As holders of Morgan Stanley (Goldfish) credit cards will know, these will 
cease to be valid on 22nd September, and the replacement Barclaycards will 
become valid. It is cardholders' responsibility to notify the change to any 
organisations whom they pay by means of continuous payment authorities. The 
timing of this could be quite critical for anyone expecting a bill on or 
shortly after 22nd.

One example in my case is the Call18866 phone service who usually bill me on 
about 25th of each month. To make sure that the new details were in place in 
good time, I went online yesterday and edited my payment details.

So what did the silly sods do? Yes, you've guessed it - they issued an 
invoice *early* in order to test that the new payment details were valid. 
And, unsurprisingly, Barclaycard refused payment because the new card is not 
yet valid!

I've now changed the details again - to a card from a different provider - 
and suggest that other Morgan Stanley (Goldfish) cardholders do likewise if 
they wish to avoid this kind of nonsense.

Oh, and another thing about the new cards - cashback. The *good* news is 
that this will be automatically credited monthly without having to wait for 
multiples of  £15. The *bad* news is that the amount of cashback (1% on the 
first so much, 0.5% on the rest) is calculated each month based on the 
*monthly* spend rather than the annual spend. So anyone who makes the 
occasional large purchase rather than regularly spending over £200 per month 
could well lose out.
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Bitstring , from the wonderful person 
Roger Mills  said
>As holders of Morgan Stanley (Goldfish) credit cards will know, these will
>cease to be valid on 22nd September, and the replacement Barclaycards will
>become valid. It is cardholders' responsibility to notify the change to any
>organisations whom they pay by means of continuous payment authorities. The
>timing of this could be quite critical for anyone expecting a bill on or
>shortly after 22nd.

<snip tale of woe>

And another - they sent me two sets of cards (I'm chip and sig which may 
explain it - 'sets' because SWMBO has one as well). I rang the card 
receipt hotline to ask which was the valid one. They transferred me to 
customer services. They told me that they were MS customer services only 
.. to wait until 22nd when Barclays systems go live and ask again 
(because right now they have no idea).

Complete shambles.

At least (or IS it good news?) they didn't yet send me any PINs ...

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I've now become fed up with my ageing set of four BT Equinox 1000
handsets. The buttons stick, they decide to issue the "recharging"
sound in the middle of the night, and although phonebook entries can
be pushed to other handsets on the network, the process is primitive -
e.g. with four handsets, a new entry added to No.1 has to be pushed to
2, 3 and 4 one at a time - and if the newly-pushed entry matches one
already on the target handset, it will then appear twice on the list.

Can anyone recommend a replacement set? As well as overcoming the
above issues, ideally the new ones would:

- Have at least 100 - ideally 200 - phone book entries.

- Support land line texting

- Be configureable to allow me to speak to the caller if I've answered
the call just after my wife, rather than her then having to bring her
handset to me...!!

Ideally I'd rather not go much over £150...

Steve Adams

Steve wrote:
> I've now become fed up with my ageing set of four BT Equinox 1000
> handsets. The buttons stick, they decide to issue the "recharging"
> sound in the middle of the night, and although phonebook entries can
> be pushed to other handsets on the network, the process is primitive -
> e.g. with four handsets, a new entry added to No.1 has to be pushed to
> 2, 3 and 4 one at a time - and if the newly-pushed entry matches one
> already on the target handset, it will then appear twice on the list.
> 
> Can anyone recommend a replacement set? As well as overcoming the
> above issues, ideally the new ones would:
> 
> - Have at least 100 - ideally 200 - phone book entries.
> 
> - Support land line texting
> 
> - Be configureable to allow me to speak to the caller if I've answered
> the call just after my wife, rather than her then having to bring her
> handset to me...!!
> 
> Ideally I'd rather not go much over £150...
> 

There are plenty to choose from - it's difficult to 
recommend unless you can be more specific.  Go to one 
of the on-line suppliers and browse.

My Panasonic has 200 directory entries, but I think it 
can only copy entries to one other handset at a time - 
I suspect all are like this.

All DECT phones with an Intercom facility should allow 
incoming call transfer.  I'd be surprised if there are 
any that allow intrusion on an existing call.

"Jim"  wrote in message 
news:lvidnfg_CafLf07VnZ2dnUVZ8h-dnZ2d@posted.metronet...

<SNIP>

> My Panasonic has 200 directory entries, but I think it can only copy 
> entries to one other handset at a time - I suspect all are like this.

My Panasonic has a shared phonebook - add once and the numbers are available 
on all handsets. Don't use text so can't say if/how well it does that. 
Handsfree too.

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GS wrote:
> "Jim"  wrote in message 
> news:lvidnfg_CafLf07VnZ2dnUVZ8h-dnZ2d@posted.metronet...
> 
> <SNIP>
> 
>> My Panasonic has 200 directory entries, but I think it can only copy 
>> entries to one other handset at a time - I suspect all are like this.
> 
> My Panasonic has a shared phonebook - add once and the numbers are available 
> on all handsets. Don't use text so can't say if/how well it does that. 
> Handsfree too.
> 

I have used one like that but the shared capacity was 
only 20 numbers, against 200 in the handset.