So I sent them this:
Why don’t you read emails from your customers?
and in return I got this:
Dear Customer
Thank you for contacting Amazon.co.uk.
I’m sorry we are unable to be more precise about the availability of
“Xbox 360 Console Deluxe Pack “. The message you received from us
reflects the best information from suppliers we have at this [...]
Wow. It’s like Deja Bloody Vuville over here. My third email to amazon was met with exactly the same response as my first one.
I sent another miffed email to amazon.co.uk re: the whole Xbox 360 saga. Here is their response:
Dear Customer
Thank you for contacting Amazon.co.uk regarding your order #(202-
4339224-5744634)
Once again, we are sorry that we are unable to be more precise about
the availability of the item “Xbox 360 Console”.
The message you have received from us reflects the best [...]
Just got this in my work email:
Reminder:
Personal Branding & Christmas Market on December 1, 2005
Learn what your personal presentation says about you and how to build a powerful ‘personal brand’ to positively influence your career advancement and maximise your impact on clients and management. And get some early Christmas shopping in too!
The London Network [...]
Ian (colleague, has not yet received an amendment or indeed an extension on his current contract) phones Phil at the agency, who is both his agent and mine, to ask what’s going on with this amendment business.
Phil says “I don’t know anything about that, you’d have to speak to my manager.”
Fair enough, you might think, [...]
Here is the body text of a document I received through the post this weekend. I present it here, and my response to it, for your consideration (emphasis mine):
…the Contractor shall be required to make themselves available to perform the Services as and when required by the Client in an arrangement known as “Standby”. Where [...]
So, here is my capsule review of Farstone GameDrive, a product which promises rather more than it delivers.
It promises that you will be able to take images of your game CDs and mount them on a virtual CD drive so that you can play your games without needing to keep a load of CDs [...]
Ye Saga Continuef.
The phone number on caller ID for my flat does not correspond to the phone number BT gave me for the reconnect. I don’t think much of it, assuming that it will be changed over in a few days, until:
PlusNet tell me that the number I’ve given them to connect ADSL to does [...]
I am now ensconced in my new flat, which despite my panic seems to be about the same size as the old one, and therefore capable of holding all of the stuff I’ve crammed into it.
No internet, though. Telewest apparently don’t have a cable to the building, and so I couldn’t move my cable broadband. [...]
It must surely be legal to kill people who’ve got their stereo blasting away at 00:30 on a work night.
Surely?