A SERIES OF PECULIAR EVENTS (PART 3) IN THE RETAIL INDUSTRY

Now a day later than planned, you just have to love life eh, I am now going to compile another set of photos, screenshots and links to audio.

I am having serious issues with the Internet and will be down the Three store to let them know I am not happy. Well as soon as I am able and now that I have finally managed to copy and paste this into a post (except this additional sentence) I may be visiting them today? The situation is absolutely ludicrous with the Internet. I have now noticed that as well as the posts that I was informed last night could not be posted up on my blog, no media content involved so just text, I am now on my desktop and note that also the ones that said they had been posted have actually not posted at all!

I did a detailed post last night of how the Peculiar Series was going to go over the next few days …

Retails Stores

Ombudsman

Local Councils

DWP & Atos

The Police

Mystery Post or TWO

All media and links to be posted in their own posts and collectively.

May be a good idea to point out that I have been shifting things around and I am now sure there are half a dozen audio files at least I forgot, read missed, to link in to the previous NHS one! These are the ones I DID rename and not part of the long list of ones I forgot to rename!

So I am going to do Retail Stores this time around, just to get another post up and have me feel like I am getting somewhere.

Now to do a little recall here I was ..

1. I was sold a Motorola Atrix smartphone by Very Catalogue which was not only refurbished but had a dozen faults! They then ignored me half the time, got cocky with me, become patronizing and then got clever stating I was using a BOT, computer algorithms designed to simulate a human, then ignored me completely. They then later took me to court and lied through their teeth about the truth and then LOST! I also had a blu-ray player from them that was curiously out of date and came in a tatty box and I paid over £250 to Littlewoods for I then saw for sale for £80! Their rules are not transefrable between companies Isme, Littlewoods or Very (all same company) when it suits them and then are when it suits them. Offers did not work across catalogues and your credit limit was higher on catalogues that place a higher premium on Retail Prices. Yes the morons advertise up different Retail Prices for same product across different catalogues and even within the same catalogue, though online only.
2. Sold four or five cameras in a row by Argos that were all refurbished but advertised as new. Recordings of a fair number of conversations … oooh crap I just remembered I have to find the Nikon conversations too, which was very bizarre indeed and they changed their story right at the end! Two Nikon P510s, one Olympus SP 820 (both models top bridge cameras) and one Nikon L310 … or L210?! Cannot remember model name, lol. So four cameras then Martin? Dumb-arse!
3. Sold a Bionaire Electric Fan from B&Q that was a top of the line fan which had damage out of the box and failed in ten months! They were unable to replace it with same model from Bionaire, just as Argos were unable to do with their cameras, which meant that they are not being supplied by the manufacturers.
4. I was also sold a metal framed professional computer keyboard by PC World that was also sold to me as new but was refurbished as the metal frame had a buckle in a vital point of it, next to the volume wheel. The keyboard was a Corsair K70 Vengeance Keyboard.

So there is a run down of what happened but there were a great deal of phone conversations and obviously and especially where Argos was concerned a great deal of conversations in store.

What is especially funny is how the seemingly nice and understandable manager at the local Argos then later tells Argos HQ, according to Argos HQ, that I checked the camera was working in store!

I had a mate in fits of laughter when I then ripped crap out of the cocky so and so on the phone and pointed out that first off how the feck can I test cameras out of the box with flat batteries, that I was deciding between two different cameras and not testing them anyway and that I had recorded the whole conversation and can send them a copy if they wish! Now what my mate was laughing at when I came off the phone is how the cocky attitude changed to 'suits you sir' upon hearing these three things and said that he must have felt like an idiot!

He then realised that these are the kinds of conversations I have had with Local Councils, the Police, the NHS and various Doctors, the DWP & Atos (all of which to come) and many others besides.

