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join the "Hate GE Money CLUB" on GE Money - incompetance and downright lies

I have got a car loan from them 2 years ago and now i know that i have made the biggest MISTAKE in my life. when someone called me in regards of my loan has been approved. They told me it will be 18.9% but when i've got into the office, the paper work said i need to paid 29.9%, i have refused to sign so that stupid woman said, it must be a misprint, i go and double check, she came back 1/2 hour later, it down to 19.9%. i think whoever go in and do the paperwork, i do recommand double check before you sign anything. When i ask that woman some question, she dont' know, can't answer or disappear. This whole company are soooooooooo Fxxxxk.....dont' go there.

Posted on 11 March 2010 at 2:32 PM

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I hate GE Money on GE Money - incompetance and downright lies

GE Money is the worst option to chose if you need money. I still paying them for $2000. The total amount that i should pay them is $3500

Posted on 10 March 2010 at 9:17 PM

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Andrew Bowden on Bods's Cookbook Collection

I really like the Waitrose ones, however it's been six years since I lived near a Waitrose store! Last ones I bought were Cauldron Foods - alright but not brilliant.

All sausages also have to pass the "Catherine test" - she's probably more fussy on veggie sos than I am. Not surprising. There are some very bad vegetarian sausages out there (I'm looking at you Linda McCartney!) although to be fair, there's lots of very bad meat ones too!

I'm not sure I have enough recipes of my own to do a book - mind you, I have adapted a few of other peoples in interesting ways. And isn't that what most chefs do anyway?!

Posted on 8 March 2010 at 7:16 PM

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RJG on Bods's Cookbook Collection

May I recommend http://www.redwoodfoods.co.uk/ for the sausages? Some good things there. But you have to stay in for the delivery. And the items are often short-dated.

But other than that, I recommend them wholeheartedly.

Also: blurb.com for publishing your recipes as a book if you're so inclined and have photos.

Posted on 8 March 2010 at 7:07 PM

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Sue Hibberd on No Video. Just a big blue box instead.

Re Teletext on Channels 3 and 4 after 15.16 December 2009,
So now all Tletext provides on analogue is
Phone and Text Alerts, Racing and Bookmakers, Holidays, NHS Choices Health and Directgov, and details of DSO including Teletext Ltd's Freeview channels, BBC Ceefax is definitely the main anaolgue text provider on British Television.

Are there now any plans to delete Ceefax page 629 in the next few weeks as BBC Wales Cymru will complete DSO on 31 March 2010?

Posted on 23 February 2010 at 11:44 AM

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Francis Cook on The future of TV is... TV

As someone who worked on an On Demand system, I'm not convinced. iPlayer is (as the lone comment on the BBC article you reference also says) Catch-up TV. By inference this will enhance linear especially if the linear content repeats often (Dr. Who I'm looking at you!). I would say you need someone else from other On Demand environments to comment in order to really see what the effect is.

As content producers start releasing content to On Demand at the same time as DVD, you will see a movement to more On Demand orientated viewing. From experience in Europe, it appears that On Demand reduces churn, and that releasing serial or episodic content is a big draw (yes, bad form, no reference).

The big change is when Original content goes to the On Demand system first or when it is used as a value add. For an example think of a Film Four On Demand portal that would contain related films and maybe films that could be released earlier, directors editions, extras, other information.

On Demand will take over, the question is, in what form and what will happen to broadcast ? Will broadcast be re-purposed to serve more niche or specialised markets (News, Bloomberg, Sports), and is VoD purely a TV dominated experience ? Look at the Escapist Magazine (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/) if you want a Web style mix of "channel" and "VoD".

Posted on 18 February 2010 at 4:13 PM

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COLLECTIONS HARASSMENT on GE Money - incompetance and downright lies

GE MONEY & LOEWS FINANCIAL have been harassing me for the past several weeks attempting to collect a debt for an account holder with the same first and last name as mine, but is not me, nor my debt. First of all, I have never applied for a LOEWS credit card, nor have I ever owned one. I am not even a home owner, so not much home improvement going on at my place by me. I originally received a letter attempting to collect a debt in the amount of $935.00. I was surprised to receive the letter knowing I had never owned or applied for services through GE, or LOEWS. That day I ran my credit (and paid the credit site fees out of pocket) to see if someone had stolen my identity and was attempting to use my information to obtain services and credit. I was pleased to find that nothing was reporting to my credit from LOEWS or GE MONEY. I then called GE MONEY & LOEWS FINANCIAL at the number posted on the letter. I informed them that I didn't think they had the correct individual, and they asked to confirm my social security number. I gave them the last 4 digits, which DID NOT match the SS# they had in their collection records. I then asked to confirm the additional information on the account to see if they had my phone number, or address. According to the rep, they additional information did not match mine either. She stated that it appeared to be a mix up, and that they most likely found my information through "skip tracing" and that she would remove my info and note on the account what she had found. I then wrote what she had advised me to on the letter and returned it as instructed. She stated I SHOULDN'T be getting any more mail or communication regarding the matter. I felt like matters had been addressed accordingly and gave it no more thought, until...

