The Diary Room

[anjirose]

I've been a little bit AWOL and quiet lately.... but now everything is back on track, i can begin going back to films!
and in exciting news.... my first wedding fayre was yesterday and i want everything!
and also as of wednesday my stupidly high rate loan will be pa*d off!! wooo!!!!

[anakin]

Sure: 100 any network minutes each and 100 texts each. Our calls are brief and we rarely text, though. Last time I renewed (a year ago now) I told them I wanted to cut the cost as we were p*ying for calls and text we didn't use, and that was on the basis of £10 per month each. So this was a big improvement - half the cost for the same amount of calls/texts. The only thing was that I had to agree to an 18-month tie-in instead of 12, but as we've never changed provider anyway, that wasn't an issue.

That's a fantastic deal!

and in exciting news.... my first wedding fayre was yesterday and i want everything!
and also as of wednesday my stupidly high rate loan will be pa*d off!! wooo!!!!

Congrats Anjirose - that's a great achievement!
And a wedding fair too - most exciting! Been b*ying the mags??? So addictive!

[anjirose]

Congrats Anjirose - that's a great achievement!
And a wedding fair too - most exciting! Been b*ying the mags??? So addictive!

Thanks noooo... I b*ght one magazine and realised i wasted a fiver on something google could have showed me lol, so thats stopped and i'd rather use the spends on table crystals and organza bows! lol!
However we have a stop on wedding talk with the families until january cos' they are being a bit annoying.... demanding... and old! lol!

[Beate]

I am on a £10 a month deal with O2, 400 minutes and 400 texts which I mainly don't use (half that would be more than enough) so as it is coming to an end soon I asked them to lower the offer to under £10 with less minutes. Would they heck! Apparently £15 with 300/300 is the best I can get now. I have heard of an online cashback deal but it all sounds a bit complicated for existing customers. I don't understand that they don't want to keep customers with good offers in the light of the T-Mobile/Orange merger, I really don't!

[Cortone]

With any insurance, what you really want is a company that will handle it well in the unfortunate event that you have a claim. "Which?" magazine used to include this aspect in their ratings but ceased to do so some years ago and it's such a retrograde step.

Unfortunately, with insurance, it is difficult to really be sure ans they are all slippery. I moved my household insurance to the company that advertises they are best on those matters. I had a hole in my roof, and they sent a loss adjuster who could not see it. My cheapskate neighbour, who only every goes for the cheapest company, got a new roof, house redecoration, and carpets, all about a year ago, and I am still waiting..... I called the insurer recently to complain, and things moved for a while, but... still nothing....

And I have "premium" pet insurance, and - as some of you know - my b*y cat Charlie died last month. My vets assured me they had sent of the form and informed the insurer that he had died, and they have taken off a month's premium already, and then they sent me an annual renewal at the weekend (when I also got the cremation certificate for my cat. When I called then (closed from Saturday lunchtime), they said the vet had not told them my cat had died. So I called the vet, and they checked the copy of the form, and .... it had a tick in the box that asked if this condition resulted in death. (Still they have sent £900+ plus back for his care before he died...)

With insurance, it does not matter what the company policy is if one idiot gets the claim form ...

[Cortone]

I don't understand that they don't want to keep customers with good offers in the light of the T-Mobile/Orange merger, I really don't!

Well, they will have to now that Orange have a i-phone option, too...

http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=0233DC ... D84AA188C1

[anakin]

I don't understand that they don't want to keep customers with good offers in the light of the T-Mobile/Orange merger, I really don't!

Well, they will have to now that Orange have a i-phone option, too...

I was going to say the same thing - they got a bit sure of themselves seeing as millions signed up for an iPhone...

With insurance, it does not matter what the company policy is if one idiot gets the claim form ...

Sorry to hear your news Cortone
But you're right - it so depends on that one person... what a horrible thing to get wrong / have to keep telling them.

[Beate]

Whoops. Left the house in such a hurry that I forgot to turn the computer and Internet off! You probably all thought I was online here all day!

[Ms Thrifty]

I've been out walking all day and noticed a tempting offer at my local vineyard(!). They have all sorts of visitor facilities, e.g. shop, vineyard tours, cafe, restaurant and 4-star farmhouse B & B. For £199 per couple, you can have 2 nights' B & B plus a 3-course a la carte meal in the fancy restaurant -oh, and a vine to take away. It's more than I/we would usually p*y, but I reckon the meal alone would cost quite a lot, which means the B & B element isn't so bad.

[Beate]

It's about the same offer as the Oxford Belfry has, LOL (minus the wine).