Every time I was kicked off a GP Surgery list all my friends would burst out laughing while I am stating this with a smile on my face! “Ooh what's happening with you lately?” then me going “oh yeah I umm well got kicked off another idiot Doctors surgery who thinks that Medical Degrees trump all others and makes them smarter and superior to everyone else!” (BIG GRIN)

I dare say the questions of “You been kicked off yet?” are going to now occur for months?! Oddly I wont be getting myself kicked off this time and hence why I will be asked for months!

Ooh but saying that I do have an odd letter here asking me to pick up my prescription from Lloyds Chemist who I have not used for … quite some time!

Oooh I almost forgot ... a friends family has bought two things from Argos in the last two weeks! A Barbecue for a party, when opened had several things missing and returned to the store, and a seat for a lady dying of cancer which also had things missing and it had to be returned top the store.

For someone dying of cancer?! That is awful, truly awful!

http://www.wuala.com/allnights/Evidence/Retail/ArgosCustomerServices.mp3/

http://www.wuala.com/allnights/Evidence/Retail/Argos%20RETURN%20090813.mp3/

http://www.wuala.com/allnights/Evidence/Retail/Argos%20CALL%20150813.mp3/

http://www.wuala.com/allnights/Evidence/Retail/Argos%20Part%204.WAV/

The following recording was a B&Q conversation and not sure if this was on the phone or in the store, I do lose track of many things and at time fairly often too.

http://www.wuala.com/allnights/Evidence/Retail/B&Q.mp3/

I think I have some missing, not gone just not renamed, lol.

EDIT PC WORLD RECORDING: http://www.wuala.com/allnights/Evidence/Retail/PC%20WORLD%20HELP%20070714.wav/

Anyway here are some … screenshots of emails … mostly Very Catalogue ..

Some videos of faulty cameras and phones lol ..

Ooh forgot I did video of the Nikon L810 (not L310 like I have ben calling it!)

If you see  seal on the box this is not put their by Nikon so some outfit refurbishes them, fecking badly, and sends them out to retail stores to be sold as new products.

NIKON P520 (two of these I had and after a Nikon L310!) ..

Olympus SP 820 ..

PHONE ..

Nikon conversations ... and note the lst letter they alter their story ...

A few receipts first lol ...

Oh and Motorola confirming what I already knew.

By the way in case you missed it, the manufactureres know this is going on and are quite happy with it happening!

THE REPEATING NAUSEA

Well I have to about to have been affected yet again while I out today.

The odd thing is that though I was affected my breathing was fine, so while I suspected it could be this polluted air everyone is talking about I would have thought breathing issues would go with the nausea?

But no. So I am at a loss to know what it is and it happened yet again today and wise than the day before. I was in a friend's store and I had felt odd a few times while out and felt quite nauseous and had to leave.

Not wanting to return home without any shopping whatsoever I attempted Sainsburys but the nausea fit worse and I staggered and leave against a wall. I did so yet again at the magazine rack in Sainsburys.

It is 9.50pm and I still feel it right at this moment with a weird feeling in my head, like a warm fuzzy feeling similar to what you get when you drink warm Saki. If you have never had that in an Asian restaurant I was told to my amusement and complete disbelief that you would feel this warm feeling from your feet up! You did but as I was typing that I now remember it was like the feeling I had years ago before an odd seizure that I am still convinced today was a Grand Mal episode.

I have no idea what this is our what is causing it and I do often get light headed and black out but the feeling beforehand is slightly different to this.

I have also managed to figure out that my Advent Tegra Note Tablet has RAM problems as I have been unable to move or even delete files on the internal memory. I attempted thus several times on the device and had initially thought I had been sold a second suspicious SD Card via Amazon. But no as I connected the device to my laptop and attempted to do this in Windows 7. I managed to move some files but it did some of things while refusing to cut and paste some while others it pasted yet took several second or a refresh of the window before they appeared?!

Bizarre!

Then the remaining ones I could not get to copy over no matter what I then tried to delete from the internal memory and it refused to do even this! So with this I realised it was not the SD Card, Sandisk Ultra, and not was it Android either! The only possibility left was that the RAM was faulty!

