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Are price match deals worth the time and effort?

We just visited a pair of major electrical and electronic retail park outlets. Comet stocked four of the five products I wanted whilst Company X offered all five. Comet offered a ‘buy one – get one half price deal’ whilst Company X proudly proclaimed that “We won’t be beaten on price!” But just how good is this [...]

The ultimate in buck-passing

I wanted to start using a WordPress plugin that posted my blogs to my LinkedIn account automatically. To do so I needed to enter my LinkedIn ID into the plugin. Usually your LinkedIn ID is embedded in the URL of your LinkedIn profile, but this wasn’t working, so I emailed LinkedIn to ask them what [...]

Morrisons – Great taste, less waste – NOT!!!

I’ve just been to Morrisons and was horrified by what I saw and it goes against their very own green slogan – Great taste less waste.

When is a sale not a sale?

When the prices we are paying for items are no cheaper than we can normally obtain them – despite the claims that they are 50% or 75% off the normal price. Reading the Daily Telegraph today I read on the front page how big firms are slashing prices ahead of the election to try and [...]

Happy Christmas and New Year

May I take this opportunity to wish you all a very Happy Christmas and New Year.

New office/shack coming along

The new office/amateur radio shack has now been built, decorated and carpeted – just need the furniture and equipment in there now. Many thanks to Shane Prescott for the excellent building work, Ralph Clark Floorcoverings for the new flooring and G7LFC Software for the network cabling.