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September 26th, 2008

Special offers

1. I was offered the opportunity to take part in 40 days of prayer for the bargain price of $9.98. For this much money I would get daily e-mail updates which I could forward on to my friends for free. They would not need to pay $9.98. I’m no businessman, but it seems to me that if you’re going to run a profitable 40 days of prayer you need to get everyone paying their $9.98.

2. A ‘wholly owned subsidiary’ of the Carphone Warehouse Group contacted me to say that they would be very happy to have a link to their site on my website, and in fact they would go as far as to write a whole page of information that I could post onto my site with a link to them. All for free. Unfortunately they “are not currently in the position of being able to exchange or return links”. Much as I’d enjoy participating in such an attempt to manipulate the search engines I have declined to respond to the unsolicited e-mail. Oddly enough I had thought, until now, that the Carphone Warehouse was a legitimate and above-board sort of company.

3. The Amazon internet company had a special offer whereby one could have a FREE trial of their ‘Amazon Prime’ service, which promises to send things out on a next-day-delivery basis. I can confirm the results of the trial based on a sample of one: The goods do not arrive the next day as promised, even if you wait in all day for them. Suffice to say it is not a service that one shall be continuing with.

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8 Responses to “Special offers”


  1. Andrew says:

    Dave – thanks for quick review of Amazon’s Prime service. Needless to say, I am not that surprised…sadly. ASD

    September 26th, 2008 at 11:51 am
  2. Rob C says:

    Maybe you could charge all your friends $9.98, and they theirs, thus creating a prayer pyramid scheme?

    September 26th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
  3. joe says:

    Well, y’know if you don’t ask, you don’t get. And sometimes even if you do ask you don’t get.

    September 26th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
  4. The Broken Man says:

    Ahh, we have a similar situation to your Amazon one. Our gas company wants to change our gas meter – for their convienience, you understand – we are perfectly happy with our current gas meter; it sits on the wall and monitors gas, and that’s all we expect from it.

    The gas company appears to want more. They wrote to us and told us that they would be coming to fit the new one on a work day between the hours of 8am and 8pm, and could only fit it if someone was home.

    As we were not particularly fussed about the new meter, no-one was in, and they left a disgrutled note. They’ve left a few now. We have contacted them to suggest that they come at the weekend, at a pre-arranged time, but they insist that they can’t narrow the time down to any better than 8am – 8pm. We have told them that they will probably need to leave us a few more notes…..

    September 26th, 2008 at 6:28 pm
  5. Kathryn says:

    Thanks Dave…there is no end to the useful info you dispense here and I’m most grateful :-)

    September 27th, 2008 at 8:59 am
  6. Ann says:

    We have Amazon prime – we get free second day air shipping – if you order a lot from Amazon it is a good deal. Wyoming has no such thing as next day arrival of any package or letter (Pony Express and all that LOL). Maybe your Amazon UK means they will ship it out by the next day??

    September 27th, 2008 at 1:02 pm
  7. John Cheek says:

    Carphone Warehouse… hmmm… now why doesn’t it surprise me, with them?

    September 29th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
  8. Pax Vobiscum says:

    Perhaps you should join the $9.98 prayer thingy and get everyone to pray that your Amazon packages arrive next day. And if they haven’t arrived after 40 days you get your money back.

    October 1st, 2008 at 1:01 pm