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caddymanCarphone Warehouse are trying to give me a free mobile phone, but don't seem able to do so.
It wasn't my idea; for once I do not have that odd compulsion in the back of my head to go and trade in my phone for a newer model. This is probably because a)the model I have has yet to celebrate its first birthday, though it's only got a couple of weeks to go; b) there isn't a phone out there that I like the look of better than the Motorola V3 Razr, and c) I have, for the first time in years, been deliberately avoiding places such as the Carphone Warehouse simply so that I won't be tempted.
Most of you know that I am notoriously weak-willed in these matters, so avoidance of the outlets is vital.
I didn't particularly like the sound of the phone they were trying to hawk me, but since the only stipulation was that I stay with my current network for a further 12 months , which I was planning to do anyway, I reckoned that if they wanted to send me a free phone, why should I care?
Anyway, this morning I got a worried message from their sales rep saying that they had just had an email from Vodafone telling them that I am not entitled to a new phone until 4 March. Off, since I subscribe to O2, but there we are. What worried the rep, though, was the thought that I might already have received a new phone by courier. I haven't, and wasn't expecting to, really. Be interesting if one turns up, though!
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colonel_maxim emailed me this link to Swords Mart under the title 'shiny'. Ah, the lad knows me too well, and I have to confess to being tempted, though I can't help but wonder what sort of shoddy mess you can buy at those prices.
The real fun of the site though, comes from the occasional and consistently 'miss-spelt' sword names designed to avoid copyright issues. So they sell Nasril instead of Narsil, Sling, instead of Sting and so on.
My particular favourite though, has to be Rider's Stranger Sword. Quality, and only £20 or so.
Maybe not quality, then.
It wasn't my idea; for once I do not have that odd compulsion in the back of my head to go and trade in my phone for a newer model. This is probably because a)the model I have has yet to celebrate its first birthday, though it's only got a couple of weeks to go; b) there isn't a phone out there that I like the look of better than the Motorola V3 Razr, and c) I have, for the first time in years, been deliberately avoiding places such as the Carphone Warehouse simply so that I won't be tempted.
Most of you know that I am notoriously weak-willed in these matters, so avoidance of the outlets is vital.
I didn't particularly like the sound of the phone they were trying to hawk me, but since the only stipulation was that I stay with my current network for a further 12 months , which I was planning to do anyway, I reckoned that if they wanted to send me a free phone, why should I care?
Anyway, this morning I got a worried message from their sales rep saying that they had just had an email from Vodafone telling them that I am not entitled to a new phone until 4 March. Off, since I subscribe to O2, but there we are. What worried the rep, though, was the thought that I might already have received a new phone by courier. I haven't, and wasn't expecting to, really. Be interesting if one turns up, though!
In keeping with the trend for having toys put under my nose for consideration, for some reason instead of walking up a flight of stairs, or more likely just shouting, Beastie
colonel_maxim emailed me this link to Swords Mart under the title 'shiny'. Ah, the lad knows me too well, and I have to confess to being tempted, though I can't help but wonder what sort of shoddy mess you can buy at those prices.The real fun of the site though, comes from the occasional and consistently 'miss-spelt' sword names designed to avoid copyright issues. So they sell Nasril instead of Narsil, Sling, instead of Sting and so on.
My particular favourite though, has to be Rider's Stranger Sword. Quality, and only £20 or so.
Maybe not quality, then.