1. Failed with Monterosa to get the first live stream off to a good start for the South Africa vs Mexico game.
2. Mistakenly broadcast a bloody Hyundai advert over Englands first goal against the USA for ITV HD viewers
3. Chose Adrian Chiles as their World Cup frontman.
This Guardian blog post by Roy Greenslade annoys me.
Here is a screen shot of my local news paper website homepage.
As you can see four ‘article’ teasers and a HUGE volume of advertising. Actually the articles are more often than not a single line or paragraph long – like this:
Take careful note of the quality of the text.
Here’s the FULL text of one article:
“ONE person was taken to hospital last night (May 30)after a car crashed on the A24 at Warnham.
The incident happened shortly before 8pm with firecrews from Horsham and Crawley attending the scene.
No-one was trapped but one person was giving first aid and then taken to hospital.”
Link to original article
And another:
“AN ELDERLY woman was helped from her Handcross home and given oxygen by firefighters after mild smoke logging this morning (Sunday).
Two fire crews from Crawley were called to Windmill Platt about 10.20am.
Green watch commander Simon Le-Galloudec said food had burnt.
He urged people not to leave cooking unattended.”
Honestly, both these articles are a complete load of bollocks.
And Johnston Press who own hundreds of these local sites covering the whole of the UK have the cheek to complain about the BBC filling the void left by an organisation that has ample money and time to do a better job.
This is about as ‘local’ as the BBC currently gets for me:
Its at a county level only but at least the articles are well written and amount to more than the ‘cat stuck up a tree’ variety that seem to dominate the local press presence.
This time its grenenergyuk selling the Mastervolt Soladin 600 grid tie inverter.
Bought one at the bargain price of £360 only to find that they dont respond to emails and when I eventually manage to get them by phone it turns out they don’t have any in stock.
This while they are still advertising dozens of them on Ebay.
Annoyingly they are advertising that they ship them overnight using a 24 hour courier.
Avoid.
company umbrella:
www.vistaire.plc.uk
Bouldr developments
Ordered and paid for an r4i card (for research purposes) from r4i.co.uk ( a web property of memorybits.co.uk) on March 28th.
Still no sign of the darned thing despite a 2-4 working day delivery estimate – I’m distinctly unimpressed with their customer service team who tell me it must have been lost in the post and they will therefore resend the item – then turn around and tell me that they won’t do this until 15 working days have elapsed.
UPDATE
Still no sign of the card and no response from r4i.co.uk – I have now had to escalate to PayPal in order to get a refund. I’d recommend that potential buyers stay clear of this company.
UPDATE 07/04/2010
Finally got my money back from this waste of space company.
Had to do it through PayPal though as memorybits.co.uk a.k.a r4i.co.uk customer service is non-existent.
AVOID THIS COMPANY !
This is on the back of my appointment card for The Princess Royal hospital in West Sussex
