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Order from finerfencing.co.uk and be spun off backwards 7 years to a time when E-commerce was in its infancy… I need 3 6×6ft fence panels with posts, they have zen shopping cart and a load of smiley happy reviews so all good to go you would think right?.

WRONG.

I emailed them to ask pre-sales questions, I did not get any response.

Order using their freeware shopping cart and whip your credit card out, you will hopefully realise before it’s too late that there is no padlock in the bottom of your browser to indicate that they are transmitting your details safely through SSL, so don’t send your credit card details through their site.

Enter your paypal details and consider that the best way to go and hope to god that everything is now OK it’s safely in their hands.

I Waited…. waited…. and waited some more… got tired of waiting… called them to ask when my small easily fulfilled order would arrive from this “finer” fencing company who appear to be specialists after all their site states

“Far superior to your average diy store panel”

“We’re a family run business based in the Midlands and pride ourselves on our extensive product knowledge and customer service.“

I found this to be far from the case in the end. After a week and half without any contact following my order I called to be told it would be delivered Friday of that week, having booked the day off work I was called the night before to say that the courier didn’t come to pick up the panels and they would “definitely be there on Monday”.

So today is Monday, having managed to squeeze another short term notice day off work, I called first thing to be greeted with their voice mail… I left my details for them to call me back and confirm that the order would arrive today.

Nobody called back for 4 hours so…

So I called again, to find their voice mail box was now full, I’m probably not enjoying having placed my trust in this company now, there are many companies going under and for all I know finer fencing could have just gone bankrupt.

Then I get an email from the FENCE COMPANY at 1pm which is really unbelievable:

“Hi Brad

Unfortunately your panels will not be arriving today our couriers have refused to take them due to size so I will have to issue a refund.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused

Clare”

So my 3 fence panels that were definitely due to arrive today after failing to arrive last week cant be delivered due to their size…

Based on my experience, I will never order from Finer Fencing again and recommend you don’t either, their customer service is a complete joke and you end up with nothing but inconvenience.

Let’s see what a circus it will be to get a refund now….

Update 1 hour after initial disappointment, the paypal refund has been sent, so at least I can find a fencing company who hopefully know what they are doing now before the rest of my current fence gets destroyed by the little chav’s surrounding my oasis.

I had a closer look at the reviews on finerfencing.co.uk, funny how the same names keep recurring and the dates the comments are added are erratic, almost like fake reviews hey…. what do you think?.

If anyone knows of a decent company that can deliver 3 pieces of 6×6ft featheredge fencing to west London I would be glad if you could pass me their details.

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This morning we changed our GP (for those who are not in the UK, this is your local doctor who you go to for general things without having to go to the hospital “General Practice” ), our GP for the last 4 years has been about as useless as a chocolate teapot.

So if you feel like your GP is just someone who is just churning through the local population at fixed intervals offering incomplete advice to maintain their funding and not living up to their responsibilities then CHANGE. You are entitled to swap to an alternative in your area as long as you are in their “catchment area” which can be quite fiddly but it’s almost certain that especially if you live in a built up area you have a degree of choice.

Our new GP can’t even be compared to the other one, very professional, modern, pleasant spacious, free parking, got exactly what we expected from a service that costs a fucking arm and a leg from our automatic deductions from monthly salary… remember that shit isn’t really free unless you are some scrounging wankstain council tennant that sits on your arse all day soaking up state resources, those people are what needs fixing with this country.

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I have been a Virgin Media customer for ohhh 3 years now for broadband, TV, and landline phone. Quality of service is very good, and the internet I think has died once in all of the 3 years I have been connected.

But the TV service (UK cable TV with some on-demand services) is really turning into a bucket of shit lately, it’s like paying an extra £10 a month ontop of the already compulsory TV licence for the privilidge of watching fucking adverts for car insurance all day long.

If its not compare the fucking market dot com, or tesco compare (and sell your fucking details without telling you afterwards), or money super fucking market dot com. Or shielas fucking antipodean wheels with that piece of shit theme tune, or elephant dot stupid overpriced bullshit dot co dot uk… UGHHHHH SERIOUSLY THE PEOPLE WHO HUNT FOR ADVERTISERS AT VIRGIN MEDIA NEED TO LOOK AT A VARIETY OF SPONSORS.

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Well we were due to go to Gran Canaria for a week next Saturday with XL, who went into administration this morning causing all flights etc to be canceled, so 85,000 people are in the very fucked position of being stranded overseas, and even those who were in mid-air at the time of the announcement had their flight redirected to the nearest airport (in one case a flight bound for Glasgow was redirected to Paris).

The ridiculous thing about it from my point of view is that we were charged a fee for ATOL protection in the case of something just like this happening. So Imagine my my surprise to find that if you booked your XL holiday directly with them through their website or call centre you have no protection via ATOL whatsoever, only if you booked you XL flight/holiday through some other agent like Thompsons. What a load of bullshit.

I had a feeling some bad shit was going to happen though thanks to the credit crunch, so had paid for this with my credit card so fortunately I have not been fucked for £900 this morning and can claim it all from my credit card company under the consumer credit act.

I found out today that there is one big brand travel insurance company that covers airline insolvency, administration, bankruptcy that I will be taking out travel insurance with next time (seems like a pretty fundamental thing for a travel insurance policy to have!). And that is the Post Office travel insurance, if I had not have used a credit card to pay for our holiday and insured with the Post Office travel insurance then I would be entitled to claim my money back for the failure of XL.

So now we are looking for a new holiday.

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By this time next week, CERN will carry out what could be mankinds final fuckabout with nature, personally I would rather they didn’t do this and all went off camping /  all went off to Amsterdam or something else enjoyably natural.

The idea of their experiment is something to do with proving that the universe was started by a big bang, so what better way to test the theory than to spend a fucking ridiculous amount of money creating another big bang!, fuckit, a bunch of nerdy virgins have had enough of not getting any sleep spending night after night wondering about huge things that they can never change, and are going to press the reset button on life for all of us.

Hopefully I am very, very wrong and next week I will still be posting semi-meaningless jibberish to this blog, if not then thanks for destroying everything for all of us you dickweeds, couldn’t you have at least asked us all before taking life for all as we know it into your own hands.

They must have a very high opinion of themselves to be able to assume such responsibility for the destruction of creation…

Update: Seems I am not the only one who thinks this could be a bad idea. I mean they say what they are doing is slightly less powerful than atomic reactions that already occur every day, but the science programme on the BBC I was watching last night made it pretty obvious that they have absolutely no idea what the outcome will be of this EXPERIMENT.

On a slightly more optimistic note perhaps the results of this will be cool, and we will all be powering our lives with something far cleaner than petrol, gas, and nuclear power.

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