General services Reviews
Danny Capistrano’s Salon
In those days where you can only see water flowing at the glass panels at the hotels and department stores, Danny had it. It made his salon look expensive and intimidating. At other shops where the staff wore nice uniforms, better be prepared for the unusually high …
QWEST phone service
As mentioned in my review on AT&T, I now have only cell phone service in my home so that I may avoid QWEST and its endless little creepy fees. Do they actually think I don’t read those? Do they actually think it doesn’t matter to me that they …
Alliant Energy Budget Plan
For some time, I’ve been a big proponent of utility budget plans, especially when it comes to keeping some sort of control over what you spend on your monthly heating bill.
But, after Alliant Energy managed to screw mine up, I am no longer a fan.
My wife and I bought …
Comcast Digital Cable Services
I am reviewing the Comcast services that are provided to my area, which is actually Anderson, Indiana. However, the company is based in Muncie, Indiana, which is about twenty minutes away. We were all recently customers of Insight Digital, which offered internet, cable, and phone services all in one. …
Access USA Mail Forwarding Service
I used Access USA as a mail forwarding service when I could not have my products delivered to my home address. I like this service a lot because it does what it promises to do. First of all, a mail forwarding service brings your delivered goods to your temporary …
Greyhound
I took the Greyhound bus, and it was absolutely horrible! The bus had to make many stops, and the wait in between each stop was long. There were in the worst part of town where a few strangers came up to me and were talking jibberish. …
Best Buy: The Geek Squad: DTV Transition Service
The FCC hired The Geek Squad to help people in America with the transition from analog to digital TV. This was announced in early June of 2009. The Geek Squad is part of the Best Buy chain. They do home service for computers and such, only …
Bright House Digital Phone Service
We all know about the world being in the digital age, and how high-tech it better. Well, it is really better, or do you just go with the flow of things?
My husband and I signed up for Bright House Digital Phone Service, which basicly means that our phone uses …
St. Peter’s Memorial Chapels
Item: St. Peter Memorial Chapels
Location: Parang, Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte, Philippines
My father-in-law passed away last January and the family decided to hire the services of the St. Peter Memorial Chapels. This is my first time to attend a funeral in Jose Panganiban, Camarines Norte and I …
PLDT Landline Plus
Telephone is considered a valuable communication instrument, that is why it is not new that for Filipinos, we never miss to have one at home. For us, we had once a PLDT landline telephone line, postpaid telephone, our bills reaches at least P600.00, which is the minimum monthly payment …
Cost Cutters Ottawa IL
I have done my last two perms at Cost Cutters, a family hair salon located at North Ottawa Plaza in Ottawa, IL, and I am very pleased with the service and with the results. Last year, I had asked for regular perm, and this year I went for spiral. …
Gyserhead Water Refilling Station
Buying Distilled or purified water in the country has been predominant ever since it got well known in some establishments. Most private houses now buy 5 gallon containers and drinks purified water because tap water has really not been clean even after you boil the water. Most of the …
Greyhound bus
I live in Gainesville, FL and my girlfriend lives in Orlando, FL, I don’t have a car, so when I can’t get a ride from my friends, I take Greyhound buses. I’ve been using their bus service for more than twenty times during the past two years. My overall …
Telkom Pay Phones
For as long as I’ve been aware of the workings of telecommunications, Telkom pay phones have always been around, with their unmistakable blue color, mounted on green support structures as is consistent with the company’s colors.
Going back about fifteen years though, I would personally say that back then was …
RMA Service Center
Since I’ve had my LG dishwasher, I really did not get any problems with it until some months ago, I noticed that the water was not completely drained at the bottom of the machine. I casually dismissed this as normal but each time that a washing cycle has been …
Department of Foreign Affairs: Online Appointment System
The year 2009 is a blessing for Filipinos who are about to or currently dealing with Philippine Passport relevant task: application or renewal. The Department of Foreign Affairs has finally joined the bandwagon of utilizing the Internet in their operation, when they launched the online appointment system, a …
EMS Post
If you ask about the cheapest way to ship a gift for someone that live in other countries, most people in Indonesia will tell you to use EMS Post service.
