Things that annoy you beyond reason...(Vol. 6)
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Twitter. I very rarely go on Twitter, but I have an account because I wanted to reserve the name. Now, for some reason, it's started emailing me daily telling me about stuff that "People in Cheltenham shared".
I'm not in Cheltenham (nor anywhere near it), I've never been there, and I don't care what the people there shared.
Or maybe I'm annoyed with my mobile broadband provider for sending out invalid location information which I presume Twitter use to "personalise" these emails that I never wanted in the first place.
I'm not in Cheltenham (nor anywhere near it), I've never been there, and I don't care what the people there shared.
Or maybe I'm annoyed with my mobile broadband provider for sending out invalid location information which I presume Twitter use to "personalise" these emails that I never wanted in the first place.
droopsnoot said:
Twitter. I very rarely go on Twitter, but I have an account because I wanted to reserve the name. Now, for some reason, it's started emailing me daily telling me about stuff that "People in Cheltenham shared".
I'm not in Cheltenham (nor anywhere near it), I've never been there, and I don't care what the people there shared.
Or maybe I'm annoyed with my mobile broadband provider for sending out invalid location information which I presume Twitter use to "personalise" these emails that I never wanted in the first place.
Perhaps it's picked up on the location of the people tracking you....I'm not in Cheltenham (nor anywhere near it), I've never been there, and I don't care what the people there shared.
Or maybe I'm annoyed with my mobile broadband provider for sending out invalid location information which I presume Twitter use to "personalise" these emails that I never wanted in the first place.
ds.Sky has been driving me crackers.
I moved from my house in Kendal, to near Marple.
I'd cancelled my Sky account and arranged to return the Sky hardware - my tenant kindly
offered to see to this for me.
Six months later, I started getting nag messages demanding action with menaces. If i don't send the Sky Q box and minibox
back within x days, we'll charge you £190 for non-return.
So, I contacted the tenant and discovered the return packaging hadn't shown up. I called Sky next and asked for another set of boxes,
pointing out that I've a mail redirect on so sending to the former account address would see the packaging turning up where I am now,
90 miles South of the hardware's location.
The solution was obvious so I asked, "Please replace my name on the label with that of the tenant, followed by, 'Care Of'' and
the rest of the address."
Simples? Oh dear me no. No, This exercise doesn't lie in Sky's remit. Yes, they could send the boxes in my name to another address, so I thought, "OK, send the packaging to the address of my ex (in Kendal), who owes me things and she'll drop it at my old address."
"Do you live there?" asked the woman. "With my ex? Get real." "Well, quoth she,"We can send the boxes to your new address but we can only send them to an address you live at."
By now, I was down two calls to Sky returns, Three emails, to Sky Access (for the disabled), Sky Returns and one to Account Help. Jeez, I was
losing the desire, let alone the will, and ability, to reason.
As thngs stand, my tenant will get a box, pack up the gear, print and attach the label I got from Royal Mail and sent to him.
And Sky is a provider? That has to be the oxymoron of the century. I mean, the poor lambs would have had to make at least 20
keystrokes to change the address. This would clearly tax htem beyond human endurance.
I moved from my house in Kendal, to near Marple.
I'd cancelled my Sky account and arranged to return the Sky hardware - my tenant kindly
offered to see to this for me.
Six months later, I started getting nag messages demanding action with menaces. If i don't send the Sky Q box and minibox
back within x days, we'll charge you £190 for non-return.
So, I contacted the tenant and discovered the return packaging hadn't shown up. I called Sky next and asked for another set of boxes,
pointing out that I've a mail redirect on so sending to the former account address would see the packaging turning up where I am now,
90 miles South of the hardware's location.
The solution was obvious so I asked, "Please replace my name on the label with that of the tenant, followed by, 'Care Of'' and
the rest of the address."
Simples? Oh dear me no. No, This exercise doesn't lie in Sky's remit. Yes, they could send the boxes in my name to another address, so I thought, "OK, send the packaging to the address of my ex (in Kendal), who owes me things and she'll drop it at my old address."
"Do you live there?" asked the woman. "With my ex? Get real." "Well, quoth she,"We can send the boxes to your new address but we can only send them to an address you live at."
By now, I was down two calls to Sky returns, Three emails, to Sky Access (for the disabled), Sky Returns and one to Account Help. Jeez, I was
losing the desire, let alone the will, and ability, to reason.
As thngs stand, my tenant will get a box, pack up the gear, print and attach the label I got from Royal Mail and sent to him.
And Sky is a provider? That has to be the oxymoron of the century. I mean, the poor lambs would have had to make at least 20
keystrokes to change the address. This would clearly tax htem beyond human endurance.
davhill said:
Sky has been driving me crackers.
I moved from my house in Kendal, to near Marple.
I'd cancelled my Sky account and arranged to return the Sky hardware - my tenant kindly
offered to see to this for me.
Six months later, I started getting nag messages demanding action with menaces. If i don't send the Sky Q box and minibox
back within x days, we'll charge you £190 for non-return.
