Phil Lavin

Engineering Director at Vonage. Tech enthusiast and blogger at

[Phil Lavin @PhilLavin]

@charliePry98 @StarbucksUK Might want to read that again

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@StarbucksUK the maths isn’t mathing on your app today. I have Gold and it knows I have the discount but the total it charged me is without discount. How do I get a refund?

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@ToolstationUK your app is really frustrating ☹️. Click a link on the web and the app will open and then just get stuck loading. I have to close the app and click the link on the web again to make it work. Is this a known issue?

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@SMARTYMobileUK I did that. The agent was no help and then the chat cut off. Time to raise a complaint I guess

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@SMARTYMobileUK can somebody please call me to discuss an issue? My account seems to have been closed and my phone number lost. Not getting anywhere with your web chat

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@MickMacauley @LeanneSpurs @KevinASchofield Maybe it says the other 28m who didn’t vote for them originally have changed their minds and now think they’re doing a cracking job? 😂

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@IvanEft @guyday @MartinSLewis If the car is written off and you buy a new one, it’s common that they’ll hike the premium thousands of pounds or refuse to insure the new car.

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@imduffy15 @jamescallaghan @blakadder_ Nice, thanks. I’ll have a read!

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@imduffy15 you seen these? Basically 1 gang Android tablets. https://t.co/h90eIiaobJ

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@ennoneemus @anon_opin This has always troubled me. If you speed, you get a 50 quid fine. If you speed and hit somebody, you get banned from driving. If you speed, hit somebody and they die, you get up to 14 years. Intent vs outcome has never sat well with me

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@Kcfc21 @HSBC_UK Phew. I’m already questioning my choice of banks today. I’d be switching right now if I found out their customers bought sausage rolls from somewhere other than Greggs 😆

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@Kcfc21 @HSBC_UK Greggs?

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@imduffy15 @RevolutApp Are they regulated? Complain to the ombudsman

[miconda @miconda]

Sipexer v1.1.0 is out - a modern SIP CLI tool written in @golang to facilitate testing and monitoring of SIP signalling servers, with support for UDP, TCP, TLS and WebSocket: https://t.co/BRRS6xxL6L

[Phil Lavin @PhilLavin]

Credit to @eBay_UK today. I sold a faulty item (described as faulty!) and buyer couldn’t fix it so did a return “not as described”. This means I pay for return postage. I called eBay, who paid for the full refund themselves without requiring a return. Faith restored ☺️

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@GMacdonaldSNP Even if true, this is a bit of a silly statement. £7.36 per MWh is 0.736p per KWh (unit). 0.7p is the least of our worries, these days when a unit was 31p

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@piers48 @ifnotnowdigital @MartinSLewis Or maybe you were covering the interest payments fine without raising rent for 3 years, and then somebody decided you should pay 60% income tax on the rent earnings before you pay the interest, and it became unprofitable so you sold to another landlord who increased rent. Maybe

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@piers48 @ifnotnowdigital @MartinSLewis Not covering debt repayments represents a loss for every other business. If a company buys (or rents) an office and doesn’t make enough money to pay the bills then it’s not a profitable business. Again, Landlords aren’t charities

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@ifnotnowdigital @MartinSLewis Landlords aren’t charities. Most don’t make profits. I sold my one rental property 18 months back because it was making a loss, after tax rates increased for landlords. Squeezing small private landlords means houses are sold to big corporates. We don’t ask Tesco to make a loss

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@KARLD_LFC68 @MartinSLewis @itvMLshow By current standards, that’s not too bad. I’m looking at 4.76% on a 2 year fixed with a 25% LTV. That said, 5 year fixed at that rate is a big gamble as we can only hope these ridiculous rates will drop over the next 2 years