点评:My late father spent nearly £600 on two flying experience for our family at Christmas and when we came to redeem the voucher a week after the schools broke up for Xmas, I was curtly told the vouchers had "expired". I questioned this because there was no time limit on the documentation my dad had been sent. They then hinted the would honour the voucher if I accepted in writing that I was in breach of their terms of conditions. I asked what those T&Cs were 3 times, but they would not tell me - what reputable company would do that? I said it was very irregular to ask someone to accept T&Cs but not tell them what those conditions were, at which point they ignored all communications, including one I sent recorded delivery.
Unfortunately my dad died and I was so upset by their behaviour, I took them to court. On the day, they announced that the voucher had only been valid for 6 months and I had presented it a few weeks after that cut-off (they had never said that before). Apparently my dad had clicked a box to complete the purchase and lost in the small print was a condition that any sale was only valid for 6 months. However, this was not on any documentation he was sent alongside the purchase and none of us knew this. The company were criticised by the judge for their behaviour but the decision went their way because my dad had clicked a box and that was their get-out-of-jail-free card.
They took £600 off a terminally ill pensioner, then tried to coax me into accepting unstated T&Cs before they would honour the voucher. When I questioned that, they just ignored all communications. When I researched them, I realised they had done this a number of times before. My advice: don't have anything to do with this company.
翻译:我已故的父亲在圣诞节花了近600英镑为我们全家买了两次飞行体验。圣诞节学校放假一周后,我们去兑换优惠券时,却被草率地告知优惠券“过期了”。我对此表示质疑,因为寄给我父亲的文件上没有时间限制。他们随后暗示,如果我以书面形式接受我违反了他们的条款和条件,他们就会兑现优惠券。我问了三次条款和条件是什么,但他们都不肯告诉我——哪个信誉良好的公司会这样做?我说,要求别人接受条款和条件,却不告诉他们这些条款和条件是什么,这很不正常。于是,他们无视了所有沟通,包括我通过挂号信寄出的那封。
不幸的是,我父亲去世了,我对他们的行为非常不满,于是我把他们告上了法庭。当天,他们宣布优惠券的有效期只有6个月,而我是在截止日期后几周才提交的(他们以前从未这样说过)。显然,我爸勾选了一个方框来完成购买,却忽略了小字印刷的条款:任何交易的有效期只有6个月。然而,这并没有写在他随购买单据一起寄送的任何文件中,我们谁也不知道。这家公司因其行为受到了法官的批评,但最终判决对他们有利,因为我爸勾选了一个方框,而这正是他们免于牢狱之灾的通行证。
他们从一位身患绝症的退休老人那里拿走了600英镑,然后试图哄骗我接受未声明的条款和条件,否则他们不会兑现这张优惠券。当我提出质疑时,他们干脆无视所有沟通。我调查了一下,才发现他们以前也做过很多次这种事。我的建议是:千万别跟这家公司有任何瓜葛。