that sound is just me grinding my teeth

[kristamm]

I am running into the Irish web conundrum again, which is where a company has a website and purports to allow you certain actions on it, but doesn't actually follow through. Say, a moving company that allows you to request a quote and so you put in an assload of information and all your contact deets and then you sit and wait and no one calls or

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[lazy_hoor]

Oh god, I feel your pain. This shit drives me demented.

I thought there was a recession on.

[kristamm]

> I thought there was a recession on.

My rallying cry! When I storm into an office somewhere and kill a relo person or two, this will be what I've painted across my cape.

[lazy_hoor]

Yes. My cape will have 'Why doesn't your website work?' on the back.

For a country who made a lot of money from the dotcom boom, an awful lot of its websites suck balls. Particularly the ones with 'Eireann' in the url (Bus or Iarnrod).

[unav]

Many people are mental, and won't allow you to build them anything either attractive or useful. If you do manage to trick them into having a decent site, they then don't bother actually using it.

[zekejojo]

You could email HoZ and see about us taking some extra stuff home with us for you. I'm not sure the baggage limits (we are also flying Aer Lingus), but I'm sure we'll check luggage on the way home and probably get a cab.

[kristamm]

Hmm. By the time you guys are coming I'll have a better idea if that'd be useful. I'll let you know! It's a fantastically nice offer, thanks a ton!

[cartographer]

How many small boxes and how many big boxes and how many goddamn armoires and at the end they're like "Thanks for spending an hour willing in our 1998 html page. Now we'll ignore all of that and make up an unrelated quote, if we call back at all, which we probably won't."

The good thing about having to use a moving company was that all other aspects of moving to the US were comparatively pleasant.

If you have a recommendation for one that aren't complete bollockses, I'd go with it.

[kristamm]

I have several recs, that's where I STARTED, unfortunately. A week, still nothing from 2 of 3 companies I contacted. I have a double recc'd one I haven't tried yet, though, and I think they will be next.

Who did you guys use? Were you happy?

[cartographer]

I used Bond, who also seem to be called Oman, Beverly Smyth, Natross, AG Doree and McConnells. Every time I got a mail from them, it'd be from a different person and the email would have a different domain name. nice, huh? They ignored most of my emails anyway, so I had to call them all the time, and it was always like "We'll call you back in five minutes" and a day would pass and I'd call them again. They were so slow and disorganised that they ended up arranging to collect my stuff two days before I was due to fly out. They said they'd be there at 2pm. At 4, I called them, all WHAT THE SERIOUS FUCK, and they said "oh right, we're in Wexford, we'll come Saturday instead". I explained how they wouldn't because I'd be in another continent by then, and they eventually made it back to Dublin. Jesus. Three years later, I'm seething now thinking about it.

I spent my last week in Dublin really stressed out because of these people. My stuff did arrive though. That's the only thing you can say for them.

[kristamm]

Oh shit, that's the double-recommended company.