I bought some paint, timber and plasterboard from Wickes. Delivery was really cheap and i am delighted with the products and service.
BUT
Wickes "As mentioned elsewhere, the delivery charge for two sheets plus three lengths of 45 x 95 kiln dried timber was only £4. A bargain."
It was flagged by their profanity/retricted word filter.
I am holding my head in shame. :(
Alan
three lengths :-)
2 sheets
Ah yes, well I think this is where we miss tv programmes like Thats Life really. They could have a great deal of fun with profanity filters. Brian
Sounds like a lot of Sheets to me. Brian
There was one filter that used to reject all posts made with caps lock on. Was it ahigh street retailer, can't recall now. Brian
I bought a tin of Dulux weathershield white undercoat yesterday. It was £25. I had half a mind to visit the Dulux trade centre nearby but opted to get all the other bits in on go at Wickes. Later I went into the Dulux trade centre nearby and they sold the identical paint for £24.37. Drat
Wickes are getting V. expensive. The price they charge for Celotex is incredible. I keep all my receipts and in October 2009 I bought a pack of 4 x 70mm Quinntherm PIR sheets and they were £23 each.
Then in Dec 2009 I bought a single sheet of Quinntherm 30mm and another 60mm and they were £12.92 and £21.73 respectively.
Both purchases from a Builders merchant in Worthing.
Roll on 12 years and you would expect prices for materials to have more or less doubled, but see what Wickes are trying to charge now for rigid board insulation.
I always thought the man on the TV ad saying "One sheet" (of kitchen wipe) was actually saying "One s*it"
"It's Brexit / Driver shortage / The Pandemic / Unusually High Demand, you know."
A few years ago my cousin was an accountant. My brother needed to investigate a company and I said I would get the financial stuff, then available on microfiche. When I said I would send the fiches to the cousin, my brother misunderstood.
An outrageous piece of racketeering. I am sure the 63p you lost has placed the household budget under great stress. You ought to apply for a crisis loan.
There was a letter in the paper the other week from a guy in Australia who had called his bank in England, only to be met by a message "We're experiencing a high volume of calls....".
It was 3AM UK time...
Andy
This is a standard message that they put into the response loop. It's essentially meaningless.
First Direct ?.
If there's only one operator on duty, and two people call at once, that is a higher volume of calls than they can handle. Which is presumably what that message means: incoming calls > number of operators
If number of operators = 0 then you'd get the message all the time. (which could happen if the lone operator was on their break)
Theo
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