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The Great Roaming Rip-Off
Talkback The costs of roaming are nothing short of the biggest rip-off of all time, even more so when companies that are owned by a single entity like Orange and France Telecom and Vodafone and Telecel, and charge each country operation as if they are not...
[November 4, 2005, 9:55]
UK Startup Declares War On 'rip Off Britain'
News Online retailer Intersaver.co.uk, launched Thursday, claims that it is "declaring war on rip off Britain" and promises to offer consumers savings of up to 35 percent on consumer electronics. The online store is able to offer savings over high...
[November 19, 1999, 9:50]
Rip-Off!
Member Review Thinking of hiring a management consultant to examine your business? Read this book first: it's an insider's view of the scams, greed and general mismanagement that's rife in this field.
[June 28, 2005, 10:43]
Rip-off Reports Win Reprieve
Talkback I found a site, ripoffreportfraud.com that you should look into
[January 18, 2004, 23:56]
Rip-off Ryanair Take It A Step Too Far!
Blog Comment Don't know if this is of help, but i recently replied to this blog post concerning ryanair [domain name] which contains a URL: www.ryanaircampaign.org.
[January 25, 2007, 8:53]
Rip-off Ryanair Take It A Step Too Far!
Blog Comment Sorry, the link should be this of course www.ryanaircampaign.org! Mis-typed it).
[January 25, 2007, 8:57]
The Great Roaming Rip-Off
Talkback Arthur B. I got so annoyed at the way we are treated by all Mobile Network Operators, I decided to do something about it on behalf of all of us that 'Roam' a great deal. The result is our Mazingo ICED SIP based Dual WiFi / GSM Cell phone and which...
[May 31, 2006, 23:15]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment The worst cable has to be PCWorlds £14.99 USB 1.1 Cable that was a rip off, they only stopped that recently. One of the biggest problems with Dixon group stores such as curry's is that they make very little money on the PC sales on average...
[December 6, 2007, 10:30]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment My personal worst example of this was from PC World, who wanted to charge me £15 for a VGA-DVI adaptor. Maplin sell them for £10 but even that seems excessive given that you can pick them up on eBay for less than a fiver.
[December 6, 2007, 12:19]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment In front of me is a retractable 75Cm USB cable. It has AM-BM for printer, AM-Mini 5P for cameras and MP3 players, AM-AF so that it can be used as an extension cable. It was expensive - 99p from my local 99p shop!
[December 12, 2007, 9:23]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment So have finally heard back from HP over why they are opting not to put USB cables in with their printers anymore. No surprises in the answer apart from the last bit: HP's experience is that there is no one cable suitable for all customer...
[December 12, 2007, 9:28]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Well, well doesn't history repeat itself yet again! Some of you may not remember the old days when Printers came with a Centronics (Paralell) Interfaces only and when IBM sold their humble IBM (Intel 8088) PC - "Yes Sir the IBM PC costs £1,500 - Oh...
[December 13, 2007, 11:22]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment The point thats really being made here is the steep price for the cable, and also it displays the minset of an average person buying a printer.
[January 3, 2008, 15:04]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Environmentally speaking, I prefer to source cables as need be, excessive mark up is wrong though. I have lots of USB cables, true that with new standards I may not look upon it so favourably. First gen should have cables included.
[December 13, 2007, 15:43]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment I'm just surprised you didn't have one knocking around at home already. Cables breed! I regularly have to harvest them and put a bag of cables on Freecycle, just to clear space on my desk. The ones I have most of are mini-USB cables from phones...
[January 8, 2008, 8:39]
The Great Roaming Rip-Off
Talkback Their is another rip to look at here, I was in a country that didnt have GPRS and my phone automatically backed off to the backup wap number which is a normal telephone number , when this is dialed you get billed by the minute rather than the...
[November 2, 2005, 16:38]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Most of the PC World set don`t know how to shop around.They just buy the one with the shiniest box,whatever the price.
[January 8, 2008, 9:09]
The Great Roaming Rip-Off
Talkback Please tell me that the UK didn't figure this out just recently! There's little difference with getting 'a great offer' by phone or regular mail only to find out later that you're paying ten times as much as need be if you cared to look into...
[November 1, 2005, 21:23]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment Once again im going to stand by Andrew everyone who has been negative towards this blog entirely misses the point. And to Peter Judge of course they would have to include a cable otherwise average joe blogs would plug it into the wall open up word...
[January 29, 2008, 9:14]
Currys £16.99 USB Cable Rip-off.
Blog Comment I spoke too soon - here's the response from DSG/Currys: First, can we apologise for the delay in replying but also that you were not properly informed at the time of purchase that a USB cable doesn't come with the printer.
[December 12, 2007, 15:39]
