee for paying them into a US Dollar account, they give you no interest, no paying-in books, no cheques or cards and then they charge you a fee for taking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crass-stupidity.com/2010/02/17/credit-what-credit/</link>
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		<title>On The Buses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I live in Rotherhithe, SE London and I am &#8217;served&#8217; by the C10 and 381 bus routes.
Oh dear!
http://www.valshawcross.com/index.php?id=78&#38;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=475&#38;tx_ttnews[backPid]=8&#38;cHash=e505d2fd4e
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view/4221
It&#8217;s not looking good, is it?
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		<link>http://www.crass-stupidity.com/2010/02/16/on-the-buses/</link>
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		<title>K I M S Plumbers Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well as the heating had gone off I thought we should take a look at the boiler ourselves and the work that K I M S Plumbers had done. As we expected, it had lost pressure, so we needed to repressurise  it. And then that&#8217;s when we saw this:

Yes, that&#8217;s been left disconnected&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.crass-stupidity.com/2010/02/13/k-i-m-s-plumbers-revisited/</link>
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		<title>K I M S Plumbers in Chesterfield</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a bunch of incompetents these are. And then to make things worse, they also employ sarcastic chavs to answer the telephone (01246 554237) and ask whether you &#8211; the customer &#8211; are experts because you have said they could just get the parts at your local Plumb Centre.
That&#8217;s after they&#8217;ve played you &#8220;Alone&#8221; by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crass-stupidity.com/2010/02/13/k-i-m-s-plumbers-in-chesterfield/</link>
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		<title>Santander</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, I had a savings account with Bradford &#38; Bingley. On 29 September 2008 Bradford &#38; Bingley&#8217;s savings accounts were transferred to Abbey. On January 11 2010 these were rebranded to Santander, who are one of the biggest banks around. On the basis of my experience tonight, I have no idea why.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crass-stupidity.com/2010/02/10/santander/</link>
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		<title>Apple iFad, sorry, iPad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So Apple has unveiled its new iPad, a tablet of around the same size as a netbook PC but at twice the price, as usual, because people who like Macs are prepared to pay for the pleasure.
What you get for at least $500 &#8211; so £500 in the UK, then &#8211; will be a glorified [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crass-stupidity.com/2010/01/29/apple-ifad-sorry-ipad/</link>
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		<title>Another Tesco.com Non-Delivery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oops! They did it again. After the recent debacle with Tesco cancelling my groceries delivery after the expiry of their two hour delivery slot, I placed another order at the weekend for delivery tonight between 8.00pm and 10.00pm.
And guess what? Yes, they rang me at 9.20pm and cancelled tonight&#8217;s delivery leaving me without food and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.crass-stupidity.com/2010/01/19/another-tesco-com-non-delivery/</link>
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