Random long-winded blah
It's been a funny old day, to say the least. And an expensive day at that. My sleeping patterns are still all to hell and I was yet again up before 6am this morning, which wasn't helped by Miz V making a fuss because her litter tray was dirty.
Since there was no snow overnight I decided that I'd get R to take me into town this morning so I could go and get my new mobile phone upgrade. I've been trying to get this bloody phone since before Xmas and have been thwarted for a variety of reasons. Well, R turned up half an hour late this morning. And lately she has been needing to leave at 12:30 (she starts at 11) to go to a new client they've added. So, no time for me to get to town and back .... Grrrrrr. Well, sod it, I was dressed and ready to go so I booked a cab to take me and wait to bring me back.
After waiting nearly 10 minutes to be seen in the shop, I discover they don't have the model of phone I want.
http://sales.nokia.co.uk/phone/nokia_6300&manufacturer=nokia&sort=latest&view=simple&utm_source=nokiashop&utm_medium=PP&utm_campaign=6300/
This one ^^
I have to be quite picky about which one I buy. I swear by Nokias and will not buy anything else. I have bought a Motorola V3 in the past and it was a disaster. A pretty one, but an expensive disaster. I have to hear with my left ear, my right is "too deaf" as it were, to hear a conversation. But my left arm and hand don't work too well, and I have found that holding a wide, thin phone like the V3 makes my hand cramp up. So for me the size of phone is important. So no slide or "flippy" phones, as I call them. It also HAS to have a volume switch on the side so I can make things louder as necessary. Not all mobiles have this, which cuts my choices down. The Nokia 6300 was the one I chose that ticked all the boxes. But they don't have it in the shop, cos, silly me, it didn't occur to me that I'd need to check the stock levels before I left the house!?! They had one before Xmas for goodness sake and I couldn't get it then cos my upgrade wasn't due for another 2 weeks. Grrrrrrr. The assistant vaguely tries to offer me another phone but apparently they don't do any other Nokia models that aren't "slides". I've got a taxi outside on the meter, I've been stood up for 10 minutes and I'm cranky now so I flounce out of the shop, come home and order pizza. So theres £20 spent already on the cab and the pizza ....
The T-Mobile website is a piece of shite and I can't arrange my upgrade online, I just go round in circles for 15 minutes - I really need pizza at this point!
So I phone from my mobile and sort it with them direct.
Up until last year, as a long time customer I had negotiated a loyalty discount as well as the yearly upgrade. Last year they said it was either one or the other. Since I didn't NEED the new phone I kept the discount.
Well my current phone I've now had for 3 years and it's on its last legs. My spare, which is newer, got dropped in a mop bucket a couple of years ago (thats a story for another time) and doesn't work properly anymore so the new phone is desperately needed, which means letting go of my loyalty discount to the tune of £120 per year.
So thats £140 I've effectively "spent" so far.
Still following??? ;)
I end up agreeing to the handset insurance policy on top, simply to avoid the same problem with faulty handsets again. This will cost me £6 a month, unless I cancel it, so that's £72 for the year.
A grand total of £212 pounds this phone has ended up costing me .... BIG ouch!
I can cover it in the budget, but it's a hell of a lot of money. I hope I don't regret it.
I hope everyone else has had a more thrifty day. o_O
Since there was no snow overnight I decided that I'd get R to take me into town this morning so I could go and get my new mobile phone upgrade. I've been trying to get this bloody phone since before Xmas and have been thwarted for a variety of reasons. Well, R turned up half an hour late this morning. And lately she has been needing to leave at 12:30 (she starts at 11) to go to a new client they've added. So, no time for me to get to town and back .... Grrrrrr. Well, sod it, I was dressed and ready to go so I booked a cab to take me and wait to bring me back.
After waiting nearly 10 minutes to be seen in the shop, I discover they don't have the model of phone I want.
http://sales.nokia.co.uk/phone/nokia_6300&manufacturer=nokia&sort=latest&view=simple&utm_source=nokiashop&utm_medium=PP&utm_campaign=6300/
This one ^^
I have to be quite picky about which one I buy. I swear by Nokias and will not buy anything else. I have bought a Motorola V3 in the past and it was a disaster. A pretty one, but an expensive disaster. I have to hear with my left ear, my right is "too deaf" as it were, to hear a conversation. But my left arm and hand don't work too well, and I have found that holding a wide, thin phone like the V3 makes my hand cramp up. So for me the size of phone is important. So no slide or "flippy" phones, as I call them. It also HAS to have a volume switch on the side so I can make things louder as necessary. Not all mobiles have this, which cuts my choices down. The Nokia 6300 was the one I chose that ticked all the boxes. But they don't have it in the shop, cos, silly me, it didn't occur to me that I'd need to check the stock levels before I left the house!?! They had one before Xmas for goodness sake and I couldn't get it then cos my upgrade wasn't due for another 2 weeks. Grrrrrrr. The assistant vaguely tries to offer me another phone but apparently they don't do any other Nokia models that aren't "slides". I've got a taxi outside on the meter, I've been stood up for 10 minutes and I'm cranky now so I flounce out of the shop, come home and order pizza. So theres £20 spent already on the cab and the pizza ....
The T-Mobile website is a piece of shite and I can't arrange my upgrade online, I just go round in circles for 15 minutes - I really need pizza at this point!
So I phone from my mobile and sort it with them direct.
Up until last year, as a long time customer I had negotiated a loyalty discount as well as the yearly upgrade. Last year they said it was either one or the other. Since I didn't NEED the new phone I kept the discount.
Well my current phone I've now had for 3 years and it's on its last legs. My spare, which is newer, got dropped in a mop bucket a couple of years ago (thats a story for another time) and doesn't work properly anymore so the new phone is desperately needed, which means letting go of my loyalty discount to the tune of £120 per year.
So thats £140 I've effectively "spent" so far.
Still following??? ;)
I end up agreeing to the handset insurance policy on top, simply to avoid the same problem with faulty handsets again. This will cost me £6 a month, unless I cancel it, so that's £72 for the year.
A grand total of £212 pounds this phone has ended up costing me .... BIG ouch!
I can cover it in the budget, but it's a hell of a lot of money. I hope I don't regret it.
I hope everyone else has had a more thrifty day. o_O