I received yet another letter, and another, and another in the same week. All four letters came after our conversation, so I assumed they were already in the mail, called GE MONEY to tell them that I was still getting mail and send the additional letters back as I did the first time exactly as they instructed me to. Again, the rep told me I shouldn't be getting any more letters, and that she had COMPLETELY removed my info from their system (which apparently didn't match what they had on record, that they magically denied having every time I called about the letters).

So, the next week I was happy to see that no more letters came from GE MONEY or LOEWS FINANCIAL. However, at this time they started in with the harassing phone calls. So, I had finally gotten the letter issue handled and they started calling me instead. The issue I have here is that I gave them my phone information so they wouldn't call me, and then I started getting calls, so it was easy to assume that they had started using the information I gave them to continue to harass me for a debt that isn't even owed by me, or anyone I know. I nicely requested each time they called me that they review their notes on the account and that they kindly see that I stop getting these types of calls, and that it was getting pretty old after having received an average of 4 calls a day to my cell phone over the course of the week. Each time I got a new rep who called me, I told them the same thing, and was as polite as I could be (not my typical reaction to these mistakes, but I was trying to be nice). Each time I was assured that my information was out of their system, and that they have no record of me in it, and that I wouldn't be receiving any more calls to my cell phone. At that time, I was under the impression that things were handled and that I wouldn't be getting any more calls. Not so lucky...

The next week, and weekend. I was again surprised (getting harder though since now nothing would surprise me from these people) to get another call, this time it was on my home phone, which I don't even give out or use for any reason. The other funny thing, is that my phone bill for my house isn't even in my name, it's in my roommates name. I was literally steaming as I was trying to spend Valentines Day with my sweetheart and during our movie, the damn COMCAST caller id kept popping up saying it's GE MONEY calling. Arggg. At this point I had had enough from these people, and felt like it was not borderline harassment anymore, but was now full-fledged harassment. I immediately phoned the number that was calling. I asked to speak with a supervisor, got a new person, asked to speak with their supervisor. When I finally got to the person who told me they were as high as I could go, I explained what was happening (basically everything I wrote above) and that I was not happy at this point about the way this matter was being dealt with. I then told the rep that if I got even ONE MORE call, period, that I was going to write reviews and pursue the harassment by any means necessary including via my State's Attorney General (Rob McKenna), the Better Business Bureau (BBB), the FTC and Online through review sites, blogs, forums, Twitter, Youtube, etc. and any other way I could find. She nicely listened to my rant and assured me that AGAIN, FOR THE TENTH TIME, that I WOULDN'T receive any more calls, either on my cell or at home. And that after 30 minutes I FOR SURE wouldn't be getting any more calls to any of my numbers. She also attempted to transfer me to the Fraud Dept. so that I could have them investigate the matter form their end. I am not sure why she suggested that, but figured any one I could get to remove my information on their end would be better than taking their word for it. So, during the transfer I got cut off, had to phone back and wait forever to get back where I was. Finally got through and turns out the Fraud Dept isn't even open on weekends. I decided to give them one more chance at this point and went on with my Valentines Day. Did not get any more calls thank heavens.

First thing on Monday, I phoned the Fraud Dept. to follow up with what the rep and I had spoken about on Sunday. I got on with a very nice gal at the Fraud Dept. that was nice and seemed very helpful. She informed me that it wasn't Fraud, that it was a mix up due to the fact that they skip trace for information that may or may not match information they have on record for their accounts. She kept using the word skip trace. To me this whole scenario seemed weird. And had never had anything like that happen before in my 28 years. She also assured me that my info would be cleared on her end, and that I shouldn't be getting any more calls, unless they run another skip trace and end up with my information again. I told her that wasn't acceptable, and if they were going to use random information like that, that they needed to have a way of removing information that was deemed to be invalid for their actual account holder, that way, people like me wouldn't be getting harassed like I had been. She said she couldn't do anything and that she had removed my information and that I need not worry about calls.

Less than 30 minutes later, on Monday I got another call from GE MONEY and LOEWS FINANCIAL on my cell phone. "Are you kidding me?" I asked. Needless to say, I was not nice to the last person, I told them that this call was the straw that broke it for me, and that I was going to follow through with my promise to report them, review them, and plaster my story all over the Internet. So, that's what I'm doing. I usually don't even write reviews online, nor do I have time to do such things. I just really feel like this is all wrong and that if I don't speak up it might continue to happen to me, and others out there.

If you find yourself in a similar situation with GE MONEY and LOEWS FINANCIAL don't wait as long as I did to start speaking up. Seriously, I tried to be nice and it doesn't cut it with these collection people. If I were you, and had it to do over again, I would have reported it to my State's Attorney General, BBB, FTC and all over the Internet from the beginning. Take my work for it, the squeaky wheel tends to get the grease.

Posted on 15 February 2010 at 8:15 PM

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MC Curry on Letters to the Editor: January 2010

Please bring back button moon!

