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12 minutes ago, John M Upton said:

With the news that Macdonald's is shutting down tonight, I have had a report that their 24 hour drive through had a queue of cars almost a mile long earlier!

 

This is getting silly...

This may give the local councils a chance to clear up all the discarded rubbish. Providing they have the staff to do so!

This NHS Staff shopping happy hour is a complete joke and publicly stunt.

This morning my Son-in-Law who is a Paramedic went to his local Tesco Extra for the priory shopping hour only to find that he couldn`t even access the car park and that was an hour before they opened. He returned home empty handed!

He did expect, knowing the situation on previous recent occasions he tried to shop there, that the car park would be full. But he hoped that Tesco would have recognised that fact and had somebody at the car park entrance to turn away any vehicles that did not contain any NHS Staff, until such time the NHS happy hour was coming to an end. How does Tesco expect the NHS Staff to get their shopping done, when they can`t even access the car park?  I wouldn`t be surprised if many of the other well known supermarkets have the same problem with this car parking problem, until they do something to resolve it the NHS Staff will continue to suffer.  

If and its a big if, there were a ban put in place by the Government that prevents this exhibition from taking place, I would assume that there would be no question of being able to claim a refund on your advanced exhibition tickets.

But the problem comes trying to get your money refunded on any pre-booked hotel and travel tickets, where the condition of purchase, due to the cheaper price being paid, is that there are no refunds or date alterations will be entertained. I just wonder how sympathetic these companies will be, given these exceptional circumstances to give refunds.

Hopefully the Government will put in place some legislation to put pressure on these Companies to force them to give full refunds.

If you look on the right hand side, above the purple box that tells you the promo number you will find the words "HAVE A PROMO CODE?" if you clink on those words, a seperate box appears that you are able to enter your promo code.

If it`s accepted, then another ticket price list appears, that gives you your subscriber ticket prices - its the 2nd LINE DOWN, NOT the top line as that is for normal price adult tickets!

Hope this helps

I would try in the first instance Ticket Factory, but I must admit that the chances of getting a refund for the price difference are very small indeed.

You`ve got to be absolutely certain after you entered your promo code and the new ticket list came up, that you actually clicked on the 2nd line down - subscriber ticket and not the top line which is the normal adult price.  I have just purchased my ticket for Doncaster and I almost made that mistake of clinking onto the top line for an adult ticket believing that was for a discounted subscriber ticket. It is very misleading to say the least.

The exhibition dates in the header title would be useful

The Exhibition dates in the header title would be useful

Spending Review 2019

It`s the difference between what SWMBO thinks you spent and what you actually spent!!!!

As the proposed ULEZ extension doesn’t commence until October 2021, I really can`t see much point in discussing the subject now, as its over 2 years away before it may have an impact on the 2022 exhibition. Of course that’s assuming it’s at the same time and location as of now.

Also, as there`s going to be a London Mayoral election this year, there could be a change of political spectrum, resulting in the new Mayor scrapping this proposed ULEZ extension, as Boris did to the western extension of the congestion charge back in 2010.

It would have been useful to have the exhibition name - Perth Model Railway Exhibition, included in the topic title.

She -- Charles Aznavour

Up, Up and Away – The 5th Dimension

Last Christmas  - Wham

Please be aware there is a weekend road closure on the A14 westbound between junctions 28  Swavesay and Junction 27 Fenstanton, which may have an impact on your journey time to the exhibition.

And there’s me thinking that German Engineering was always so accurate and precise - @19.45 if it doesn`t line up then give it a good kicking, that should do the trick!!

19 hours ago, bourneagain said:

There`s recently been a report in our local paper quoting instances where motorists have been issued with £100 fines for exceeding a 30 min max stay at some Petrol Stations. An increasing number of garages, especially BP and Shell are now having CCTV cameras installed and motorists say that they have received a fine for exceeding the maximum permitted time while queuing to use the car wash after filling up with fuel.

In the same newspaper article was this quote -

A spokesman for MET Parking Services told PetrolPrices: "We would encourage any motorist who believes they were issued with a charge notice incorrectly to appeal using our BPA [British Parking Association] audited appeals process. Motorists have the right to appeal to the independent appeals service, Popla [Parking on Private Land appeals], which is a free and easy to use service."

This may help your case.

On 28/11/2019 at 09:46, John M Upton said:

Is there any possibility of this show moving back to the old October dates at some point?  December is pretty much a non runner for getting time off unfortunately. 

There`s surprising quite a lot of sickness about at the moment, probably due to the change in the weather. Now you wouldn`t want to spread it about to the rest of your Colleagues, so a day off at the weekend to recuperate may be just what the Doctor ordered!! 

There`s recently been a report in our local paper quoting instances where motorists have been issued with £100 fines for exceeding a 30 min max stay at some Petrol Stations. An increasing number of garages, especially BP and Shell are now having CCTV cameras installed and motorists say that they have received a fine for exceeding the maximum permitted time while queuing to use the car wash after filling up with fuel.

5 hours ago, Butler Henderson said:

As a cyclist there always seem to be a number of good offers albeit as they started a month+ ago most probably sold out well before GF/CM. I got a waterproof coat for £23.70 instead of £125 (was very surprised when it turned up and it was a winter coat when its the time of year you expect such to be thin summer ones, needless to say its had heavy use), a new pair of shoes discounted by 38% (amazingly actually found a pair in the colour and size I wanted for once, usually such items in a sale are for people with tiny feet), a new GPS bike computer of a very popular model discounted by 25% (hopefully now I can get a bit further afield without fear of getting lost, and a couple of bike chains of a well respected make for nearly half the price of one normally. Had a look in town yesterday and the CM offers were dismal, its seemed instead that shoppers were being attracted to those items which were not a CM offer.

Looks like Santa came early to you this year.

It was the same last year, the warnings from the various media outlets that most items in the BF/CM sales were cheaper before and probably will be after this event. And who can blame them, as these weeks leading up to Christmas is generally known in the retail trade as their largest income period and traditionally in the UK, it’s the period following Christmas that the sales bargains can be had.

1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Pedantically, today is "Cyber Monday" so they are over. Your mileage might vary.

Oh yes, very much so, hence my question.

Why let it last a day when it could be dragged on for at least a week or 2, both before and after the event.

Does anybody know the date when the Black Friday sales finish??

Black Friday – Stay at Home and Save 100%!!!

1 hour ago, jonathan452 said:

 

I believe that there is a Shoeburyness show this year - http://www.shoeburynessmrc.co.uk/annual-exhibition.html - Saturday/Sunday16/17.11.19

If you take a look at their web site it will confirm that their exhibtion has been cancelled for this year.

The above advert for their exhibtion must have been issued before the exhibtion was cancelled.

There now weekend car parking charges of £2.10 at this station introduced on 1 Sept, I don`t know how much the return bus fare to the NEC is, but in total it could work out more expensive than the per-paid £12 parking charge at the NEC, that is if you don`t have a bus pass!

No that is not what I was implying, there were problems a few years ago,  when Warners first transferred their ticketing system over to Ticket Factory that my promo code wasn`t being accepted, so like I stated,  after contacting the email help line my problem was quickly resolved. I`ve not had any problems since, nor do I suspect have the others who also had the same problem.

And this is what I was advising this person to do, instead of completing their ticket transaction, contact Warners to establish what the problem is and why their promo code won`t work. As the show is still over 5 weeks away there’s plenty of time to sort out, with the help line any problems with promo codes that don`t appear to work.