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  1. Tidemark

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    Strangely, perfect2trade give themselves the monkier of “investment banking”. Seems like the “b” should be a “w”.
     
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      Our neighbour was waiting for a package and only discovered, the day after the bins went out, that the courier had dumped it in there. They have a camera, so evidence of what happened, but the courier is still disputing it. The item was £150 so they aren't going to let it go.
       
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        perfect2trade
        Registered address (Companies House) is Unit 19, Shamblehurst Lane South, Hedge End, Southampton, England, SO30 2FX.
        Shamblehurst seems appropriate.
         
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          The investment bank part is a total red herring.
          If you read the blurb about Axiom on that Trustpilot page, you discover it is apparently talking about Axiom Stark Analysis, the blurb is total fiction; Axiom Analysis is a software tool that is used for analysising population genomics and the Stark part refers to a machine for metal analysis.
           
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          • Tidemark

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            I would send your problem to Zoe Wood at the Guardian. She has the most amazing success in getting ripoffs sorted for people. Point out that your experience of these jokers is not unique and direct her to Trustpilot.

            Zoe Wood | The Guardian
             
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            • pete

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              I've been getting, please leave feedback, messages before stuff arrives these days.
              I ordered some seeds, sent via RM, they took 6 days from posting to arriving.

              None of these delivery companies seem to be really on the ball.

              I see a RM van stop outside my house most mornings, there is two people in it, why?
              One sat in the van while the other delivered the parcel, Why does it take two people, I just dont understand.
              Then we also get a delivery by someone on foot a bit later, but we still only get bulk deliveries, nothing for days then all the junk mail with about one letter of significance.
               
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                pete Growing a bit of this and a bit of that....

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                I thought the Green agenda had pretty much wiped out steel making in the UK anyway, the Port Talbot plant was or is moving over to only recycling scrap, I thought.

                Do you still need coke to make virgin steel in a blast furnace, I'm not sure but the Greens have wiped out coke production in the UK pretty effectively.

                British heavy industry has been wiped out by successive governments for many years, they prefer cheap imports and these days it makes us look greener, and allows them to skew the carbon output figures.
                 
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                Not a hundred percent sure I know the Swedes have been looking at using hydrogen instead of coke. There are also methods involving high temperature electolysis; a bit like for aluminium production.
                 
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                  I was under the impression steel needed carbon, from the coke, just school boy memories, pig iron processed into steel in a blast furnace.

                  I remember buying tools made of high carbon steel.
                  It was harder and kept a sharp edge better.
                   
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                    Either way, the Chinese have us by the short and curlies - what is left of our car industry is going to be utterly shot to bits between this, Trump's tariffs and some of the industry players own reputations...
                     
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                      I think our car industry wend down the pan years ago, back in the days of British Leyland striking every few weeks.
                      The ones left were just foreign owned but with British names, apart from a few specialists.

                      Add to that the EV revolution and you might as well say it dead anyway.
                       
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                        @pete In many instances the Royal Mail van will drop one postie off with his trolley and then the other will continue and do their own round. If one is just sitting in the van all day, they are probably a manager doing what they do best!
                         
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                          Still plenty of time for the tariffs to disappear after a little insider trading, to make his cronies rich.
                           
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                            No I waited just to see what was going on, the one doing the delivery got back in and they drove off.
                             
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                              Fuming lol

                              I was looking at cosmos seeds , Dobies , suttons and Thompson and Morgan

                              I ordered from Dobies thinking they had free p&p , so I was disappointed I was charged p&p .. so sent off a email to be told it was the sister company Suttons and not not Dobies , so it was a no

                              And to rub my nose in today Dobies have free p&p on everything

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