Date : Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:08:14 +0100
From : rs423@... (Mick Champion)
Subject: Leccy @ Acorn World '09
Rick Murray wrote:
> Mick Champion wrote:
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>> You would think that as a paying customer that they be more
>> accommodating.
>>
>
> Hahahaha! We pay good money to be ignored. Just ask anybody who has been
> dumb enough to call a premium number helpline and found themselves in a
> queueing system. Ker-ching!
>
Until transferring to the phone coop, I had premium rate numbers barred
from here just in case something abducted my modem. I'm now charged for
this service so I'm relying on a programmable call router to block any
from now on. If the only help on offer is through premium rate call,
don't go there. Non geographical numbers are bad enough.
> Remember the old analogue mobiles?
> The Vodaphone you are trying to contact is not responding. It may
> respond if you try again.
> (translation: we can't find this phone right now, but if you
> call again we'll sucker you for more cash)
>
Mobile operators still do this now! Nowadays, BT charge 8p to connect.
Mobile companies get a cut I believe so it's in their interest to tell
you to try later if voicemail not activated.
>
>> When I had one here, ?1 would not last long.
>>
>
> COIN meter!!!?
Yes. The LEB removed it in November 1993. I kept a slip from 1991 where
they collected ?435 out of the darned thing. In JGHs report he mentioned
that one of the flats had a coin meter as two flats shared one meter. I
presume the landlord owned this coin meter.
> The place I stayed once we had a cute little key.
>
Ah yes, those things. I refused to have one as I wasn't prepared to walk
into Streatham to find the machine vandalised. I think they still exist.
Sure I saw someone in my local "PayPoint" newsagent last week topping up?
> Actually, I have one now. It's a COGES thingy that I can stick in the
> vending machine at work. Just loaded a fiver into it. That's a lot of
> cups of coffee.
Not here it's not. 4 cups perhaps.
Mick.