I Like To Rant

I HATE having to pay for delivery when I order stuff online.

Why can most website over Free Delivery and others cant, and find the need to charge for it, no matter how small or big the item is.

With the money these companies save by being on the Internet surely they can afford to drop this stupid charge.

It might only be me, but often or not, I find myself not wanting to use a website because of this. Therefore the website can lose out on me spending £100, just because they decide to charge an extra £4 to ship me my goods.

GRRRRR

Isn’t it great when things go down in price… well no… not for me and this deserves a Rant

This week see’s the 8GB iPhone reduced to £169, fantastic news. Not for me, i shelled out £329 4 weeks ago on the 16GB version.

On top of the price reduction offered by O2 for the 8GB version you can now receive £100 cashback if you buy the phone through a website called Quidco (read here for more info).

So you can now get a freakin iPhone in the UK for £69… un-fcuking-believable!!

For the sake of £50 I decided to get the 16GB instead of the 8GB, but now the 8GB is so cheap I would much rather have got that phone!!

DAM IT!!!

“A discretionary 12.5% service charge is added to your bill for your convenience”

This is what I saw when I received the bill after eating out with my girlfriend in a London restaurant.

The restaurant had kindly added a 12.5% charge for my “convenience”, err how is that convenient to me?

What would have been convenient is if they had had the bottle of wine we asked for and if they could have given me the chicken I asked for, instead of telling me that they had run out and I had to choose again from there small, limited menu!!

It seems that wherever we go, whatever we do today we are expected to tip someone somewhere - In a restaurant, a taxi driver, a hairdresser etc etc. Why the hell must we tip people for doing there job?! I don’t get tipped for doing my job, maybe I should start expecting one. Every time my boss asks me to do something, I’ll kindly extent my hand and wait for some money before I partake in the job. Im sure that will go down a storm.

All the people who do the jobs I have mentioned receive a wage, whether its decent or not is not my problem. I shouldn’t have to pay them extra for doing there job. They chose to do there job and chose to receive there small wage.

The worst thing is though, if I don’t tip I feel guilty. Which I shouldn’t. If the service is A class, and then yeah, I believe that I should show that I was pleased with the service by leaving a small tip. But for restaurant to add a tip to the bill for me is bull sh*t.

If things continue in the UK then its just gonna get like it is in America, where if you don’t tip, I think it’s legal for the waitress to shoot you, or something like that.

*if you enjoyed this post, then you are entitled to pay me $5 for your convenience.