Are you serious?

I was looking for a bag for my Lenovo X201 12.1 subnotebook and visited a site offering a right bargain! A messenger bag reduced from £49.99 to £4.99! Like most sites you have to create an account to purchase so I started the process and noticed you could pay via PayPal. When I clicked on that service the price jumped to £49.99 which immediately rang alarm bells in my head, why would it be £4.99 with a debit or Credit card and yet £49.99 with PayPal? I decided not to continue the process and now they're emailing me which is interesting seeing as (I believe) I did not complete the signup process or agree to receive emails? I find their " We respect your right to privacy" and yet receiving emails  confirms my opinion that something's iffy here. Dear Peter Thanks for shopping at ######### We noticed that you put some items in your shopping basket during your last visit to our site but you left without completing your order. If you had a prob...

Colleague: "I've noticed you always start your requests on a negative? Why are you not positive? try staring with 'I know you'll have this, or You'll be able to do this." Me: Sadly fifteen years of experience has taught me that I should expect a negative answer." Colleague: "Well you'll be pleased to know that on this occasion your initial assessment was correct and I cannot get you out of the doggy doo doo." Me: "Bwahahahaha"

As I get older and hopefully wiser I seem to get more and more depressed by people being in positions that clearly they either have no flair for or ultimately no idea at all what is required of them in their given role.  A cardinal sin in any business is to not have faith in your products or services, we shouldn't be naïve about it though, sometimes the standard or quality could be better but ultimately you need to focus on the positives when trying to promote yourself and what your company has to offer. A far more outrageous sin is elitism! The idea that only a certain level of potential customers can afford to buy from you. While there is nothing wrong in targeting a specific audience focusing solely on one demographic is where your competition hoover's up all all the overlooked opportunities. A-CustomersApprentice:  "See the thing is I don't see the point of Facebook or Twitter for our compan...

So I took some leave this week and I'm (under orders) off to Birmingham tomorrow to visit the new shopping centre with Lady Cannon. Wife: "Tell you what bubb, I'll read out the list of all the places to eat in the food hall and you can choose where we eat." Me: "OK what about sushi? That's raw fish." Wife: "Eww! I'm not eating that!" Me: "OK what about the noodle bar?" Wife: "Eww! I'm not eating that!" Me: "Umm? What part of I can choose am I not understanding here?"