Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[tikay]

Thought you might like to peruse this:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ncxkd

Thank you, Mum.

Must say, loving your work, & post quality, on blonde, your stuff is always worth a read, & I have you on my "must read every Post he makes" list.

Thanks Tony, that's very kind of you.


I come here mostly for the art really.

Sigh. Wrong diary.

PS - Why did you choose the alias "ManuelsMum"?

[tikay]

Yesterday was my maiden visit to an Argos store. I will not be tempted to trouble them with my custom again in a hurry.

Such a peculiar customer-experience, though it had promised so much.

I reserved the camera (and a Memory Card) via their website, & arranged, via a series of mouse clicks, to collect it from their Staines store. They even sent me a text with a reservation number - fantastic.

I got to the store, which was full of kids grizzling. Not crying, grizzling, "I want my daddyyyyyyyyy" type of thing. Ugh.

I get to the front of the queue, & it's all easy, but then I happen to see some 4-packs of AA batteries on the counter, in a display, so I pick one off & place it on the counter. The girl then scrolled through 30+ pages of her internet screen to check the reference number, & price. Then she tells me to replace the pack on the rack, as the merchandise will be bought up from the warehouse shortly. What?

Anyway, it all gets sorted, & she says the lot comes to £145 or whatever - I had declined the extended warranty, which was priced at £45 on a camera costing £129.99. Then she says "you do realise you do not get the 30 day guarantee on this camera, don't you?". So, no 30 day guarantee, but I can have an extended guarantee for £45.  I felt like arguing that the lack of guarantee made no odds in common law, as I understand it, but I could not be arsed.

Then they give me a receipt, & a customer number, with the promise of "delivery within 4 minutes", & I'm directed to some naff chaiirs, upon which I am required to wait. I sit down, & the grizzling kid & his Mum come & sit smack next to me. "I want my daddyyyyyyyy".

Never again, I swear. I shall go to a proper shop next time.

Sincere apologies TK.

When recommending the Argos deal I never took into consideration the painfulness that Argos (or any other modern pay and collect type catalogue stores) can bestow on the public. Luckily for me the wife done the collection bit, she, like most females have mastered the shopping lark and can remain perfectly non-plussed in the face of such adversity, she's a tough old bird is Mrs Geo (meant in the best possible way of course.)

And as Gatso confirmed the 30 day rule is a non return of goods that are not faulty.

Geo

No worries, Geo, I should have added a smiley, though the grizzling kids were a bloody nightmare.

I can now take photographs, I just have to learn to download them, & I think I have to run a CD, or a programme first, to be able to do that. So bloody complicated.

[tikay]

Just been watching some of 865 and I have to say teeks you're a comedy genius. When u were trying to explain to Richard Orford that one case time you don't mind limping is sb v bb to an aggro bb with the intention of limp reraising, telling him you'd limp then when he raises, you'd raise again, or "flick it back as the kid's like to say" was comedy gold. Dno why he corrected u, quite obvious you were joshing

I will deal with this later, the dog needs walking right now.

No Lin update today?

[Geo the Sarge]

Yesterday was my maiden visit to an Argos store. I will not be tempted to trouble them with my custom again in a hurry.

Such a peculiar customer-experience, though it had promised so much.

I reserved the camera (and a Memory Card) via their website, & arranged, via a series of mouse clicks, to collect it from their Staines store. They even sent me a text with a reservation number - fantastic.

I got to the store, which was full of kids grizzling. Not crying, grizzling, "I want my daddyyyyyyyyy" type of thing. Ugh.

I get to the front of the queue, & it's all easy, but then I happen to see some 4-packs of AA batteries on the counter, in a display, so I pick one off & place it on the counter. The girl then scrolled through 30+ pages of her internet screen to check the reference number, & price. Then she tells me to replace the pack on the rack, as the merchandise will be bought up from the warehouse shortly. What?

Anyway, it all gets sorted, & she says the lot comes to £145 or whatever - I had declined the extended warranty, which was priced at £45 on a camera costing £129.99. Then she says "you do realise you do not get the 30 day guarantee on this camera, don't you?". So, no 30 day guarantee, but I can have an extended guarantee for £45.  I felt like arguing that the lack of guarantee made no odds in common law, as I understand it, but I could not be arsed.