Now first off I should explain that I have NEVER had faulty RAM, ever! I have also never had a faulty SD Card either. Oddly enough I had my first hard drive fail a couple of years back and that laptop was acquired from PC World just as the Advent tablet was. Also it is a surprise because this tablet was actually manufactured by a company called EVGA (VEGA name is anagram of it) who manufacturer very good graphics cards which obviously have RAM.

So yes I am somewhat surprised.

Now as one device I still need to return has obviously taken a knock I am wondering if they all did! Giving the benefit of the doubt here because straight away I think of the used and faulty items I was previously sold as new. As for those items one was the infamous American Motorola sold to me via lying and cheating Very Catalogue who previous lost a court case to force me to pay for the crap!

Another one that was even more disappointing was the Nikon P520 Camera that I had two of that has the exact same fault! What you might find interesting is that the videos I placed on YouTube get comments from others claiming they have the same issues with the exact same model! Ooh dear!

With so many faults to so many of the same model devices I am at a loss to understand how magazine reviewers not once cane across these issues?! Did they only switch them on and then of again and write a load of bullshit?! Lol! They write obviously could not have tested them for very long! Also the companies sending them devices to review must fully check the devices before sending them in to them?! How else would you explain that I have had 5 faulty tablets out of 5 yet I have read the same amount of reviews and yet not one hiccup?!

Or do the manufacturers or suppliers not give a flying duck about customers now and only interested in getting the cash from their wallets and worry about the rest later?

Oh wait a minute! Am I talking about electronic retailers or a Enfield Council?! Lol!

So I need to stay.... conscious, lol, and decide the best time to take this tablet back to PC World now I know it's fault! I also need to tell them that the swipe keyboard is abysmal and decides to stop working half way through a word or add letters after it does so you never went anywhere bloody near on the keyboard! The main reason I bought the bloody Bluetooth keyboard.

THE FOUR RECEIPTS

You know there has always been a thing all my life with me and the number 4?!

LOL!!

Well today I am taking back the Nikon Camera and this is going to cost me the last few days of photographing all insects but I am tired and past caring!!

Here is a last scanned document of the FOUR RECEIPTS.

NIKON FAILS FOR THE LAST TIME

Here is a video of the second Nikon Coolpix P520 from Argos failing.

I had hoped that the failure might have been down to the battery form the FIRST camera but alas, no.

I am not prepared to go through this for a FIFTH TIME in 6 months and want a full refund. I could not put a figure on how many photos I have missed out on but even in the time I have had these artistic shots have gone out the window as I did not setup the camera how I wanted it due to not wanting to waste my time with a camera that yet again turned out to be faulty.

Once Argos HQ realise that the last email I sent to them was about the LATEST camera and NOT THE previous camera and telling me they are glad I finally sorted out my problem I will have to decide what to do.

There is no local Jessops as they went bust and I do not know of any local camera stores. There is Park Cameras, I think they are called, in Bristol that advertise in photography magazines I might try them.

But after everything I have been through I really, REALLY do not want to buy ANYTHING electrical unless I see it FIRST!!

ARGOS LATEST REPLY

 ...TO FAULTY CAMERA NUMBER FOUR.

Now this may be somewhat confusing and you will not be alone as I had to read this a second time to make sure I was reading what she said correctly?!

Does the word STALLING spring to mind when you read it?

Also and more curiously is that there has been NO reply from Nikon UK?!?!

Also note that hse is UNABLE to access YOUTUBE?!?! LMAO.

THEORIES ON MEMORIES

This refurbished camera seems to have cause me a little less trouble today but I did not get to use it a great deal in all honesty.

I attended a Reptile show at Kempton Park where I bumped into names and faces I had not seen in ten years or more! SO long I even got one face mixed up with another and have since apologized. Well he did say he had seen me go by twice and thought I had not recognized him. Well I did but as someone else until I was half way back around the M25 with my brother Ryan and I was talking about this guy called MATTHEW and I said

'Oh crap! (well far worse words actually) I just realised that was not Matthew it was SCOT!!!'

