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I've Been Victimised
January 25, 2007, 15:29
When I first started Uni during the freshers week there was a bazarre thing set up next to the student union. In the bazarre were lots of different tables for various companies trying to hawk their wares at new Uni students through the lure of bags full of freebies.
There was all sorts there, insurance companies, mobile companies, even the police had a stall with loads of information on how to keep your stuff safe at uni and whatnot.
At the back of the tent there was a stall for a new web-based company called 'booksofcourse.com'. They were giving out free books to anyone that signed up and I already had a sack full of freebies, so one more wasn't going to hurt.
In December I went on the site to buy some books for the exams that I had earlier this month, I only ended up buying one book - a C# programming book aimed for students - because most of them were pretty expensive.
Anyway, come the exam time my book had still not arrived from them, so I sent them an email asking for any information about it but I didn't get a reply.
Today I got a letter through the post from 'Begbies Traynor' who are apparently a 'corporate rescue & recovery' company. The letter was basically telling me that booksofcourse are going the way of the dinosaur and are going to be liquidating their assets and whatnot.
So here I am, no refund, no book and only a letter of 'appology' saying that I might be able to get some of my money back.
Nice one :/
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There was all sorts there, insurance companies, mobile companies, even the police had a stall with loads of information on how to keep your stuff safe at uni and whatnot.
At the back of the tent there was a stall for a new web-based company called 'booksofcourse.com'. They were giving out free books to anyone that signed up and I already had a sack full of freebies, so one more wasn't going to hurt.
In December I went on the site to buy some books for the exams that I had earlier this month, I only ended up buying one book - a C# programming book aimed for students - because most of them were pretty expensive.
Anyway, come the exam time my book had still not arrived from them, so I sent them an email asking for any information about it but I didn't get a reply.
Today I got a letter through the post from 'Begbies Traynor' who are apparently a 'corporate rescue & recovery' company. The letter was basically telling me that booksofcourse are going the way of the dinosaur and are going to be liquidating their assets and whatnot.
So here I am, no refund, no book and only a letter of 'appology' saying that I might be able to get some of my money back.
Nice one :/
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