With my fabulous home insurance I was given "free" access to the Experian CreditExpert service, so I can check my credit status and see if anyone is trying to use my details fraudulently.
Experian make great claims for how useful this would be:
Experian creditexpert
I bought my insurance at the end of May 2011. It's now five months later and I STILL haven't been able to access this. I just got off the phone to one of their customer service staff (who was very pleasant I have to admit) but even he can't understand why this isn't working for me and now has to speak to his techies and hopefully will get back to me by Monday or Tuesday.
At this rate I will get my insurance renewal before I actually get to use the "free" service that they included with it. I get really angry when stuff that should work doesn't and this is another example of companies massively over-promising and under-delivering.
Friday 21 October 2011
Wednesday 19 October 2011
eReaders aren't going to replace books just yet
I just got some junk email from WH Smith about their new Kobo eReader Touch which costs £109.99 so thought I'd take a look. It might look pretty in pastels (obviously trying for the female appeal) and have batteries that last a month, but I can't help feeling that the electronic book prices are a rip-off.
At WH Smith it is cheaper to buy a paper book (printed, bound, packed and delivered, held on shelf in store until sold) than it is to buy the equivalent copy for the £110 book reader.
Maybe I'm still old fashioned, but being able to buy a book I can read in the bath, and that I can pass on to the Oxfam bookshop when I'm finished still appeals to me. And if that is cheaper than the electronic copy all the better.
Sunday 16 October 2011
Support the Bicester airfield heritage museum
Spoke to the chaps from the campaign to save Bicester airfield as a heritage museum while at the Garden Centre today.We really need to get behind the proposals to save this, rather than letting more housing developers get their hands on this. We have an almost unique opportunity to build something really exciting which would make Bicester a destination, rather than a housing estate.
Please sign the petition today.
http://www.bc-heritage.org/bicester/
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