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Hmm

Still 5th... this isn't funny, I've spent over £24.50 on phone calls due to their incompetance...

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Phoning dabs...

I'm stuck in their queue again.

Well, it's not so bad; I've moved 7 places in the past 15 minutes...

Maybe I should pity the operator who takes my call... nah, the bastards must suffer!

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Severely Pissed Off

Emailed dabs about my scratched monitor on friday. No reply, so I phoned them today just after 4. I was in the queue for over 30 minutes. When I eventually got through, they told me to ring Iiyama, who would deal with it faster. I rang Iiyama, another 10 minute queue. They said they didn't deal with damaged stuff, I have to go back to Dabs. Phoned them back, I was on the queue for another 10 minutes listening to the updates, then at 5.05 I realised I hadn't heard any updates in 5 minutes, and seeing ...

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Stuff

Well, sorry it's been a while... quite a bit has happened recently.

Not least my monitor has arrived!

Nice 19" CRT - Iiyama Vision Master Pro 451.

However, carrying it (it's very very heavy) from the mail place to our building for 60 long seconds, then up 10 flights of stairs wasn't fun.

Nor was opening it, setting it up, turning it on and noticing a deep scratch at the bottom, and realising I'd have to take it somewhere else, post it back to Dabs, and carry another one up.

Ho hum. Life just gets better and ...

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