Recently we went away on a short break to Devon. We don’t normally go away in this country but my girlfriend thought it might make a nice change.
Big mistake. It was so bad we came home early. What really pissed me off was there was no mobile phone service where we were staying and to get a signal you had to drive 5 miles! I wasn’t bothered about the phone but I needed to use the data. We had almost a full choice of networks to choose from, O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile and Three. None of them worked.
Now I have never been to a foreign country where we couldn’t get mobile phone service. Even in the remotest of places where you wouldn’t expect to get it we did. So why can’t the UK networks get their act together and give us what we are paying for? A working mobile phone service.
Well Talk Talk have finally called the dogs off today. I was going to wait until it went to court but under pressure from my girlfriend I called Talk Talk customer service and explained again in detail the problem that they continued to bill me for broadband even though I didn’t have with them and to look on the notes on my account to see I was due a credit.
Well they looked, agreed and said a credit would be raised in 72 hours. Well I’ve heard this before and that didn’t work but this morning we got a call from Talk Talk to say the credit had gone through, my account balance was Zero and they would contact the debt collection agency and tell them the same.
Why they couldn’t have done this before 18 months ago I don’t know but thankfully they are out of my life for good.
I had my teeth whitened about 6 years ago and was really impressed with the results although it did cost me about £600. The only thing with it was that for a few days afterwards my teeth were really sensitive and it was painful at times but it did wear off after a while.
The dentist at the time did explain to me that the results wouldn’t be permanent as at the time I smoked, drank coke and coffee by the bucket load and they would get stained again over time. He was right.
Now that I have given up smoking I decided I would give it another go but was concerned about the sensitivity issue as last time it was a pain. A friend of mine in London put me in touch with the Mayfair Tanning and Waxing company who have recently introduced teeth whitening in London to their services and they use a slightly different process to what I had before that wasn’t sensitive to teeth. I was going up to London anyway for the day so I called them up and spoke to Nicole who went through the process with me and booked me in to have it done.
When I arrived at their salon in Maddox Street, (just off Regents Street) I was greeted by Nicole who once again talked me through the process which involved me sitting in the chair and having about six 3 minute treatments where the gel would be put on my teeth and then a light shone on them for 3 minutes and so on. The whole process took about 45 minutes to do and they did a before and after check on the colour of my teeth and the end result was 6 shades lighter!
I have to say I was really impressed with the outcome with no sensitivity problems and best of all it only cost £199. That’s a whopping £400 less than I paid 6 years ago.
So if you fancy a brighter smile and don’t have the patience for a home kit then give Nicole a ring on 020 7493 1822 and book yourself in. You won’t regret it.
I’m being harassed by TalkTalk who told me my account was settled nearly 18 months ago have decided to send me a Final Demand for money I don’t even owe them.
This letter is notification of our intention to pass your account to a licensed debt collection agancy, in order to pursue payment of your final outstanding balance, if we do not receive payment or a response within the next 7 days.
Your credit rating may already be affected through non-payment of your bills.
Nice! So you lot of aresholes are going to set the dogs on me and ruin my credit rating because you are so incompetent to deal with even the simplest of matters.
Well I did respond and explained that I was led to believe this was all sorted out on 21st December 2006 and if anything they owe me money to be told yes there is a note on your account for a credit to be raised but it doesn’t look like it has been done. In order for this to happen I would have to be put through to customer services where I was promptly cut off.
I don’t even have a direct number for customer services to contact them. At this rate I will be attending court as the debt collectors can go to hell!
I recently got an email from iwantoneofthose.com advertising “The world’s first electronic cigarette”. Being a smoker myself with a girlfriend who asks me everyday to give up I took a look and I have to say I was impressed.
In their blurb it says
It looks like a cigarette, it tastes like a cigarette, it smokes like a cigarette, but it isn’t a cigarette, it contains no tobacco, and the “smoke” is just vapour.
and they also show a prety impressive promotional video.
The reality of it is quite different though. The micro is a complete waste of time and very disappointing. It produces very little smoke and was a big waste of money. iwantoneofthose.com also have zero after sales service on these as they say ‘Please note that as per our T&Cs, we cannot accept returns on unwanted items once used.’ When I told them I thought it was faulty they said ‘it does not sound like your product is faulty’.
I find it incredible that they show a promotional video of the classic in action with plenty of smoke which the micro simply isn’t up to the job of creating. I queried this with Gamucci themselves asking the following:
Hi,
I recently purchased a Gamucci Micro Electronic Cigarette from iwantoneofthose.com and am really disappointed with it. The video on their website shows plenty of smoke from the cigarette but in reality this just isn’t the case with the one I have received. The video shown I didn’t realise at the time is not of the Micro Cigarette but that of the Gamucci Classic. Is there a difference between these 2 and the amount of smoke generated?
Either my Gamucci Micro is faulty or it is completely different to the Classic.
and was told by Gamucci
Philip,
The Gamucci Micro and Gamucci Classic are simply 2 different products. The Micro produces less vapour but still gives the same feeling as if you’re smoking.
Now I don’t know whether the micro is faulty or not but I believe it is let down on 2 fronts. From my own observations the atomizer isn’t very good and nor are the cartridges.
I bought some Janty Yentl cartridges Marlboro flavour (I smoked Marlboro before) which look pretty identical to the Gumucci Micro cartridges and putting one of these on the Gamucci produced a lot more smoke than the Gamucci cartridges can.
I also bought a super mini e-cig from Ebay which bellows out smoke but I didn’t like the flavour. Putting one of the Janty Yentl cartridges on that produced 2 to 3 times the vapour that the Gamucci Micro could.
I have to say I am still impressed with the concept of e-smoking and the obvious health benefits to over normal tobacco cigarettes which is why I purchased a different one and other cartridges but not so impressed with the Gumucci Micro.
So if you see one of these Gamucci Micro Electronic cigarettes for sale think very carefully before making that purchase and you won’t get the results you see from the classic.
I wouldn’t want anyone to be put off of e-smoking just because of a bad purchase.
Update:
I was contacted by Gamucci after seeing my post.
I came across your blog and am extremely saddened by the poor customer
experience you have received. It sounds like there may well be a fault with
your Gamucci Micro, as we have sold thousands with very few problems.
I am also amazed someone has responded back to you stating the Gamucci Micro
produces less vapour than the Classic. I would like to offer you a
replacement Gamucci Micro and some cartridge packs free of charge as a
gesture of good will as you have obviously been treated poorly and
mis-informed. (We have grown quite quickly and have recruited a number of
new employees who may well mis-informed you).
It seems that my suspicions of a faulty unit may be true and I will find out soon enough when I receive the replacement. 10/10 for Gumucci for this and 0/10 for IWOOT’s poor customer service who refused to deal with the problem.
I’m looking forward to getting the replacement and if it is as good as the Classic then I will be very pleased. I’ve also got a classic and couldn’t be happier with it apart from I’d prefer something that stood out less when out and about.