Consumer stuff

 

 

In this section I describe my experience of trading with a number of companies. Before I placing business with a company, I like to hear about the experience of previous customers. I hope that the following is of use to you.

Coldseal Hell - in my opinion, every bit as low as one would expect the double glazing industry to sink.

I was rang at home by a Scottish sounding cold caller from this shower in August 2006. He started off by saying he was not touting for business but undertaking a survey - yeah right! I asked him where he got my phone number from as I am ex-directory. The representative replied that "Jesus appeared to him in a dream last night" and gave him my number. I asked to be put through to his manager to identify where this rogue trader style company had got my number from. Another Scottish guy came on and asked me to hold the line while he hung up on me. I contacted their head office to complain - they have a Scottish telesales centre where I presume that these lowlife bums operate from, but the impression I was left with was that they really didn't give a shit what was said on their behalf. Make of Coldseal what you will, but given my experience of the way they operate I wouldn't dream of ever giving them any business.

TomTom Go730 connecting to Virgin Mobile via my Nokia

TomTom are a real pain. I've just put this little fix here so I remember how to get the connection going again between my Go730 and Virgin Mobile 3G, forget all the login scripts and connecting manually, it isn't necessary. Firstly use the TomTom and go to Change Preferences, find Factory reset in the menu and reset the TomTom and switch it off. Delete the pairing between the TomTom and the phone in the phone. Take the battery out of the phone to reset it. Switch them both back on. Add mobile phone to the TomTom and follow the instructions, it should connect automatically. The bit that goes wrong is where it invites you to connect to the TomTom server whilst creating a connection to share anonymous info, do not accept this invitation and the rest should proceed okay. When the connection is established, Go to TomTom traffic (if that's the service you have) and you will be invited to input your username which is the same as your email address that the TomTom account is registered in, then input your password, it only accepts lower case but don't worry. Voila, it should all be working until the next time it fails!

 

USB Bluetooth Dongle BTA-3130 Driver

I had a nightmare finding the drivers USB Bluetooth Dongle BTA-3130 on the web, so I posted the files from the CD ROM  on the link above. Don't install the drivers with the dongle plugged in!

 

 

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