This is the special service from their post company. Pos Indonesia is the one that offer you this EMS service. …
Salvation Army Pick Up Service
A few years ago I had a lot of used clothing, lightly used shoes and assorted items that I no longer wanted and needed to give away. The Salvation Army seemed like the perfect solution. I had seen their trucks driving around the city on several different occasions …
Social Security Administration Lansing, MI
Whenever someone hears that I have my Social Security Number, they could not believe it, especially in my case. I am a Filipina and they could not believe it because they said that it is not easy to get a Social Security Number.
I got my SSN before …
Reyes Haircutters
One fine holiday morning, my mom and I decided to go to a salon for a haircut. We chose Reyes Haircutters because of it’s unique and very affordable promo. The price that was indicated in front of their salon was, you can have a haircut done for as low …
First Student Bus Services
I have two children that are bussed to school and our school district uses the services of First Student. I am really not happy with these services at all and have written several complaints to my school district about the poor service received from this company.
I have one …
MGE Taxi Services
MGE is a taxi services here around Metro Manila. Their main office is found in Caloocan City and they are, perhaps the best Taxi service provider to this time as per my experience. Having seen them line up in shopping malls, they never denied a passenger no matter how …
International Fund for Animal Welfare
One of my favorite animal organizations is the International Fund for Animal Welfare which continues to work on behalf of animals. I’m especially interested in their whale activities, which both nurture the creatures and fights for their survival with a variety of anti-whaling campaigns and the like.
One of …
Metro Manila NBI Satellite Office in Marikina City
I cannot remember the last time that I had a satisfactory experience with any of the Philippine national government offices since I was born. This is in stark contrast to my experience with my local government of Marikina City, where the government has made bureaucracy a little bit bearable. …
Hulu Plus Service
I have been using hulu.com for all my television needs for approximately a year now and have always been a happy camper. Of course they did not have everything that I wanted to watch, but for a free service this was completely understandable and totally pardonable. When the …
Trail Bottle Exchange
Recycling is not my favourite pastime, especially when there is no roadside pick up. It is time consuming, annoying, smelly, and just a hassle. I recently moved temporarily to a city that doesn’t have a roadside recycling program, at least not in my part of the city, so I …
Media Mail from USPS
Media Mail is a great service from USPS (United States Postal Service) and one I have used many times. Over the years I must have mailed out over a hundred media mail items, some in boxes and some in bubble envelopes. It’s a very affordable way to mail books, …
Allied Van Lines
My husband’s job had us moving a lot. One of the times we moved Allied moved us. Without writing nasty, I can only say it was bad!
The guy that showed up to give us the quote was a pill. He smelled like liquor and …
Palawan Pawnshop Pera Padala
Palawan Pawnshop is one of the largest pawnshop and money remittance center in the Philippines. It has over 1300 branches nationwide. Palawan Pawnshop is also a partner of LBC, Tambunting Pawnshop, and SM malls in the Philippines. They offer different services such as pawning, money remittance, forex exchange,bills payment(electricity,phone,internet,load …
Millhopper Public Library
The Millhopper public library is one of my favorite libraries to visit in Alachua County. The staff is always friendly, helpful and resourceful; the library is relatively quiet, unless it is Thursday which is preschool day; and they have undergone a renovation a couple of years ago which have …
Verizon Fios
My husband and I bought our first home about a year and a half ago. We decided to use Verizon Fios as our internet and cable provider because they were cheaper than Comcast. Not many of our friends or family lived in areas where Verizon Fios was an option …
Archibald Library
The Archibald Library is one of my favorite places to visit. For me, the library is within walking distance, and is a good reason to get outside for a healthy walk.
The Archibald library originated, in 1994. Originally, a county library, the city took control of …
Charter Digital Phone Service
This past Saturday, I got a knock at my door. It was a salesperson from Charter Communications. He said Charter was now offering digital phone service in my area and he wanted to tell me more about it. It was all I could do to be polite and tell …
Homestead Roofing Company
The Homestead Roofing Company is located at 533 Goffle Rd Ridgewood, NJ 07450. The telephone number is (201) 444-2233. This is a very good company. They do great roofing work. They will actually work with you to figure out what is the best option for you. Very …
Riding the City Bus
After years of commuting to work by private auto, I began riding the bus to work on the first of July. I love it.
