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Welcome To Three-Fail

Started by Ewan · 1 year ago

Afternoon readers, Whatley reporting in…

My post quota has been a bit low lately, (sorry Ewan), I’ve been working hard on a top secret SpinVox project, (more on this next week - promise), in the meantime however allow me to share with you something that appeared on my radar earlier today care of my friend [...] ... Continue reading »

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technokitten
1 year ago

lol. Genius!!

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MartinSFP
1 year ago

It does seem silly, but if you'd taken your SIM out and put it in a spare phone for the duration of the repair it'd actually be quite useful!

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MarkW
1 year ago

And they DO tell you to take your SIM out - although perhaps not at Superdrug...

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Roger
1 year ago

Yes...they do take your Sim out along with the battery and the memory card - so you end up with a sad little handful of phone guts. I take your point, but they didn't have any loan phones and most of us non-technophiles don't have spare phones kicking around all over the place, so I maintain that in the majority of cases their message was fairly useless. Particularly since they also had a landline number for me which they didn't bother with at all....

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MartinSFP
1 year ago

Fair enough Roger - in these days of being able to text landlines they should have tried that first. Does that service still have Tom Baker's voice? We used to have fun getting him to say 'hilarious' things!

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