No I'm not being rude, BOG OF is short in retail circles for those "Buy One Get One Free" offers and it's a quite successful method of promotion. But if you saw a BOG OF in a supermarket you wouldn't go to the check out and say "I'll just have the free one thanks" would you? Of course not and yet we are currently in an amicable dispute with a customer in respect of our December blog special offer. The one day only deal was, buy a boiler today for delivery in December and we will hold 2008 prices until 1st March. A customer ordered a boiler on the day for delivery in February and claimed the offer. We rejected the claim as invalid but the customer thinks we were in the wrong. The idea of the promotion was to generate sales in a quiet month and it was quite straightforward to all the others who took it up. As we like the customer we aren't going to say "Bog Off" but we are going to say an extremely polite "No".
At Anfield last night it was not as bad as expected. We witnessed police in riot gear charging down an alley near the kop, batons drawn and screaming at the tops of their voices but didn't see the cause of their charge as they disappeared around a corner out of sight. No doubt they had heard someone had arrived with the bacon butties. Inside the ground it took a full 6 minutes 32 seconds before the Elephant Man chant was aired and, with no sending off, it was, all in all, an uneventful evening. Judging from the jubilation that met the final whistle at the away end and chants of "United Top Of The League" it seems that some people are very easily pleased.
We are making great progress in the development of the sous vide equipment and we should be preparing the promotional literature in February and launching around Easter.
Orange Wednesday again tomorrow and this week we're off to see Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler". My mum bought us a gift voucher for Vue Cinemas for Christmas and if we keep using the special Wednesday offers it might last us all year.Thanks Mum. Marion is still heavily into economising due to the recession and, instead of a trip to Chiquito this week we'll probably be smuggling tuna and sweetcorn rolls into the cinema. Mind you, at cinema prices you can't really blame her. Although they can't beat Liverpool FC where last night we were charged £1 for a Kit Kat (45p in the Asian newsagents down the road). And they wonder why nobody turns up until five minutes before kick off.
Nick & Peter have gone down to the NEC today for the Hospitality show and a CEDA networking lunch. I will be interested to hear how they find things. The level of attendance at the show should give a good indication of the current climate and no doubt the networking lunch will be interesting although I would take all rumour about competitors with a very large pinch of salt.
Finally there is more and more talk of the Government increasing money supply as a way out of the current financial meltdown.If they have got five minutes and fourteen seconds I strongly recommend that they take a look at this simple but extremely good explanation of what happened when someone tried this once before, before doing so.This is not a joke.
At Anfield last night it was not as bad as expected. We witnessed police in riot gear charging down an alley near the kop, batons drawn and screaming at the tops of their voices but didn't see the cause of their charge as they disappeared around a corner out of sight. No doubt they had heard someone had arrived with the bacon butties. Inside the ground it took a full 6 minutes 32 seconds before the Elephant Man chant was aired and, with no sending off, it was, all in all, an uneventful evening. Judging from the jubilation that met the final whistle at the away end and chants of "United Top Of The League" it seems that some people are very easily pleased.
We are making great progress in the development of the sous vide equipment and we should be preparing the promotional literature in February and launching around Easter.
Orange Wednesday again tomorrow and this week we're off to see Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler". My mum bought us a gift voucher for Vue Cinemas for Christmas and if we keep using the special Wednesday offers it might last us all year.Thanks Mum. Marion is still heavily into economising due to the recession and, instead of a trip to Chiquito this week we'll probably be smuggling tuna and sweetcorn rolls into the cinema. Mind you, at cinema prices you can't really blame her. Although they can't beat Liverpool FC where last night we were charged £1 for a Kit Kat (45p in the Asian newsagents down the road). And they wonder why nobody turns up until five minutes before kick off.
Nick & Peter have gone down to the NEC today for the Hospitality show and a CEDA networking lunch. I will be interested to hear how they find things. The level of attendance at the show should give a good indication of the current climate and no doubt the networking lunch will be interesting although I would take all rumour about competitors with a very large pinch of salt.
Finally there is more and more talk of the Government increasing money supply as a way out of the current financial meltdown.If they have got five minutes and fourteen seconds I strongly recommend that they take a look at this simple but extremely good explanation of what happened when someone tried this once before, before doing so.This is not a joke.
No comments:
Post a Comment