Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

vivatifosi

I enjoyed Flash Forward (the TV series) and agree that it was a shame that it was cancelled. DH read the book too, but said it was very different.

Did you ever watch A Town Called Eureka, zag? That's probably my favourite sci-fi tv series.

Pyxis

Oh! You must have missed the ending to Voyager, because you did find out if they got home!


I shan't tell you; you're going to have to watch all the series all over again on Horror!

Such hardship!

michaels

The advantage of autoaid is they do price it like they want you to remain a customer not have silly intro deals / cashback adjusted prices that are competitive but you have to switch every year.

I worry that the breakdown cover you get with a main dealer service may not include 'the full works' and so no hire car/overnight hotel / relay from the other end of the country if you needed it.

The bank account cover obviously makes more sense if you have a family and use more than one component, we have made use of travel cover and mobile cover and breakdown cover with nationwide so easily made much more back than we have paid in .

However DD1 has now exhausted our insurance and my patience with her mobile phone breaking - 4 times in less than a year, she can use a broken screen or her old phone now and she is not even getting a new one for her birthday even if she asks (we are talking 60 quid generic chinese android phones from bang good or similar before you think we have been splashing out on multiple iPhones).

vivatifosi

Michaels, have you tried sticking gorilla glass on DD's mobile before the screen breaks? I'm not as prone, but have dropped mine badly, a couple of dings but ok.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

The advantage of autoaid is they do price it like they want you to remain a customer not have silly intro deals / cashback adjusted prices that are competitive but you have to switch every year.

I've got to be honest and say that that's a really good plus about their membership. I hate having to change accounts so I don't have to start paying extra so the company can use me to subsidise new customers in some freaky pyramid system.

Is it too much to ask that somebody just gives you good value and sticks with it so you remain a loyal customer?

I feel very old-fashioned just writing this.:D

michaels

vivatifosi wrote: »

Michaels, have you tried sticking gorilla glass on DD's mobile before the screen breaks? I'm not as prone, but have dropped mine badly, a couple of dings but ok.

Yup - most recent had a gorilla glass screen protector - protector picked up a couple of cracks whilst screen underneath survived a couple of drops but apparently the latest dropping down the stairs was more than the protector (plus case) could cope with....

ukmaggie45

zagubov wrote: »

or for that matter Voyager where you never found out if the protagonists got back to Earth.

Ooops I gave it away, this is an Edit!

silvercar

How old is DD1 that she needs a phone? For some reason I thought your DDs were 8 and 6. (They probably were when the NP first started!)

ukmaggie45

vivatifosi wrote: »

Did you ever watch A Town Called Eureka, zag? That's probably my favourite sci-fi tv series.

Oh, that's brill! :j I think I've got most of it on DVD - just not watched the last parts of it as the integral DVD player in our bedroom TV doesn't work any more. And I don't watch TV in living room where we have DVD machine as I can't get my legs horizontal there. I think we might have to do some re-arranging of TVs etc. Unless it arrives on Horror Channel once Voyager finishes!

SingleSue

silvercar wrote: »

How old is DD1 that she needs a phone? For some reason I thought your DDs were 8 and 6. (They probably were when the NP first started!)

Mine were 11 (almost 12) 13 (just) and 16 (just) when the NP first started, they are now 19, 20.5 and 23.5!