Some smart person took a main consumer gripe (waiting forever for tradespeople to arrive when one has taken time off work) and turned it into a saleable benefit. Ben Franklin Plumbing not only promises to arrive with the hour they specify, they will pay YOU $100 if they …

On New Years Day I found myself in the unfortunate position of not having a BT phone line. When I picked up the phone the line was completely dead, but surprisingly I still had my broadband line. I went through all the procedures listed in the phone book to …

Enjoy Prepaid is the prepaid long distance of my dreams and it offers rates of 2.2 cents to 2.9 cents a minute in the United States (the lower rate is available if you choose to pay a fee but 2.9 works for me). For the last three years I …

I not to recently changed my internet and phone to Verizon. Overall they are a good company. The only thing that I have noticed that I don’t really like is that when it thunderstorms or rains sometimes the internet will go down. Most of the time it’s not too …

We live in Baltimore Maryland and my niece was moving to her new home recently. Between her apartment and her new home she had to have some boxes and furniture that needed to be stored on a temporary basis until she could get everything into her new home. …

Arriva Bus is one of bus company in the Netherlands that offer you bus service. Arriva Bus are mostly used in the Waterland area. This is the area in North Holland. So you will not find this Arriva bus in the other area or cities outside the area I …

Comcast Digital Cable services have never failed to impress me. They provide me with the channels I need at a very affordable price. I see commercials on TV about getting Dish Network or DirectTV at cheaper prices, but what happens when there is bad stormy weather? Their services go …

I thought LCB was an expensive courier which charged a bit pricey when it comes to shipping documents and packages, but I was surprised to find out they were even cheaper than Air21, which is the local courier used owned by Fedex. I had to deliver a document which …

This year I joined Virgin, it costs $60 a month for both internet and phone calls. Since joining I have had nothing but problems with both the internet and phone, I am not impressed with this service.
I am quite frustrated as alot of the time with this internet …

Not long after moving to another town from where we were, we found ourselves needing a helping hand (no matter how well panned your move is, you normally find yourself broke to a certain extent when moving long distance) with groceries as we needed to pay bills.
I found myself …

When I first moved back to Wisconsin, I felt I needed an unlimited long distance plan to help me keep in touch with relatives a long ways a way. At the time, the only packages out there, required me to take about a hundred features I would never use …

Just my take on the new SSS website - Totally useless. If I did not have my work taking up my whole “office hours” time of the SSS offices, I would just go there personally and inquire; but heck I need to just have a look at my balances …

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 …

I am situated nearer to the public library in Pretoria but prefer the Kempton Park one over any other one, simply because it’s a great source of information, a nice place to study and even a great place to relax, weather anyone would believe that or not.
I first discovered …

I went to this Canada Post outlet on October 28, 2010 at 11:55 a.m. I had to send a package to Kelowna, British Columbia and I wanted to make sure that it got there safe and within the quickest amount of time, without costing me an arm and …

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, …

These are the great dry cleaners. The service is also good as well as the price. They can get rid of any marks on your clothes. For instance my husband had an ink mark on his pant and I asked them to get them off and they did. Really …

I used Stanley Steemer when I needed to have my carpet cleaned and overall I was very pleased with the work that they did. One thing that I certainly love about Stanley Steemer is that they respond quickly once they are contacted. I love the fact …

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 …

My mom left for the States the other week and she forgot to bring some important documents my aunts needed. So again, I was tasked to send the documents. This time I tried DHL, only because they don’t have a cut off time. The rates are fairly expensive about …

I first came to this branch of the Queens Library because I moved to Woodside, and this was the closest branch to me. I’ve always been an avid user of public libraries, both when I was living in Orange County, NY with my parents as well as my …

Having a fault on my telephone line on New Years Day and having reported it to British Telecom, only to be told that I would have to wait until 7th January for repair, I was very pleased when an Open Reach engineer (contracted by BT) turned up on …

When we moved I found out that I could not get my SBC (AT&T) service transferred because it was out of area. I saw a million advertisements for the comcast bundle package for $99/month and since we have a friend who works there, we decided to try it. …

My mother and I recently went to have mother-daughter portraits done at Sears Portrait Studio. We wanted to give them to my grandmother as a gift. We were actually pleasantly surprised by the experience that we had at the Portrait Studio as neither of us really likes …

