Another further upgrade that is still behind in the hardware stakes….
Apple fail to impress as they are no longer the innovators they once where.
When you stop laughing I can continue. £20….. £20 for them failing to pay all your bills, not letting access your money via ATM’s, not accepting money being transfered into your account, causing your credit file to become effected due to non payments for bills, charging you for not having adequate funds when they did could not update balances, failure for the customer to monitor their cash flow and therefore leave them finically crippled earlier in the month, expecting the customer to personally run to the bank in order to get cash and then spend 2hrs waiting for it.
REMINDER £20
Then of course you have all the knock on effects. For example, not having food due to money being unavailable, unable to travel due, no petrol could be bought, heating the home could not be granted either, having to payback a months missed rent to the landlord in installments, on top of you usual outgoings, also, last weekend, taking a SO 4 days early leaving you with no money, stranded in a Bus terminal etc etc… I am sure the list goes on and on for each individual linked to this failed bank. The above where just issues that I personally had to endure as a consequence of their failure as a bank.May I add, not once did they offer any compensation over the phone, not once did they actually return a call via “Call back”. Spoke to managers, spoke to staff, sent in letters, nothing, zilch, not even a “sorry”.
AGAIN £20
How can this Bank justify that? This is one customer and they have allocated a massive £27 Million for compensation. Simple maths and a max of 20,000 customers equates to roughly £1,350 each. So where does all this cash go to. I understand that customers who complain can have 20% of their acknowledged hassles paid up to a titanic maximum of £95! Does big business get a windfall while the average customer yet again gets shit on from a great height? Maybe the bankers at the helm of Ulsterbank get to take that which is not given back to the public as a bonus? Something stinks, really stinks.
Talk about treating people like worthless feeders. How dare you. £95 is all you are worth to them.
Attached for download is their complaint/compensation document required for your application for this pathetic amount.
If you think it will be worth the hassle download, fill them in and send them off. I wouldn’t personally, I am leaving, on a jet plane, dont know when I will be back again. Tell you when…. NEVER!
PS The fee Waiver Period is from 19 June – 19 Sep 2012.
They are still screwing up my account 10 weeks after the first incident… so they will no doubt be charging me for anything they can.
Further links.
Ulster Bank “Compensation scheme an insult to customers” Ritchie – Newry Times
Ulster bank to compensate customers – The Guardian
Ulster Bank redress scheme provokes response – BBC News NI
Bank Chief defends £20 compensation deal – Belfast telegraph
Over 3 hours of great music that captures this years sunset cruise
Listen below
Looking forward to watching this when it is shown on BBC4, Sunday 18th of March.
@ 8:30pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-17218931
Seeing as I used to live in the area as a child (Killough), it will be very interesting to see all the buildings I used to play in as a nipper! Having watched the trailer, it highlights the beauty in the area itself. Will reserve judgment on the acting after watching it of course! 🙂
Brief description taken from a website below.
“The Shore,” a 30-minute film about an expatriate Irishman returning home for the first time in 25 years, won the Academy Award for live-action short film on Sunday night.
The win marks the first Oscar for director-writer Terry George, who was nominated for two features: original screenplay for “Hotel Rwanda” and adapted screenplay for “In the Name of the Father.”
The latter feature is one of multiple films by George, including “The Shore,” about the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Shot in the director’s native Belfast, the short stars Irish actor Ciarán Hinds as the man returning to the Emerald Isle.”
For more info check out The Shores official website.
Just finished watching Hammer Films new feature movie “The Woman in Black”.
Have to say that it was exceptional and I thoroughly enjoyed it, I did think wee Harry Potter was totally mis cast for the main role. He did manage to provide a decent bit of over reaction that was necessary in sections of the film. His extremely youthful looking face was far from the worldly wise and experienced middle aged man that should have been cast.
That aside, the film clearly had throw backs to the Hammer Horrors of yore as many scenes like the small village inn that warns away strangers and the hastily hurrying indoors of their children as Young Harry ambles past. Cinematography was excellent, long dark corridors and shifting shadows cleary reminded me of some of the old vampire flicks. The nostaliga was oozing from the film! Which was great to see.
As a seasoned horror veteran i was pleased to be actually shocked, which is rare these days. Some scenes where superbly scripted with shock after shock. At one stage I had a almost total body spasm as a sharp shaft of adrenalin seemingly went from my head to my toes!
All in all, I would definitely watch this again as the last horror I really enjoyed was quite some time ago. That was Insidious.
For a discussion on the ending of the film once you have seen it, please click on the link below.
Click on the play button below and plug in your headphones and find out.
Link
A amazing and inspiring video. Watch
Yes, seems like I took my MacBook Pro a step too far! With it being 5 years old and having served me relentlessly, I have taken it to the threshold and one of my dearest and loyal friends is gone….. I was running Lion and Windows 7 Ultimate by dual booting and Boot Camp. Maxxed out the graphics card and it crumpled. So I am looking to sell it for parts as I do not want to change the logic board but buy a new laptop instead. So anyone out there who is looking for a screen, touch pad, keyboard, or other internal parts I have placed it on eBay for sale.
Make an offer or Buy Now if you are interested. Doubtful many would be but at least I will advertise it in order to hopefully increase traffic and potential buyers.
All details for the eBay auction are at the link below.
My MacBook Pro Auction – Parts
After using a bruised and battered Sony Ericsson K810i for the last 4 months, due to my absentmindedly losing my HTC Desire in the back of a cab! I toyed with the idea of upgrading to a new iPhone 5 when my upgrade was available on the 12th of October…. though, it failed to appear…. a disappointing upgraded iPhone 4 emerged and straight away I contemplated going back to Android having being let down by Apple. Who may I add suck up quite a few wary souls by their excellent marketing and the art of selling phones with basic upgrades. 🙂
I went straight into research mode and looked at the competitors out there. Almost immediately i was taken by the superior spec and the tinker abilities of the Samsung Galaxy S2 and Andriod 2.3.2. I was sold and due the the substantially better deals you could get from O2 in relation to the smartphone I negotiated a £31 a month contract with 1GB data, 500 anytime /network mins… plus unlimited O2 to O2 calls and unlimited texts and BT Openzone and Wi-Fi access. Not bad as the same deal on the substandard iPhone4S would cost you £15 more as its an Apple phone! Joke really aint it!
Considering that Android has has voice commands and the S2 also has a better camera and overall spec , I have not been disappointed in the least and am glad I have a S2 even tho its a 2 year deal. This will defo last me that length of time and fingers crossed the new Android 4 gets released and updated via O2, otherwise I may have to manually install it myself as it does look excellent! Oh did i mention it has facial recognition software…. Android is now leading the market not Apple as they would make you believe!
Compare the Samsung Galaxy vrs iPhone4S Vrs HTC Sensation XL
Another amazing Dj set from two legends……
A live mix featuring Hernan Cattaneo and John Digweed – recorded live in Miami on board the 10th Anniversary Sunset Cruise 2011.
Click the play button below for a 2Hr Mix!!!
