Cash back - is right too!!

Having realised PC World had charged me £167 for something I didn't ask for, I went straight back there after dinner today and gave the salesman my views on his sales pitch. He actually looked quite embarressed, funny to say he was well into his 30's. Managed to get a good refund so now I'm paying £15 a month for all my new gear, rather than £21, which over 4 years will be quite a saving. I'll also think twice before deciding to purchase from this guy again!

I spend far too much!!

My TFT monitor recently fizzled out and as I can't live without checking Facebook and my emails every 2.5 minutes I hooked the PC up to our flatscreen TV and have had the comfort of surfing the net from my armchair. The only trouble being that I have a very crap wireless keyboard that takes forever to register and constantly misses letters out as you type so yesterday we headed to PC World to buy a cheap standard wired keyboard, costing between £10-15.

We'd also decided that we were really in need of a new printer too as I keep buying second hand ones for £20-30 and they were never any good so I thought I'll go all out and get a pretty expensive lab-quality one on finance. We chose our printer fairly quickly but then got sidetracked looking at laptops. My PC isn't the largest or quickest though it's not that bad but I have been looking at going wireless for some time. So it was decided, if I could get a deal where I'm paying no more than £20 a month I'll get a new printer, laptop and wireless kit!

So here I sit, on my new laptop, costing £429.99, connected to the new Belkin Wireless Modem Router, costing about £44.99 and I am yet to set up our new Epson SX600FW Wireless printer, costing £97.99. I got a good finance package where I'm only paying £21 a month for the next couple of years but having read the paperwork last night, I noticed the software 'deal' the salesman 'chucked in' actually cost me £167.99, which wound me up so I'm heading back there today to kick off and get that taken out the deal.

Amost another year without updates!

I had hoped to get back into updating this blog at some point but I'm so busy with everything else that I never seem to have the time. I can't believe I only added 2 posts during the whole of 2008. I'm determined to get back to updating again so I've made this blog my home page and will add to it whenever I'm online, starting now!