LOL!

Well the funny thing is out of all the faces he sees and has seen over the years he is one that ctually came out and said what others normally think, and I get to hear later...he was shocked to see my face at the show and said 'God it has been YEARS since you have appeared at one of these shows!'

A shame it was crap, lol.

AS for the camera I changed something and it still played up but I got an idea. Though it should not have made a difference my three SanDisk SD Cards and one Micro SD Card all still had folders on them to do with the other camera. The card I had in it today had the Olympus folder deleted and the camera played up less than the day before?! But like I said this should NOT make a difference at all and if you doubt that as yourself if your MP3 players slows down the more songs you put on it?! MP3 players create folders for each artist you put on the player so if you have more like greatest hits and only one f each artist then there will be one folder for each artist.

However some devices should not be but are funny about these things. So I have gone a little further and I had fully formatted the card using a slow and deep format, and about to do the same with the others.

I am just so desperate for a camera that not only WORKS but it has to work NORMALLY too. Slow is no bloody good and renders things like fast shutter speeds and 7 photos a second redundant or impossible to achieve.

Two if the cards are Sandisk Ultras and even the last which is not is STILL a Class 10 card!

Tomorrow I will take it into the field for further TESTING the weather permitting. If I get up to where I want to take this camera and it performs OK and I have decided that the marks on the lens when I got it home have had no adverse effect on the actual lens glass then I will be pleased to say that I will keep this camera.

In fact even when I eventually acquire my Nikon D800 or preferably D800E I will still keep this camera and that is not something I have said in awhile. Indeed if I had to take this back I would have actually exchanged it for the exact same camera and just prayed, or using the theory of the unlikelihood that, I do not get a FOURTH faulty camera in a row?!

I really am few up with doing this and angry that it has cost me so many photo opportunities I have put so much blood sweat and tears into going out and about to get!

ARGOS & NIKON? THREE STRIKES AND YOU ARE OUT!

Right O then...

Out today and I tested that Nikon P520 and I am mad as hell as I love the damn camera and the pictures but its faulty as hell!!

I have now worked out it seems to have a problem with saving things and even froze up so bad TWICE I had to turn the camera off and on one time and remove and replace the battery the second time. The scond time was FILMED along with members of my family I was out with. That is now on YouTube and here is a link...

I even had time to take some pictures before I decided the only thing to do on THIS occasion is REMOVE the BATTERY?!?!

OR BETTER STILL HOW ABOUT MY VISIT TO ARGOS TO PICK UP THE CAMERA AND ME BEGGING THEM NOT TO SELL ME A THIRD REFURBISHED AND FAULTY CAMERA BECAUSE OF THE TIME WASTED AND MY DISABILITIES!!

EXCHANGING OLYMPUS FOR NIKON AT ARGOS AUDIO

With Ombudsman being shit and conmen of the public purse and other governing bodies the same, along with the Citizen's Advice helping the NHS recruit patients to full time work for £3.00 a day (YES THREE POUNDS) me and my brother just do not know what this country of ours is coming too?!

NIKON P520 UNBOX - SPOT MARKS ON LENS

Well this time I decided to RECORD myself in the store on two devices and when I got home to RECORD myself with my dodgy refurbished smart-phone!

Just as well that I did as I could not believe my eyes when I spotted...

1) Series of MARKS on the LENS of the NIKON P520?!

2) VOID STICKER that both Argos and Nikon UK swear is nothing to do with them as I had this before with a faulty Nikon!

3) After going STRAIGHT to friends pet store the camera is immediately set up but taking several seconds to focus, though this seems to settle down

4) In local nature park where I film and photo the camera refuses to focus and show any reticles on a half press and when pressed FULLY in desperation to get the shot either does NOT take picture or does so several seconds later when the camera is pointing at the FLOOR!!

I am sitting on the grass in disbelief that this has now happened for the third time in a row with Argos and the biggest names in camera manufacture?!

