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Question:- Why is this pub so important in the history of Coventry Harriers?
Dear Blog,
We experience the feeling of being conned by politicians all of the time. From their failure to answer an honest question put to them by a TV or radio pundit, to the fiddling of expenses. To be conned by tradesmen is far from unusual. Commercial exploitation of members of the public is nothing new.
I experienced a nice example of being conned last Friday by the large retailer ARGOS. I am sure that ARGOS did nothing illegal but in my eyes ARGOS was being dishonesty, ARGOS was not being fair to the general public. Last week my lawn mower of many years broke and the gardener wanted a new one. I thought a similar model to one that had served for very many years would be ideal. I found the Qualcast Hover Collect Lawnmower – 1500W and got my financial advisor to do a comparison search of all major retailers. The ARGOS company offered by far the best price so I used my pensioner’s bus pass to go into town and purchase the afore mentioned model. £59:99, thank you very much and I struggled back home and my wife commented on how easy the new machine was to use when she had finished the task of mowing all our lawns, front, back and sides of our lovely Mansion. The local yokels were quite envious of the pristine condition of the green grass. I told one or two of the richer ones that we could do a deal if they wanted my wife to do a similar job for them. Sorry Blog, I diverge …. £59:99 by far the cheapest machine on offer in all the stores and garden centres my financial advisor checked. On opening the local newspaper the following morning, my heart missed a series of important beats when I saw emblazoned across the free hand-out enclosed within the said newspaper, that ARGOS were offering ONE THIRD OFF their Qualcast Hover Collect Lawnmower – 1500W as part of the ARGOS BIG BANK HOLIDAY DEALS. I TELL YOU Blog I was not a happy bunny, not happy at all. Conned was I??? Had to sit down and wait for my palpitations to pass before I could read on. And then I did my sums (I am quite good at sums because I did sums at the Pink Panther University). ONE THIRD OFF. Thereit was in balck and white large print in the newspaper. And the price ….. £66:49. Hang about a bit ARGOS. Less than 24 hours ago I paid six quids less than that. SIX whole quids. I looked closely. The original price they claimed was £99:99, but this had been crossed out. Next to it was £79:99 but this was crossed out to be replaced by the ONE THIRD OFF price of £66:49. No mention of my £59:99 which I checked had been advertised in their catalogue for some time. ARGOS … this is an 11% RISE, RISE, RISE RISE MATEY BOY !!! I asked my secretary to contact ARGOS but they were not interested. No surprise there ten! Although I came out of the experience smelling of roses, I find the whole attitude of ARGOS distasteful. But what can I do Blog??? That is the question. I wonder if any of the BBC Watchdog type programmes might be interested?? At least the BBC might be able to illicit a response from ARGOS about such a pricing policy. I bet that nice Mr Cameroon’s friend at number 11 would like to get away with convincing the electorate that an 11% rise in inflation is really a huge reduction of ONE THIRD OFF? But politicians would never dream of being so dishonest, would they Blog??????
Colin
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