Lionel Ritchie
16/04/2007, 12:23 PM
Herself bought an expensive (about a grand) item of furniture on-line from an Irish (South Dublin based) company.
They've defaulted on delivery and have stopped taking her calls. They have a "service hotline" number listed on their site. If you call it it -you just get an answering machine telling you to write out your "query" (I've no query I just want my money back) in the field provided above the hotline number and they'll get back to you. Some hotline ha?
Needless to say using the query field is about as productive as fecking a penny in a pond and waiting for it to float.
She's moved to have the credit card payment rolled back and has reported the company to paypal so hopefully there's some wheels turning.
Is there anything else she should be doing? Is there anyone else she should be contacting (free digs for the first person to say Joe Duffy)? Trading standards agencies? Consumers watchdogs?
They've defaulted on delivery and have stopped taking her calls. They have a "service hotline" number listed on their site. If you call it it -you just get an answering machine telling you to write out your "query" (I've no query I just want my money back) in the field provided above the hotline number and they'll get back to you. Some hotline ha?
Needless to say using the query field is about as productive as fecking a penny in a pond and waiting for it to float.
She's moved to have the credit card payment rolled back and has reported the company to paypal so hopefully there's some wheels turning.
Is there anything else she should be doing? Is there anyone else she should be contacting (free digs for the first person to say Joe Duffy)? Trading standards agencies? Consumers watchdogs?