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    • Hello,

      On 15/1/24 booked appointment with Big Motoring World (BMW) to view a mini on 17/1/24 at 8pm at their Enfield dealership.  

      Car was dirty and test drive was two circuits of roundabout on entry to the showroom.  Was p/x my car and rushed by sales exec and a manager into buying the mini and a 3yr warranty that night, sale all wrapped up by 10pm.  They strongly advised me taking warranty out on car that age (2017) and confirmed it was honoured at over 500 UK registered garages.

      The next day, 18/1/24 noticed amber engine warning light on dashboard , immediately phoned BMW aftercare team to ask for it to be investigated asap at nearest garage to me. After 15 mins on hold was told only their 5 service centres across the UK can deal with car issues with earliest date for inspection in March ! Said I’m not happy with that given what sales team advised or driving car. Told an amber warning light only advisory so to drive with caution and call back when light goes red.

      I’m not happy to do this, drive the car or with the after care experience (a sign of further stresses to come) so want a refund and to return the car asap.

      Please can you advise what I need to do today to get this done. 
       

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    • We have finally managed to obtain the transcript of this case.

      The judge's reasoning is very useful and will certainly be helpful in any other cases relating to third-party rights where the customer has contracted with the courier company by using a broker.
      This is generally speaking the problem with using PackLink who are domiciled in Spain and very conveniently out of reach of the British justice system.

      Frankly I don't think that is any accident.

      One of the points that the judge made was that the customers contract with the broker specifically refers to the courier – and it is clear that the courier knows that they are acting for a third party. There is no need to name the third party. They just have to be recognisably part of a class of person – such as a sender or a recipient of the parcel.

      Please note that a recent case against UPS failed on exactly the same issue with the judge held that the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 did not apply.

      We will be getting that transcript very soon. We will look at it and we will understand how the judge made such catastrophic mistakes. It was a very poor judgement.
      We will be recommending that people do include this adverse judgement in their bundle so that when they go to county court the judge will see both sides and see the arguments against this adverse judgement.
      Also, we will be to demonstrate to the judge that we are fair-minded and that we don't mind bringing everything to the attention of the judge even if it is against our own interests.
      This is good ethical practice.

      It would be very nice if the parcel delivery companies – including EVRi – practised this kind of thing as well.

       

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January this year my very old but very trusted Fijitsu Siemens Laptop blew up. it wasn't the lappy but the charger that took the lappy out :sad face: So I got on to the insurance company and they sent me £360 in comet vouchers for the replacment. I wasn't extatic by the amount but as depreciation sets in and the laptop was old I accepted. Anyway, off I went to buy a lappy only to find out that in Comet at that time I couldn't really buy a great laptop without adding money to it and at that time just after christmas I didn't have the kind of money available at a drop of a hat for the many Apple Airbooks they had on display so I looked a little on the lower budget end shall we say........

 

Acer!

 

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And the thing is I still had to put money towards it!

 

The problems I am having at the moment with this lappy is unbelivable.

It runs when it wants too, it over heats when it fancy's it and shuts down because its been online for more than 1 hour at a time.

 

I was wondering where do I stand with my rights as a consumer?

 

I phoned up Comet who told me I had to phone Acer but I was led to believe that it's Comet who have to do whatever it is they have to do to sort the problems out. I phoned Acer, needless to say I got through to their customer support in India who was reading from a screen and really didn't understand the problem. Acer are in plympton, Devon. I live about 20miles from them and wondered would it be worth going there? but then I thought it is Comet who need to deal with this problem and not Acer?!

 

Basically i'd like my money back but I don't think that would happen. but i'm not sure its a repairably job as it seems to me like its a manufacturing fault as the laptop isn't well vented to let the heat escape? I don't know really i'm no lappy expert.

 

What should I do to resovle the problem?

 

Thanks.

 

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you are correct it is comet who have to deal with the problem, I think you realise they only want to take your money

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I work for a retailer that sells this model,the overheating is sometimes a result of updates changing power management settings causing the unit to pull more power and the overheating issue.It doesn't just effect your model,one of which I have myself.There was a bios upgrade on Acer software/support section to resolve this issue. Question is most Comet stores don't have internet access and may have directed you to Acer tech support who would have talked you through the process meaning you wouldn't have been without your laptop while it was sent away.

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i would in all honesty look at installing and running

 

fanspeed

 

that will tell you that it IS overheating and atleast you can start from there.

 

once you have confirmed this, we have comet on-board here at CAG and we can refer you to them.

 

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