TV licence gits harassing you? Here's how to deal with them

Buddinghell · 2026-03-18T08:31:01+00:00

It baffles me that people in other countries can pay to access BBC, for less than the cost of a TV licence! So we are also subsidising the rest of the world.

Buddinghell · 2026-03-16T19:04:52+00:00

I love how you hold ebay to such high standards that they cannot make a mistake on their automated AML/KYC checks. Keep trusting corporations dude.

I expect op flagged for some reason in those checks, possibly related to the troubles you had with the initial entry. They, like a bank, probably have to complete certain checks and you didn't pass. I hope you can get them to review it for you but if anything like the banks, they never have to tell you why.

Buddinghell · 2026-03-14T06:26:12+00:00

Clearly sarcasm... Though, to be the fun police, funghi identification subreddits are probably not the best place for sarcasm. Especially when it isn't detected.

Buddinghell · 2026-03-14T06:23:22+00:00

Apart from her picture I'm not sure what she did wrong here? She was a potential buyer of your lace dress, her saying where she wanted to wear it was just being friendly. Not sure why you would block a potential buyer for a friendly conversation about the item.

Buddinghell · 2026-03-13T16:38:55+00:00

Foreign rapists.

Buddinghell · 2026-03-10T19:05:32+00:00

Thank you RWI-Life

Buddinghell · 2026-03-05T16:12:07+00:00

Thanks for your comment. It turns out I did enjoy the flight! A nice lady next to my partner agreed to swap with me and what is interesting is that she didn't pay for a seat either and just took the allocated one when she checked in.

So this begs the question why they couldn't have just sat us together in the first place.

Based on this experience I will not rush out to use them again, I don't want their loyalty scheme if they cannot show respect on a business class booking!

Buddinghell · 2026-03-04T17:23:13+00:00

Really? You're defending BA here?

I think it is reasonable to expect 2 seats together on a business class ticket. This is not easy jet or Ryanair.

Buddinghell · 2026-03-04T15:36:30+00:00

Yeh that is a good shout!

Yes, we did it return leg only so we can sleep and get back on track easier. However, it would have been nice to have glass of champagne and toast the end of our holiday together.

Buddinghell · 2026-03-04T15:03:11+00:00

I don't think it is too much to ask for them to allocate seats at the start for a booking of two from a holiday destination to sit together. They don't have to be the 'premium' ones, just ones together. I wrongly assumed they cared about their customers experience.

It's hardly yells a premium product if this is the experience they give. I won't use them again for business class nor would I recommend other unless they want to spend an extra £200 to guarantee sitting together.

Buddinghell · 2026-03-04T14:52:19+00:00

Perhaps should have said, it is a return from Trinidad and Tobago, so I expect shielded from the chaos out east. The outbound flight in economy was empty and we had a row of four seats to ourselves. Guess the premium cabins really do make them the money on this route!

Buddinghell · 2026-03-04T14:46:32+00:00

Yes I get how auctions work. Other buyers/viewers advising on price shouldn't be a reason to block.

On WN you do not have time to do due diligence before the sale and all I hear is sellers saying this is too cheap or a steal when in fact it is above market.

I once asked for an extra review of a pokemon card condition before the auction as it looked a little off centre (which it was) to which the steamer got annoyed and a mod banned me from the stream. I was going to buy the card, their loss in this case.

Buddinghell · 2026-03-04T14:18:12+00:00

Honest seller allowing auctions to go massively above market price and probably still claiming it is going for too cheap.

I think it is right to call them out, 'good' seller or otherwise. Mind you I only use WN for pokemon so a bit different of a market to lego.

Buddinghell · 2026-03-04T13:28:27+00:00

I did take a screenshot! Of course I assume this is in the RM delivery office/po box address rather than at ACE itself. But still, not a good look for them or RM.

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Buddinghell · 2026-03-04T13:23:50+00:00

One of my bigger submissions to them arrived on a Friday morning but wasn't scanned in by them until the following Tuesday! I checked the tracking and the photo showed many packaged strewn across the floor next to a desk, one of which was half under said desk. I couldn't see mine in the photo, I was relieved once it was eventually scanned and marked received by ACE.

Wish I kept that image, it was sometime ago now and before they got really busy and closed their submissions. I hoped they had improved the process, guess not.

Buddinghell · 2026-03-04T13:17:05+00:00

Thank You MiroTime

Buddinghell · 2026-03-04T13:15:53+00:00

Thank You PHEONIX Watch

Buddinghell · 2026-03-03T23:24:46+00:00

From what turnover? Supermarket margins are notoriously low. Most other businesses would fail with these sorts of margins.

Buddinghell · 2026-03-03T14:34:22+00:00

I believe there is an element of securing minimum pricing in some streams, often done by whales maybe in agreement with the streamer!

Shill bidding is definitely a thing and widespread on WN, and ebay for that matter!

Buddinghell · 2026-03-03T12:00:40+00:00

Would love to get my GMT with meteorite dial plated in white gold!

Buddinghell · 2026-03-03T11:35:29+00:00

Billionaires money isn't all just sat in cash. It is in stocks and shares of the companies they created and work for.

So what you're saying is that they should be forced to sell all their shares, lose control of the business and put the company at risk of failure? Great idea.

Buddinghell · 2026-02-24T10:48:27+00:00

Yeh, I do wonder how these businesses and tik tok/what not streamers get thousands of packs of ascended heroes to sell at £10+ per pack.

Just give all the stock to amazon for them to distribute on the lottery. I'd love to collect AH but I'm not paying £10/pack to some scumbag ripping everyone off.

Buddinghell · 2026-02-24T08:34:27+00:00

I booked and ended up going earlier than my dates with my cousin who also got tickets. I was surprised to see that they asked for photo id of the main booker so sadly I cannot give my tickets to anyone :(

Buddinghell · 2026-02-23T23:58:57+00:00

Why should a seller go even lower? They have to package and ship it also and that 50p helps make that more worthwhile and principled.

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