Category Archives: IVA

Your Transaction has been declined


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I Just don’t believe my luck. For the second time in as many months my Bank Account has been cleared out by somebody using a clone of my Debit Card. Last month is was a Sainsburys in East Kilbride, Scotland. This month it’s somebody recharging their “Sawa” Prepaid credit Card in the Middle East. Each time they have made repeated transactions until there is no money left.

Looking at the places I use my card I card think of any time where the card has not been in my view. It only really gets used in Tesco, To pay my mobile Phone Bill and for Sky TV. I shred all my receipts so it’s got to have been ‘skimmed’ at one of the above places. 🙁

So from now on it’s going to be:

  • The card NEVER leaves my sight
  • Use a Prepaid Card for all Internet and Phone Transactions
  • Any bills that need paying will be by Bank Transfer instead of Card

Oh and so now of course I have about £20 to my name as my Card has been blocked and I have no access to money.


More Dealz!


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I’m so glad I changed to o2 PAYG from my ‘3’ contract.

They are now doing now doing another deal ontop of all the other free stuff I get. 🙂 500 minutes every month to my fave o2 mobile number for free for the next three months.


Clubcard Challenge


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ccardI’ve decided to set myself a challenge and see how many Tesco Clubcard points I can gain within 12 months.

If you get any Extra Points vouchers out of the till (Not ones on clubcard statements) for stuff you wouldn’t normally buy, Please contact me about sending them for me to use 🙂 Thanks


o2 3G…AOL…Being Lazy & IVA's


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Are there any o2 experts out there?

Ever since I switched over to o2’s 3G service I’ve stopped getting Delivery Reports when I send an SMS… and this I find really annoying as it’s a handy way of finding out if people are ignoring me lol (Not that I’m paranoid or anything!).

Well I finally got a date for moving over to Route 183 which is the 3rd March. Work will be so much more relaxing than the route I’m on at the moment…. All I need now is a new image for the top of the blog.

Why do I seem to have such trouble trying to convince people that I know on AOL to start using MSN Messenger?! Have they been brainwashed my AOL into thinking that is is evil or something?? They just don’t seem to be able to grasp the simple fact that it it far superior than AOL Instant Messaging system! The reason I’m trying to get people to switchover is because I’m shutting my AOL account down (well I deleted the software off my PC a number of weeks ago and have stopped using the email addresses) as I think the whole service has gone downhill very rapidly. I guess I’m just gonna have to work on these people harder.. Perhaps they just don’t wanna talk anymore LOL.

I’ve had a week off this week and have done barely anything with it, and you know, It felt great! Not too sure what’s wrong with me lately. When I get home from work I just don’t want to do anything apart from watch TV n then goto bed. It’s been going on for a few weeks now, Will have to keep an eye on it and see a doctor if it carries on.

A long long time ago I blogged about my IVA payments may be rising because of my (then) new job. Well it was all sorted a few weeks ago, after a small scare of it rising from £275 to £405 a month, It was finally decided that it would stay at £275 for the time being and would only rise, by a very small amount, if and when I have my next pay rise, So that was some good news. It means I can now carry on saving a small amount each week for a holiday this year, The first in 7 years!

TRACK OF THE MOMENT:


Account Update


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Well following on from the last posting, I got a letter from Citibank today to say that My new Bank Account with them has been opened and a shiny new Visa DELTA card will be arriving in the post any day now 😀 Who would’ve thought a small square piece of plastic could bring so much joy. LOL


Sit Happy It's Taut


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Well the Bank Account saga continues..

After all the song, dance and performance of opening an account with Yorkshire Bank, I’ve decided to ditch it. The card was fine, It felt great having a proper debit card again, But the internet banking.. Oh..My..God! It was poo! You couldn’t pay bills online, or even just send money to people, (I do that often as i’m just so nice), All you could basically do was look at your statement online, Which I found a bit pointless. So now i’ve gone back to using my halifax account for the time being with the Manky Electron card. Now as the train station don’t take electron for my weekly season ticket I’ve had to look at these Pre-Paid Cards again.

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Well rather handily Splash Plastic have changed their card scheme. The charges are slightly different, You now just pay 99p a month instead of 15p per transaction, and the Card doesn’t look like it was designed for kids anymore which is a bonus if your using it in HMV of Tesco or buying petrol. 🙂

<<-Old “kiddie” card

 

 

 

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<< New “Adult” card

 

 

 

Also the car has started to make funny clanky banging noises from the front passenger side wheel when going round the corners so more expense to fix that. 🙁


Terramundi


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Well I finally got round to fixing the Terramundi, and I think it looks okay.

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Tomorrow at work is going to be interesting as one of the other bus operators, Metroline, are on strike and they run a bus route parallel to the 114 so I think it’s gonna be rather busy. 🙁

Had a letter from IVA people today asking for confirmation that I’m not paying into a pension. Not sure how i’m supposed to give them confirmation if i’m not paying into one. Also got to send them details of my new Pay rates as my pay has increased, But also evidence that my Travel to work costs have gone up. I’m hoping that this means eachother cancel themselves out and they won’t increase my payments.