For large chains like Tesco, Sainsbury's etc2 they will accept payment of any amount using cards but smaller shops tend to have a '5 pounds and above only' policy.

haha..i wont do that...i would like to pay for 10pound becuase if i pay 20 pound notes they will gimme 10 coins of 1 pound...

I used to collect these £1 coins so I could use it for my laundry..

@youngkies - I'm not using O2, currently using tmobile network. But i'll probably register the contract once the nokia 6555 is released.

And for medicine courses, isnt it no longer possible to apply for 2008 entry since candidate's UCAS profile should be in the hands of the admission tutors by 15th this month?

onelove is an spm student this year, so earliest would be 2009 entry, but that is assuming he starts a levels in Jan, and have his AS by June08 and applications in by Oct08..............

why there are so difficult to get handphone by contract. i'd been declined for 3 times

your credit is bad. you didnt have enough point from your credit report. do you have any unsettled bill, dispute from ebay etc or sort off?

no. maybe i just deposit a little bit money on my UK's account. Becoz all my monies are in HSBC. i think becoz of that la...

probably, but if you use credit card to apply for the phone, it should still went through even you dont have much money in the bank, if you hold good sufficient / good credit history.

else any history to unsettled payment, over limit overdraft, bounce cheque etc will contribute to the bad credit rating.

and phone telco took seriously of credit report before approve the application / subscription.

Sometimes, they reject your application because your accomodation has bad records (from previous owners). For e.g. records of previous mobile owners (mostly students), who did not pay their bills at all.

lol, i got that too!

the previous tenant of my house, a malaysian couple, actually went out to apply lots of things by credit - mobile phones, plasma tv and whatver else - right before they left after finishing studies. i got people coming to my house from debt collection agencies! LOL!

so i had to prove that we're not the person they're looking for, and i have no idea who the previous tenants was. so they went back to my landlord to get their details (bcoz u gotta leave a copy of ur passports when u enter a tenancy agreement). dunno what happened after that .

whoa.. that's pretty daring. the common case i heard was registering a line to get canggih canggih phone and fled the country the next day/week.

don't they know that they are messing with UK, not Malaysia.

That's a pretty good idea!

If you just freshly arrived in UK, it is really hard to apply Vodafone, T-mobile and Orange. You can try O2 and 3.

Hi, i have a quick question on broadband wireless.. I had install the broadband via a router and there's 3 laptop connection to it. But why at the sametime, my friend's laptop couldn't connect to the internet while i still able to connect it??
anyone have any experience with the tiscali??

i think that's a question for the hardware/networking section. i had sort of a similar issues before, and went tweaking the settings on my laptop till i got it to work...

um is there any catch behind o2's unlimited calls to o2 users?

planning to get one

ops.. sorry.. i posted in wrong section..
anyway thanks...
talk about the broadband in Uk, some of the service providers really stucks.. argh... so guys, when you are going to get one, please check with your friends before you sign the contract...

i've used only 2 broadband services all this while: bulldog broadband and virgin media (previously known as ntl:telewest). although bulldog bb 8mb is extremely fast, they have extremely poor after sales service and technical support. i managed to setup my machine and my housemate's purely by experience. if i didnt have experience in setting up networks before, it'll take about 2 weeks to get the technician to come to my house and get things going.

virgin media to me is still the best. i took 2mb broadband, slower than bulldog, but excellent tech support, they're relatively cheaper, doesnt need a phone line and it's freaking UNLIMITED.

is the postal order in uk means wang pos in msia?if yes,any special procedure or requirement for international student to buy it ?

This post has been edited by moto-moto: Oct 6 2007, 06:56 PM