Well I guess its time for an update on the house purchase of 1 Brindley Bank.
Today 15 weeks after having our offer accepted on the bungalow and being asked if we could complete in four weeks we are now no further forward than we were when we started.
The vendor of the property has now decided not to pursue the dispute any further with British Waterways as they have come back with a document for 1800s stating the land belongs to them.
Now were does this leave us, we don't actually know.
Can we buy it? who knows its like a Chinese whispers property purchase.
We have currently have an offer accepted on another property as we have no clue as to when the saga of the bungalow will be resolved or the outcome of the land at the bottom of the garden.
so we have told the estate agent that she needs to tell the vendor if he is unable to clarify the process and start to commit to some time plan he will loose our purchase position against the new property.
I think 15 weeks is more than enough time.
Sunday 20 September 2009
Sony Ericsson W980 Walkman (Auto Switch Off When Called)
On Saturday 19th September I went to the Carphone Warehouse in Walsall and asked to purchase a Sony Ericsson W980 Walkman on PAYG.
The assistant appeared out of the back holding a new boxed phone and took my details, I told him i wanted to use my old sim and keep my existing number or have the number changed over to the new PAYG sim card, either way i did not mind as long as i kept my number.
This is were the problems started. He explained to me that I would have to use my old SIM card and the phone would work (BUT) the phone might stop working after five days or so. Note the words might, and if it did I would have to change the sim card to the new one supplied with it when it stopped working.
I asked him if it was going to defenetly stop working and he said no it may keep working with your old sim he did not know.
I told him I was disapointed in the lack of certanty in this process and i needed the phone to rely on, I had a phone i was replacing due to it crashing and i did not want to buy a new one that may or may not stop working.
Anyway I walked out and did not purchase the Phone.
I drove to Stafford Carphone Warehouse and asked the same questions above. The assistant told me there was no problem took my current phone PAYG sim number, did not supply me with a new SIM and told me it would work fine with my current SIM and number.
Wow strange, same company 15 miles apart and now i have a New Sony Ericsson W980 Walkman Phone.
I took the phone home and read the book about charging the phone, it told me the battery was part charged on purchase and to charge the phone for 2.5 Hours.
I charged the phone for 3 hours and then tested it.
In summery, when my wife called my new phone it rang about 2 rings the front screen flashed white and the phone turned off.
We tested this about 5 times, sometimes it rang two,three or four times before power off once it even managed to get to answer phone without power down.
I had read about Sony Ericsson phones turning off on the net and my daughter that told me not to get one was laughing telling me she told me not to purchase one, but i said i am sure they will have resolved this issue bu now as it is not a brand new model.
I Jumped back into the car and drove back to Stafford about 10 miles from my home.
It was now 4:30pm on Saturday and the shutter was down and a sign was up closed early due to sickness. the man was still in the shop that sold me the phone about 4 hours earlier. I banged on the shutter and told him the phone was not working and I had only purchaed it 4 hours ago.
I explained that the phone was turning off when it was called, he took the phone off me and re-shut the shutter leaving myself and my fife stood outside like a spare part. (Customer service at its best).
He rang the phone from his phone 3 times and it did not switch off, I would not beleve it. He told me it may be because i had not charged it for 16 hours, dispite the manual never mentioned anything about 16 hours.
He told me he could not replace the phone as he could not find a fault, and I should take it home and charge it over night and try it on sunday and if it was still playing up and i could replicate the problem then to bring it back as i have 28 days.
I told him it was faulty and i had all reddy traveled 40 miles returning it as it was.
Anyway I asked my wife to call the phone wile I held it in front of him so he could see it, I was hoping it would crash as I was 100% confident it was nothing to do with the charge and I definitely did not want to travel back again on Sunday.
Luckily on the 4th ring sure enough the front screen went white and the phone had shut off, thank god for small blessings.
He took the phone chuntering to himself.
Bare in mind and try and picture the moment as we are stood in the Gild Hall passing paperwork and phone through slits the a roller shutter door that you can see through as he would not let us in the shop.
He replaced the Phone for a new one and gave me a new receipt.
The new phone is now working fine with no Problems.
Fingers Crossed !
The assistant appeared out of the back holding a new boxed phone and took my details, I told him i wanted to use my old sim and keep my existing number or have the number changed over to the new PAYG sim card, either way i did not mind as long as i kept my number.
This is were the problems started. He explained to me that I would have to use my old SIM card and the phone would work (BUT) the phone might stop working after five days or so. Note the words might, and if it did I would have to change the sim card to the new one supplied with it when it stopped working.
I asked him if it was going to defenetly stop working and he said no it may keep working with your old sim he did not know.
I told him I was disapointed in the lack of certanty in this process and i needed the phone to rely on, I had a phone i was replacing due to it crashing and i did not want to buy a new one that may or may not stop working.
Anyway I walked out and did not purchase the Phone.
I drove to Stafford Carphone Warehouse and asked the same questions above. The assistant told me there was no problem took my current phone PAYG sim number, did not supply me with a new SIM and told me it would work fine with my current SIM and number.
Wow strange, same company 15 miles apart and now i have a New Sony Ericsson W980 Walkman Phone.
I took the phone home and read the book about charging the phone, it told me the battery was part charged on purchase and to charge the phone for 2.5 Hours.
I charged the phone for 3 hours and then tested it.
In summery, when my wife called my new phone it rang about 2 rings the front screen flashed white and the phone turned off.
We tested this about 5 times, sometimes it rang two,three or four times before power off once it even managed to get to answer phone without power down.
I had read about Sony Ericsson phones turning off on the net and my daughter that told me not to get one was laughing telling me she told me not to purchase one, but i said i am sure they will have resolved this issue bu now as it is not a brand new model.
I Jumped back into the car and drove back to Stafford about 10 miles from my home.
It was now 4:30pm on Saturday and the shutter was down and a sign was up closed early due to sickness. the man was still in the shop that sold me the phone about 4 hours earlier. I banged on the shutter and told him the phone was not working and I had only purchaed it 4 hours ago.
I explained that the phone was turning off when it was called, he took the phone off me and re-shut the shutter leaving myself and my fife stood outside like a spare part. (Customer service at its best).
He rang the phone from his phone 3 times and it did not switch off, I would not beleve it. He told me it may be because i had not charged it for 16 hours, dispite the manual never mentioned anything about 16 hours.
He told me he could not replace the phone as he could not find a fault, and I should take it home and charge it over night and try it on sunday and if it was still playing up and i could replicate the problem then to bring it back as i have 28 days.
I told him it was faulty and i had all reddy traveled 40 miles returning it as it was.
Anyway I asked my wife to call the phone wile I held it in front of him so he could see it, I was hoping it would crash as I was 100% confident it was nothing to do with the charge and I definitely did not want to travel back again on Sunday.
Luckily on the 4th ring sure enough the front screen went white and the phone had shut off, thank god for small blessings.
He took the phone chuntering to himself.
Bare in mind and try and picture the moment as we are stood in the Gild Hall passing paperwork and phone through slits the a roller shutter door that you can see through as he would not let us in the shop.
He replaced the Phone for a new one and gave me a new receipt.
The new phone is now working fine with no Problems.
Fingers Crossed !
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