This can be quite a long story so i will try and cut it down to as short as possible. I have just come back off my hols and the b&b we were meant to be staying in, had a few problems. when we arrived, there was not a car park (or we couldnt find one anyway) so my friend went and knocked on the door and stood around 10mins with no answer. We then rang a lady whose mobile we had and she directed us to this "car park" All it was was a grass verge for two cars to fit on, wasnt private or secure, just a side road behind the b&b. there was also a sign there saying, "Do not park here, you will be clamped" so i said to this lady i wasnt parking there, one coz of the sign and two coz of the "car park" not really being a car park" We then went to the room, and the person finally answered the door and gave us two single rooms whereas our request was a twin. By this point i was very angry and said i wanted my deposit back (£100) to which the owner said (on the phone) he would send in the post but i didnt believe him so wanted something in writing to which he refused to do so. I said could i have it refunded back onto the card and we arranged to meet the following to get this deposit back, and he never turned up so we tried ringing him and couldnt get any answer from the owner or the lady who we rang on the first day. The b&b we ended up staying in said about reporting them to trip advisor, tourist board and the site to which we booked with. THe b&b wasnt on the tourist board and i will put a review on trip advisor soon. The owner said to us, when we finally got through to him yesterday that our reasons were pathetic and we would have no chance of getting our money back. We feel that it is a ligitimate reason, as the service and instructions were misleading or wrong and that it could be classed as theft. THere is no where on correspondance to say that we wont get our deposit back if cancelled etc.
We dont know what else to do - any suggestions?
Contact Trading Standards on Tuesday, and see what they have to say.
Qivana: Qore & MetaboliQ …a scam? OR revolutionary new health company?
I saw some folks talking about Qivana being some kind of scam. They were just curious because it’s a new company and there was not a lot of info on it at the time.
However a bunch of "advisors" jumped in to say it’s "probably a scam." I always find it interesting that people will open their mouth to express an opinion about something which they know absolutely nothing about. Of course the internet is sort of like writing on the bathroom wall…. just a really BIG bathroom wall.
My question is… when it’s easy to just use internet search to do a few minutes of research, why do people, instead, choose to just throw out any old opinion as if they know what they are talking about?
Here is what you can find out about Qivana if you want to do a bit of research…
CEO - Derek Hall. Mr. Hall was with McKesson Pharmaceutical for 26 years, the last 10 as their Chief Sales Officer. He was also CEO of Unigen Pharmaceutical and CEO of Natures Way… increasing income at all three dramatically. With Natures Way they were in the red when he came on board and he took them to the neighborhood of 47 million a year in revenue within a few years.
Other management - from top network marketing companies. Check their web site.
No "magic pills" … these are products that are UNIQUE, put together as a "systems approach" and designed by top Doctors in their field…..
Dr. Marcus Laux - author of "Natural Woman, Natural Menopause" and responsible for coining the now, well used term, bio-identical. Considered the "Doctor to the Stars," Dr. Laux has had a full time practice in Malibu and Beverly Hills for about 20 years, and has traveled the world lecturing about natural health practices and botanicals.
Dr. Donald K. Layman, University of Illinois, winner: Shannon Award from the National Institute of Health and 2009 Nutrition and Metabolism Leadership award. Dr. Layman is considered to be the top nutrition and metabolism researcher in the country and has the awards to back that up. The average Doctors publishes 2-5 peer reviewed papers over the course of his career. Dr. Layman has published over 90!
The company has two health "systems" - unique, integrated products that work together to improve the immune system, detox the body, and provide a nutritional jumpstart system for weight management.
Qore is for immunity and detox. MetaboliQ is for weight management.
These systems have NO competition in the marketplace and are superior in composition, ingredients and formulation. You can research this and find the information.
Sales for the Metaboliq system alone are predicted to (if they continue at the current pace) end up being the number #1 selling weight management system in the US by the end of the year. But this is not a "diet" system… it’s for anyone that wants to build muscle and burn fat using healthy, perfectly balanced products.
It’s "weight management" because it is NOT some "fad" diet, but simply a system to give a little jump-start to a healthy eating lifestyle that will build muscle and burn fat naturally. The system is based on 30 years of research by Dr. Layman at the University of Illinois and it consists of the products… but also EDUCATION.
