Iconic Films
2 for 1 tickets to Casablanca, this coming Monday
Navigation - link to other main sections from here
From
February 12, 2008
Readers to the rescue
Baffled by broadband? Cross about credit? Whatever your problem, chances are that Money readers have been there and can help
Most Read
Skip Most ReadToday
- Tom Cruise's Adolf Hitler film put back into...
- Aid trickles into Burma, but toll 'could...
- Hillary Clinton’s suicidal gamble with...
- Sunday Times Beauty Awards 2008: the winners
Focus Zone
Top 100 Films:
Enjoy screenings of all the classic films you love.
Alternative Investments:
Have you ever dreamed of owning your own racehorse or a beautiful painting?
Places & Spaces:
Enjoy comfort, safety, space and great design. Plus enter our great competition
Totally California:
Are you California dreaming? Explore the wonders of the Golden State. Also enter our fantastic competition
Young Photographer:
Do you have what it takes to be a Times photographer?
Surprise Yourself:
Your brain is capable of more than you might think...
Wealth Management:
Find out to make the most of your money with our wealth management guides
Property Guides:
Need help with your property? We have an entire how to guide - buying, selling, letting, moving, to help you
Business Travel:
Everything the Business Traveller needs to know to make a better trip
Best Green Companies:
We are seeking entries for the inaugural Sunday Times Best Green Companies Awards
Love Nature:
Enjoy some wonderful inspiring wildlife moments
James Bond:
An interactive preview of the brand new For Your Eyes Only exhibition
QUICKLINKS
Now Interactive
Love Sudoku? Play our brand new interactive game: with added functionality and daily prizes
Forget burnout, boreout is the new office disease
Are you irritable when you return from work? Drained of emotion? You could be suffering from boreout
Jeremy Clarkson's greatest hits
Prepare for some shock and awe, petrol lovers. Despite the greens trying to wipe it out, the car is about to offer us the most exciting year ever
100 summer holidays for '08
We've trawled the brochures and websites to find this summer’s best holidays for every taste and budget
The Times MasterCard®
Prepaid Card
Making the most of your money
From mortgages to savings, borrowing to consumer affairs, our collection of tools, services and guides will help you make your money go further
Cars
Skip Cars of the WeekJaguar XKR Supercharged Coupe
2007/07
£57,500
South East England
Audi A4 'S' Line Avant
2007/57
£22,950
The Midlands
BMW M5
2006/06
£41,995
South East England
Car insurance
Great car insurance deals online
Jobs
Skip Jobs of the WeekBusiness Development & Relationship Managers
£40-55k+benefits+uncapped commission
Morgan Keating
South East
Senior Process Manager
£60k plus excellent benefits
Barclaycard
Stockton / Northampton
Project Manager – Pioneering Change
£
£55,000 - £75,000 plus bonus and benefits
Diligenta
Based in Peterborough
Business Consultant – Pioneering Change
£45,000 - £70,000 plus bonus and benefits
Diligenta
Based in Peterborough
Properties
Househunting. Without the hunt.
Globrix, the property search engine
Looking for a new home?
Visit Times Online Property for homes for sale or rent
Leicester LE3
Residential development site with planning permission
£1,500,000
Barclays Buy Abroad
Mortgages, bank accounts & money transfers to help you buy abroad
Holidays
Skip Travel of the WeekMauritius
Dinarobin Hotel Golf & Spa 7 nights
From £1830 per person – saving £530.
Malta & Gozo
Smart prices on ATOL protected holidays
Excellent online info & holiday selection.
Funway Holidays Int Inc
Walt Disney World Resort Florida SALE!
From £619 per person!
Travel insurance
Great travel insurance deals online
Contact our advertising team for advertising and sponsorship in Times Online, The Times and The Sunday Times. Search globrix.com to buy or rent UK property.
© Copyright 2008 Times Newspapers Ltd.
This service is provided on Times Newspapers' standard Terms and Conditions. Please read our Privacy Policy.To inquire about a licence to reproduce material from Times Online, The Times or The Sunday Times, click here.This website is published by a member of the News International Group. News International Limited, 1 Virginia St, London E98 1XY, is the holding company for the News International group and is registered in England No 81701. VAT number GB 243 8054 69.
eBay ! - Just make sure you add the correct conditions !
sarah, CAMBRIDGE,
If you genuinely feel that they misrepresentated the sale of those shares to you, either by non-disclosure of facts or by their silence etc etc, then you could possibly have a go through the Financial Ombudsman Service.
However, my personal advice is this.....if its a manufacturing company that has a viable product, then wait and hang on to those shares if the company seems liquid enough to continue.
The loss you have is substantial at this stage but tomorrow is another day and the shares market is based solely on confidence. Just hang in there for the upturn.
if the basket looks like its going to leak badly, then just cut and run and base it on experience.
pazz, London, UK
To be quite honest if this was any ordinary guy from the streets who had persuade you to invest your money with such disastrous results he would have no doubt been charge with fraud on a grand scale ( being working class of course ) however, because these people work under the guise of reputable stockbrokers or fund managers rather than thieves they simply get away with it, welcome to the real world cash in your chips and put it down to experience and let your friends and the rest of the world know who these bunch of vagabonds are, I'm afraid there is no easy solution just take what moneys left before they decide to squander that as well!
william thomson, Lincoln, Lincolnshire
Patrick Tribe, Swansea:
I'm afraid not, however, I have a 100% guarenteed solution.
Sell your shares, and give the £3500 to me.
In only 6 weeks, I'll have made it into £35000, which I will split with you 50/50.
If thats not good enough, I have $300 million in a bank account I need you to buy property with, all I need is a £3k release fee...
Dominic, Manchetser, UK
I emailed Vodafone Customer Services on Wednesday at 4.30pm and received a reply on Thursday at 10.48pm. Vodafone confirmed to me that :
"If...your phone is stolen, we do refund the calling credit, for this all you need to do is purchase a new SIM card and get back to us with your new SIM card and we will transfer your calling credit back to you."
My reading of their email is that they assume you would buy a new Vodafone SIM card.
So - given the quick response to my email, I would recommend you buy the new SIM card then email them.
And if you need proof of them having said this, then contact me and i'll forward their email to you. You can obtain my details from the Scottish Law Society.
Sarah McGregor, Glasgow
Sarah McGregor, Glasgow, Scotland
Advice for the vodaphone pay as you go customer t- I would suggest they contact the company - by phone gives a quicker response - & ask to speak to someone who has authority because they do not want to waste the operator's time (or their own) explaining the problem. Then calmly state that they have been a longstanding customer which shows their loyalty & that they are not the type of customer who is constantly switching providers. However, they feel that they might be inclined to start looking for other deals if they are not valued as a customer of vodaphone. To prevent this from occurring, vodaphone could offer to reimburse them for the loss of credit which is unlikely to have been used as vodaphone were notified of the loss of the phone promptly. In addition, although they have not previously been a very frequent user of the mobile, a change in their circumstances means that they are likely to be making more frequent calls & will be a more lucrative customer in the future
Shirley Andrews, Sardis, Nr Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire