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What does IMHO mean ?
Please see my post #2 in this thread which you started. It will provide you with the answers to your question and to many more besides:
And to mogadoh, the OP, a very warm welcome to the forum.
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No point in asking. You won't find out. The refusal was by the card processing company who do not tell the retailer.
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The acceptance or refusal of your transaction is not usually done directly by your bank. The retailer's card processing company (sometimes a bank, sometimes one of the specialists such as Worldpay) will check your details and flag problem transactions. The precise anatomy of a card transaction is not obvious to the avergae card holder, or even to a retailer. Quite sensibly, the criteria for rejection are not published. One hears of embarrassing cases where a person has his card rejected while shopping in person. If this is an attempted fraudulent usage then fair enough but it can happen by mistake too. If you have one, it's worth trying a different card.
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All of what the good doctor said plus the small but unpleasant possibility that your card has been cloned and used fraudulently elsewhere. Just because you've had no trouble before doesn't mean it can't happen.
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Most likely they were out of stock and did an automatic refund. Did the email imply that you could *never* buy from them? Or is it simply that they couldn't fulfil your order on this occasion? I placed my first order with Aldo the other day and was surprised to get a phone call from them the following day. Turned out their card processing systems wanted additional verification which I gave and there should be no further problems. A friend of mine has been e-marketing manager for a couple of firms and has told me that there are various reasons why some orders are flagged for special attention. A combination of country of origin, amount and other factors. These criteria are, of course, not published and will differ from compnay to company.
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FAKE. In 10 foot high neon
If the fakery still isn't obvious have a look in their T&Cs. My bold.
Where the parties fail to settle dispute within 30 days after such dispute occurs, they agree to submit such dispute to China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission for arbitration which shall be conducted in accordance with the Commission's arbitration rules in effect at the time of applying for arbitration. The arbitral awards are final and binding upon both parties.
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I've got Gammon Flu...
It was Swine Flu but the doctor cured it!
Thespians would call that hamming.
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Aldos run small because a UK9 is a 43, not a 42, so if your a 9 in mens shoes, you wont be able to wear a 42.
Thanks for that but perhaps I didn't ask the question quite right. I'm nominally UK43/UK9 but... For example I've heard that Evans' footwear runs large. If I normally took a UK9 I'd probably want a UK8 from them. Can't speak from direct experience. Some Next stuff runs large too. I have a pair of EU43 ankle boots from Next and it's likely the EU42 would have been OK. I just wear them with thicker socks or insoles.
The real question is something like: From personal experience if you get UK9/EU42 from Aldo is it likely to fit like UK8 or UK9?
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I particularly like these: http://www.aldoshoes.com/uk/women/bo...84-zientara/97
How does Aldo sizing run? They say UK9 = EU42 but do they tend to run big or small?
I'm tempted by a pair of these. With free postage and free returns there's no risk. Not so much a question of being unwilling to try in store but the slim chance of finding them in size 9 at a store as well as ploughing through the snow and xmas shopping to got Brent Cross.
http://www.aldoshoes.com/uk/sale/women/sale-boots/80602828-SHEUMAKER/97
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For all we know, that could very well be a picture of your wife?
I think that's Tech attempting a compliment:wave:
PS: Tech, is there any way you could edit those apostrophes out of the "leg's" in this thread title?
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Welcome to our community.
For those not familiar with the Erasmus Programme it gives opportunities for students to study in other EU countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Programme
Although you are from Germany, which country have you chosen to study in as part of Erasmus?
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.....especially the THREE models by Rick Owens there.....
Such as this:
Very nice to see the trend being set but the price is more than eye-watering (over £750) and the sizes only go up to 43. I can get prefectly decent "women's" ankle boots in that size from Next for less than a tenth of the price. We thought that the "Jonny" boot was expensive at over £300. Even expensive "designer" women's ankle boots don't seem to go much above £500.
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Not sure what your boots are like but I've got a pair pretty similar to these.
http://www.next.co.uk/shopping/shoes/womensshoes/47/1 Worn under trousers they are barely going to be noticed by anyone.
Enjoy the rest of your day.
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These are on their way and I should get them on Tuesday. Although I usually take size UK9 M&S stuff is reputed to be on the roomy side. Free delivery to my local M&S food store and free return if I don't like them.
According to the website, the last pair has gone. When I ordered it was showing 6 pairs available in UK8 and all other sizes out of stock.
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I really ought to get a smartphone to replace my ancient Motorola K1. Everyone says they love their iphone but I'm not an Apple fanboy so I'm dithering. Definitely not windows, so I'm biased towards 'droid. I can predict Tech's answer - get an iphone - you'll love it.
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We survived the blitz. We survived the IRA bombings. We survived the 3 day week (1973/4) We survived the winter of discontent (1978/9). We survived 7/7. We survived Maggie's poll tax riots. What we didn't so well with were the so-called town planners who did much more damage than Hitler's bombers ever managed.
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I'm no linguist either but I strongly suspect that cheri and cherie imply a level of close friendship or even intimacy that would be totally inappropriate in a casual encounter. In english darling and my dear can be used casually without causing offence but they can also be used intimately or even ironically.
A difference between french and english culture can be seen in the relative formality of everyday shopping. This is for smaller shops, obviously not supermarkets. If you go into an english shop, an assistant might ask if they can help and the customer might well wish they hadn't been asked. If you go into a french shop you will be greeted with Bonjour Monsieur/Madame and it would be rude not to return the greeting.
As for seeing men in heels in public, outside of our merry band I've probably seen a handful over the last few years. That's excluding the commonplace "goth" platform boots seen routinely in Camden on the occasions I walk or drive through there.
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ha ha, I've caught quite a lot of customers running dodgy installs, none of whom have any reasonable or logical explaination as to why they have no valid licence for their system, then they complain as to why its so expensive in the first place, like thats a good excuse... Damn theives...
They could always run Linux instead and not have to worry about either expense or malware. Mind you, if enough people started doing that the malware creators would find it a worthwhile target. Or get an Apple Mac. I'm not trying to start OS flame wars -all my PCs run Windows though I tried Ubuntu once for the hell of it. I was quite impressed that it installed and "just worked". Easier than a Windows instal on that occasion but there are so many flavours and so many potential problems with drivers that I'm not sure I want to go seriously down the Linux route.
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My guess about anti-competition problems if Microsoft bundle MSE with Windows was correct.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/jun/11/microsoft-morro-antivirus
Don't just take Tech's word about MSE:
http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=3209444
About the only downside I can see is if you're not running a genuine licensed copy of Windows. In that case you're a naughty person and MSE might tell you so. That's according to the Wikipedia entry on MSE.
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If Microsoft can do such a good job with MSE why the **** didn't they just build it into Windows in the first place. Or would that be construed as anti-competitive by Norton etc who have made a very nice living out of the failings of Windows. I'm using Avast Free but always open to something better. I'm told by some IT friends that the best "paid for" protection software is Eset NOD32. As for Norton, I really hate having to remove that from friends' PCs. It seems to hang around like a nasty smell. The best bit of advice that I can give is to ensure your backups are up to date. Then when the worst happens, and it can happen to the best of us, you don't lose your valuable data. I'm pretty anal about my own backups. I picked up an infection a few years ago and had to decide whether to clean or revert. Since I had a pre-infection disk image I reverted and then restored everything up to date from incremental backups. Even if I hadn't had a disk image I could have done a clean instal and restored all my data from backups.
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Petrol lighter fluid is good for removing all sorts of sticky residues.
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http://www.plasticfantastic.me/default.aspx
Looks like the heatshrink tubing mentioned in post #6.
Bewildering variety of types here at RS.
Also available in the UK at Farnell/CPC, Maplin, Rapid. might be available at DIY sheds.
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When you go to Honour's Watford shop it's just an ordinary industrial unit from the outside. Inside, the shop seems quite small but it's backed up by their entire warehouse stock just behind. The staff were certainly helpful when I went there with my partner even though we didn't buy anything.
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......but it's mostly useless since when you unzip the zipper, all the hooks come undone.....
Try squeezing up the hooks with pliers so the laces don't come out when you undo the zip. You might want to put a thin rod, such as a small screwdriver, in each hook where the lace should be and try to close the hook round that. Otherwise just squeeze each hook round the lace.
Who has bought some new BOOTS?
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Some pairs of boots I ordered from Aldo arrived today. Alas all are too tight. I can safely say that Aldo sizing runs small. All were UK9 which they convert to EU42. This suggests they might run small but I was surprised at just how small. I usually take UK9/EU43, sometimes UK8/EU42.
http://www.aldoshoes.com/uk/women/boots/dress-boots/80602828-sheumaker/97
http://www.aldoshoes.com/uk/women/boots/dress-boots/80626571-chalita/22
http://www.aldoshoes.com/uk/women/boots/dress-boots/80703012-nocar/97
Nothing lost since delivery was free and so is the return.
Compare this to Next. The other day I tried on a pair of UK8/EU42 clog boots in a store and the fit was about right. The UK9/EU43 were huge on me - I would have needed insoles or very thick socks. Didn't buy them in the end because I didn't like them enough to spend the money.