Costa Coffee -- Free Internet

[Adam]

I don't need free internet, but I'm sat in Costa coffee right this second, and they offer free internet. They never used to!

Free is how I role! :p

[Dongle]

Really? I'm assuming you have to buy a cappucino or something... and drink very slooooowly :p

[Adam]

Yeah. I just turned my laptop on and it worked straight away. I bought a coffee and a muffin. (My diet is going reaaaly well :rolleyes:.)

[Dongle]

Be careful you don't accidently spill coffee over your keyboard :eek:

I did that once and I had to buy a replacement laptop keyboard from the manufacturer spare parts dept for £65 http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/9039/cryvi0.gif

Luckily I saved money installing it myself, as they charge £80 service to do it for you. What a damn cheek for a 5 minute job :rolleyes:

[Gemo52]

When I stayed in Oxford the other week there was free internet in the room. :)




:D The room was free too because it was paid for by a company that wanted to talk to me about joining a holiday club – it was a scam and I didn’t buy anything.

[Dongle]

i wouldn't go to anything like that. I hate heavy handed sales pressure.

Dixons once spent 10 minutes trying to pressure me into buying an extended warranty. :rolleyes:

[Gemo52]

This was three hours and three people attempting to sell. :eek:

I found it hilarious and I’d seen the scam before. It was a scheme where you join a holiday club and save money on holidays, then they go into a website and show you the prices – the website they go into isn’t a holiday club it’s what ABTA registered travel agents use to book holidays. I did ask them why the url of the site they were accessing wasn’t their own but that of another company. I asked them about holidays in Barbados and I think the cheapest he had was £800. I told him that I’d done the same trip for £500 and he said what an absolute bargain I’d got and that was the chance of a lifetime. I told him that I’d got that price three times and my mate had done the same a couple of times.

[Dongle]

LOL... well done you! :D

[Gemo52]

I used to typeset training manuals for double-glazing and stone-cladding salesmen in the past. If anybody offers me a free trip with the condition that I have to attend a sales talk I will usually take it. I’m surprised I’m not blacklisted.