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Re: Cellphone Complaints

Eyebee — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:39:57 -0000

I would suggest that you speak to somebody involved in Consumer protection in South Africa. There must surely be such an organization in the Pretoria area.

Re: Cellphone Complaints

vjmhouzet — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:25:34 -0000

Dear Friends,

I am a 72-year old social welfare pensioner existing on R1010 per month.

I am using an old laptop computer that was given to me as a gift about 3 years ago by my eldest daughter who lives in Port Elizabeth. I have always since then had the ambition of getting connected to the Internet but never did so because I could not afford it. A computer "geek" whom I know suggested to me about three months ago that I could get connected via a cellphone so I bought an old second-hand Nokia cellphone with GPRS capabilities from a cellphone dealer here in Ladysmith for R600. I could not really afford it but my desire to get onto the Internet was stronger than my poverty at the time.

After spending much money on standard prepaid airtime rates I realized that this was a very expensive game that I could ill afford to continue. I spoke to my computer "geek" friend again and he suggested that I not use the standard prepaid airtime but that I ask for a "data bundle" to be loaded onto my cellphone in future. So on about 8th September, 2009 I visited an MTN shop at the Game Centre in Ladysmith and had 500 megabytes of data-bundle loaded onto my old Nokia. By the beginning of October I noticed that my data-bundle was running low so I decided to visit another MTN shop at the Pick n Pay Centre because it is nearer to where I stay and not so far to walk (I don't own a vehicle).

The two assistants in the MTN shop suggested I buy a 2 gigabyte (2000 megabytes) data bundle as this would work out cheaper (only 19cents/megabyte as opposed to 23cents/megabyte) in the long run and would last for a whole 60 days instead of expiring after only 30 days. Although I could ill-afford it I decided to buy the 2 gig data bundle for which I paid about R390. This was on 5th October, 2009.

This morning (6th November, 2009) I received an SMS on my cellphone from MTN informing me that my data bundle would be expiring on 8th November (coming Monday)! I immediately tried to get in touch with MTN but they did not acknowledge my calls in spite of my trying for several times. I then walked down to the MTN shop where I had bought the data bundle and insisted that they rectify their "mistake" which is tantamount to fraud. They got through to their principals after much waiting and I was eventually told that there was nothing that could be done to rectify the matter.

Where do I stand?

Yours sincerely,

VJM HOUZET
c/o 9a Kudu Street, Observation Hill, Ladysmith, 3370
Mobile: 0780872666
merlinhouzet@gmail.com

Re: The Snore Monster

Eyebee — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:16:37 -0000

I am, at this time, still alive and kicking.

Re: The Snore Monster

Eyebee — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:16:01 -0000

I like to live dangerously. It's more fun.

Re: The Snore Monster

carnellm — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:56:37 -0000

Why do I believe you are a dead man??

Re: Choose Your Fonts Wisely

hawaiiquote — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:20:22 -0000

Be careful of that Aloha Arleen woamn, she is a scammer http://damontucker.com/2009/09/09/wheres-the-al...

Re: PsykNyne

mikeytimons — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:50:27 -0000

Nice one. I have stumbled and twittered this for my friends. Others no doubt will like it like I did.

Re: Riverfront Park North Charleston, SC

alexa24 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:46:31 -0000

please feature this on the bizymoms North-charleston community page.

Re: Eric Person

swingtrading — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:34:51 -0000

Interesting post. I have stumbled this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.

Re: Embarrassing Situation

Eyebee — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:08:33 -0000

I found the story really amusing. It was a great payback!

As for arguing over Haggis, well perhaps not over the price but the origins. I read recently in a BBC article ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8180791.stm ) that Haggis originally came from England. That would be a good way to start an argument in a Glaswegian pub.

Re: Embarrassing Situation

Chuck Boyd — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:26:35 -0000

Now, THERE'S another case where haggling would be appropriate. Let the bargaining begin!

(Think anyone in Scotland would ever haggle over haggis?)

Re: How To Help The US Economy

Eyebee — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:56:29 -0000

We haggled and decided to go Dutch on the beer, so that blew the whole American thing out of the window...

Re: How To Help The US Economy

Chuck Boyd — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:19:53 -0000

I usually make a lower offer than posted at yard/garage sales. Did you "haggle" with your new tatted sports-minded friend? Who's paying for the beer?

Re: Anti? Not Really, Just Not Pro Either!

