Fuzzy Orange

I made the horrible, horrible mistake of buying a phone from Phones4U 3 long years ago.
18 months ago when my first contract with them was coming to an end, I started getting daily phone calls (up to 5 a day) from 08450 264628
When I answered a young chavvy sounding lad, who kept calling me “mate”, informed me he was calling from Phones4U head office to offer me an upgrade deal

I was in Lincoln at the time, ironically heading to the Phones4u store to upgrade anyway. So I told the lad that I would just do it in store so I could look at the phones.
“We can do you a better deal than the shop mate, cos we work at head office”.. hrmmm
I hung up and told the guys in the store what had happened, and they said the number wasn’t Phones4U and they weren’t sure who it was.
The number then rang again… I told them they weren’t who they said they were. The lad then told me my name, address, date of birth, mobile phone I had, and contract I was on…

WOW what a complete failure in confidentiality on Phones4U and/or Vodafones behalf!!

I eventually took an upgrade in-store, and informed the lad who kept ringing that I had already upgraded. The calls eventually stopped

Fast forward another 18months… I’ve now had 81 calls in the last week from this number.
I originally explained I wasnt interested in another phone, or changing my contract. But that got me a very angry “What so you dont want to save money then?” Grrr..
So then I started just cancelling the call, then answering the call but not speaking to see if that would stop them ringing.. it didn’t.
I then tried random swearing down the phone, and eventually today I’ve resorted to waiting till they speak then smashing the phone into the desk over and over until they hang up

So enough being well and truly enough, I rang vodafone to get a block put on this number.
After 5 minutes on hold I get a customer services woman who politely informs me “I don’t think we can block numbers, let me talk to a colleague”, and then put me on hold for 15 minutes until I got bored and hung up

The level of sheer incomptence on the behalf of primarily Phones4U, but also Vodafone, as a service provider is ASTOUNDING

My contract ends in June, I have no intention of renewing it whatsoever. I will be taking £345 of my hard earned cash to the nearest O2 store and walking out with an iPhone. I sincerely hope anyone reading this who works at whatever company resides behind the 08450 264628 has to spend a week trapped in a closet listening to a permanent repeat of “The greatest elevator music ever”! Grrrrr

Yesterday I was joyously (is that even a word?) washing my car when I noticed ALL the paint on my lovely morette quad headlights was coming off in the heat

Stupid body shop dont seem to have keyed the lights properly

After spending £200 on them, then a weekend trying to get them to fit properly, then not being able to wire them up, and now the paint falling off, I’ve given up with the things (obviously designed and built by some insane garlic-munching bloke who’s never actually seen a 106 in real life!)

So sold them and got some 2nd hand custom black projectors. Nice lights but not in the greatest condition, so the front of my 106 is looking a bit sorry for itself at the moment

However I did order some polyrace bushes today so the suspension will be getting an overhaul again (and ive just fitted avo 50mm springs and a full set of bilstein shock absorbers )

But in a rather rare moment for my blog site – im quite happy!

Swapped my N95 8gb at the weekend for a jailbroken 8gb iPhone
Absolutely loving the last.fm application on it – sat in the office listening to music directly over the works wifi connection…. Marvellous!!

I’ll get pics up of the car soon, might also get around to sorting the gallery out on here as well