Saturday, March 31st, 2007 at 11:04 pm
I’ve got a quick tip that could be a moneysaver for anyone who buys on Ebay, that’s everyone isn’t it?.
If you go to www.auctiontypo.com you have the option to enter any search term for items on Ebay. You can choose which Ebay country you want to look at. The clever thing is that this will do a search for misspelled items on ebay and there are lots. The moneysaving part is that misspelled items usually sell much cheaper because buyers don’t easily find them because of the spelling errors.
Check it out. It’s a free service. Here..> Auction Typos
Friday, March 30th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
The BACS system for making online bank payments fell over this week because of a software problem.
400,000 may not get their wages paid into their accounts before Monday because of this problem. Hopefully banks will be understanding of this problem for people and not wack them with charges because of it.
Seeing as most of the banking system runs on auto-pilot it would seem likely that the banking systems computers will be sending out thousands of overdrawn account letters automatically as peoples mortgages and other direct debits try to go through the system.
Hopefully those banks will automatically cancel the charges but even if they do there will be a lot of people having difficulties over the next few days because they will be unable to withdraw money from ATM machines. The pubs may be a bit quieter than usual tonight. 
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It just goes to show how fragile our modern society really is. One small computer glitch and 400,000 people suffer.
Thursday, March 29th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Stephen Hone who is one of the partners who set up the Penaltycharges.co.uk web site has set up a petition on the No10 Downing Street. The wording of the petition is as follows:-
This petition is to ask the government to bring in legislation that prevents banks or any company offering finance, or credit agreements from applying charges (Penalty charges) for items as Bounced DDs, bounced cheques going overdrawn, late payment or charges alike. We ask that the Government bring in legislation that before any company can apply such charges to a consumer that a Court, must rule that the level of charges outlined in the contracts that a company/organisation wishes to present to a consumer, is fair and reasonable and is compatible with the UTCCR. This will also better protect the consumer and the vulnerable who’s only cause of action at the moments is to start legal proceeding against the company that has applied such charges. It will force companies to legally prove that their contacts are fair and transparent. we request that parliament make it a criminal offence for any Bank or company to take such charges from state benefits without a court approval/order
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I would encourage you to look at this and if you feel it appropriate to sign it. It’s a simple process of filling in a few details about who you are and your email address and then confirming by clicking a link in an email that will be sent to you.
That’s it. Job done.
Here the link
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Penaltycharges/
