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									 <description><![CDATA[ Have you been ripped off? Had a bad consumer experience that you want to get off your chest? You've come to the right blog.This is the place to let off steam about scams, swizzes and rip-offs that you've come across.  And it doesn't have to be illegal to make you angry. If you've been treated badly by your bank, had a shopping trip from hell or suffered at the hands of an airline, we want to hear from you.  If it's happened to one of us, the chances are it's happened to some of you too. If you want to tell us about your experiences, just add your comments at the bottom of this blog. ]]></description>		<language>en-uk</language>
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										</image><item><title>30p makes me so mad!</title><description><![CDATA[ I can't believe I've got so worked up over 30p but it's the principle of the thing!!  I had to go to Cardiff on Sunday night (lovely place by the way - great for a weekend away). I got a cab at the station to take me to my hotel. Getting the cab was an experience - they're all in a jumble at the station and I couldn't work out why the driver who told me to pile in was the next one - he didn't seem to be next.  When we got to the hotel and he stopped the charge screen said £4.40. I had a £20 note in my purse but I knew I had a £5 note in my pocket so I searched around for it so that he wouldn't have to use up his change.  When I found it, blow me if the charge wasn't £4.70! I said 'how come?' and he said it was 'waiting time'. Waiting time!! I said how was this? I was just looking for a £5 note - that's not waiting time! I said it was not legal and how dare he. He said it was legal and I had to pay it.  I then insisted on taking his licence number and registration number which he let me do. The]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:30:38 PST</pubDate><guid>http://www.moneymagpie.com/blogpost/rip-off-britain/30p-makes-me-so-mad</guid></item><item><title>Fight against consumer quality!</title><description><![CDATA[ Adding to Serena's blog about bank fees is the continuing fight against the quality of the items you buy. So many people just buy clothes, shoes, stationary, and other bits and bobs which after a week, a month, or a bit longer, just don't live up to the standards that you required when purchasing the product.  The great thing is that we do have law to cover us from being ripped-off as a consumer - check out the  Scamwatch  article for more - and I took that on with great power last week.  I'm free to admit I don't have a lot of money these days, and when I do it goes on the important things. So when four of my five pairs of new tights from Marks &amp; Spencer ripped each day I wore a pair I was not happy.  They were supposedly ladder-free, and neither pair tore in the same area, which just tells me they were flimsy all over. Granted they were the £3.50 box of cheap M&amp;S brand 15 denier tights, but they still don't say &quot;single use only&quot; or &quot;just because you buy these cheapies]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 8:34:22 PDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.moneymagpie.com/blogpost/rip-off-britain/fight-against-consumer-quality</guid></item><item><title>Moving mayhem and madness</title><description><![CDATA[ I&#8217;ve just moved into a new flat and frankly I&#8217;ve found the whole process comparable to climbing Everest.  Everyone knows that moving is a stressful business, but my situation was certainly not helped by having the additional problem of, as my landlord put it, &#8216;the most incompetent estate agents known to man&#8217;.  They were incredibly polite and obliging right up until my flatmates and I gave them our initial deposit. As soon as they were assured of our business however, things rapidly began to go downhill.  It still pains me to go into all the infuriating details, but needless to say no-one in their office ever knew what was going on with our property. Everyone who worked there was seemingly incapable of passing on messages to their colleagues, and a lot of the time, no-one bothered to answer the phone at all.  After having crucial details (including our moving dates) frequently changed at the last minute, and then finding out from our landlord afterwards that they had]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 8:51:50 PDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.moneymagpie.com/blogpost/rip-off-britain/moving-mayhem-and-madness</guid></item><item><title>Fight back against fees!</title><description><![CDATA[ Last week, I received a bank letter that made me angry. In fact, for a good few minutes I was huffing and puffing around my flat doing a passable impression of Victor Meldrew.  This letter informed me that my annual overdraft review had just taken place. This was a surprise in itself, as - after banking with these chaps for ten years - this was the first I'd heard of any such review.  Anyway, in a nutshell, it had been decided that my overdraft would stay the same for the next 12 months. The same amount interest-free, and the same overall limit. So no changes, no alterations.  As my overdraft suits my needs fairly well, everything in the garden seemed to be rosy. Until, that is, I got to the last sentence of the letter. A tiny phrase - nestling coyly at the bottom on the final page - told me that a £25 'arrangement fee' would be deducted from my account.  HUH? I'm being charged that for WHAT? A letter?  I spent a fruitless ten minutes on the phone to my bank's call centre, trying to pin down]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 6:20:21 PDT</pubDate><guid>http://www.moneymagpie.com/blogpost/rip-off-britain/fight-back-against-fees</guid></item></channel></rss>