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I've recently won a bid for a car on Ebay, but I'm wondering if you still get offered the 'protection' you do when you buy other products on ebay.

I rarely buy items on ebay as it is, as when I have the tend to be of poor quality or not as described.

I haven't paid for the item yet, as I want to view the car. The seller said he'd prefer cash, but I insisted to go through PayPal. I will do a HPI check on the vehicle later.

I'm just worried in case I drive the vehicle off and something goes wrong.

The seller has been upfront and honest about everything

My girlfriend ordered some products off the internet. She paid £2.95 for a free trial and then today she checked her account and they had taken a further £79 that had been taken out of her account. She went into the bank and they explained that the money hadn't left her account and was 'pending'. They also stated that they couldn't reverse the transaction.

Apparently somewhere deep within the T&C's it states that she will be charged the 'promotional rate' and the bank operator said that this is legal as they've stated this in their T&C's.

I've had a look on the internet and people who also bought items of this website, managed to get their money back, but the bank said that they couldn't reverse the transaction. Which I find odd as something similar happened to myself, and I got all my money back.

Would there be a reason to why they said they can't give her the money back? And was wondering if anyone has been in a similar situation and managed to get their money back.

We have two small children so £79 is quite a lot of money to us.

Thanks

My partner broke her phone today, so she went out and bought a new phone. The problem is all her pictures are on there of our new born baby and she wants to get them off.

As she cracked the screen, we can't put in her password to unlock the phone - so I can't transfer the files over.

Because the phone is like an Iphone where the battery and internal memory are locked, I'm wondering if there's another way round it.

Cheers for any help or tips.

I'm looking for other UK based websites where you can sell items securely other than Gumtree and Ebay.

Thanks

If my phone was off for 2 weeks, do I still get the text messages and calls that were sent in that week? My phone was off for just over 2 weeks and I haven't received any of the texts. Cheers

I was just wondering what size nails do I need to put two guitar brackets up on my chimney breast wall. They'll each be holding one electric guitar and one bass guitar and they'll be going up on a solid brick wall. Each guitar bracket has 3 holes. I know how to put the guitars up etc, just not 100% sure on the size nails I need. Cheers

I made a claim for water damage on my phone insurance last week - the phone still kind of worked so I carried on using it. I'm supposed to send the phone off tomorrow, and today when it was on charge I accidentally dropped the phone and broke the charge port...Do you think they'll still fix the phone? Or do I need to call them up and let them know about the extra damage? Cheers.

I managed to get my phone wet over the weekend and the volume down button and search button have stopped working. Because of this, my phone boots up in safe mode as it detects a hardware problem. I have searched all over the internet to find a solution but haven't really come up with one as of yet. I've tried holding menu button and then powering the phone on and no look. So I'm wondering if there's a way to bypass safe mode or would it just be better to go through my insurance?

Cheers in advance.

What to have with it. Going to cook it for a few of my family members tomorrow. I'm thinking roast potatoes with rosemary and garlic and red cabbage. Just wondering if there's anything else I should add. I was also wondering if anyone has any hidden tips for the beef joint. Like what to put in oven dish or what to coat it in etc.

I'll be at work tonight so will reply back to your answers tomorrow (if you need additional information)

Cheers in advance guys 10 points to best recipee ofc

Basically, I was sorting through some letters yesterday and came across some unopened letters (if I know it's a phone bill I won't open it) but I was opening all my old letters to see which ones were worth keeping and which ones were junk.

I found a cheque in one for £11.36 dated 27.04.2009....I'm no longer with T-mobile, but was wondering if I wrote them a letter with the old cheque do you think they will send me a new one out? £11.36 isn't a lot of money I know, but it's principal as they would chase you for that amount till your dead. Besides that would pay for lunch for 2 days.

Cheers

Running short on some ideas here. I eat pretty much everything except egg. Not too sure what to eat. Normally I just eat a sandwich or fruit, but want something different. I have access to cooker/microwaves etc. I want something healthy and something that will last me till a few hours.

Pretty weird that I can't think really as it's usually me writing out dietary plans for my friends.

Cheers guys.

Basically half my friends own Iphones and I own an Android phone and they have some pretty cool apps on their Iphones. When will the Android market pick up on these apps?

My Dad's friend left the back door open, and obviously the parrot flew out. I was just wondering if the parrot will find its way home? It's been gone for about an hour now. I know if it doesn't come back by tonight it probably will be dead as the weather at the moment is around -3 on the night.

Does anyone know anywhere where it might 'settle' there's a mixture of trees and houses around my area.

Cheers in advance guys.

Was just wondering first of all is it worth buying one? Personally I've tried reading books on my laptop and could never really get into the book as I don't think it's the same. But maybe it being a hand held device it will be more like a 'book' feeling.

Also I have PDF's and ebooks on my laptop that I downloaded from my uni website (No copy right involved as they're accessible to anyone) I was just wondering if I could place them on the kindle? I know it says it supports ebooks and PDF's but not too sure if you'll still be able to read it like a normal book.

I was also wondering if there's a website that has a list of all the books that you can buy for the kindle. Cheers in advance :)

I just want to upgrade a desktop dell computer and was wondering if this graphics cars is compatible with this motherboard.

Spec of the processor is:

Processor: E6750

2.66 Ghz Core duo 4MB

and the graphics card I want to insert is:

http://www.dabs.com/products/xfx-ati-radeon-5750-h...

and the motherboard is:

http://www.dabs.com/products/asus-p5q-se2--intel-p...

Cheers in advance guys.

And received it today, and it doesn't work...Every button works except the movement...Which is the whole point of a mouse really...I'm pretty sure it's not a software problem as it said the driver had successfully installed and the laser at the bottom of the mouse isn't emitting any light (I know some mouses don't) But I don't know if this is a faulty mouse or if it's another problem.

I've already let play.com know about the problem. Cheers in advance guys.

But after getting painfully slow downloads for game updates I decided to check it out...

Here's the message that I recieved:

Your Sky Broadband & Speed Estimate

You have Sky Broadband Unlimited which offers a maximum download speed of up to 20Mb

The estimate provided to you at purchase for the maximum download speed your line can support was 0.5Mb.

I also found one saying the maximum download speed is 2mb...Does any one know where I stand with this? Or how to improve my connection? Cheers guys.

I'm heading to a party on the weekend and it's flavoured vodka themed and was just wondering the best flavours to do...Most typically people say skittle vodka. I've had the blue millions vodka and werthers originals vodka both very good, but thinking of something different. Also if you know the best way to make it or packets/grams to use could you also add that. cheers guys.

Well wasn't actually me, but my mom got a letter in the door saying that someone on the premises had downloaded a film and the company 'Media C.A.T limited' are saying that she has to pay £495 compensation. Well until now her wireless network was unsecured so anybody could access her internet - She didn't realise about secured and unsecured networks and even if she did she wouldn't even know where to start. I know that neither my dad or my mom downloaded a film as they only use the laptop for work etc.

But atm I don't know what they should do. I understand that it's there internet so they're responsible for it, but they honestly didn't realize the mistake. Also the company I think are maybe trying to use intimidation in the letters by saying that if they don't pay within the 21 days they're going to send it to debt collectors to recover the balance with no actual date on the letters. They are saying that the company that they are representing will only offer this £495 this one time after that they will want more. There is of course a lot more to the letters. But now I don’t know what to do. A few people at work have said to ignore it as they’re just trying to scare her into paying the money. But I don’t know what is best and £500 is a lot of money just for one film any way!

Cheers guys.

And we also have a budgie. I was wondering if we could put them in the same cage? or would the parrot kill the budgie? Thanks in advance.