Whatcom County Transit provides bus service throughout the county and throughout Bellingham, Washington where I live. Recently they’ve increased their bus service so that along main …
Fedex
It all started because we couldn’t get enough money to move. We couldn’t afford a truck from Wisconsin to Texas with all of our stuff. So, we decided to give most of it away. Then we would ship what we had to have and move on from there. My …
Cash Flow Convenience
This particular pawnshop chain is owned and operated by a family that has been in the pawnshop business for generations. There is not a city or remote Barrio that has no proximate access to an M. LHULLIER Pawnshop. It’s easy to see why such a business thrives in this …
Globe Telecom
This the second largest Telecommunication company in the Philippines right now. They have millions of Filipino subscribers on both national and international regions of the world. They offer a variety of cellular services. Like in my case, I use their prepaid cellular service. You don’t …
Light Rail Transit Line No. 1 Monumento to Baclaran route
Light Rail Transit is the most efficient, most economical and fastest way to travel along the Manila area. It was ingeniously crafted long years ago about the late 80’s or 70’s and I reckon the first Light rail in the south east Asia. Light Rail Transit or LRT Line …
FastPak Global Express
My aunts in California sent a box full of goodies for us during the summer. According to them, it will arrive in 30 days; sometimes less. This was the first time they used Fastpak to send a box via cargo. They sent the box on April 1st, and we …
Caztel 10-10-70
Tired of getting calls from telemarketers urging you to switch long distance telephone plans? We certainly were so we began using Caztel’s 10-10-70 long distance services and we have never been happier!
To begin with, there is no need to sign up for this particular long distance telephone service, if …
Greyhound Buss Line
I had the misfortune to travel from Virginia to New Mexico on a series of Grey hound buses. They were without exception, crowded, loud and miserable. It was one of the worst travel experiences I’ve ever had and that includes extensive trips in 3rd world countries.
The employees …
AAA Memberships
Just about every city, town, and township resident has the opportunity to purchase what is known as a AAA membership. There are regular AAA memberships and AAA Plus memberships which can be purchased at a variety of differnet prices. For about $180, AAA Plus members can receive …
Transcab taxi Singapore
On 16th Oct 2005 (Sunday), after church service, together with my elder and 3rd sisters I hailed a Transcab taxi at Lor 8 Geylang and told the driver the locatiowas Tiong Bahru. After we boarded the driver started the taxi. About 5 seconds later my 3rd sister told the …
Studio K-a divsion of Konica color labs.
my son is 2.6 year old-total naughty brat!!i tried taking many photographys of him but with little success.they were good but none that i can frame!so i decided to take him to studio k.my son never even liked to enter it but with great difficulty i took him in …
Walmart Customer Service Experience
Today my husband and I went to Walmart in Shelby, NC to purchase a couple of items. We took them to the express lane for checkout. My husband puts the cat food and dish detergent on the belt. We noticed a crowd of people speaking spanish …
Comcast On Demand Service
Ever since becoming a Comcast customer, I have really been pleased with the service. The internet service is pretty fast, and the cable service itself is pretty reliable, much more so than other cable companies I’ve had experience with. I had never had On Demand service …
Hold Mail service of USPS
This is one of the best service provided by USPS.when we are going out on vacation or any other purpose,there is every chance that our mail box will be flooded with mails.Prompt cleaning of mail box cannot be done and if we request our nearby we may …
Home Depot Truck Rental
My washer and dryer died, however I was lucky enough that one of my sister-in-laws had a washer and dryer that she gave my wife and I, we just had to move them. We called several places and Home Depot had about the cheapest truck rental rate ($19.95 for …
The Remodelers
A friend of mine who lives in Calgary, Alberta, was in the middle of renovating their condo in the nearby Canmore with the intention of selling it. I wanted to see what they were doing, as I am constantly renovating my own home, and I love looking at other …
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