Phones 4u
Saturday, October 04, 2008 ‡ 15:00Raj from Phones 4u in Bull Ring, Birmingham City Centre is the guy to see about the best deals on mobile phones. Raj got me the best deal for my new Samsung i900.
Not only that, he threw in some desk speakers and £20 PAYG vouchers
I have been an Orange customer since 1995 and the best Orange offered me was £199 for the phone, then after some shopping around and haggling, Orange offered me the phone for £50. But since it was possible for me to join Orange as a new customer on a new contract, they were more then happy to sign me up for exactly the same current contract and i get the phone for free!!!
I am having difficulty understanding the difference between me on my existing number extending my contract for another 18 months and joining Orange as a new customer joining for 18 months on exactly the same talk plan. Are Orange sales staff paid different levels of commission for new and existing customers?
Again, see Raj at the Bull Ring store, tell him i sent you!
Labels: best, Birmingham, bull ring, contracts, deals, i900, orange, phones 4u, raj, samsung
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National B2B Conference
Saturday, September 27, 2008 ‡ 03:23I usually steer clear of conferences and long meetings which usually bore me to death with useless information, sales pitches for services, products and items i do not want, but i have to say the National B2B Conference at Warwick University on Thursday 25th September was an experience i am absolutely glad i attended.
Michael Acton Smith, Co-Founder of Firebox introduces his story as an opener which was truly inspirational. To get details of his persistence toward his ultimate goal serves as great hope even in these difficult times. Thoroughly enjoyable and he deserves to be exactly where he is today.
In the afternoon Penny Power, founder of Ecademy a business networking site, shares her nuggets of gold with us, truly priceless. Great personal insight into Penny's life with snippets of information about her role as a business woman and mom has got to prove that anything can be achieved.
What both these business people displayed was their openness to help anyone who was ready to make the sacrifice. What was the sacrifice? To share their knowledge and experience to help anyone get a foothold on the route to building a successful business or organisation.
Also to have met Dave Chaffey of Marketing Insights, an expert in Internet Marketing, really assured me of my knowledge of SEO and SEM is accurate since all the information and advice suggested is already practiced by myself.
Labels: business networking, dave chaffey, ecademy, firebox, gadgets, marketing insight, michael acton smith, national b2b conference, penny power, sem, seo
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bustaname.com and buydomains.com
Thursday, May 08, 2008 ‡ 09:21I performed a search for a domain name on bustaname.com around the end of April 2008 and i have evidence in an email which i sent myself dated the 28th April 2008 which i was using to remind myself to confirm the domain name i had discovered with a client.
I logged back onto bustaname.com to purchase the domain name i had discovered, only to find it was now unavailable! So i decided to check who and when the domain was registered.
Strangely, it was registered for the first time, on 24th April 2008, around the time i began searching on bustaname.com, how strange and what a coincident.
I then discovered the domain has not been registered by a person or company to use but registered by buydomains.com and is actually up for sale!
Total abuse of service? where do i stand?
Labels: abuse, bustaname, buydomains, domain, mistrust, name, theft
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Post Office, Birmingham, 1 Pinfold Street
Thursday, April 24, 2008 ‡ 10:27Having checked around for exchange rates, the Post Office in town displayed 1.20 on the board in the door and the best i could find was 1.19 from my bank, not the biggest difference, but both offer buy and sell, commission free.
Having got my Euros from the Post Office i discovered they had charged me 1.1735
This was easily fixed, i thought either i read the buy rate column and not the sell rate, so i checked and sure enough it was 1.20, so i went in and saw the same girl as i did a day earlier and she informed me, 1.20 was only for £500 or more.
So I decided to check the board and it did not state anything about the rate shown being for £500 or more and asked to speak to the Manager. The Manager agreed with me, the rate is not clearly indicate minimum amount and promptly settled this issue and in a fit of generosity, bumped me a five euro note, which has given me a rate of 1.21!!!, EXCELLENT.
Labels: Birmingham, euros, exchange, money, office, post
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Orange does it again
Saturday, April 12, 2008 ‡ 00:00Orange has done it again!
The pathetic level of service from Orange is outstanding, it beats every crap company i have ever dealt with. In over 10 years, i have NEVER missed a payment and continued upgrading in the hope that i would receive good deals from Orange.
This time i have spent days trying to access my on-line account without success, consistent failures.
Over night, i have stopped receiving SMS alerts and SMS icon on my phone and my SMS' are arriving on my phone nearly 24 hours after they have been sent to me, even the date and time stamp indicate the message was sent nearly a day ago, as well as confirmation from friends and family who send me message, asking why i dont reply... unkown to me i have had a message.
Raised this with Orange and what did they say, FUCK ALL... nothing. Ignore the bloody emails and comments and it will just go away, well i dont think so!
Labels: Birmingham, mobile, orange, sms, sonyericsson
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