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.
I have many talents but DIY is definately not one of them. I would be in one of the many statistics like “DIY accidents” or “Getting someone in to finish the job properly” so when we needed to create more storage room by boarding out our garage loft I did the sensible thing in calling someone in to do it for me.
Now I don’t know about you but I’ve always found it difficult to find reliable tradesmen but luckily a good friend of mine put me onto C and D Carpentry Services Ltd. They came round and gave me a quote which was half the price I had been given by someone else so I took them up on it and we fixed a date.
They turned up when they said they would, did a fantastic job and even cleared up to the extent you wouldn’t have know they had even been there. So impressed with their service and quality of work, I got them to board out my loft and put a loft ladder in as well.
So if you’re looking for a good reliable carpenter in Aylesbury, give them a call on 01296 630003.
At about 1 am this morning I was lying in bed and heard this strange rumbling noise and felt the whole bed shaking. It was really strange and at one point felt that our cat must have been in the room and was jumping up and down on my legs.
About 10 seconds later it stopped and I layed there wondering if the cat was still in the room. Moments later my girlfirend who was working on the computer downstairs came running up asking “did you feel that”. I said yes and told her I thought the cat was in the room when she explained the whole room downstairs was shaking and it must have been an earthquake.
We don’t get many earthquakes in this country and I thought no more of it until I turned on the radio in the morning to hear there was in fact an earthquake.
Well it turns out the epicentre was in Market Rasen in Lincolnshire 138 miles away. It was a shock for us but I can’t imagine what it was like there.