To be honest I am not sure what kind of support Costco offer on anything over here. I know a chap who works for them but I try to avoid him like the plague so don't go very often. Some of their pricing is very good but the whole membership thing is a pain in the arse.
They're good for certain things like paper towels, toilet paper, canned or boxed stuff, frozen stuff, and drinks. Sometimes I buy big things of meat from them and freeze it. Basically anything that's not easily perishable or you can freeze. You'll see a substantial savings over a grocery store, even with the cost of membership factored in.
I just took a scam call which at first seemed like a normal cold call. After a few minutes of talking about his product he said that the company had won a contract with the big supermarkets and they were going to send me some vouchers. He said that to avoid them being stolen by other people in my office he wanted my HOME ADDRESS to make sure I got them! I ofcourse told him to send them to the office and then he started asking about my holiday dates for the year! After a bit more chit chat he got back onto the toners and wanted to charge us £325 to trial one of his 40,000 page yield toners but couldn't tell me which model it was for. When I pointed out that our toners ranged from £50 to £200 in price depending on model I got no answer. I was then told he would be coming to the area soon and would take me out for a slap up meal on the company (easier to get his mates to burgle my house/office if he knows where I am I guess) again I declined. In the end he wasn't happy when he got nothing out of me and put the phone down. I had a quick look online and found many others who had had identical calls on places like money saving expert. I also found a really cheap website with not much information other than a woman holding a toner which I assume is them. I have just called the police and reported it along with giving them the URL because others have said they have done so (excluding the URL) and hopefully they will build up enough to get these bastards. EDIT: I have also now reported them to trading standards, I hate these sorts of bastards. I might start calling the number I found on their site over and over again to waste their time.
I guarantee you this guy and his buddies would have robbed your house if you had given him that information.
When I spoke to the guy at the police call centre and told him about the request for holiday dates he simply replied 'So they know when to burgle your house'....
I just found this and it's bugging the hell out of me. The thing that bothers me is the fact that they've called it "accurate english" but then try to teach you how to speak like an American. WTF? Americans are famous for getting it wrong with their spelling/pronunciation differences/erros. No offence to you guys of course, but you don't speak English, you speak a bastardised version of it, like Geordies do. Going around teaching foreigners that this alternative version of English is "accurate english" pisses me off. If it was called "Accurate American English" I wouldn't mind but this just means foreigners will be confused when they come to England and think we're all saying it wrong. AARRGHH!
Has anyone noticed that a lot of Americans seem to confuse Australian and British accents... yet our accents are completely different?
Safe one. For some reason I could not remember what day it was. Now I can make the Post office before it closes. It shuts at 1pm on a Wednesday. Phew.
Not down here. I have £8 left in my bank and I am nearly out of baccy. So I need to get up there, use the Post Office to take it out and get 25gs and maybe some filters. My cousin is coming to my town so I blagged her for a lift up there. Just because im lazy.
This woman I work with gets baccy from a friend. She was able to get me a 50g pouch of Golden Virginia for £6. Shit from source mate, shit from source.
Yeah I have a mate who can get it off someone. he is at work until 10 so I am not waiting that long. I will do it when I next run out.
In the US we had that happen all the time. I have no idea why as the accents seem obviously different to me.