When life sends you Lemons, just bake a cake

Karmacat

Rant away! If I hadn't drunk a *humongous* glass of wine, I'd be ranting right there with you

Herewego

Your not on your own with eon, I ring through my readings every month as I dont trust them and like you they change the DD every quarter and every time I ring and tell them to leave it alone or I will cancel the DD. Problem is I cant find a better deal at the moment.
How i would like to spend a day in one of these call centres and listen to what they say when we are hold Im sure its " I got Mrs xxxx on again she bugs the life out of me i will keep her on hold for 5 minutes to pee her off"

ZTD

Lemon_Tree wrote: »

as you'll know i've just swapped my leccy rate over and will save £60 in the next 12 mths based on last 12 months useage. Well i'm getting a bit p'd off with Eon, every bloomin quarter they're changing my DD, just before winter they take it from £62 down to £42, i started winter £90 odd quid in credit and finish £12 in CREDIT! so what do they want to do????? increase it back up to £61. It's been up and down more times than a tarts knickers in the past 12 months! I feel that all i do is ring them up and tell them to buck their ideas up, and yet they're back at it the next quarter. It's so bloomin annoying. Given that i have 12 months before the next winter quarter, £42 per month will more than cover my annual consumption (their estimate is within £3 of my own), well that is, as long as they don't return my credit again like they did this year. Now i'm gonna have to ring again from work and have a go.

Tell them to mark down on your file that if they mess you around again, you're going to nick off somewhere else.

When I was with EDF, they wanted me to pay some ridiculous rate. I told them no way. It was indeed no way.

I'm currently with BG and I owe them loads - which is the way I like to keep it. It's not like they'd pay me interest...

Karmacat

ZTD wrote: »

I'm currently with BG and I owe them loads - which is the way I like to keep it. It's not like they'd pay me interest...

What an absolutely *excellent* way of thinking of it :j:j:j

Lemon_Tree

ok sorted out the leccy people, surprisingly enough 24hrs makes all the difference, their 'puter now says £38 not £61, so i've told them to stick at £42. so i'm happy... rant over temporarily anyway.

La_escocesa

Hey LT :wave:

I just saw your post on Pippi's diary but thought I'd reply here and it gives me an excuse to catch up with your diary

I love my Kindle!!! I don't miss books at all tbh. I thought I would but the screen is actually like reading paper (e-ink stuff) so it's not like reading a book on a computer screen at all. It's so handy and I don't need to think about what I'm going to read/how much I might read while I'm away etc. I got mine before I went on honeymoon and it was perfect for that.

Also perfect for my handbag and don't need to worry about having a bulky book weighing down my journey to work.

Also, there are loads of free books, classics are all free on e.g. gutenberg project website and you can download Kindle formatted files.

I've got the wi-fi one. Didn't see the point in the 3g one... I download all my books when I'm at home and keep the wi-fi turned off usually as it uses less battery that way. You can email yourself files, turn the wi-fi on when you're home/in a place with free wi-fi and then the file comes through. Never really in that much of a rush to download a book when I'm in a 3g area, mainly because I've now got quite a catalog on my Kindle

Battery life is amazing too. I've had it since September and can seriously only remember charging it about 3 or 4 times. Obviously depends on how much you read and how often it is on wi-fi...

Just going to get mine now to read a free book I downloaded

(My electricity rate has just come off its fixed rate...the search for a new energy provider must begin )

Have a good weekend if you go down to the allotment. xx

chevalier

i too have thought about a kindle, but it seems you can only get the other one here (can't remember its name). A nd I guess it is kinda of annoying that you don't get any credit for already having a book. so you would have to buy them all again. I like rereading books so I am not sure the kindle if for me....
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elantan

So I looked up a kindle and got slightly excited .... Till I tried to look up books to read on it .... And it just didn't have the ones I would want sadly .... Oh well maybe in a few years ... And hopefully by then the price may have came down

Pippilongstocking

(()) lt hope you feel better for your rant - hope you enjoy the allotment if you get there

Sorry been a bit AWOL - head got a bit full - decanting it gradually!

Lemon_Tree

hi Kindle decision has been made and it's safe at home, just downloaded loads of classics that i haven't read for years. I'm working on the basis that i can still borrow books from the library if i hanker for one. Would appreciate some handy hints on how to get other books for my favourite price free lol

Didn't get the allotment today as went shopping and visited my sister to take over birthday pressies for her eldest and youngest. It was also raining torrentially when i left Asda so definately not an allotment day.
Been invited to my folks tomorrow for dinner as OH is working so have to set myself some cleaning targets before and after i go.