Lately I have ordered quite a few items from the usual chinese suppliers on ebay such as laptop keyboards, batteries, power supplies, wii bits a bobs… Now a couple of those things were either crappy quality, delayed, or in one case the seller just wasn’t too cool to do business with.

So I didnt give them positive feedback… what did they do?.. they offered to fully refund me if I just changed it to positive feedback.. which natually I did, how many other people do?.. probably lots…

So I got these OK products from china… and full refunds… just for a feedback switch… good or bad? – well good and bad… don’t know…

Twice I called play.com customer services to find out when the wii + balance board console would be delivered given it went from 1-2 weeks delay at ordering to being 3-5 weeks after waiting for one week.

On both calls I got the usual sort of stuff you expect to hear when you call up someone and they can’t really help you (although I did request them to send the in-stock bundled items and send the rest when in stock which they refused); but also I was told on both occasions that as my card had not been charged yet I could cancel the order if I wanted to.

So I did, after 2 weeks of waiting for play.com selling this for £240 with an ongoing delay of over a month, I found John Lewis selling the same black console with sports and sports resort with motionplus for £150 which you could pick up from a store the following day. Also the balance board was expected in stock at amazon.co.uk around a week later for £85, so I called them up to ask if I placed an order online I would be sure to get one of that consignment and indeed that is the case.

I picked up the wii last saturday and have enjoyed it for 3 days now it’s a really great console, and amazon will have the remaining item wii fit plus with balance board here tomorrow (5 days earlier than expected)

So I cancel with play and less than a week later I get what I ordered from two other retailers and save £5.

Looks like they have opened the floodgates again, I have 16 invitations available to send out, let me know if you want one.

Brad

To my surprise today I saw 4 desks & chairs on the pavement all brightly offering a “free stress test”, with dianetics in smaller text and a couple of mentions of the science fiction writer ron hubbard on the side, I instantly recognised this as the evil beginning of scientology. About 10 years ago in Munich I was walking out of my hotel to be greeted by someone in the street who said “GusGott”, which turned out to be good day in the southern German region, which I didn’t understand so he spotted me as a foreigner and next thing I knew I was invited into this building to talk about something or other and see if I would be interested in buying a couple of books… I turned it down and left the building.

Little did  I know that was Scientology trying to lure a 25 year old me into it’s clutches, so today the more informed me saw this little show and wanted to have a go of some sort at them. As I walked back to the car I walked more and more slowly… then a girl asked me if I was interested in a free stress test… to which I confidently replied “Isn’t this that cult that takes away all your money?”, she said “No it isn’t”, I looked at it and finally said “well it certainly looks like it”, then walked away feeling good about my dig at evil.

For those who don’t know what all this is about, just check out the BBC episode about them.