To wonder where the hell is my shopping and/or money?

[pissedrightoff]

Last night I checked my bank account online, £105.00 is the balance. Fine, I'll do an online shop at asda to arrive tomorrow.
Total shopping comes to £80.76.

Shopping does not arrive today and when I call to enquire why, I am told that there were insufficent funds in my account.

I then check online balance,£24.24 suggesting that between last night and now £80.76 has been debited.
Phoned bank to make enquiries and indeed Asda have taken the amount and bank gave me the authorisation number.I ask if it is possible that it is a pending payment, bank says no, as it has come off the balance then the payment has went through.

Phone Asda back, not helpful in the slightest, They say that they have not recieved the money, I tell them I have an authorisation code from my bank and an available balance which says otherwise.They say they will look into it and call me back at midday tomorrow.

So I now have only £24,Very little food, live in the back of beyond so no shops, will have to take two buses to a tesco tomorrow to see how far my £24 will stretch for baby food, milk and wipes.

Where is my money if it's not in my bank and Asda say they don't have it????

The nutty fruit-the-loop posters on that MSE thread are.....not quite all there, are they?

MoneySavingExperts? Irony anyone?

Daphne Descends is over there doing a good job for MN. Go daphers Go!

Although i would be relieved to get some food i would still be shaking with rage at the inconvenience and upset caused by this and wouldnt let it drop till asda go that extra mile. When i worked in retail it was part of our training to go above and beyond our jobs to help our customers, delivering goods days late after a fuss is made and sending a scabby bunch of flowers is not above and beyond.

I'm utterly reviled by the attitude of the MSE'ers.
Sadly not all of us have sufficient income to stay away from the edge. Shame some are too blinkered to realise that.

The only reason I know about ringfencing is becuase of a stint in a related industry; given I was the only onwe in the COunty doing my job it's ahrdly surprising most people don't know.

MSE anti MN bunch wierd. Says I, late theirties post gard student living in nice village with debts amounting to £4.71 . Chav my Cath Kidston adorned Waitrose loving arse!

I think that Daphne and I are the lone voices of reason on that thread.

As I've said over there, "...I find it pretty stunning that this site [MSE] seems to think that Asda have done nothing wrong, and that PRO is the architect of her own downfall because she lives in a remote spot, has a child, didn't know the ins and outs of ringfencing, and didn't have much money in her bank account (to allow for having to do her weekly shop twice, because a major retailer had cocked up her first order). Oh, and she belongs to a site that allows swearing." Do they really think that it is the swearing her choice of location, and her knowledge of ringfencing that are the most important issues here?

My head hurts!

I didn't go on there to gawk at the weird people honest like gov

But I did whilst accidentally entering mumsnet into the search bar there find it amusing that someone who tags her posts with 'Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them.' complains about swearing. I mean

So wild and free I suggest this is her natural posting ground?

Although I mentioned that site to dh who thought I meant a different kind of kitty and is now IN DISGRACE!

That ''quote'' is from sex and the city

Well it's about as appropriate as me having a link to a Tory fansite frankly!

(ie for those who know me, not very)

Agreed, not appropriate and I seem to remember a LOT of swearing in SITC.

I'm getting a bit of a pasting over on MSE, Lord knows why but some posters there seem to be suggesting that I am making it up or making it sound worse than it is, for what gain? I was kindly offered monetary help which I declined. What a nasty, nasty lot.

I wonder if this happened to them, would they be so horrid????

SanctiMoanyArse

Oh by the way pissedrightoff - yanbu

PRO, ignore, don't read there anymore - I think what some of them wanted was to do a big "benefit scrounger" / "single mother" shout, and when it became obvious they couldn't, they're just trying to pick on something, anything.

Ignore.

I'm really glad you got your food, hopefully Asda would make up some more.

Why thank you Caramel, I did'nt think I was lol

PRO - probably not worth bothering to read their very short-sighted posts on MSE (not that everyone on MSE is like that, but the posters on that thread seem especially unpleasant).

Ok, I know I'll probably be shouted at now, but perhaps calling them all c's is not really showing us in a good light either. Being annoyed at Asda one thing, swearing for the sake of swearing not really.

This thread shows mumsnet at its best; a real community. What a shame MSE are so different and bitchy with it.

Pissed - you are being very cool.

So glad you have your tea bags - I would be swearing all over the place not merely online in an adult forum!

Oh, and ASDA...crap service. I am currently broke (yes MSE despite being a well paid professional) but will NOT be looking at your website for cheaper groceries. PRO deserves a whole lot more than fucking flowers.

If one were to be nasty, one might hope that a few who posted negatively there try to purchase some 'special' gifts for loved ones at Christmas - you know the sort of thing, a 700 pound iPad perhaps, and then find otder didn't go through,and they will be without the money or the iPad until after New Year.

Maybe then they will see how inconvenient it would be.

Shame that I'm married and both of us work then.
Seriously am not usually that close to the wind, well actually I am but I usually have some savings to fall back on in an emergency,but savings wiped out this month as work suddenly decided we were getting paid monthly rather than weekly.

I was going to post the above earlier when TIS was being an arse but thought I should'nt justify myself to him/her

Nah, she was just soiling for a fight., you would have wasted your breath.

Mis - they have called the OP a liar, a scrounger, who should not be living on the edge. ie down to her last £24 quid. They have slagged off this site.

And to top it all they hate swearing nuff said.

It does not matter, RAB, just because they're childish, doesn't mean we have to match them.

well they have copied and pasted a post from PRO onto there and been derogatory about her child. If anyone is a member of MSE and on here, that should be reported.

I think I fit in better here than over there. I wonder how GothicFairy would feel about the friday bumsex threads? She'd probably faint clean away!

But apparently they'd have been far nicer if this thread was nice, well-behaved and moderate. Because it is sooo unreasonable to be immoderate and sweary when Asda takes your money and gives you no groceries.

No MSL, I think you're right that name calling might just breed hostility between different groups of website users.

It does good to vent sometimes, but not if anyone wants the comments about how ASDA has handled things to be read by people from a range of backgrounds, without shocking quite a proportion, and doing harm to the intention of such a thread.