Then they give me a receipt, & a customer number, with the promise of "delivery within 4 minutes", & I'm directed to some naff chaiirs, upon which I am required to wait. I sit down, & the grizzling kid & his Mum come & sit smack next to me. "I want my daddyyyyyyyy".

Never again, I swear. I shall go to a proper shop next time.

Sincere apologies TK.

When recommending the Argos deal I never took into consideration the painfulness that Argos (or any other modern pay and collect type catalogue stores) can bestow on the public. Luckily for me the wife done the collection bit, she, like most females have mastered the shopping lark and can remain perfectly non-plussed in the face of such adversity, she's a tough old bird is Mrs Geo (meant in the best possible way of course.)

And as Gatso confirmed the 30 day rule is a non return of goods that are not faulty.

Geo

No worries, Geo, I should have added a smiley, though the grizzling kids were a bloody nightmare.

I can now take photographs, I just have to learn to download them, & I think I have to run a CD, or a programme first, to be able to do that. So bloody complicated.

The cd for ViewNX2 loads an app for editing, organising and storing your albums, not much different to picassa or photobucket really and will obv take up some space on your lappy.

You should be able to just attache the camera to lappy by usb cable and load straight to a pictures folder then upload to wherever you normally store your pics.

Geo

[ManuelsMum]

Thought you might like to peruse this:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ncxkd

Thank you, Mum.

Must say, loving your work, & post quality, on blonde, your stuff is always worth a read, & I have you on my "must read every Post he makes" list.

Thanks Tony, that's very kind of you.


I come here mostly for the art really.

Sigh. Wrong diary.

PS - Why did you choose the alias "ManuelsMum"?

I didn't know I'd really be here that much so I hadn't given it much thought really. Manuel is quite a famous player in Glasgow, canny, but capitalizes on quite a 'manuelish' image. I was going to change the alias but I don't think this is possible.  I do have an art alias but that would probably tilt you

[Karabiner]

Where's Gatso when we need him?

"I used to drink and mix with the lads" CALL

"nonplussed" Geo I'm surprised at you.

[Geo the Sarge]

Where's Gatso when we need him?

"I used to drink and mix with the lads" CALL

"nonplussed" Geo I'm surprised at you.

My bad, should be non-nonplussed

Geo

[Karabiner]

Where's Gatso when we need him?

"I used to drink and mix with the lads" CALL

"nonplussed" Geo I'm surprised at you.

My bad, should be non-nonplussed

Geo

Now you're talking.

Looking forward to hearing Tony's "drinking and mixing" tales.

[JK]

Cheers mate!

Defo thinly veiled keys

[JaffaCake]

Excellent swimming doggy photos from the Sun, under the only in the Sun headline, Scuba-

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4135379/Soggy-paddle-dogs-who-love-taking-a-dip.html

If u try and right click them to post them u get all copyrighted, very clever

[kinboshi]

Just been watching some of 865 and I have to say teeks you're a comedy genius. When u were trying to explain to Richard Orford that one case time you don't mind limping is sb v bb to an aggro bb with the intention of limp reraising, telling him you'd limp then when he raises, you'd raise again, or "flick it back as the kid's like to say" was comedy gold. Dno why he corrected u, quite obvious you were joshing

I will deal with this later, the dog needs walking right now.

No Lin update today?

Not good news today.

[SuuPRlim]

argos is so budget

[Laxie]

argos is so budget

He's a pensioner ya know

[DaveShoelace]

Excellent swimming doggy photos from the Sun, under the only in the Sun headline, Scuba-

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4135379/Soggy-paddle-dogs-who-love-taking-a-dip.html

If u try and right click them to post them u get all copyrighted, very clever

I posted one of them last week on this very blog, you can see the guys full portfolio here (warning, there are hundreds upon hundreds, and each one is cuter than the last)

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.334300020471.345441.296274160471&type=3

[SuuPRlim]

Tikay, have you seen this?

EDIT - LINK REMOVED (possibly toxic link)

it's the most bizarre thing I think I've ever seen....