[Gllug] PC World Rip-off!!

[Andy McGarty]

> I'm in the middle of doing my tax receipts for 01/02 at the moment (yeah,
I
> know, teacher's pet!) and came across something that made me mad!  I
recently
> built my own machine, buying a lot of my parts from PC World - I've only
just
> noticed they charged me a £14.91 'card-handling' fee for the pleasure of
> swiping my Swich card!  This really pisses me off, because they didn't
warn
> me and, had I known, I would not have made the purchase.  I intend to take
it
> up with them first thing Monday but thought I should bring the subject up
so
> others don't get stung the same way.

Didn't we cover this previously and decide it was a VAT scam of some sort.
You pay the same whether its Cash or Credit, they 'MAY' just pay less VAT.


>
> Maplin were the source of some components also, but didn't sting me like
> PCWorld.
>
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