Eyebee — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:07:32 -0000

I bought my first 'IBM-Compatible' PC back in 1986. It came with MS-DOS 3.3 and a set of half a dozen 3.5 floppies marked "Windows 1.0" I installed them, and played with this pretty looking thing for a while. It had a notepad type orgram in it, and a paint program, and, as I recall, not much else. There were no other applications back then.

I got bored with it after a short while, and deleted it.

I upgraded a few times over the next few years, but it wasn't until some time in early 1994, when I finally installed Windows 3.1 on my computer. I was more than happy with DOS, and it was, for the time, quite fast and responsive on my 386-based machine with a huge 8MB RAM. Windows turned it into a relative slug, so much of the time, I stayed in DOS anyway.

I've always thought that those DOS days were of great benifit, as I've never been unable to use, or been intimidated by a command line prompt.

Re: Anti? Not Really, Just Not Pro Either!

Chuck Boyd — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:50:31 -0000

Years ago when a buddy was "teaching" me how to use a computer, we were using DOS. I had the little template sitting above the keyboard and each key offered 3 different steps as you shifyed. Had to jot down lots of notes to myself.

I asked him about this new "windows" thingy I had heard about and he laughed and said it was just a fad. "Hard to do better than DOS, " he concluded.

Re: Robbery By GPS

Eyebee — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 12:36:32 -0000

The last point is particularly worth noting. Why indeed tell the world that your home is going to be empty for a period of time?

Re: Robbery By GPS

Chuck Boyd — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:10:30 -0000

Ian, you have been posting about new high tech methods used by crooks to take things. I'll add one more: as I planned my two week vacation, I canceled the paper, had the USPS hold my (mainly junk) mail and did NOT post on my blog any of my upcoming travel plans.

Why tell "the world" your home would be vacant for 2 weeks?

Now I am back and will not be going anywhere for a while as I process through three 2 gig memory cards of pictures! Yes, that's more than 1,700 photos.

Re: Stella Awards

fdff — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:53:43 -0000

This story is a hoax! Do not believe everything you read, especially when it is so easy to check out the validity of a story using the Internet.

Re: The Bathtub Test

Chuck Boyd — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 14:01:44 -0000

Ian, that's funny! Thanks.

Re: Stella Awards

nicknazarus — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 14:25:27 -0000

It could be that the story is not completely true. However, as a world traveler, that is only in the USA where extremely abnormal events take place:
-A judge in Oklahoma has been caught masturbating during a homicide trial
-To participate in the Olympics Tanya Harding ex-husband hired someone who tried to brake Nacy Kerrigan's legs during a training session
-In Seattle: The state Supreme Court has suspended Theresa Olson, a lawyer caught having jailhouse sexual relations with a triple-murder defendant she was representing, for two years!
- The brutal killing of AnnLe AT WORK(Univ of Yale Lab)
These are only few examples. Without being disrespectful I believe that USA has some long way to civilize and have a normal life.

Re: The Ticking Clock

joan — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:35:26 -0000

I keep a ticking clock for that reason. My grandparents always had one. It seemed such a peaceful sound. Tick, tick....

Re: Swine Flu Worry

prescription — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:23:52 -0000

Lol, from what I have read it seems like vaccines are already being shipped and should be available at the beginning of October, just in time for flu season.

Re: The Letters

sydrocks — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:46:51 -0000

Ha! Pretty good.

Re: Meaning Of Flag Draped Coffin

tricker69 — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:12:32 -0000

Look at our government today and you will answer your own question. Man (our Government) can amend anything they want because we the people work for them most of the time without the right to vote on anything. They can make laws without our votes, give theirselves raises,not help the people here before they help other countries, send us to war then send that country money to rebuild what they sent us over there to destroy, in war I thought you fought for your country and the people at home reguardless of race and belief but yet we get our taxes raised and the elder people have to do with out food or medicine, veterans still get shity care and 5 states pay their vets less than the other states, I thought the government was supposed to pay us equal, we all have some hardship others worse than most. So who cares who decided what thes folds mean anyway,at least they were thinking of the AMERICAN PEOPLE , If they don't like it to bad, they should have know before they went. And yes I served in Viet-Nam in 1968-69 during the tet offence so read up more on thf flag or don't say something you really don't know anything about.

Re: The Holy City

Guest — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 12:42:16 -0000

Interesting post. I have stumbled this for my friends. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.