I received an item I'd ordered from the US valued at $25. According to HMRC their July exchange rate valued this in Sterling at £15.88 - therefore liable (by 88p) for Import VAT of £3.17. That's not so bad, however Royal Mail then decided to apply an £8 international handling charge. Outrageous! Not only is this vastly disproportional to the value of the item, it doubled the eventual cost of my purchase. Continue reading "Buying from the States? Beware of Royal Mail charges!"
Category: Corporate Nonsense
Some open feedback to Vue Westfield Stratford City
When I was in London in 2012 for the Olympics, I went to watch a couple of films (and paid handsomely) at the (brand new) Westfield Vue cinema. Wasn't too impressed. Here's some feedback I also emailed to them...
[20/08/2012: Vue responded, click through for the reply.]
Have you been to Vue Westfield recently? Any thoughts on whether it's improved, stayed the same or got worse? Let me know in the comments.
Continue reading "Some open feedback to Vue Westfield Stratford City"
SED #9: Intelligent Environments Europe Limited
This is a real gem. Brucie Bonus: the company's domain is IE.com.
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SED #8: Oxfam AND Tower Hamlets Council!
A double whammy for our eighth instalment. How exciting. Check out this delightful conjoinment of two equally useless disclaimers, tastefully done in Times New Roman:
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Not only did the last sentence not have any ending punctuation, three screens-worth of whitespace followed. Either someone unplugged the user's keyboard or the mailserver died of boredom whilst sending, exactly which we shall never know.