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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. 
       

      Many thanks 
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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.

       

      OT APPROVED, 365MC637, FAROOQ, EVRi, 12.07.23 (BRENT) - J v4.pdf
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A few months ago we were a four Kindle family. Two got the alas-well-documented-in-hindsight screen problems & then there were two. MiddleSon, in the middle of the first Game Of Thrones book was distraught - and in a benevolent gesture I loaded the series onto My Kindle & lent the caboose to him. I missed my kindle.

 

When he was in school & I was sat waiting for the car to be fixed, I had to arrange temporary reposession. The app on the phone was a huge help but sometimes you need the phone to work as a phone & your eyes appreciate a slightly larger target area.So when I heard Blackwells was selling an ebook reader for under £30, I investigated.

 

 

A bog standard nook not only was affordable, I could add a microSD card & vastly expand its library. (Well, so I thought. If you can read stuff off the chip, *I* haven't figured how yet.) Also I had to convert my chosen reading from mobi to epub - not that big a deal thanks to Calibre. (Free software, but lawabiding - DRM & it won't play without some fairly nifty footwork.)

 

 

A couple of months in & I'm very happy with the nook. Barnes & Noble email me each week with nice expensive ideas & I take notes & ask my net-running pals if they can find me anything by X, or title Q in epub. (I calibre stuff in exchange - they love the hunt, I the conversion to readable.)

So I now find myself with two libraries, three ebook readers & I wouldn't change it, As It Works For Us. Should YoungestSon want an ebookreader again I'll nudge him towards the nook as he likes the stylus & I like the price. The nook has a touchscreen which strikes me as more fragile, somehow - yet is encased in a nice solid rubber housing so it can cope with being shoved in a pocket.

 

 

If you want to try an ebook reader, and can't quite face the kindle entry price (plus the risk of same again in 13 months), get a nook at it's discounted (not list!) price & see how you go!If m'father tries to palm his old Kobo off to us though I'll kick - he got the cheap-with-ads model & we see enough advertising without contaminating our reading with it!

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A friend of mine has a nook and wouldnt swap it.

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I've got a small Kobo as a spare (got that when WH Smiths had them cheap) and am looking for a Kindle replacement, mine was bought in Feb 2011 and is very well used (and travelled).

 

I have some books however that don't read well on a Kindle as the font is very feint... might try a conversion with Calibre.

 

I will have a look at the Nook over the weekend and see if I like it. Trouble is there isn't a Barnes and Noble near me so might have to go into central London. No major hassle as I work at London Bridge.

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My wife has had a Binatone for years and not had a single problem with it. Not many days pass without her nose buried in it. The memory card makes life simpler but isn't a necessity as the memory is enough to hold all Nora Roberts books and others.

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i use a samsung tab 2 with aldiko, very good, can change background and text colour etc

 

and calibre is great alot of people share their collections online with it

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I've never used a kindle or an ebook reader.

 

I use a free app called Cool Reader (after trying various others) on my Note 3. It's actually really good with lots of options & extras.

 

I love being able to have a read of my current book where ever I am!

I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every single minute of it!!

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