I TOLD YOU SO!!

EMAIL TO NIKON UK

EMAIL....

Dear Sirs

I now have not only what I believe to be a very serious issue but one the entire country will now focus on in the coming weeks and months leading up to Christmas!

I have purchased one of your cameras and again from Argos.

The model itself is one I wanted originally but though I only got this today I now realise I have ended up with yet ANOTHER refurbished product and that now makes three in a row from Argos.

This one today was as an exchange for an Olympus SP-820UZ I now realise was faulty from day on!

The camera I received today after some heated arguing is your model Nikon Coolpix P520. When I un-boxed it I noticed that there were marks on the lens. I also then noticed a VERY offending 'VOID' sticker over the edge of the box (see below) and I have tested the camera and despite it taking fantastic shots and movies it has faults too!!!

I had a previous conversation with an engineer at Nikon UK who assured me that Nikon boxes have no seals or stickers on them regardless of the price!

Argos only claimed to be responsible for ONE of the stickers!

You did not react as concerned about this as you should have been, which leads me to believe that you are not only aware of this practice but condone it via an authorised dealer?!

I did not make the mistakes as last time and used another device to film myself un-boxing the Nikon and discovering the marks on the lens. I have now published all my findings on my YouTube account and my websites.

I want to know what is going on as whatever it is, is highly illegal and once I have accumulated all my findings and all the emails I am going to post off to the media about it.

I quite literally BEGGED to have this sorted out.

I quite literally BEGGED NOT to be sold another refurbished item!

I told everyone that I use it for online work and no one stopped to think of any faults appearing online to a very wide public, well 45,000 currently.

I told them I suffer from disabilities and that the warmer months are vital to me having a suitable camera for my needs!!!

I fully intended to acquire a Nikon D800E and one macro and one telephoto lens with a 2x converter later in the year when my advertising and Google Adsense from being Affiliated with a number of organisations works out.

Now I ask myself if the United Kingdom actually has a fully working brand new camera ANYWHERE in any store and if I EVER get to but the D800E will THAT be refurbished too?!

As for the marks I noticed on the lens, well as well as filming I simply BREATHED on the lens to highlight the marks and took photos of them and published them online.

If both YOU and Argos along with Shop Direct are going to cheat the British Public you could at LEAST attempt to do this competently?!?!

It has been far too easy to spot and work out and .... well selling ME of all people THREE in a row while I fork out EVER MORE MONEY each time and with the online presence I have was tantamount to corporate suicide!

I have had NO offers of recompense of the things I have bought for each camera that are now useless either.

Just a series of apologies for six months of my time and thousands of photo opportunities missed!

I had better be given an explanation and I warn you now it had better be good?!?!

I can send you several photos that highlight the problem with the LATEST piece of shoddy electronics to come my way of late and these three are now part of a longer list I have been cataloging so that I may later publish a full breakdown of what has been going on.

Yours

Martin Haswell BSc

THE MARK OF A GOOD LENS

Is NOT THIS...

Not when you breath on them and highlight the marks made by someone previously?!?!

This is photos of the lens on the Nikon P520 that I picked up as an exchange for a faulty Olympus Bridge Camera which was itself an exchange for a FAULTY Nikon Coolpix!!

You would think if they were going to rip off the public with refurbished goods they would at least do it well and at least clean the fecking lenses?!?!

LMAO...

FANTASTIC NIKON BUT...TROUBLE IN PARADISE

Right OK now I have been out and tested the new Nikon and guess what?

PROBLEMS!

This is really annoying as it is not MUCH of a problem but I have had enough of problems and you have to ask yourself if it will get worse?!

Sometimes I half press the SHUTTER RELEASE to focus before FRAMING and nothing happens!! I release and then try again and NOTHING HAPPENS. I get fed up and press it the whole way and NOTHING HAPPENS. Well the last one is not quite accurate as about 5 seconds or so later it then takes a photograph?!

Example ...

Here is a shot of three aircraft in the sky...

