A blog about house refurbishing, my jewellery business, everyday life and my 2 cats.
Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Customer Service....
I decided that since my daughter was moving into her own place that I would let her have my old laptop and I would treat myself to a new one. So last Saturday off I went with my husband to our local Curry's, I had already been online and picked the one I wanted so no wasting time with searching in the shop...... or so I thought....ha! how wrong I was. We had a quick look at where the laptop was in the shop and off we went to the counter to get an assistant. The manager assigned a young man to help us and I kid you not, you would think that we had just interrupted his lunch hour, his face looked like what can only be described as a smacked arse. We told him which one we wanted only to be told that it wasn't available in blue, not a problem I'll have it in red. In the next 30 minutes he tried to sell us Microsoft Office (which we already had) tried to give us a tutorial in Windows 8, which is fine but we did tell him that my husband's job is in IT so we will be fine to which he decided to quiz us on how to turn off Windows 8.... we were getting very annoyed at this point so my husband just asked him to get us the laptop to which he tried to sell us some insurance for a monthly payment and informed us that we could cancel in anytime we wanted, oh yeah I'm sure it will be that easy...just tried to cancel Sky and that was a nightmare. We finally got the manager involved who then wasted another 10 minutes of our time by telling us stories of people who cant shut down windows 8 and then another story about a guy who unpacked a dryer only to decide he didn't want it..........I JUST WANT TO PAY FOR MY LAPTOP!!!!
Forty minutes after entering the shop we finally left with the laptop..... I will say one thing though the assistant took payment for it and said at the till '' I'm not even going to mention the extra warranty'', so at least he had a sense of humour. Anyway the moral of this story is no wonder everyone does most of their shopping online it just takes all the hassle out of customer service and target sales. Rant over.
Forty minutes after entering the shop we finally left with the laptop..... I will say one thing though the assistant took payment for it and said at the till '' I'm not even going to mention the extra warranty'', so at least he had a sense of humour. Anyway the moral of this story is no wonder everyone does most of their shopping online it just takes all the hassle out of customer service and target sales. Rant over.
Saturday, 29 December 2012
Monday, 26 November 2012
Hello all, I really must post more often, I mean too but you know how it is other stuff gets in the way!
So Christmas is almost upon us again, I don't know where this year has gone but its the best time to listen to the fantastic Christmas Song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5eGJ9xocCQ written by The Summats Colin and Tony, you can follow them here @TheSummats.
Well The Killers gig was cancelled until Feb 2013 due to Mr Brandon Flowers getting a sore throat...not happy but hey what can you do. The Squeeze gig is on Saturday 1st Dec (fingers crossed lol) and I'm looking forward to it, should be a nice trip down memory lane. Also this Friday we are going to see a new band called Loor A Los Heroes at Friars Court in Warrington we've already heard an EP called Forever and really like their sound so Friday should be good.
We went to Cape Verde 31/10/12 to 7/11/2012 and I must say the hotel was lovely and the location of it couldn't have been better right on the beach the only thing that was wrong was we both suffered with a bit of Dehli belly for the last few days due to, we think, food being left uncovered.
Friday, 12 October 2012
Moving and Stuff
Its been a long time people, so sorry for that but I've had my hands full trying to cram a 4 bed detached country house into a 2 bed semi detached bungalow. Oh well its done now but the garage is off limits until we have some permanent storage sorted.
We have returned to the place it all started as we weren't having much luck selling it from down in Kent, and the estate agents weren't helping much either. Thanks Bridgfords.
Anyway so far we have put a solid wood floor down throughout courtesy of www.ukflooringdirect.co.uk a new bathroom including tiling and floor, new doors to all rooms thanks to Simon Holme of www.phsnorthwestltd.co.uk and Craig Forshaw.
Its been painted the required Magnolia thanks to Ben from www.bcpainting.co.uk.
A new UPVC front door from www.neilcopelandwindows.co.uk who along with his brother Alan is constructing our conservatory next week, pictures to follow.
The family went to see The Fratellis at Leadmill, Sheffield last month and they were awesome and we all loved the venue and will definitely be going back but next time we will book a hotel as its a long drive back along the moors at night. Check out this blog http://thesummats.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/gigs-books.html .
Upcoming gigs are The Killers in Nov and Squeeze in Dec will let you know what I think.
Finally going on holiday for the first time this year to Cape Verde so will post a review of it when we get back. I'm not expecting it to be jam packed with things to do as its not that kind of place from what Ive read but looking forward to a date with a sunbed and book for a week :)
On that note I will say TTFN and Take Care
x x x
We have returned to the place it all started as we weren't having much luck selling it from down in Kent, and the estate agents weren't helping much either. Thanks Bridgfords.
Anyway so far we have put a solid wood floor down throughout courtesy of www.ukflooringdirect.co.uk a new bathroom including tiling and floor, new doors to all rooms thanks to Simon Holme of www.phsnorthwestltd.co.uk and Craig Forshaw.
Its been painted the required Magnolia thanks to Ben from www.bcpainting.co.uk.
A new UPVC front door from www.neilcopelandwindows.co.uk who along with his brother Alan is constructing our conservatory next week, pictures to follow.
The family went to see The Fratellis at Leadmill, Sheffield last month and they were awesome and we all loved the venue and will definitely be going back but next time we will book a hotel as its a long drive back along the moors at night. Check out this blog http://thesummats.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/gigs-books.html .
Upcoming gigs are The Killers in Nov and Squeeze in Dec will let you know what I think.
Finally going on holiday for the first time this year to Cape Verde so will post a review of it when we get back. I'm not expecting it to be jam packed with things to do as its not that kind of place from what Ive read but looking forward to a date with a sunbed and book for a week :)
On that note I will say TTFN and Take Care
x x x
Friday, 8 June 2012
25% off in June.
Hello everyone, hope you are all well and happy :)
This weather is as unpredictable as ever, I hope we haven't already had our summer. My potatoes are coming on a treat, we had a sneaky try last weekend and they were very nice but they need a few more weeks to plump up a bit more. The salad leave are delicious and we have eaten all the radish.
I have been busy with the handmade jewellery for Lilyesque and if you check out the website you will see lots of earrings and Shamballa style bracelets at very affordable prices, way cheaper than many of the other ones available in Google Shopping. I am also running a promotion throughout June, 25% off with code BLOG2012 used at checkout so go on a bag yourself a bargain. This is a men's/ladies Shamballa style bracelet with union jack beads.
This weather is as unpredictable as ever, I hope we haven't already had our summer. My potatoes are coming on a treat, we had a sneaky try last weekend and they were very nice but they need a few more weeks to plump up a bit more. The salad leave are delicious and we have eaten all the radish.
I have been busy with the handmade jewellery for Lilyesque and if you check out the website you will see lots of earrings and Shamballa style bracelets at very affordable prices, way cheaper than many of the other ones available in Google Shopping. I am also running a promotion throughout June, 25% off with code BLOG2012 used at checkout so go on a bag yourself a bargain. This is a men's/ladies Shamballa style bracelet with union jack beads.
There are some beautiful Sterling Silver union jack earrings that will match with the bracelet above..
The European Championships are due to start this afternoon and I am looking forward to it, not sure how England are going to do but this time there doesn't seem to be any expectations so we might do well, who knows.
Off now to watch the football, GOOD LUCK ENGLAND and GOOD LUCK ANDY MURRAY at Wimbledon!!!!
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