Dear HMV…

30/04/2010 | blog | comment

…thank you for your kind offer of a loyalty card with a sign-up fee of just £3.

Just bear with me a moment while I do the math…

  • Every £1.00 gets me 100 points, wow that sounds great!
  • The lowest price item available to buy with these points is a £10 voucher costing 40000 points. Hmm
  • That makes my 100 points worth, let’s see, umm… 2.5 pence

So I have to spend £40.00 before I get my £1 back. Ouch. But wait, it cost me £3.00 to sign up, so I must spend £120.00 just to break even!

And I just remembered, the cheapest thing you’d swap my points for was the £10 voucher for 40000 points, which means in order to get anything at all back, I have to go on to spend £400.00! And another £400.00 again and again for there to be any point in keeping it…

Thank you, but I think I’ll decline!

Rob Pannell

The Reason For It All…

04/04/2010 | blog | comment

Inspiration vs. time

01/04/2010 | blog, Photos | comment

Lido

Just lately I’ve been really inspired to get out and do some photography. Unfortunately due to life, it’s not been practical to do so.

I managed to get one session in back before my birthday. On the spur of the moment I decided to go and take photos of Saltdean Lido where I got the images in this post. I have a few sets of images that I haven’t added to this site yet, so I’ll get my act together and do that too. I may even get round to writing my blog on the Romania trip! (more…)