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Dholi 501

Saturday, 2 May 2009 ‡ 16:44

Fantastic Guinness World Record set today with over 600 dholi's playing in Birmingham at Centenary Square for over 10 minutes. You can watch the whole event by downloading the video, but it might take some time to download the 14 minute, 125Mb file!

Labels: Birmingham, centenary, dholi, guinnes world record, gurcharan mall

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Phones 4u

Saturday, 4 October 2008 ‡ 15:00

Raj from Phones 4u in Bull Ring, Birmingham City Centre is the guy to see about the best deals on mobile phones. Raj got me the best deal for my new Samsung i900.

Not only that, he threw in some desk speakers and £20 PAYG vouchers

I have been an Orange customer since 1995 and the best Orange offered me was £199 for the phone, then after some shopping around and haggling, Orange offered me the phone for £50. But since it was possible for me to join Orange as a new customer on a new contract, they were more then happy to sign me up for exactly the same current contract and i get the phone for free!!!

I am having difficulty understanding the difference between me on my existing number extending my contract for another 18 months and joining Orange as a new customer joining for 18 months on exactly the same talk plan. Are Orange sales staff paid different levels of commission for new and existing customers?

Again, see Raj at the Bull Ring store, tell him i sent you!

Labels: best, Birmingham, bull ring, contracts, deals, i900, orange, phones 4u, raj, samsung

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Post Office, Birmingham, 1 Pinfold Street

Thursday, 24 April 2008 ‡ 10:27

Having checked around for exchange rates, the Post Office in town displayed 1.20 on the board in the door and the best i could find was 1.19 from my bank, not the biggest difference, but both offer buy and sell, commission free.

Having got my Euros from the Post Office i discovered they had charged me 1.1735

This was easily fixed, i thought either i read the buy rate column and not the sell rate, so i checked and sure enough it was 1.20, so i went in and saw the same girl as i did a day earlier and she informed me, 1.20 was only for £500 or more.

So I decided to check the board and it did not state anything about the rate shown being for £500 or more and asked to speak to the Manager. The Manager agreed with me, the rate is not clearly indicate minimum amount and promptly settled this issue and in a fit of generosity, bumped me a five euro note, which has given me a rate of 1.21!!!, EXCELLENT.

Labels: Birmingham, euros, exchange, money, office, post

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Orange does it again

Saturday, 12 April 2008 ‡ 00:00

Orange has done it again!

The pathetic level of service from Orange is outstanding, it beats every crap company i have ever dealt with. In over 10 years, i have NEVER missed a payment and continued upgrading in the hope that i would receive good deals from Orange.

This time i have spent days trying to access my on-line account without success, consistent failures.

Over night, i have stopped receiving SMS alerts and SMS icon on my phone and my SMS' are arriving on my phone nearly 24 hours after they have been sent to me, even the date and time stamp indicate the message was sent nearly a day ago, as well as confirmation from friends and family who send me message, asking why i dont reply... unkown to me i have had a message.

Raised this with Orange and what did they say, FUCK ALL... nothing. Ignore the bloody emails and comments and it will just go away, well i dont think so!

Labels: Birmingham, mobile, orange, sms, sonyericsson

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Orange misleading customers

Monday, 30 October 2006 ‡ 08:41

Orange have been advertising their new talk plan packages all over the place and they do look very attractive, with FREE *Unlimited texts, Unlimited calls and other FREE offers.

I moved my old Talk 300 plan to Dolphin 35 which offered *Unlimited FREE texts, 550 FREE cross network calls and *Unlimited FREE calls to a magic number.

I also signed up other friends and family to some of the other Orange offers, one of which was the FREE 1000 texts when PAYG customers top up their phone with £30.

Later discovered that when you sign up to these new talk plans, you actually do not automatically get the FREE offer on your talk plan.

One Orange Customer Services rep stated that when you sign up, you actually have to state you want the FREE offer on the talk plan, even though the talk plan states you receive the offer as part of the talk plan. Another stated that this was just human error and the Sales rep must have forgot to initiate the offer at registration. This is total and utter bullshit, because I tripled checked with the Sales rep in the Orange store that the Dolphin 35 package allows me the stated FREE offers when I was upgrading my Talk plan and continued to ask him during the time he was filling in the registration form and during the time he was waiting for the upgrade code from Orange.

Orange are totally misleading customers which must be against some advertising laws, so Orange customers beware, please double check when you sign up to any of the new Orange talk plans.

* Unlimited is limited by Orange's Fair Use Policy as stated in their terms and conditions, so also misleading. They either should not be allowed to state it is unlimited, or place the small print next to the word Unlimited on their adverts.

Labels: Birmingham, contracts, free, misleading, offer, orange, plan, sign, talk

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