uk.finance Google Group
Discussion about Finance issues in the UK

• Re: Mortgage early repayment charges, can I do anything?
  How times have changed. When I sold my first house in 1967 my solicitor was
  furious that my lender, a small building society imposed a charge of three
  months interest to compensate them for early payment.
  Derek.
• Re: Homebase are bastards
  good point... my ex wife had me doing all the running around too when she
  changed her mind... and when the penny finally dropped...she became an ex!
• Re: Homebase are bastards
  Do you realise how whipped she has you ?
  she bought it but you've had to do the bringing back
  during the busy sales period of all times
  have a think about that for a while . . .
  Just tried to take something back to Homebase that my girlfriend bought last
  week and swap it for something very similar (slightly different style, same
• Re: past performance
  Bitstring <XKucj.28259$yZ4.18...@newsfe4 -gui.ntli.net>, from the
  wonderful person Terry Newman <tnew...@eclipse.com> said
  Trustnet has lots of history for most funds. Or you can get the free
  trial version of sharescope gold, which lets you do more interesting
  things (but will lack the last 6-9 months daily data).
• Re: Giving money to grandchildren - almost
  On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:53:35 -0000, "Norman Wells"
  In addition, you can give unlimited gifts out of income, as long as
  your standard of living is not affected by the gifts.
  One solution might be for them to establish designated accounts with
  one or more Investment Trusts, and make regular monthly subscriptions
• Re: past performance
  On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 15:50:15 GMT, "Terry Newman" <tnew...@eclipse.com>
  wrote:
  Try [link]
• Re: Homebase are bastards
  One rational possibility that seems obvious to me, is for the purpose of
  maintaining the accuracy of their stock levels. In other words, they
  will probably want to create a till credit for the returned item in
  order for the returned goods to be added back into their stock records,
  and for the replacement item to be deducted from the their stock records
• Re: Removing CV2 number from credit card
  On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:37:17 -0000, Tim put finger to keyboard and
  typed:
  A quick Google suggests that [link]
  might have it.
  Mark
• Re: Homebase are bastards
  Usually they take your name and address, if not a DNA sample.
  Jeez..
• Re: Removing CV2 number from credit card
  use a wax seal with the royal stamp.
• Re: Removing CV2 number from credit card
  "Mark Goodge" wrote
  Where can you get that tape from?
• Re: Homebase are bastards
  Well it is a sort of a procedure/IT thing. If you want to
  exchange goods what they actually "have" to do is give a refund,
  then a new purchase. When I've exchanged goods in the past
  I've always had a card refund voucher, then the card sale voucher
  for the repacement item, i.e. two seperate transactions. Dunno
• Re: Removing CV2 number from credit card
  On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:42:20 -0800 (PST), Matthew put finger to
  keyboard and typed:
  What you could do is put a bit of tamper-proof tape over it. That way,
  if you need to reveal the code for legitimate purposes (such as when
  required to do so by a Code 10) you can, but no-one else can take a
  sneak peek at it while handling your card without giving away the fact
• Re: Homebase are bastards
  Then please do so...
• Re: Giving money to grandchildren - almost
  In message <fl2v54$nv0$1$8300d...@news.de mon.co.uk>, Norman Wells
  <nor...@myarl.demon.co.uk> writes
  This may help with clarifying that as it is spelt out quite clearly and
  remember that you can carry forward the annual exemption one year so
  that first time round they could give double to get things started