P.s. I'm with my mate MC Inferno.

Posted on 14 February 2010 at 3:54 PM

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ryan on Estate Agents

realising reality- Your petition idea is totally unrealistic.the reason prices are often over inflated lies with the fact that some agents go in with a higher price just to get the instruction and the naive vendor sees pounds signs and goes with that agent and then sits on the market for months and reduces the price to what it should be and sells.

Posted on 6 February 2010 at 7:02 AM

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Bob (Dublin, Ireland ) on Scotch Steak Houses - Evil With A Green Sign

Wish we had read the above comments before 30/01/2010, as we were a party of seven hungry tourists who unfortunately entered a Scotch Steak House at 117-119 Queensway,London W2 and utterly destroyed a night out. At first they refused to move an adjacent table ( 2 seats ) approx 18inches to join 3 side by side tables ( 6 seats ) so the seven of us could sit at the same table, some crazy excuse that the table would not balance ! (we should have left then). Alas we stayed and ordered refreshments, starters, and main courses. The drinks arrived and after a delay the starters arrived. The main courses did not arrive until approx 1 houir later after several complaints to both staff and "manager" , and the real pity is that they arrived at all, they were disasterous and no condiments or sauces on the table. At bill time we queried what "cover charge" shown on bill was and we were first told it was for seating, then for sauces, ketchup,salt,pepper, (This is not a joke,I have no punchline) We advised the "manager" that no service charge or cover charge would be paid and that his eatery was a disgrace. He replied that he was not the owner, but the "manager" and was not responsible for anything. We will be advising any aquaintances travelling from Dublin to London, to avoid this dump at all costs.
The previous evening we had enjoyed a "feast" with marvellous service and food at a premises called Khans in the same area, so obviously not all "managers" in this area are charlatans.

Posted on 1 February 2010 at 3:49 PM

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bill turner on Scotch Steak Houses - Evil With A Green Sign

hi i'm from the u.s and visited london over the new year, out one evening i decided to eat at the scotch steak house on the strand, i thought the service was very warm and the food was actually very satisfactory and reading some of the comments from above the restaurant was very busy, full in fact.
maybe jealousy rings out here!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted on 1 February 2010 at 6:16 AM

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Moray on Vegetarian Iceland

A very good review!

I've just come back from Iceland, and Á Næstu Grösum was indeed very good. The service was good, and it was nice to get my meal straight away rather than having to wait.

I found that I had no trouble at all finding vegetarian food in Iceland, and I probably even ate better than I do at home (then again, I stayed in Reykjavík the whole time.

Sushibarinn, on Laugevegur, did a lovely vegetarian sushi selection with a generous supply of dipping sauce. I'd certainly recommend it if you like sushi.

There is also a vegetarian cafe in one of the art galleries at the harbour called Suppubarinn. I had a lovely carrot and coconut soup there, and I was offered more bread if I wanted it.

The National Gallery of Iceland had a nice cafe as well, I had more soup there as well, this time with sweet potato. The lady in the cafe sprinkled some nuts on top so it certainly had enough protein!

I was dying to try out skyr, but I heard it was made with rennet. Luckily, I found out that one brand is vegetarian, so I tried three different flavours - very nice!

It was good to read your review, as I have been wondering about the availability of vegetarian food outside of Reykjavík. I'll definitely go back to Iceland, so it's nice to know that I won't be stuck if I travel the country.

Posted on 15 January 2010 at 5:31 AM

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Rosie Too on Freesat Website

We have a problem... please advise... we live in a house where we arenot supposed to put up tv aerials. This said most of us have had sky installed at some time. The old wired aerials system is not working therefore we wish to have freesat rather than continuing paying to sky. Can we use the sky dish to plug in freesat or will we have to have a freesat aerial installed?

Posted on 6 January 2010 at 12:52 PM

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Realising Reality on Estate Agents

I've started a petition to No10 about estate agents - given the tenderness of the market, which is partly their fault.

It suggests that if agents give free appraisals, they should be committed to purchasing the house at the price they name, if they can't find a buyer within say 4 months max.

That should make initial asking prices bear a close resemblance to current values?

Anyone in agreement - please sign, ta

http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Ctrl-overpricing/

Posted on 23 December 2009 at 12:45 PM

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Wren on Well I'm not moving - the problems caused by ignoring train seat reservations

Worst is those operators like Virgin and Southern who have been known to change display to reserved during journey. So, when you had the opportunity to select a vacant seat at start of journey, there would be some surprise to find at some later station the person claiming your seat pointing to a display stating reserved. To have a manageable system, train operators should use a competent display software to scroll all reservations during journey.

Posted on 17 December 2009 at 11:20 PM

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Sarah on Vegetarian Iceland

I'm heading off to Iceland on Sunday morning, as my honeymoon (getting married on Saturday!) ... and am thankful I found this ahead of my departure! Nice job writing about your experiences, and thoughtful to put this info out there for vegetarian travellers! Sarah

Posted on 17 December 2009 at 2:13 PM

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