There is nothing worse than trying to contact a site without an email. It gets even worse when trying to contact a Ford main dealershit, I mean dealership.This explains why not to trust Fords and their dealershits any longer (obviously I mean Ford dealerships).
I purchased a newer car recently from Chariots, London Road, Romford. What a great car, reasonable price, diesel, and reasonable mileage.
Then we decided to purchase a newer car from Allens of Romford, Allens of Romford are a very well known dealership which was deemed to have a lot of respect (not any longer, they are a bunch of f***** scumbags). In fact they are the biggest bunch of scumbags around (that I currently know). They stitched us up for every last penny in insurance deals, then refused to give us the second key for the car, and conveniently forgot to give us the MOT certificate for the same new car.
Obviously, I am not one in taking this quietly, and several email later to the Trading Standards & other interested parties including the DVLA, and fraud office. Here is a typical email :
Hello, Just for background - I am a computer
officer at an UK University. I also do this as part of my
non-working life, as I am a saddo. February 2011: Bear with me, this is a completely new
Linux operating system that I have never used before. I am about
to sign up for a dedicated server with a web hosting company;
and need to understand centOS fairly quickly. It appears that it
is very like Red Hat, and I have never used this OS before
either! I run a host of historical pub sites, etc. in my spare
time. I am used to Ubuntu, and SuSE; so
hopefully it is not too different. 1. Important, if you change a file,
make a backup copy first - e.g. httpd.conf 2. Get stuck in. 3 How do you start and stop the
server? apachectl stop / start / restart 4. Where are the relevant
configuration files? I am looking for httpd.conf which appears
to be at: /etc/apache2/conf/httpd.conf 5. Check out the ip address of the
server - ifconfig; and also make sure that ssh works. I am
working on a local server which only responds to the ip address
at present. The sever I will be building on I will have root
access through ssh, but not much else. 6. Lets do some stuff via ssh - login
as root, with relevant password. 7. cd /etc/httpd/conf and pwd to
confirn the actual directory we are in. 8 In ssh you can use vi httpd.conf or
at the machine you can probably use gedit httpd.conf (do not
forget to backup this file first); e.g. cp httpd.conf
httpd.conf-orig 9 Now. let's have a look at this file
- more httpd.conf User & Group are apache. I tend to
prefer different user and group, e.g. nobody and nogroup. Leave
it as it is at present. ServerAdmin email address - change as
you wish ServerName - the # before it means it
is commented out. I will leave this as is at present. DocumentRoot "/var/www/html" - this is
important, and can be changed to (say) /usr/local/Web There is an entrey - <Directory
"/var/www/html"> a few lines further on; if you change
DocumentRoot, you also need to change this!! 10. Right, lets edit the httpd.conf
file. This is at /etc/httpd/conf and I am in ssh mode, so I
cannot use gedit, instead I am going to use the vi editor. Quick command syntax for vi: i -
insert, Esc - escape insert; quit is :q! without saving (that's
colon then q then exclamation mark).; save is shift key and Z
twice. A couple of delete commands - x removes a character; dd
removes a line. These five commands do most of what you need to
do. I never use much else. 11. vi httpd.conf 12. In the first instance I have
changed the DocumentRoot & Directory settings to /usr/local/Web 13 apachectl restart 14 I get an immediate error - along
the lines that the directory does not exist. 15 cd /usr/local and then mkdir Web
and cd Web and vi index.html In the index.html entry add a simple
line - hello kevan 16 Now we need to check the config
file by typing apachectl configtest and then restart apache -
apachectl restart next page
of introduction to centOS apache configuration setup
I have just completed purchase of a 4 year old vehicle from Allen
Ford of Romford. The purchase price was about £9000, and also I
purchased three separate additional insurances, i.e. a warranty to
ensure that the car was finance–free, safe and in a valid condition.
A second insurance was a three year warranty against breakdown. A
third warrant was a gap insurance in case the car is ever stolen,
this insurance would increase the amount to the cost of the car
purchase.
Firstly, the company refused to give my wife the MOT certificate and
the spare key for the car at collection time as we had lost the MOT
for our own vehicle. This was explained and the alleged dealer was
not sure if this was a problem – idiot. There was no haggling over
the price offered and therefore totally unreasonable.
Secondly, the costs of the car, including the three insurances, and
the credit agreement were scribbled on the back of an envelope; and
I am unclear what I have been charged for. This is not good practise
or legal considering the amounts spent. There is no clear
documentation on the cost of credit either, just a lot of scribbles.
I am not particularly happy with this level of trade as it was as we
entered into this agreement through good faith, and I would not
expect a main dealership to deal with their customers in such a
shoddy manner. The paperwork is also appalling. This is especially
so, considering all of the various extra costs incurred which appear
to have little effect on the final outcome.
Can you advise whether I am entitled to a full refund for this
vehicle if they continue to be unreasonable.
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