http://www.planetbods.org/blog/build/images/me.jpg 2008-06-27T17:52:27Z Shops, supermarkets and online stuff. tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog/Shopping/2 Movable Type Copyright (c) 2008, Andrew Bowden 2008-06-27T17:52:27Z 2008-06-27T17:29:41Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog//2.947

Thank you Curry's. You have reminded me why I don't do much of my electronic based shopping in stores any more. It makes me annoyed. You have made what should be a pleasant experience, a plain awful one. You have made me annoyed.

Andrew Bowden 2008-04-30T15:31:48Z 2008-04-30T15:26:09Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog//2.793

Turns out that in the end, the £8 had never been refunded to the credit card in the first place - they'd refunded it as a gift certificate instead, mainly as the original purchase had been mostly gift certificate based.

Andrew Bowden 2008-04-25T13:29:05Z 2008-04-25T13:26:27Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog//2.791

I have an internet retailer that wants a fax, and a bank who don't know what paper is.

Andrew Bowden 2008-03-23T17:08:04Z 2008-03-23T17:00:54Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog//2.782

What is the market like in the UK for bundled packages of TV/phone/broadband? Could I go start bundling my TV, broadband and phone and save some cash?

Andrew Bowden 2008-02-07T09:16:17Z 2008-02-06T21:44:35Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2008:/blog//2.765

Whatever your view on chicken welfare, there's obviously something going on in the market place. Demand for free range and organic chicken is clearly up. And demand for cheap chicken is bound to have gone down.

Andrew Bowden 2008-09-22T15:07:49Z 2007-11-15T09:12:42Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.726

Please place your item in the bagging area

Andrew Bowden 2007-08-15T20:46:41Z 2007-08-15T17:21:49Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.674

After all the hassle recently with GE Money, my gut reaction was to close my credit card with them straight away. In the end I decided to give their complaints department the benefit of the doubt and see what happened before taking a final decision. As it happens, they've decided to ditch me before I ditch them.

Andrew Bowden 2007-08-10T08:33:16Z 2007-08-10T08:07:16Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.677

The new TV has arrived which is good - watching episodes on Futurama on your laptop PC just isn't the same if you ask me. It's an IDTV - integrated with digital. I did contemplate going for a cheaper model without the digital element (actually in the clearence range) but due to delivery issues (i.e. they couldn't tell me when it would be delivered), decided to get the digital one. Analogue TVs are getting harder and harder to find now - and it has to be said, rightly so.

Andrew Bowden 2007-08-07T18:24:14Z 2007-08-07T17:54:08Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.679

What happened to the days when things lasted? I'm sure they existed. I remember owning a TV for about 12 years - and it got transported around the country a few times to boot... Sadly it doesn't seem to happen very often any more. Just two months short of being five years old, and my TV has decided to give up the ghost.

Andrew Bowden 2007-08-01T10:10:57Z 2007-07-31T19:40:25Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.432

I came back from holiday to find my July credit card bill from GE Money. Not an amazing occurrence - such things happen all the time. This time was different for it featured a "Late Payment Charge" and a wad of interest. Which rather annoyed me, because I'd just set up a direct debit for the account so that every month, the full balance would be paid off. When it comes to credit cards, I'm the annoying person that the banks hate because I always - and I mean always - pay off my bill.

Andrew Bowden 2007-03-04T08:46:55Z 2007-03-04T08:05:35Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2007:/blog//2.667

A couple of weeks ago, I invested in a PVR - one of those digital video recorder things. It had been bubbling in my mind for a while, especially as I seemed to have a never ending pile of VHS tapes floating around the room with stuff on them, that had to be watched in strict order lest anything get missed.

Andrew Bowden 2006-07-14T18:30:37Z 2006-07-14T18:03:47Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.611

Only a complete simpleton would put the stuff they're trying to steel right in front of the cashier in the first place.

Andrew Bowden 2006-06-16T18:15:27Z 2006-06-16T17:48:17Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.605

Well it's been over a year since my last rant about the Alliance and Leicester's incompetance, and you may be glad that this will be the last one ever. For today the last accounts were closed.

Andrew Bowden 2008-10-06T21:40:27Z 2006-01-18T18:40:11Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.569

I'd like to say I got a coherent excuse for not getting my PC delivered, but whoeever it was that I spoke to at the "delightful" Walsh Western had the worlds worst phone line possible, and about the only coherent thing I got out of the conversation was a question about whether I have a brown door. Quite why, who knows, cos every time I tried to get anything useful, I ended up on hold.

Andrew Bowden 2008-10-06T21:39:40Z 2006-01-17T21:42:12Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2006:/blog//2.568

Well it's 21:42 and still no PC.

Andrew Bowden 2008-09-25T12:55:32Z 2005-04-27T21:25:34Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.389

So the debit card has been cut, and the cheque book shredded. And that was before my current account transfer had been even completed to them.

Andrew Bowden 2008-09-25T12:37:49Z 2005-04-09T11:04:37Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.379

Andrew Bowden 2008-09-25T12:39:49Z 2005-04-06T20:13:12Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2005:/blog//2.376

Well I've used the internet banking services of a few banks so far, and none of them come close to sucking as much as Alliance and Leicester - they're have become a shining example of how to frustrate and annoy at least one user. Me.

Andrew Bowden 2008-09-22T14:47:16Z 2004-06-19T22:25:00Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2004:/blog//2.256

Andrew Bowden 2008-09-22T14:38:48Z 2004-06-17T20:39:20Z tag:www.planetbods.org,2004:/blog//2.253

So after it being initially perfect and then very bad indeed, my Goodmans GDB3 DTT (Freeview) set top box went back to Argos last night.

Andrew Bowden