So my question is… What genius would think that people of this calibre, would be involved in a company that was in any way questionable? I’m hoping that those "negative nellies" have already figured out the truth… but, if not, they can start their own research right here…
www.HealthyConnections.MyQivana.com
Sue, You did exactly what you’re supposed to do. Research! And after doing the research, it does sound like it’s not a scam. You’re the one who has to decide if you want to spend the money to try it!
Best of luck, whatever you decide! (It sounds pretty good to me!) 
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i have decided to use Avira as my antivirus software and also 2 antispyware software which are Malwarebytes Antimalware with SUPERAntispyware together…do i need to use both the antispyware software or i jz need to use 1,which is the better want?based on ur reviews or experiences,should i use both or jz 1 of it and which 1 should i choose?besides,i am confused with the shoutouts out there as some ppl saying that McAfee Site Advisor is good and some saying that WOT(Web of Trust) is good…honestly,which is the better and helps to secure my comp?i heard some comments that McAfee Site Advisor is kinda outdated rite now…is it true?and also how good is WOT doing its job rite now…but idk whether it is true or not also?so pls help me with some advises and i really appreciate with ur contributions and thx for spending time viewing this question too.don’t give me links or websites pls…thx 
any other best and most popular free antispyware software among the users to be recommended to me plz?thx
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By BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE and MATT APUZZO – 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON — An early progress report on President Barack Obama’s economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program, a mistake that White House officials promise will be corrected in future reports.
The government’s first accounting of jobs tied to the $787 billion stimulus program claimed more than 30,000 positions paid for with recovery money. But that figure is overstated by least 5,000 jobs, or one in six, according to an Associated Press review of a sample of stimulus contracts.
The AP review found some counts were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of jobs; some jobs credited to the stimulus program were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced.
For example:
_ A company working with the Federal Communications Commission reported that stimulus money paid for 4,231 jobs, when about 1,000 were produced.
_ A Georgia community college reported creating 280 jobs with recovery money, but none was created from stimulus spending.
_ A Florida child care center said its stimulus money saved 129 jobs but used the money on raises for existing employees.
There’s no evidence the White House sought to inflate job numbers in the report. But administration officials seized on the 30,000 figure as evidence that the stimulus program was on its way toward fulfilling the president’s promise of creating or saving 3.5 million jobs by the end of next year.
The reporting problem could be magnified Friday when a much larger round of reports is expected to show hundreds of thousands of jobs repairing public housing, building schools, repaving highways and keeping teachers on local payrolls.
But the White House promises many problems will be corrected in Friday’s report.
"I think you’ll see a pretty good degree of accuracy," said Ed DeSeve, an Obama adviser helping to oversee the stimulus program.
DeSeve said the administration is aware of problems with the early data. Agencies have been working with businesses that received the money to correct mistakes. Other errors discovered by the public also will be corrected, he said.
"If there’s an error that was made, let’s get it fixed," DeSeve said.
The White House released a statement early Thursday responding to the AP review, arguing what the administration said are the "real facts" about how jobs were counted in the stimulus data distributed two weeks ago. It said for the first time Thursday that release had been a test run of a small subset of data that had been subjected only to three days of reviews, that it had already corrected "virtually all" the mistakes identified by the AP and that the discovery of mistakes "does not provide a statistically significant indication of the quality of the full reporting that will come on Friday."
The data partially reviewed by the AP for errors included all the data presently available, representing all known federal contracts awarded to businesses under the stimulus program. The figures being released Friday include different categories of stimulus spending by state governments, housing authorities, nonprofit groups and other organizations.
As of early Thursday, on its recovery.org Web site, the government was still citing 30,383 as the actual number of jobs linked so far to stimulus spending, despite the mistakes the White House has now acknowledged and said were being corrected.
It’s not clear just how far off the 30,000 claim was. The AP’s review was not an exhaustive accounting of all 9,000 contracts, but homed in on the most obvious cases where there were indications of duplications or misinterpretations.
While the thousands of overstated jobs represent a tiny sliver of the overall economy, they represent a significant percentage of the initial employment count credited to the stimulus program.
Tom Gavin, a spokesman for the White House budget office, attributed the errors to officials as well as recipients having to conduct such reporting for the first time.
In fact, the AP review shows some businesses undercounted the number of jobs funded under the stimulus program by not reporting jobs saved.
Here are some of the findings:
_ Colorado-based Teletech Government Solutions on a $28.3 million contract with the Federal Communications Commission for creation of a call center, reported creating 4,231 jobs, although 3,000 of those workers were paid for five weeks or less.
"We all felt it was an appropriate way to represent the data at the time" and the reporting error has been corrected, said company president Mariano Tan.