So, I contacted the tenant and discovered the return packaging hadn't shown up. I called Sky next and asked for another set of boxes,
pointing out that I've a mail redirect on so sending to the former account address would see the packaging turning up where I am now,
90 miles South of the hardware's location.
The solution was obvious so I asked, "Please replace my name on the label with that of the tenant, followed by, 'Care Of'' and
the rest of the address."
Simples? Oh dear me no. No, This exercise doesn't lie in Sky's remit. Yes, they could send the boxes in my name to another address, so I thought, "OK, send the packaging to the address of my ex (in Kendal), who owes me things and she'll drop it at my old address."
"Do you live there?" asked the woman. "With my ex? Get real." "Well, quoth she,"We can send the boxes to your new address but we can only send them to an address you live at."
By now, I was down two calls to Sky returns, Three emails, to Sky Access (for the disabled), Sky Returns and one to Account Help. Jeez, I was
losing the desire, let alone the will, and ability, to reason.
As thngs stand, my tenant will get a box, pack up the gear, print and attach the label I got from Royal Mail and sent to him.
And Sky is a provider? That has to be the oxymoron of the century. I mean, the poor lambs would have had to make at least 20
keystrokes to change the address. This would clearly tax htem beyond human endurance.
You can just ask for a label to be emailed to you for the boxes to return via either royal mail or collect+ (whichever is easier) - you could then email this to your tenant and ask them to box them up in any packaging and send them?I moved from my house in Kendal, to near Marple.
I'd cancelled my Sky account and arranged to return the Sky hardware - my tenant kindly
offered to see to this for me.
Six months later, I started getting nag messages demanding action with menaces. If i don't send the Sky Q box and minibox
back within x days, we'll charge you £190 for non-return.
So, I contacted the tenant and discovered the return packaging hadn't shown up. I called Sky next and asked for another set of boxes,
pointing out that I've a mail redirect on so sending to the former account address would see the packaging turning up where I am now,
90 miles South of the hardware's location.
The solution was obvious so I asked, "Please replace my name on the label with that of the tenant, followed by, 'Care Of'' and
the rest of the address."
Simples? Oh dear me no. No, This exercise doesn't lie in Sky's remit. Yes, they could send the boxes in my name to another address, so I thought, "OK, send the packaging to the address of my ex (in Kendal), who owes me things and she'll drop it at my old address."
"Do you live there?" asked the woman. "With my ex? Get real." "Well, quoth she,"We can send the boxes to your new address but we can only send them to an address you live at."
By now, I was down two calls to Sky returns, Three emails, to Sky Access (for the disabled), Sky Returns and one to Account Help. Jeez, I was
losing the desire, let alone the will, and ability, to reason.
As thngs stand, my tenant will get a box, pack up the gear, print and attach the label I got from Royal Mail and sent to him.
And Sky is a provider? That has to be the oxymoron of the century. I mean, the poor lambs would have had to make at least 20
keystrokes to change the address. This would clearly tax htem beyond human endurance.
alorotom said:
You can just ask for a label to be emailed to you for the boxes to return via either royal mail or collect+ (whichever is easier) - you could then email this to your tenant and ask them to box them up in any packaging and send them?
Or even print the labels himself and post them on to the tenant, to save them any hassle.
V8mate said:
alorotom said:
You can just ask for a label to be emailed to you for the boxes to return via either royal mail or collect+ (whichever is easier) - you could then email this to your tenant and ask them to box them up in any packaging and send them?
Or even print the labels himself and post them on to the tenant, to save them any hassle.
Or take the boxes with him and send them back to Sky from the new address.
V8mate said:
alorotom said:
You can just ask for a label to be emailed to you for the boxes to return via either royal mail or collect+ (whichever is easier) - you could then email this to your tenant and ask them to box them up in any packaging and send them?
Or even print the labels himself and post them on to the tenant, to save them any hassle.
paua said:
V8mate said:
alorotom said:
You can just ask for a label to be emailed to you for the boxes to return via either royal mail or collect+ (whichever is easier) - you could then email this to your tenant and ask them to box them up in any packaging and send them?
Or even print the labels himself and post them on to the tenant, to save them any hassle.
Halmyre said:
paua said:
V8mate said:
alorotom said:
You can just ask for a label to be emailed to you for the boxes to return via either royal mail or collect+ (whichever is easier) - you could then email this to your tenant and ask them to box them up in any packaging and send them?
Or even print the labels himself and post them on to the tenant, to save them any hassle.
V8mate said:
Halmyre said:
paua said:
V8mate said:
alorotom said:
You can just ask for a label to be emailed to you for the boxes to return via either royal mail or collect+ (whichever is easier) - you could then email this to your tenant and ask them to box them up in any packaging and send them?
Or even print the labels himself and post them on to the tenant, to save them any hassle.
Halmyre said:
Looking at Sky's pricing, they probably recoup the value of the boxes very quickly, and presumably they're sod-all use for any other application, so why do Sky want them back so badly?
I think it varies from case to case - I cancelled a Sky broadband subscription a couple of months in and they couldn't care less about getting the router back. It is still sitting in a cupboard somewhere. Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff