After getting spam from one company - about 10 a day from different get rich quick places I received a phone call from another company today. They actually rang me last Friday night just as we were going out so I told them to ring back later and they rang today, in the middle of the working day and spent over 30 minutes waffling on through the script. Eventually I said I wasn't going to purchase over the phone today, despite getting a 40% discount for this call only, free trip cover and a $30 gas card. She went to get her manager (this was just like the car showroom!) who proceeded to try and give me the smooth calming call. After explaining (again) that I wasn't going to give my credit card details over the phone and I wanted to see the details before signing up, even though they could send me the forms and I could cancel within 30 days, they didn't get the point. When he started again on the "If I could have your visa card for verification" I hung up on them as they were obviously not getting the point and I didn't want to waste any more of my time or theirs. They tried to ring me back 2 more times but then I was busy trying to do some real work (which I had been doing whilst they were wittering on in my ear - thank heavens for headsets for phones.
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The government have launched Transport Direct which gives you maps, door to door planning, travel news on a website. Worth a bookmark and lets hope they keep developing it and making it better.
Update I am impressed that my destination can be as accurate as the company name that I work for - most of the time sites like this choke on the postcode as it is often not recognised. The only journey it recommends is by car and it reckons it will take 23 minutes - more likely 45 - the designers obviously not driven to Crewe at 9am in the morning. It would also be nice to get a routemap of the journey - something I've given them in the feedback so will be interesting to see what feedback I get.
The car went in for service on Friday and when I drove it on Saturday the brake warning light came on so it was off to the garage AGAIN this morning. I don't think I've ever had the car in the garage where I've not had to take it back with another fault the following day. Anyway, this morning they took a look and said it needed a new microswitch for the handbrake (which was strange as the light came on when I used the footbrake). This was replaced and then I was told the car was ok. Sitting in the car, put the foot on the brake and the light STILL came on. Back into the garage and another 45 minute wait whilst they did something (probably replaced the bulb with a faulty one).
I think gateway-peugeout-sucks.com might well be registered soon.
We went and had a test drive of a Daewoo car this morning. The main reason for this was that we had heard an advert on the radio where the first 1000 people to take a test drive would get a free digital radio. Sounded a great offer so we sent off the sms text message to apply and had a test drive today. The car wasn't bad although the boot (trunk) was pretty small and would certainly not be big enough for all the junk/work/caching gear we keep in the back of our car currently.
Although its extremely unlikely we'd actually get a new car the garage itself was a nice experience. There was no pressure to buy a car and they let us drive the car without a salesman in the back seat. The weird thing is that they didn't ask for any id, proof of insurance or anything so we could have done anything to the car. Still they did seem to be organised and more customer orientated as opposed to the lousy peugeot garage that I currently have to go to where you take your car in for a service and then have to go back the following day as they haven't turned off the "service needed" indicator.
Sometime ago my car reached its 40000 mile point which is a miracle considering the number of times it has been in the garage. The weird thing is that the trip was exactly 400.0 miles too.
After 6 returns to the garage due to the engine saying it needs more oil, with at least three occurances happening the day after the car has been serviced, the garage has finally come to the conclusion that the problem might be due to a faulty oil level indicator......