_ The Toledo, Ohio-based Koring Group received two FCC contracts, again for call centers. It reported hiring 26 people for each contract, or a total of 52 jobs, but cited the same workers for both contracts. The jobs only lasted about two months.
Obama=BushXBush same bad government only worst. we have not seen a conservative president in over 70 years.
a friend told me if i have att i get free virus protection so i looked it up and came up with that… i thought to myself what the hell i dont have any protection at all so i downloaded it. im just wondering how well does it work. i just formatted my pc so im not sure if its really done anything so far and i havent had my pc slow down at all like some people have claimed. how is its firewall, virus scanner, and mcafee site adviser
by the way i built my machine, nforce 790i super sli, xfx geforce gtx 285 black edition, intel core 2 quad 2.83GHz, 4 gigs or ram
Site advisor is fair, gives you some idea of the site before you download from it. Firewall is fair also, virus scanner is fair, The best is avira, but, here is what i do. I use free versions of these two, once a week. malwarebytes’ antimalware and superantispyware.
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I’m viewing reviews for hotels on these two sites… And they seem to have different star ratings for the SAME HOTEL. Why? Who should I trust? EG. Trip advisor shows 4.5 stars when Hotel club shows 5 stars. And it occurs for alot of their hotels too… About .5 to 1 star difference.
Who should I trust with the hotel star ratings?
TripAdvisor and HotelClub have different rating scales; as a result, the star ratings are different. To me, stars are secondary. The personal ratings on the TripAdvisor websites are invaluable. Have a happy stay.
hi all.done a silly spur of the moment thing and booked a holiday going to tunisia next may.ive paid £175 deposit the total holiday cost is £1560.ive been on the trip advisor and holiday watchdog sites to look up the resort and hotel.
the soviva resort port el kantouie.
my god all the reviews are realy bad and to be truthful the place sounds like a dump,im realy concerned and i now dont want to go.im not realy sure what to do .i rang thomas cook thismorning the advisor said "we have had very good reviews about the hotel and you cant listen to silly reviews" i think she was trying to palm me off………..please help i realy dont want to be wasting our hard earned cash on a holiday were going to regret .what can i do?thankyou for your help/
i think you may be able to to change your holiday destination and transfer the deposit over. Best to ring your agent again and ask about changing holiday and state that you feel you were ill informed about the destinaton as you have looked up sites.
I have researched this site via bbb.org, mcafee site advisor, biz rate, white pages, etc. and have found very little information on it or any customer reviews / testimonials. The website seems to be safe and has a GeoTrust SSL certificate, but I still find it odd that when I google the contact info from the site, links from www.herballove.com appears. The layout of the site is slightly different but the "company profile" as well as other text seem to be EXACT to the wording from takeherb.com. I find it fishy that takeherb.com is linked to this other site that sells sexual products. Why would the company need 2 different sites? Is it just the same company that has a different website for its more discrete products? I would like to buy some organic herbs from take herb . com but am now skeptical on its legitimacy. I really would appreciate it if anyone could tell me more about this company and if its legitimate…or if they have ever purchased something from this online business.
Sorry if I sound a little paranoid, but with the economy lately, you never know. I don’t want to get scammed so any information you may have about this company would be great! Please help!
Check with the Federal Trade Commission to see if there are any complaints.
simply google…FTC and the company name.
Also, see if the company uses the GMP seal….Good Manufacturing Processes—if it does not use the GMP seal, suggest is not to buy
GMP signifies standards commonly accepted among …companies.
Ok I need help here. I am passionate about photography and am planning on going to school for it. Right now I need an online school and have found the Art Institute of Pittsburgh’s Online. I have spoken to an advisor and she sold me on the school. But then i did some research and found a review site for the school. I am utterly at a loss. Half say its a terrible school that just wants your money. The other half say its a wonderful school. I know this will be said for any online school thats just the way things are. But I need some honest answers here! If anyone has or is a student at this school please give me some feedback!
I am a current student at Art Institute of Portland and the online Pittsburgh school. So far things are fine. The thing you have to realize is that only some of the Art Institutes are certified schools, which really doesn’t matter, because you’ll still get a degree, but because they are a private school they can kinda make stuff up as they go, and the credits won’t transfer if you decide to go somewhere else. Also be aware that not all professionals see the art institute as a credible school, so yeah, in a way they just want your money, but on the other hand you’ll get a lot of inspiration and learn a lot.