I do not have such big garden at home but since no one was living in the house for several years, then the garden was not maintained (at all). My husband contracted a gardening company (Machado) a few years back but since a long time, they have not …

I took the Apex bus from Baltimore to New York. The website had said that the Baltimore pickup stop was at the Baltimore Travel Plaza. This is a very difficult bus station to get to for someone who is not all familiar with all the MTA bus …

I used the service from Speedy Turtles few years ago. Speedy Turtles was one of courier service company that can ship your goods door to door to another countries in the world.
When I was moving from Jakarta to Europe, I had some goods that I need to ship. …

I go to Trieste very often and among all the bus companies I must admit that I really like it the best when Saf drives. usually on the same lines on different days there are different companies and I never seem to remember when Saf is driving and when …

I’ve been a customer with this company since 1988. I’ve watched it go from Southern Bell to BellSouth and now to AT&T. Every year it costs more to maintain my phone services and I seem to get less and less.
We are 3 miles from town and still …

This Sun City post office is close to my house so I sort of have to go there because it is convenient. However this place often has longs lines and the clerks seem to be very slow at doing there jobs. Don’t get me wrong, they are very friendly …

Trans BSD is a private regular bus service connecting Jakarta and Bumi Serpong Damai (BSD), a district to the south-west of Jakarta. There are three service lanes from BSD i.e. to Ratu Plaza, Kota Railway Station, and Pasar Baru (all are in Jakarta).
Traveling from BSD to one of the …

Since our house is near at the 7 Eleven in Sampaloc Manila, I am always going there to buy some food or drink every afternoon and if I have free time I am hanging out in there to expose myself from air condition.
The place is good. It is clean …

I recently had to go to the Memorial West Hospital in Pembroke Pines. I was in a lot of pain with a cyst I had on my tailbone. I usually go here because it has relatively fast service compared to many other hospitals that I’ve visited. I went …

I recently started to ride the city bus to and from school, due to the fact that gas prices have skyrocketed out of this world. My two year old son and I went and got on the city bus and paid out little two dollar fee and sat down …

This shuttle has its presence in most of the airports of US.We booked for this service to drop and pickup for LAX airport.Though we had our flight by 1.00 AM yet we booked the timing for 8.00PM for pickup as we are 45 miles away from …

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 …

Mediacom cable is my cable provider who I had for 2 years now. I like the service in the beginning because of the promotional rates and the installation was quick and fast. After a while my cable would just go out for no apparent reason, right in the middle …

I started using ACP Laundry’s services 3 months ago. I decided to try them out because they were very near our place and they offer free delivery and pick-up. My laundry was piling up since my house help eloped.
Our first encounter was okay. They got the …

In the past two years or so, the world of online dating has exploded into an entire business. Now there are countless “hookup” and “dating” sites designed solely to find one’s soulmate over the internet. Even sites not designed for matchmaking often have that potential- case in …

In the past few months in the course of my travels I have passed through the Greyhound bus station in Tallahassee, Florida on a number of occasions. As with all things in life it has it’s good points and it’s bad points.
One of the good things about the …

I really think FIFA should revise their ticket sales system as I have had no joy in purchasing a ticket for any World Cup game, from the very first time I gave any effort to it, right up until now.
I was initially excited to learn that I could purchase …

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 …

From the moment you walk into them, some libraries smell like libraries. That was my first impression of the Citizen’s Library in Washington, PA. Though only in it’s current building about 50 years, the library was established in the 1870s by a leading citizen of the …

I arrived here in Michigan under a fiance(e) K1 visa. A K1 visa holder can stay for three months in a state of the fiance(e)’s residence. My fiance (now husband) and I applied for our marriage certificate at Eaton County Clerk’s Office. It was more than 30 …

Its been 6 months now I am using Vonage for calling United Kingdom and National calls to USA at a fix rate. Vonage is a VoIP calling . Vonage calls are made using broad band but calls are made phone to phone. The Vonage is possible to get …

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 …

After trying to find a phone company that would give me a great price and good customer service, I finally found one in my own backyard.
Powercom doesn’t do a lot of advertising and I wouldn’t have heard about them if a friend hadn’t told me about them. But, for …

Evryone is always looking for a deal when they want to make long distance calls using a calling card pin.
Speedypin.com seems like a good phone card company to use when calling long distance overseas, but with the seemingly reasonable rates comes the incredibly unreasonable and unreliable customer service.
When I …

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 …