I've recently convinced my barbers to offer free wifi, because when I'm sat waiting for my few remaining strands to be trimmed it would be nice to browse, slightly selfish I suppose. It was already inplace and he was paying for it, so why not offer it to his customers, so my wait is a little more bearable during busy periods.
Originally he had concerns of people downloading big stuff or hacking etc. I said if you change your password regularly, you know your customers as they need to ask for the password, so I would be amazed if anyone sat waiting for a haircut could do any damage in 5 to 10 minutes.
I'm quite chuffed with myself on converting my local barbers. I can google to my hearts content.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Frustratingly...
I'm sitting in the cafe area of the local sports centre waiting for my son to finish his swimming lesson. I've just paid best part of a fiver for a soggy oatmeal biscuit and a cup of tea that needs an industrial press to squeeze any sort of colour out of the tea bag let alone any flavor.
So this experience is dull to say the least (bit like my tea) so what do I do? I dig out the iphone and do some browsing, maybe check some emails, twitter or facebook.
Can't get a 3G signal so let's see what wifi is on offer... it then proceeds to tell me it's £3.50 for an hour of browsing ... Three pounds bloody fifty are you havin a tin bath? I don't understand it. I don't understand when any type of "public sit down relax cup of tea" environment doesn't offer free wifi. I've been offering free wifi for nearly 3 years now. I've always needed it for the business, broadband was an overhead we had even before it was available over wifi and it's dramatically come down in cost over the years. So to charge £3.50 is a blatant piss take. So I'm sat watching that small white catherine wheel of a timer going round and round and round...
So this experience is dull to say the least (bit like my tea) so what do I do? I dig out the iphone and do some browsing, maybe check some emails, twitter or facebook.
Can't get a 3G signal so let's see what wifi is on offer... it then proceeds to tell me it's £3.50 for an hour of browsing ... Three pounds bloody fifty are you havin a tin bath? I don't understand it. I don't understand when any type of "public sit down relax cup of tea" environment doesn't offer free wifi. I've been offering free wifi for nearly 3 years now. I've always needed it for the business, broadband was an overhead we had even before it was available over wifi and it's dramatically come down in cost over the years. So to charge £3.50 is a blatant piss take. So I'm sat watching that small white catherine wheel of a timer going round and round and round...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
The Sky at Night
I rang Sky the other day to ask about how much it costs to have Sky Sports etc. installed into the pub. Now Sky base all their charges on your pub's rateable value so bearing in mind my rateable value has gone up to £49,000 from £29,000 the previous year I thought this could be interesting.
After checking a few details the very nice Scottish sales lady quoted me for a minimum 12 month contract a cool £1040.59 per month for the base package. Yep the base package. For that sort of dosh you would think they could call it something better than base.
So what does the base package get me? Well you get all the usual crap but as for the important stuff, you don't get Sky Sports 2, ESPN, or any Euro sport channels and no 3D. Which I'm sure as a lot of you sports fans would know, is pretty useless, as an example the Champions league match between Barcelona and Real Madrid, which is a great game to watch is broadcast on Sky Sports 2, but don't be disappointed on Sky Sports 1 is Masters Tennis and if that didn't bring in the crowds how about the British Rally Championship on Sky Sports 3.
Right to get the full package called Sky Ultimate its going to cost a bit more dollar, add £210 more a month. Yep a total of £1250 quid a month! £1250? Yes £1250 a month. That's a whopping £15000 a year... man I've gotta sell some beer to cover that cost.
The main draw is football and that is only played Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and sometimes on a Wednesday, so you have 3/4 occasions to make the money and when a Monday night game is Newcastle v Blackburn it ain't gonna get the lads trotting my way. So it's a no brainer for me, it just doesn't add up. Shame.
(all prices quoted do not include VAT so slap on 20%)
The nice Scottish lady did add that the ultimate package did include all the adult channels tho...
After checking a few details the very nice Scottish sales lady quoted me for a minimum 12 month contract a cool £1040.59 per month for the base package. Yep the base package. For that sort of dosh you would think they could call it something better than base.
So what does the base package get me? Well you get all the usual crap but as for the important stuff, you don't get Sky Sports 2, ESPN, or any Euro sport channels and no 3D. Which I'm sure as a lot of you sports fans would know, is pretty useless, as an example the Champions league match between Barcelona and Real Madrid, which is a great game to watch is broadcast on Sky Sports 2, but don't be disappointed on Sky Sports 1 is Masters Tennis and if that didn't bring in the crowds how about the British Rally Championship on Sky Sports 3.
Right to get the full package called Sky Ultimate its going to cost a bit more dollar, add £210 more a month. Yep a total of £1250 quid a month! £1250? Yes £1250 a month. That's a whopping £15000 a year... man I've gotta sell some beer to cover that cost.
The main draw is football and that is only played Saturdays, Sundays, Mondays and sometimes on a Wednesday, so you have 3/4 occasions to make the money and when a Monday night game is Newcastle v Blackburn it ain't gonna get the lads trotting my way. So it's a no brainer for me, it just doesn't add up. Shame.
(all prices quoted do not include VAT so slap on 20%)
The nice Scottish lady did add that the ultimate package did include all the adult channels tho...
Friday, February 11, 2011
Valentine blues
Personally, I don't look forward to Valentines day. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against being romantic to the other 'alf I just don't like to be told when I should be romantic and then having to pay through the nose for anything that looks remotely like a rose. As my wife knows only to well I am constantly spontaneous with romantic gestures! Ahem! All joking aside if I'm honest if valentines didn't exist I probably wouldn't have the opportunity to pay a shed load of money for a bit of folded card, stuff it in a red envelope and lick that disgusting glue. Yum!
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