Now here is the one where I attempted to zoom in...half pressed twice...got fed up pressed to take a picture, waited for seveal seconds and dropped my arm to give up and it took a photo of the path I was walking on?!

Otherwise it makes the Olympus look like it has NOT WORKED from the first day I had it!!...

 

Now these are the first few shots and in very bad light with a camera system I am not familiar with and yet they are STUNNING. On days with light like this and when I owned the Olympus SP-820UZ I would probably not leave the house with it some days and certainly would not cycle for 20 miles getting photos...

...that will NOT be the case here.

It also took time when first set up to focus, about twice as long as the Olympus, which initially pissed me off as it meant it would have to go back....AGAIN!!!

I had the Nikon D3100 in my hands and I did tell them at the store that if I then went and bought TWO LENSES, if I even HAD THE CASH, and the camera went wrong I would be livid.

The smaller Lowepro case that fitted the Olympus like a glove, the one I now call the PUKEY camera case it I puked all over it, is too small for this camera.

I also now have no less than EIGHT Rechargeable AA Batteries and a Energizer charger I have little use for as like my other Nikons this uses its own proprietary battery! Meaning I will now have to purchase another battery which will then be a waste of cash if I change the camera again?!

Thus far there has been nothing n the way of allowances of all this extra expenditure nor the time and the photo opportunities I have lost.

I am afraid to say that this highlights exactly what is wrong with the United Kingdom as many want to cast judgement, point fingers, keep their jobs and salaries and yet there is nothing in the way of understanding nor is the any offer of something for the trouble and money spent.

In February this year of 2013 I bought a Nikon L810 Coolpix for £120. This was faulty immediately and I then changed it but had to pay an extra £110 to get something else. This turned out to be the Olympus SP-820UX I was intially over the moon with but failed to realise that THIS was faulty form day one. Early on there was a loud noise when focusing and zooming but thought it just lesser quality than the two Nikons I had previously?! Now I have paid out another £70 and have this wonderful Nikon P520 Coolpix with some fantastic features I wanted all along that will help me IMPROVE my content on all my blogs and my YouTube account no end.

As I told them in store that getting a third one would be disastrous as this would be akin to three strikes in baseball?! Don't ask it was the first thing I could think of!

I was already apprehensive about the camera because when I un-boxed it, oh yeah I forgot I did a video of that, I noticed marks on the lens looking like skin marks. As I used a micro-fibre cloth to clean the marks away I then realised that bloody VOID sticker was on the box?!

Now for those paying attention both Argos and Nikon claim that the VOID sticker is NOTHING to do with them?! I posted the email from Nikon claiming that not a single box in their entire building regardless of where in the range we are talking about, i.e. COST, not ONE box has ANY stickers over the edging on the TOP of the boxes. So not them then!

But Argos claim that this sticker has nothing to do with them either but DID lay laim to the one that covered the VOID sticker that stated Argos Quality Control on it! Well they did not have much of a choice now did they as it did say 'ARGOS' in big red letters and like I said to the chap that spent an hour on the phone stating all their goods are brand new and NOT returns or refurbished stock, yeah heard the BEFORE from Shop Direct and it was BOLLOCKS then and it is BOLLOCKS NOW!

So what is one supposed to do?

Argos are clearly selling really shoddy electrical goods, and I had a crowd of people listening in on my claims to the staff in store, as are Shop Direct and no doubt others too?!

The absolute arrogance you get when you basically tell them too and they think that as they have wasted the most productive months of someone trying to work and make a career for himself that a series of apologies is all that is needed and then go and sell me more of their CRAP!

I never thought in a million years that they would be STUPID enough to do this to the same person three times in a row?!

I feel sorry for the staff that work in store as they are totally unaware to what they are party to, not anymore I can tell you.

I can also tell you this and that is the term AUTHORISED DEALER is not worth a wet.... day out with your dog! LMAO! AS now I w8ill email NIKON UK yet again with what has just happened and I bet I get no reply whatsoever?!

LMAO!