Laithanomics

Exploring and Explaining Economics and Finance Concepts in Language that is Simple to Understand

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@smithyandgracie @chilternrailway @TfL Happy new year! Chiltern railways, already failed their New Year’s resolution to not screw up the travel for people who need (not want) to travel.

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@chilternrailway @PayneEdwar40175 @Custom If your service has been cancelled? How about people who couldn’t get on the train, and are delayed getting to their destination because you only offered three carriages in peak commute home time.

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@PayneEdwar40175 @chilternrailway @Custom Yep, the prime time commuter train with THREE carriages. You have capacity for eight. Honestly sort this out!!! Can’t believe we pay for this, with no alternative.

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@chilternrailway Can you please confirm if the departure boards at Haddenham & Thame will be fixed too? This used to be my source of carriage information, and I don’t know why they aren’t being fixed, despite not working for a few months now.

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@chilternrailway why no warnings about a reduced number of carriages on the service from Haddenham and Thame to Marylebone at 7:11. Running down the platform to get a standing space after paying £48, again, is driving me insane.

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@chilternrailway @whittlechris What does this have to do with the number of carriages?

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@chilternrailway £48 for the privilege of getting a grossly overcrowded commuter train due to a massive reduction in the number of carriages. Madness to be paying a premium for such a shoddy service.

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@Pitonman @MossBros @Pitonman Did you ever get your refund? I’m 20 days and waiting, and all I have is a poxy receipt saying it’s “processed”

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@L7_AFC @_MBService @L7_afc Did you ever get a refund? I’ve been chasing, but nothing since 10th September, except a receipt to say it has been “processed” 🤦🏻

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@_MBService I have just emailed about waiting for the refund to return to my card for a wrongly charged suit hire (was already prepaid). I’ve waited 15 working days now, after your support said to wait up to 14 days, despite your website saying 7! Please can you help?

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@jasonbell37 @ST33ZGOAT @MagicJohnson @leylahfernandez This aged like milk

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@fer_saintmary @RightangledLtd They have a lead time for it to be delivered to the lab from being received from Royal Mail as 24h. They are breaking so many of their own expectations!!

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@simon_francesca @rightangled @FCDOtravelGovUK @WhichUK They’re absolutely dreadful. If you have paid by credit card, do a chargeback, because the only way to hit them is through their wallets. A chargeback is acceptable if the service isn’t provided in a satisfactory manner

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@RightangledLtd Your service is subpar!! It’s day 8 now of quarantine, and you still haven’t “received” my wife’s day 2 or day 5 tests, despite Royal Mail confirming they have been delivered! £180 for this service makes me so angry, because you clearly don’t care!!!

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@AwayFromTheKeys Yeah, the team that won in 1992 has matured, and the experience they had winning that tournament will really help them /s

England have not conceded a goal, and Denmark have lost two games already. Use your head.

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@sankulyaa England invented football, get your facts straight.

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@AManDelorean @BBC It’s almost as if the B in BBC stands for British!

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What happened with the GameStop stock recently? A quick analysis of the insane volatility we observed in the stock during January.

https://t.co/ZpUQzgcVCn

#gamestop #robinhood #memestock #dogecoin

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@vidIQ Seen a charge of $79 taken out of my account after forgetting to cancel during the trial period, requesting a #refund two days after, and being told “tough luck”. Great customer service guys...

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@HMRCcustomers My self assessment says I underpaid Student Loan payments, and I owe them A LOT more money, but my payments were much less than HMRC expected because this was the year of my final payment (I can’t have underpaid because the balance is 0). What am I supposed to do on the form?